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Orville Peck cast in live-action Street Fighter film with Jason Momoa
Orville Peck
Following his Broadway debut in Cabaret, Orville Peck is now coming to the big screen.
Orville Peck already has his next career moves lined up after he steps off the Broadway stage for his run as the Emcee in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club. Spoiler alert: He's coming to the big screen!
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The masked country singer is set to play a character in a new live-action adaptation of the beloved Capcom video game Street Fighter. Peck's costars in the movie include Jason Momoa (Aquaman) and Noah Centineo (To All the Boys I've Loved Before), as reported by Deadline. Also included in the cast are Andrew Koji and WWE wrestler Roman Reigns.
A rumor posted on a fan site, The InSneider, speculated that Peck might've been cast as Vega, a Street Fighter fan favorite who is masked and wields a long metal claw. However, there is still no official information on which character will be played by Peck.
Official plot specifics for this new Street Fighter film are currently under wraps. Production in its early stages, though Kitao Sakurai has already been attached to direct this live-action adaptation expected to be released in 2026.
This is not the first time a Street Fightermovie has been made. The first one came out in 1994 and starred Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raúl Juliá, Ming-Na Wen, and Kylie Minogue. There was a second attempt at making the movie in 2009 with Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, but it failed to perform critically and at the box office.
The first thought on Peck's fans' minds is: Will he be wearing a mask in the movie? Unclear. During his current stint on Broadway, he does perform without the mask, a creative choice he told The New York Times. "The mask is part of my expression personally as an artist, and a very big personal part of me," he said during the interview. "But I'm here to play this role and to bring respect and integrity and hopefully a good performance to it. It's not about me. I'm not trying to make it the Orville Peck show."
Moises Mendez II is a culture journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. He covers internet culture and entertainment including television, movies, music, and more. For the last two years, he was a Culture Reporter at TIME Magazine. Before that, he was a freelance journalist and his work has appeared in The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Fast Company, and more. Moises holds a master's degree in Arts and Culture journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
Moises Mendez II is a culture journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. He covers internet culture and entertainment including television, movies, music, and more. For the last two years, he was a Culture Reporter at TIME Magazine. Before that, he was a freelance journalist and his work has appeared in The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Fast Company, and more. Moises holds a master's degree in Arts and Culture journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
