Summary
- Legendary and Capcom are now on the hunt for a new director for its Street Fighter movie adaptation.
- That's because the Philippou twins, known for their YouTube channel RackaRacka, have left the project due to scheduling issues.
- A Street Fighter movie was part of multiple planned projects for Legendary after it acquired the rights to the franchise in 2023.
Legendary and Capcom are on the hunt for a new director for its planned Street Fighter movie. That's because the duo of Danny and Michael Philippou, better known as RackaRacka, have bowed out. , scheduling is the reason why the duo will no longer helm the film.
The duo's exit comes a little over a year after it was announced that the twins had sig🥀ned on to direct the ad꧃aption. In April 2023, it was reported that the filmmakers were in final negotiations with Legendary. While relatively new to the filmmaking scene, the twins gained fame for their RackaRacka YouTube channel, which featured an eclectic mix of horror and comedy content. They parlayedꦡ that fame into their first feature film, Talk to Me, which was distributed by A24 to critical and commercial success.
That success allowed . Instead, it looks like Legendary will now shift its focus to filling the void. Meanwhile, the Philippou brothers will begin work on a new film that's set to begin shooting before the end of the month.
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Multiple Street Fighter Projects Are In The Works
The proposed Street Fighter movie was just one of several projects that were reportedly in the works. That's because Legendary acquired both the film and TV rights to the iconic fighting game franchise in𓃲 2023. A movie was the first announced project, . At the time of the rights announcement, video game adaptations had experienced significant success, 🗹with the lik♛es of Sonic and Uncharted gracing the big screen and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us shining on television. To that point, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Super Mario Bros. Movie still hadn't been released yet.
As it turns out, while the duo had plans to turn Street Fighter from concept into reality, Legendary and Capcom wanted to move sooner rather than later. That's what led to the scheduling conflict that paved the way for their exit, . The new film that the duo will commence work on will also be in collaboration with A24 and is titled Bring Her Back.
Much like its storied video game history, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Street Fighter also has a storied multimedia history. It was among the first video games to🥀 receive a major adaptation in 1994 with a ✅film that starred Jean-Claude Van Damme. Street Fighter subsequently received . While its multimedia efforts have had varying success rates, the fact is, Street Fighter has a long, enduring history of expanding beyond the realm of video games. And so, it shouldn't be too difficult to find a replacement.
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