Street Fighter TV Series in the works

Street Fighter TV Series in the works

Deadline is reporting that a Street Fighter TV series is currently in the works by Entertainment One and Mark Gordon. 

Yoshinori Ono, Capcom Executive Producer for Street Fighter, has said that “After a long search, guided by the team behind Assassin’s Fist, we are delighted to be partnering with a company with the outstanding TV experience of Mark Gordon and eOne.

They have the credentials to help us launch a faithful adaptation of Street Fighter as a major TV series,” The TV series will be created by the team behind the live-action web series Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist. Joey Ansah, Jacqueline Quella and Mark Wooding will be executive producers.

Street Fighter TV Series Plot

Street Fighter the series will draw on the game’s World Warrior story-arc — introduced in the 1991 Street Fighter II: The World Warrior sequel to the original game — as the jumping off point, centering on four protagonists: Ryu, Ken, Guile and Chun-Li. Together, they fight to take down M. Bison, the evil mastermind who runs Shadaloo, a global criminal organization.

Though on different journeys, our heroes’ paths will cross as they are drawn into the World Warrior Tournament, a competition devised by M. Bison to find the most powerful and capable fighter in the world. On the journey they come to share, they must draw on their strength, skills, intelligence and loyalty in a battle to survive and emerge as the World Warrior.