'Street Fighter' packs Hyde Park punch
Duo team to bring vidgame to bigscreen
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Scribe Justin Marks has been tapped to adapt.
Hyde Park and Capcom -- Japanese publisher of "Street Fighter" -- will produce the film in a joint venture.
Pic will focus on the game's most popular female fighter, Chun Li, but the exact storyline is being kept under wraps.
In 1994, Universal released a "Street Fighter" movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme that featured most of the characters from the game.
Hyde Park and Capcom's film is targeted to bow in 2008, the 20th anniversary of the game franchise.
The Street Fighter series helped ignite the arena fighting genre that's still popular in the vidgame world.
When it first debuted, it generated heated controversy over the graphic depictions of violence.
Though it has been less popular in recent years as the number of competitors has increased, "Street Fighter" games have sold over 25 million console games and 500,000 arcade units, generating more than a billion dollars in revenue.
Marks just completed writing "Voltran" for producer Mark Gordon.
He is repped by William Morris Agency.
Hyde Park will be selling the project at the American Film Market, which unspools this week in Santa Monica.
