The brand new Avenue Fighter film that was first introduced again in 2023 appears to be with no launch date once more, as Sony’s reportedly taken the movie off its calendar of upcoming releases, which means it appears prefer it will not be dropping on the beforehand introduced date of March 20, 2026. As an alternative, we’ll simply have to attend and see if it is re-scheduled in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later.
In accordance with Variety, this variation got here as a part of some wider tweaks by Sony to its listing of upcoming motion pictures that’ve been penned in for particular dates. These tweaks additionally noticed upcoming Tommy Wirkola shark thriller Beneath the Storm be re-named Shiver and have its date moved from August 2025 to July 2026, only a few months after the SF film was beforehand set to drop.
It is possibly one thing we may have seen coming a bit, on condition that this SF film from Legendary and Capcom has had a little bit of a enjoyable behind-the-scenes lifespan to date. Initially pencilled-in administrators Danny and Michael Philippou (Discuss To Me) had been revealed to have departed the project in summer 2024, leaving it in search of another person to full that function.
That occurred final month, with Kitao Sakurai of Eric Andre Present fame being reported to have come on board as a recent director. The query was how a lot work had been finished on the movie whereas the search had been occurring, if it was nonetheless going to hit that March 2026 launch date. With this variation, it appears attainable that the reply was not sufficient.
That is not neccessarily a foul factor, assuming the film does get re-scheduled by Sony for a special date in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later. Giving Sakurai a bit extra time to place collectively one thing that matches his/the workforce’s imaginative and prescient, somewhat than having to hurry to verify a quickly approaching and already set date is hit, sounds prefer it may very well be a very good plan. I will not dig out the well-known Shigeru Miyamoto quote about delayed video games that he, er, might not have actually said, however yeah.
Here is hoping it does get a brand new date quickly, and that it finally ends up being as a lot of a success as Street Fighter 6, which our preventing sport gremlins at VG247 thought was pretty rad.