The influx of Japanese culture into the United States meant lots of misunderstandings and mispronunciations happened on American schoolyards, especially around the Street Fighter franchise. We kids found the most ludicrous ways to say the words “Guile,” “Dhalsim,” and especially “Ryu.” While you can chalk most of those mistakes up to unfamiliarity with other languages, the tendency to say Rye-oo came straight from the 1994 movie, where director Steven E. de Souza treated accurate pronunciations with as little care as he did everything else in his adaptation.But the upcoming Street Fighter movie from director Kitao Sakurai takes pains to bring the games to the big screen in every way, including pronunciations. That attention to detail is on display in the latest clip from the film, which sees M. Bison (David Dastmalchian) force Ryu (Andrew Koji) to duke it out with the Brazilian monster man Blanka (Jason Momoa). The clip shows off lots of stuff from the games, including an electrical blast from Blanka, but for ’90s kids, the most important moment occurs right at the start, when Bison addresses his combatant as “Ree-you.”As much as we like to rib the ill-fated ’90s movie, one can understand why de Souza took so many liberties. Street Fighter has a narrative, as demonstrated by the numerous cartoons, comics, and books it has spawned. But at its heart, it’s about two outlandish characters getting into a ring and pummeling one another like so many luxury cars. Maybe expanding that premise into a tale about fake money, reporters who also do martial arts, and Jean-Claude Van Damme as an American working with the UN was a mistake, but it made for some delightful viewing.cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530",}).render("0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796");});At this point, it’s not clear how Sakurai and his co-writer T. J. Fixman, working from a story idea by Dalan Musson and Gary Dauberman, plan to construct their narrative. But it is clear that Sakurai puts a priority on faithfulness to the game, especially in the new clip. It’s not just that the fight occurs in an unlikely location—a jail cell—and surrounded by randos who get involved in one way or another. It’s that Blanka is a big green weirdo with wild orange hair.Momoa’s take on Blanka feels like another rejoinder to the 1994 movie, which did feature Blanka as an important subplot. In fact, Guile gets involved in the mission against Bison primarily to save his old pal Charlie (Robert Mammone), who gets tortured by unwilling scientist Dr. Dhalsim (Roshan Seth) throughout the film. But when he finally emerges in his green and orange form, Blanka plays more like a tragic figure than a cool favorite player character.As demonstrated by the latest clip, Street Fighter 2026 leans hard into the wacky fun of Blanka. It doesn’t look much better than the 1994 take—Momoa’s face peering from a green blob of CGI is unsettling in a compelling way—but it does look fun. Will that be enough for today’s fans to pronounce Street Fighter a proper video game adaptation? We’ll find out soon!Street Fighter blasts into theaters on October 16, 2026.The post Street Fighter Sneak Peak Corrects the 1994 Movie’s Biggest Mistake appeared first on Den of Geek.