Oh, my. There’s a book to be written there. This is where I have to be careful. Let’s just say there were a lot of people with different ideas as to what was the best route to take with that movie. A path was chosen, a result was had. I think there are some learnings internally that we’ve taken away from that experience. I think you’ll see some clever live-action stuff that will excite our fans at some point in the future, based on Street Fighter. Let’s just say that the book is not yet done on Street Fighter film and video projects.

 

 

Well, hopefully we get one right sometime in the future. There are more projects in the works.

 

As long as the games are strong, the fans will be there. Certainly, the other part of this is we do have actually very successful uses of Street Fighter IP in comics and merchandise like Snuggies and action figures. I’d look at the movies as an opportunity missed, rather than anything that’s damaged us. If I were to give advice to the RockStar guys, not that they need any, I would probably look at it the same way and say, “Hey, as long as you guys keep bringing the goods, the fans are still gonna love you regardless of what happens outside.” It’s kind of a missed opportunity if you don’t start exploring outside our medium to expand your brand.

 

 

There were some gamers involved on that production team. I’ll take your opinion, but I know that there were some gamers involved in that production. The writer, in particular, was a very hardcore gamer and Street Fighter fan to boot. I don’t know that actually having knowledge of the product, and being a fan of the pasttime, always translates to having a good videogame movie, or the absence thereof doesn’t necessarily damn one from being good either. I think respecting the gaming medium, and maybe not even necessarily understanding it fully, can still be a viable path to a good videogame movie.

 

 

Well, Jordan Mechner, himself, has been involved in that production. I think that’s helped a lot. I know some of the other groups that have been involved in fleshing out the world, even during the pre-production stages, they’ve given it a lot of thought. Bruckheimer and company do extravagant, big budget action extravaganzas, and I think the game will lend itself to that. The Disney name helps a ton, as well. Do I think it’s going to push the reset button on gaming movies? Maybe, I hope so. I’d love to see a new high-bar set. I’d love to see a very successful, big budget, videogame movie pave the way for Lost Planet. I have high expectations for the production value with Bruckheimer. I have high expectations for gamer cred given Jordan’s involvement. But until I see it, you just never know.

 

 

I think if you ask Haruhiro Tsujimoto, who’s our COO and President in Japan, the model he’s always put forward to us is the Marvel model. That is, Marvel’s business was comic books, but they have branched out and become a pop culture media company. I think that’s really the ultimate goal for Capcom in the long term. I don’t think it’s an easy path. It’s not an immediate path where this is going to happen, but we already do content expansion through a variety of media -- novels, comics, and soundtracks. All of that fun stuff expands and adds to the universe. We’ve done a fair number of motion pictures, both large and small. We’ve had other motion picture projects in development for a very long period of time – Devil May Cry, Onimusha, Dark Void -- some of which may come out, some of which never may see the light of day. That’s just the way Hollywood works. The goal is to be everywhere with your brand. Have your brand touch as many people as possible, but still be true to the fans ideally.