A high-octane, wildly vibrant and principally 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 as a result 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 powerful mullet and explaining make a “justice omelette,” and David Hasselhoff in a purple leather-based jumpsuit saving reworking 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 wash up the streets of 1985 Miami, a mission that’s in some way derailed by “the worst criminal of all time,” Adolf Hitler. Because after all.
Variety has confirmed with the filmmakers that the 10-minute sizzle — uploaded to an nameless YouTube account — is reputable.
“This was an internal promo video that was never supposed to be seen by the public. I feel bad because it contains a bunch of plot points and temp VFX,” Sandberg advised Variety in an announcement. “I hope at least people can see the passion that we poured into the movie, the world deserves to see it as it was meant to be seen. This movie has been held hostage for the past 5 years but I promise to keep fighting for it and make sure this film gets the chance it truly deserves.”
“Kung Fury 2″ — first announced in 2015 and shot in 2019 — was to be the feature-length follow up to the cult short “Kung Fury,” a tacky and OTT homage to Nineteen Eighties martial arts movies and buddy cop motion pictures that turned a viral sensation on YouTube after a massively profitable Kickstarter marketing campaign.
From Sandberg and principally 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, just a few dinosaurs and a half-dino police officer known as Triceracop additionally featured (and all return within the sizzle). The full size sequel, with a funds 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 recommend 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 Film Festival, the place the “Kung Fury” brief first premiered within the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar in 2015 and the place, the identical 12 months, the characteristic sequel was first introduced by Sandberg and KatzSmith Productions.
After principal images on “Kung Fury 2” wrapped in late 2019 following shoots in Bulgaria and Germany, post-production work stopped the next 12 months as a result of a lawsuit between the producers and the movie’s Chinese buyers Creasun. In late 2020, a lawsuit was filed in opposition to Creasun Entertainment USA, the LA-arm of Creasun Media, accusing it of not paying $10 million that it promised, successfully shutting down the manufacturing. At 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. Variety understands there was little motion on the mission since then.
