Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist

Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist is an upcoming live-action TV series based on the Street Fighter video game series. The show will be created by Joey Ansah and Christian Howard, who co-directed, co-wrote and co-starred as Akuma in Street Fighter: Legacy. The show set to air on May 23, 2014.

Plot
The series will focus on Ryu and Ken Masters, as they live a traditional warrior’s life in secluded Japan. The boys are, unknowingly, the last practitioners of the ancient fighting style known as ‘Ansatsuken’ (Assassin’s Fist). The series follows them as they learn about the mysterious past of their master, Gouken, and the tragic and dark legacy of the Ansatsuken style. Can their destiny be changed or will history repeat itself?

Both Ansah and Howard have spent the last 3 years writing and began with a script treatment for the ‘World Warrior’ story line around Street Fighter II, which would span a prologue series and then a feature film finale. After the success of 'Street Fighter: Legacy', the two decided that we would put the ‘World Warrior’ scripts on the shelf, to be used down the line as a bigger-budget sequel, and instead work on the origin story of the Ansatsuken characters: Ryu, Ken, Gōken, Gōki/Akuma and Gōtetsu. It is this Japanese-centric storyline that really grabs me the most. It is a true warrior’s tale; a coming of age story for Ryu and Ken as boys become men; told in parallel with the dark tale of the generation that came before them, filled with tragedy, loss and heartbreak.

This story really contains all the elements of universal, classic, conflict based story telling; father vs. son; brother vs. brother; a love triangle; betrayal; revenge; and the ultimate question: ‘Can a man change his destiny? Or will the inevitable catch up with him?'

Cast

 * Mike Moh as Ryu
 * Christian Howard as Ken Masters
 * Togo Igawa as Gotetsu
 * Mark Killeen as Mr. Masters (Kyle Pryor was originally cast as the character)
 * Akira Koieyama as Gouken
 * Shogen as Young Gouken
 * Joey Ansah as Akuma
 * Gaku Space as Young Gouki
 * Hyrunri as Sayaka
 * Hal Yamanouchi as Senzo

Crew

 * Joey Ansah - Co-Writer, Director
 * Christian Howard - Co-writer
 * Jacqueline Quella - Producer

Production
After the short film, Street Fighter: Legacy, was released on YouTube in 2010 as a proof-of-concept. During San Diego Comic-Con International 2012 Capcom announced it had granted rights to the creators to go ahead with the project.

The series started a Kickstarter crowdsource funding campaign in order to source funds for production. The campaign was cancelled on April 17, 2013 when private backers stepped forward with the money necessary, removing the need for the crowdsource funds.

On July 14, 2013, production began filming in Sumeonovo, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria. On August 24, 2013, filming on the series wrapped.

On August 20, 2013, In an interview with Game Reactor, Ansah talked about Ryu and Ken's story and said "a good analogy with Ryu is that he's not actually ever competing with anyone else; he's competing with himself to Ken is driven fiercely by competition. A lot of Ken's conflict comes from his relationship with his father. Without giving too much away, we learn in this series how Ken came to be in Japan, in Gouken's dojo". On November 1, 2013, Content has sold worldwide online rights for Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist to a major global online channel for a short first window. Other key territories snapped up for subsequent rights and windows include: UK, Australia, US, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Scandinavia (Funimation); German-speaking Europe and Benelux (Polyband); Central & Eastern Europe, Russia, Turkey, Middle East (Daro); Thailand (IPA Asia); Portugal (Lusomundo), and South Korea (Sonamu) and handling worldwide sales on the film for all media. On March 14, 2014, Capcom and Machinima announce that the series will be airing on Machinima's main channel. The series is stated to air in May 2014. On April 18, 2014, it was revealed that the series will have three versions with Machinima released as a 12 part mini series in 11-12 minutes, the 12 episodes will be combined in 6 episodes in 21-22 minutes and the Blu Ray/DVD as film in 2 hours.

Second season
Ansah discusses to Shogungamer that if the show is a hit, he would like to have Scott Adkins as Guile and do a World Warrior story and even seeing Chun-Li as well.