Street Fighter movie finds its Chun-Li in Presence actor Callina Liang

Callina Liang in Presence — (Image credit: Neon)

Legendary's new Street Fighter reboot movie is starting to fill in its cast, adding actor Callina Liang, recently of Steven Soderbergh's Presence, as Chun-Li, one of the main characters of the video game franchise, as reported by Deadline.

The Street Fighter franchise kicked off in 1987, but didn't become a global sensation until 1991's Street Fighter 2, which quickly became one of the still-reigning most popular fighting games of all time. With six entries in the main series, the Street Fighter franchise has also grown to include dozens of connected games and spin-offs.

That set-up seems like a perfect plot for a movie, but so far, neither attempt at adapting the game to a live-action film has panned out particularly well. 1994's initial attempt, Street Fighter: The Movie, remains divisive, with some fans remembering it fondly as a campy, silly take on the material with its own kind of charm, and with others, frankly, just hating it. Even less successful was 2009's Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, which is barely remembered and widely disliked by those who saw it.

So far, Legendary's Street Fighter – which will be directed by Kitao Sakurai of Bad Trip fame – has reportedly cast Noah Centineo, Andrew Koji, Jason Momoa, Roman Reigns, and Orville Peck, though most of their roles have not yet been confirmed.

I've been Newsarama's resident Marvel Comics expert and general comic book historian since 2011, and now I'm the Entertainment Writer at GamesRadar+. I've also been the on-site reporter at most major comic conventions such as Comic-Con International: San Diego, New York Comic Con, and C2E2. Outside of comic journalism, I am the artist of many weird pictures, and the guitarist of many heavy riffs. (They/Them)

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