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Rapper Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson has seemingly confirmed a report that he’s in talks to star in the upcoming “Street Fighter” reboot. If true, Jackson will potentially play the boxer Balrog.
Nexus Point News was the first site to report that Jackson was in talks to play Balrog, and not long after their report, Jackson took to social media platform X to respond.
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Jackson posted a link to the Nexus Point News story, and while he technically didn’t confirm it, he certainly didn’t deny it either. He captioned the post with “No Days off, Let’s work all roads lead to Shreveport 💣Boom💨” and added a link to his site gunitbrands.com.
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If the report is true, then Jackson won’t be playing one of the good guys. First appearing in 1991’s “Street Fighter II: The World Warrior”, Balrog is one of the fighters on the side of M. Bison’s malevolent organization, Shadaloo.
Balrog is a boxer from Las Vegas whose star was once on the rise, but he wound up in disgrace after his ambitions led him to cheat and even to kill some of his opponents in the ring.
The news of Jackson’s potential casting is the second casting story to emerge about “Street Fighter” in as many days. Yesterday, we learned that “Presence” star Callina Liang had joined the cast as martial arts expert and Interpol agent Chun-Li.
The cast list of the “Street Fighter” reboot continues to grow, with perhaps the biggest name attached so far that of Jason Momoa. It’s also been reported that Andrew Koji, Noah Centineo, Roman Reigns, and Orville Peck will star in the film.
Nexus Point News reports that Momoa is playing the monstrous Blanka, Centineo is Ken, Koji is Ryu, Reigns plays Akuma, and Peck will play Vega.
The “Street Fighter” reboot is being directed by Kitao Sakurai, and the latest draft of the script was written by Dalan Musson, who co-wrote “Captain America: Brave New World”. There’s no word yet on producers.
The “Street Fighter” games first launched in 1987, and numerous sequels and spinoffs followed. The games usually revolve around a global fighting competition organized by the villainous M. Bison.
Steven E. de Souza wrote and directed the first live-action “Street Fighter” film that hit theaters in 1994. It starred Ming-Na Wen, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia, and Wes Studi among others.
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