The brand new Avenue Fighter film that was first introduced again in 2023 seems to be to be with no launch date once more, as Sony’s reportedly taken the movie off its calendar of upcoming releases, that means it seems to be prefer it will not be dropping on the beforehand introduced date of March 20, 2026. As a substitute, 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 Selection, this transformation got here as a part of some wider tweaks by Sony to its listing of upcoming films 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, just some months after the SF film was beforehand set to drop.
It is perhaps 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 thus far. Initially pencilled-in administrators Danny and Michael Philippou (Speak To Me) had been revealed to have departed the undertaking in summer season 2024, leaving it on the lookout for another person to full that position.
That occurred final month, with Kitao Sakurai of Eric Andre Present fame being reported to have come on board as a contemporary director. The query was how a lot work had been performed on the movie whereas the search had been taking place, if it was nonetheless going to hit that March 2026 launch date. With this transformation, it seems to be doable that the reply was not sufficient.
That is not neccessarily a foul factor, assuming the film does get re-scheduled by Sony for a distinct 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 crew’s imaginative and prescient, relatively than having to hurry to ensure a quickly approaching and already set date is hit, sounds prefer it could possibly be a great plan. I will not dig out the well-known Shigeru Miyamoto quote about delayed video games that he, er, won’t have truly mentioned, 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 Avenue Fighter 6, which our combating recreation gremlins at VG247 thought was fairly rad.
