A high-octane, wildly vibrant and largely insane sizzle reel for “Kung Fury 2,” an action-comedy starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Fassbender and David Hasselhoff that shut down throughout post-production in 2020 because of authorized points, has been leaked on-line.
The outrageously over-the-top and action-packed 10-minute promo reveals Schwarzenegger as a cigar-chomping, shotgun-toting U.S. president “out to kick some Nazi ass,” Fassbender as a renegade FBI agent boasting a formidable mullet and explaining the best way to make a “justice omelette,” and David Hasselhoff in a purple leather-based jumpsuit saving remodeling into an 80s sports activities automobile known as the Hoff 9000 and saving some puppies. A preposterous plot seems to contain a wildly eclectic workforce of human, dinosaur and half-human-half-dinosaur crime-fighters known as the Thunder Cops, led by the high-kicking Kung Fury (performed by author/director David Sandberg), on a mission to scrub up the streets of 1985 Miami, a mission that’s by some means derailed by “the worst prison of all time,” Adolf Hitler. Due to course.
Selection has confirmed with the filmmakers that the 10-minute sizzle — uploaded to an nameless YouTube account — is respectable.
“This was an inner promo video that was by no means imagined to be seen by the general public. I really feel unhealthy as a result of it incorporates a bunch of plot factors and temp VFX,” Sandberg advised Selection in an announcement. “I hope at the least folks can see the eagerness that we poured into the film, the world deserves to see it because it was meant to be seen. This film has been held hostage for the previous 5 years however I promise to maintain preventing for it and ensure this movie will get the prospect it really deserves.”
“Kung Fury 2″ — first introduced in 2015 and shot in 2019 — was to be the feature-length comply with as much as the cult brief “Kung Fury,” a tacky and OTT homage to Nineteen Eighties martial arts movies and buddy cop films that turned a viral sensation on YouTube after a massively profitable Kickstarter marketing campaign.
From Sandberg and largely shot utilizing a inexperienced display screen in his native Sweden, the brief adopted the high-kicking exploits of Miami’s Lamborghini-driving “kung fu cop” Kung Fury (performed by Sandberg) as he goes again in time to defeat the “Kung Fuhrer,” Hitler. Uzi-toting feminine viking warriors, a number of dinosaurs and a half-dino police officer known as Triceracop additionally featured (and all return within the sizzle). The complete size sequel, with a finances reportedly topping $34 million and boasting a number of A-listers, was anticipated to take the identical themes because the brief whereas upping the lunacy. The promo would counsel that was achieved.
Arnold Schwarzenegger because the U.S. president within the ‘Kung Fury 2’ sizzle reel
The leak has seemingly been timed to coincide with the Cannes Movie Pageant, the place the “Kung Fury” brief first premiered within the Administrators’ Fortnight sidebar in 2015 and the place, the identical yr, the characteristic sequel was first introduced by Sandberg and KatzSmith Productions.
After principal pictures on “Kung Fury 2” wrapped in late 2019 following shoots in Bulgaria and Germany, post-production work stopped the next yr because of a lawsuit between the producers and the movie’s Chinese language traders Creasun. In late 2020, a lawsuit was filed in opposition to Creasun Leisure USA, the LA-arm of Creasun Media, accusing it of not paying $10 million that it promised, successfully shutting down the manufacturing. On the time, Creasun asserted that the lawsuit was meritless and filed as a result of it had exercised its contractual rights to takeover the movie. Selection understands there was little motion on the mission since then.
