Remember when Hollywood looked at Street Fighter and thought, “You know what this needs? Less street fighting and more bizarre military politics?”
Ryan George’s latest Pitch Meeting takes aim at the wonderfully bad 1994 Street Fighter movie, a film where Guile somehow became the main character, villains survive electrocution until they don’t, and nearly every plan fails because somebody announces it on live television first.
If you’ve ever wondered how a movie based on a fighting tournament ended up being about tanks, dictators, and Jean-Claude Van Damme playing the most American man alive with a very Belgian accent, this sketch breaks it all down.
