34 of the Funniest Tweets from Thursday, June 27, 2024
The new Street Fighter movie was almost KO’d, but fans of the franchise can rejoice, as Sony announced that the film will hit theaters in March 2026 after all. The release announcement comes after The Hollywood Reporter reported that Australian twin filmmakers The Philippous would have to bow out of the production due to “scheduling conflicts.” This will be the third attempt at bringing the popular arcade game to movie theaters after Jean-Claude Van Damme’s 1994 dud and a 2009 Chun-Li spin-off that flopped so badly that it’s considered non-canonical.
Meanwhile, Ebon Moss-Bachrach admitted that he’s extremely behind on the source material for his next project. Despite being cast as the rock-hard Thing in the upcoming film adaptation of Fantastic Four, the Emmy-winner told Variety that he never read the comic growing up. Moss-Bachrach said that despite being a comic book nerd as a kid, he gravitated toward “the cheaper kind of ones (you) could get from the five-cent bin” — titles like Archie and Elfquest, the latter of which he says gave him some of his “earliest sexual visions.”
There are no games on the timeline today, just some hit tweets that had us laughing out loud. Today’s funniest include those about a breakthrough from the nightmare factory, how to tell if a white person hates their dad and the key to staying sane while living alone.
