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30th Jun 2018

The Rock announces Jumanji sequel on Twitter, and somehow ends up in a feud with Busted

Rory Cashin

‘Tell me your thoughts face to face like real men do instead of yapping on Twitter.’

We all love The Rock.

We here is JOE especially love The Rock following our recent chat with him, in which he began the conversation by calling us “a big motherfucker”, which isn’t something that happens everyday…

Anyways, over the weekend, The Rock took to Twitter to announce that there would be a sequel to Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle, which is great news, because not only because his action-comedy-sequel-reboot was very entertaining, but it also made a shocking $961 million at the box office, which was a surprise to just about everyone, considering it only cost $90 million to produce.

So the sequel will be arriving almost two years to day after the first one (not the Robin Williams first one, The Rock’s first one), and that should make everyone very happy, right?

Well, apparently not, as some of the members of Busted were none-too-keen on the first one, and proceeded to make fun of it on Twitter… while keeping The Rock in the conversation!

Over the years, The Rock has proven not to be one to trifle with on social media – remember all of the kerfuffle with Vin Diesel and Tyrese following the announcement of his Fast And Furious spin-off with Jason Statham? – and true to his nature, The Rock responded:

So the lesson here is don’t mess with The Rock, unchallenged king of Twitter smack-downs.

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