Street Fighter (2026) will usher in Fall 2026 with an action-packed adaptation of the popular fighting game. Everything we’ve seen from the film (so far) has made it look like director Kitao Sakurai (The Eric Andre Show, Bad Trip) is sticking to his comedic roots with a very tongue-in-cheek adaptation of Street Fighter and its many characters – including the ones who aren’t quite as human as the rest.
A new clip from Street Fighter makes a big reveal: we finally get an up-close and personal look at Jason Momoa in the role of “Blanka” (aka “Jimmy”), a Brazilian man who mutated into a green-skinned beast who is able to generate electricity from his body. You read that right, and all of it seems to be in this movie, with no apologies. See for yourself.
The clip comes with the caption that “The beast is unleashed,” which is certainly one way of describing it. Jason Momoa has been on a real tear the last few years, truly leaning into the idea of being a “character actor.” He really hit that stride playing the eccentric villain Dante Reyes in Fast X, before scoring a billion-dollar win by pivoting to family-friendly with his comedic role in A Minecraft Movie (whose sequel, A Minecraft Movie Squared, is due out next year). Earlier this summer, Momoa returned to the DC Universe, not in a major leading role like his billion-dollar Aquaman movie, but as the body-painted, foul-mouthed, alien bounty hunter Lobo, in the DC Studios’ Supergirl movie.
Supergirl crashed-landed in theaters, however, and Momoa got a surprising amount of backlash for what many thought was a fan-favored casting decision. There’s no denying that the man looks downright nuts as Blanka in this Street Fighter clip; it’s still up to the movie to provide the larger tone and context that makes Momoa’s Blanka nuts in the best way, as opposed to guaranteeing him a future Razzie Award nomination.
The “story” of Street Fighter (2026) will see estranged fighters Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken Masters (Noah Centineo) get pulled back into the fighting circuit when Chun-Li (Callina Liang) recruits them for the next World Warrior Tournament. The film will be set in 1993, with classic Street Fighter gaming villain M. Bison (David Dastmalchian) serving as the big bad. Also appearing are Blanka (Jason Momoa), Guile (Cody Rhodes), Joe (Alexander Volkanovski), Dan (Andrew Schulz), Balrog (Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson), Juli (Rayna Vallandingham), E. Honda (Hirooki Goto), Vega (Orville Peck), Zhangief (Olivier Richters), Cammy (Mel Jarnson), Dhalsim (Vidyut Jammwal), and WWE Superstar Roman Reigns as Akuma.
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