According to Dark Horizons: Actor Damian Chapa, who played Ken: "Yes Jean-Claude has asked a few of us back for a Streetfighter sequel. There will be some new faces and old faces, as far as I know. I've no idea what my character Ken is up to this time, but for all intents and purposes, the [weight] room is my next stop". Jeff Speakman, Elizabeth Pena and Gary Busey are also in talks for "Streetfighter 2" roles. Dude, if that happens it will be a bucket of suck with no handle. I'd rather watch my smilies fight.
Actually in Europe this guy is considered as a joke. In every interview he does,he make weird kind of coments that only him and the team of potted Trail Blazers could understand. Has he ever been interviewed on US TV? ALA
Apparently this guy is the King of whooping up on some Grammar, namely run on sentences. LH: So would you say you famous here in Asia among the Asians first versus lets say the Americans? JCVD: More than that it was my good luck because my first movie was made in Hong Kong called Bloodsport and with all different types of fighting styles, and all those people came from all over Asia with different disciplines in the movie, different martial art types of discipline. And it was well done by my friend producer Charles Wong, who helped me to put all those elements together, he owns Salon Films in Hong Kong and it was my first successful movie. LH: And you have kept in touch with him as well as a number of other friends here in Hong Kong, one in particular that I believe you have taken your name from. JCVD: Yeah Alex. Alex Van Damme. I took his name in fact from his father because his father sent me for the first time in Hong Kong to be a picture model. I'm not enough tall to be a catwalk model, plus too big for that, and we became very good friends and I took his name as an honor. Because my name, by the way, is too complicated, it's Van Veren Berg, so in America it sounds like "Van Varen Berg" (said with American accent). So Van Damme it's punchy, short, and clear. LH: You're also the Hong Kong Ambassador for Hong Kong tourism I read today, what role do you fit in that? JCVD: This is a great honor for me, I will be the first one to be nominated, and why not? I mean for an action star it's kind of unusual because normally in our business action stars are not, if I can say so, not well respected as actors. We're more considered like physical people and I feel great to be nominated as an Ambassador because maybe I can do something to help this area. LH: Let's get back to your movies. John Woo is one of the directors you've worked with on Hard Target. Are you guys friends, do you keep in close contact? JCVD: Yes and no, because John is now very, very successful, but John did his first movie with me and I came all the way from LA to meet with him and he met with me, and we talked about a film called Hard Target and that was his first movie made in the U.S. and then and then and then and then and then
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I read about this, I had hoped it wasn't true. Damian Chapa, was he the guy from Bound by Honor? He sucked as Ken. Infact, everybody sucked as their portrayed characters in that awful movie. What a travesty that it was Raul Julia's last picture.
Yep that was him. BTW, Ming Na should be completely ashamed that she was in that picture as Chun Li. Besides a crap acting job and the fact that she can't fight, she completely ruined my "mind's eye" version of what Chun Li would look like in real life. Oh wait, that's right... it's Kobe Tai! MacBeth is seeing her now... Hey Mac, ask her if she can kick someone in the face a hundred times a second... That could be her big break into "real" movies.
Someone must stop Van Damme. Or, at the very least, give him a hobby. Preferably something that doesn't involve killing my childhood memories with badly acted video game movies. (BTW. did anyone else have the original Street Fighter on Turbo Grafx CD?) Y'know, thinking it (and the upcoming Jason vs. Freddy movie), a Street Fighter vs. Mortal Kombat movie would be kind of cool. I'd sanction that movie, even WITH Van Damme as Guile. Lord knows, as a teen, when I wasn't playing SF2, I was playing MK. Might be a neat concept worth exploring. Both video game franchises have been made into movies, after all. Video game franchises that absolutely MUST be translated to the big screen in the future: Zero. They all suck and will continue to do so. That is, unless Spielberg, Coppola, Ridley Scott, Peter Jackson, etc. really, really, really want to make a video game movie...
But the MK movies were sooo much better than SF. God that movie completely sucked. I think I'm more pissed about it now than I was when it came out. I used to go to the arcade and play that game for some serious cassius clay... They ruined a part of my high school / early college memories. BOO HISS!!
Well, Mortal Kombat was made by Midway and Street Fighter was done by Capcom, so I doubt they'll be in a movie together... Mortal Kombat Annihilation was not only the worst video game movie of all time, but is quite possibly the worst movie of ALL time. I've never seen Street Fighter, but I've heard enough bad reviews about it to stay away from it...
Some games could work as movies, of course I'm talking about games that are probaby influenced by movies in the first place. Max Payne, classic revenge vigillante story. Unreal, space marines have been done before. Resident Evil was pretty good. Maybe a Silent Hill movie could be really scary. I'd like to see a Legend of Zelda game, but only if Peter Jackson is behind it.
