Los Angeles, California - Social media users are baffled after Avengers: Endgame directors Anthony and Joe Russo teased the bizarre plan for their upcoming live-action Hercules movie.

The brothers are set to produce an adaptation of the iconic Disney film through their studio, AGBO.

Speaking with Variety, the directing duo revealed an unexpected source of inspiration for their spin on the story.

The live-action version of Hercules will also be a musical, unlike other recent live-action takes like Mulan.

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However, Joe Russo revealed that the pair's plans for the musical, for some reason, have been influenced by TikTok.

"Audiences today have been trained by TikTok, right? What is their expectation of what that musical looks like and feels like? That can be a lot of fun and help us push the boundaries a little bit on how you execute a modern musical," Russo said.

Ironically, TikTok users were the first to share negative responses to the apparent inspiration, expressing their bafflement at what a TikTok-inspired iteration of Hercules could even mean.

The Russo brother's clear efforts to appeal to today's trends struck many as out of touch, if not completely cringeworthy.

The idea that anyone, even the biggest of TikTok fans, would want to see the platform's influence applied to such an iconic film is pretty unbelievable.

Though the inspiration feels pretty bizarre, it's impossible to deny the impact of TikTok on today's music scene, and the notion that new musicals would want to appeal to the TikTok trend cycle.

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This would likely mean songs and scenes will be geared towards the app's algorithm that sends short-and-sweet sounds into fleeting viral fame.

However, as many fans have pointed out, Hercules is far too iconic to chop and change in that way, and doing so would be a real disservice to the original.

While the Russos want to appeal to viewers who have been "trained" by TikTok, the idea that they're now only capable of following content adapted to the platform's format is also pretty condescending.