After years of radio silence, the first-ever footage from Kung Fury: The Film has lastly surfaced on-line within the type of a wild, completely bonkers 10-minute sizzle reel that feels prefer it was conjured within the fever dream of an ‘80s-obsessed time traveler with entry to each VFX plugin identified to man.
After the over-the-top sizzle reel initially leaked on YouTube it was taken down together with ever different time it was uploaded. However, I did discover this one on X, that’s nonetheless alive and able to watch!
Directed by David Sandberg, this unreleased feature-length sequel to the viral 2015 brief Kung Fury was meant to take the whole lot folks cherished in regards to the authentic like laser dinosaurs, synthwave-soaked motion, kung fu cops, time journey, and crank it as much as eleven.
However, for the previous 5 years, the film’s been caught in cinematic limbo after a authorized fallout with the movie’s Chinese language traders.
In 2020, Creasun Leisure USA was accused of pulling the plug on a promised $10 million funding, freezing the manufacturing in its tracks. However now, the legend of Kung Fury 2 lives once more due to this insane footage, which performs like somebody dared the artistic workforce to out-crazy Turbo Child and Deadpool in the identical breath.
“This was an inner promo video that was by no means speculated 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 informed Selection in an announcement.
“I hope at the least folks can see the fervour 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 actually deserves.”
The reel options Michael Fassbender as Colt Magnum, an FBI renegade with a monster mullet and explains how one can make a “justice omelette,” Arnold Schwarzenegger reveals up because the cigar-chomping, shotgun-toting U.S. president President of the USA, strapped, loaded, and asserting his mission to “kick some Nazi ass.” Oh, and David Hasselhoff is there too, morphing right into a sentient ‘80s supercar generally known as the Hoff 9000.
The story entails a eclectic workforce of human, dinosaur and half-human-half-dinosaur crime-fighters referred to as the Thundercops, led by the deadpan motion hero Kung Fury (Sandberg), on a mission to scrub up the streets of Miami in 1985. This mission is one way or the other derailed by “the worst prison of all time,” Adolf Hitler.
Take a look at the footage, and tell us when you’re able to experience a laser raptor into battle alongside Fassbender and Schwarzenegger.
The world wants Kung Fury: The Film now greater than ever.