"I eat lions every goddamn day. If you're not prepared to do the same, then you hang up that hat, walk out that door, and you never come back..." Hell yes - I want to watch this! Some of you will remember a badass short (at 30 mins!) film from 2015 called
Kung Fury, made by Swedish filmmaker
David Sandberg (no relation to
Shazam! director David F. Sandberg). This was his own big project and it was a huge hit when it launched online -
watch here. In 2018 he started development on a full-length feature version called
Kung Fury: The Movie or
Kung Fury 2. He was somehow able to wrangle up
Michael Fassbender,
Arnold Schwarzenegger, and
David Hasselhoff for the cast, and shot the film in 2019. But after legal troubles and other setbacks, the pandemic kicked in and the film has been stuck in release limbo. Word is that it's finished but who knows if it'll ever be released. After all this time, a 10-minute "sizzle reel" promo trailer for
Kung Fury 2 has popped up online and it's awesome. A must watch. Sandberg himself stars again as Miami martial arts cop Kung Fury, and
Jorma Taccone apparently stars as his nemesis A. Hitler. This 10 minutes of footage is proper badass! Here's hoping they get the legal issues sorted and debut this in theaters in 2025. //
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