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Message: [QUOTE="Octopus, post: 163290, member: 4"] The game was apparently almost entirely taken over by Capcom after the reception of the movie, so they were really trying to sell Sawada and also pad out the character count. My favourite [I]Street Fighter: The Movie (The Game)[/I] character? Blade, who's definitely not a Baraka rip off. As you guys said in the review, the casting is just all over the place. He's since gone on to become a C-list direct-to-DVD tier director and producer, which is a fairly bizarre outcome. So much stuff happened behind the scenes of this movie, it's insane. There was nearly a military coup in the city they were filming in, the JCVD stuff you mentioned (as well as a whole bunch of other actors joining in; there's this hilarious Byron Mann quote I remember where he says something like "we were like kings in Thailand, of course we lived it up"), apparently Kylie Minogue almost walked out due to (allegedly) an on set affair with JCVD. Wild shit. I'm not sure if there's even been a definitive answer. I've heard that he was the brother-in-law or something of a Capcom exec and was trying to break into showbiz, but I've also read that he was just some random actor they really liked. Who knows. They also wanted Fei Long as the main character at one point apparently, as this was back before Ryu was really the iconic SF character. It's kinda funny now as Fei Long is one of many characters on the 'never ever' list for every new game. [/QUOTE]

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