After the huge success of their supernatural teen Discuss to Me, it was no shock when YouTube powerhouses RackaRacka, often known as Danny and Micheal Philippou, had been picked as much as direct a brand new Avenue Fighter film. Rising to prominence with their gory and gratuitous motion and horror movies earlier than transferring into studio filmmaking, it appeared like an ideal artistic match, so it was with disappointment that followers discovered final 12 months that they had been not linked to the online game adaptation.
Now after a current occasion selling the twins’ latest movie, Deliver Her Again in LA, Micheal and Danny spoke in regards to the venture and why it didn’t occur.
“When it comes IP stuff, I often would steer clear of it, not as a result of I don’t wish to do it,” Micheal defined, “however as a result of I don’t wish to fuck it up. There’s issues of such huge, in-built audiences, I’d hate to only let a complete bunch of individuals down, like, ‘The fuck was that?’ ‘I’m so sorry!’ That’s my nightmare.”
That didn’t cease them from taking up the enduring and beloved Capcom online game although. “We had been creating a giant IP, it wasn’t horror, it was Avenue Fighter,” Micheal mentioned. It was clear that it was one thing that the brothers had been actually keen about. “We had been truly actually excited for that,” he continued. “Creating that was a whole lot of enjoyable.”
