Less than a month after the film landed director Kitao Sakurai, Sony has removed Legendary’s planned adaptation of the “Street Fighter” video game franchise from the release calendar.
The studio also shifted the release of Tommy Wirkola’s upcoming shark thriller “Beneath the Storm,” pushing it from August to July 3, 2026, to serve as a centerpiece of its blockbuster slate. That film also has a new name: “Shiver.”
Emmy nominee Sakurai was announced as director for “Street Fighter” in February. The fate of that film is not known, but if it gets rescheduled, it will be co-developed and co-produced with Capcom, the video game developer and publisher behind the long-running franchise of fighting games.
“Street Figher” was last adapted for live-action in 1994, with a commercially successful and critically brutalized take starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Ming Na Wen and Raul Julia, in what would be the celebrated actor’s final role. And as it happens, his performance was singled out by critics and fans alike as excellent despite the film’s flaws.
Wirkola’s “Shiver” will star Phoebe Dynevor, and though plot details remain under wraps, it’s understood the story involves sharks. Whitney Peak and Djimon Hounsou also star in the film, which Wirkola wrote and directed with Adam McKay and Kevin Messick producing through their Hyperobject Industries banner.
Wirkola is best known for his 2022 Christmas action film “Violent Night,” starring David Harbour as Santa Claus in what is essentially a “Die Hard” plot with Old St. Nick as the action hero.
