DRAGONLORD: New Action Adventure In The Works From ‘Kung Fury’ Director
The new movie from David Sanberg begins principal photography in 2026.
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David Sandberg Teases New Project, Future Of KUNG FURY Feature Film Release
David Sandberg will be the comeback kid yet! Details in the link on KUNG FURY: THE MOVIE, and more!
KUNG FURY 2: Now Filming, ‘X-Men’ Actress Joins Cast
Production is reportedly underway in Bulgaria for Kung Fury 2 according to Amanda N’Duka’s scoop at Deadline. Cameras are also expected to roll in Germany while word also brings that Alexandra Shipp is joining the cast of the feature-length sequel to the crowdfunded hit 2015 short from star/writer/director/producer David Sandberg. N’Duka’s report confirms the former X-Men franchise actress will replace Baby Driver co-star Eiza Gonzalez for the role of Rey Porter, a news anchor who will do anything to get the best story. That story ultimately culminates in the city of Miami in 1985 where our hero as he leads the Thundercops, the ultimate police force assembled from across history to defeat Adolf Hitler. The plot thickens when one of their own is killed and as the team disbands, a mysterious villain surfaces to aid the Führer’s quest to attain the ultimate weapon. Now, the greatest damn cop of all […]
KUNG FURY 2: THE MOVIE Knuckles-Up For A July Production Start
Production on Kung Fury 2: The Movie will go forward on July 29 in Germany and Bulgaria according to The Hollywood Reporter. Creasun Media’s L.A.-based financing and production arm, Creasun Entertainment USA will provide major investment on the film in time for production four years after the explosively successful crowdfunded production of Swedish filmmaker David Sanberg’s superbly-received OTT half-hour fantasy short. The project saw Sandberg in the role of a Los Angeles cop who, following the death of his partner at the hands of a ninja, became the titular kung fu longfist of the law after being hit by lighting and bitten by a cobra. The adventure continued with our hero accidentally landing in the Viking ages after trying to use Hackerman’s rad time-traveling machine to travel back to Nazi Germany and kill time-hopping murderer, Adolf Hitler, once and for all. Sandberg’s Kung Fury garned upwards of 40 million views […]
SHAZAM! Endures Superhero Growing Pains In The Official Trailer
David Sandberg’s own treatment of DC property, Shazam!, may unofficially share space with the previous DCEU films. However, clearly this one is standing on its own two jolly feet with Zachary Levi and Asher Angel playing the respective alteregos of our title superhero in the new action adventure, as the official trailer proudly shows this weekend. We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson’s (Angel) case, by shouting out one word—SHAZAM!—this streetwise 14-year-old foster kid can turn into the adult Super Hero Shazam (Levi), courtesy of an ancient wizard. Still a kid at heart—inside a ripped, godlike body—Shazam revels in this adult version of himself by doing what any teen would do with superpowers: have fun with them! Can he fly? Does he have X-ray vision? Can he shoot lightning out of his hands? Can he skip […]
Ickerman/Brut/Sandberg Sci-Fi Fantasy Musical Shortfilm Team Up, BLOOD MACHINES, Gets A Trailer!
What I love most about sci-fi in the new millenium is that today’s crop of filmmakers still tend to express their creativity with an affinity for 80s lore. Make no mistake though – not all creatives can get away with it as many have tried and aren’t quite able to touch onto such a throwback and authentic vision. Pennamed French film duo Seth Ickerman, otherwise known ad Raphael Hernandez and Savitri Joly-Gonfard have accomplished something fiercely amazing with their work, specifically a few years ago in teaming up with synthwave phenomenon Carpenter Brut for the music video, Turbo Killer. Ickerman later followed up with an intriguing, eponymous sci-fi film concept in a trailer of its own visibly harkening back to yesteryear sci-fi of the 70’s and 80’s, invoking glossy and slick designs and texture to its overall richness and high-energy flair much like Turbo Killer. Nowadays, they’ve rejoined with Brut […]
SHAZAM!: Get A Look At A Thirsty Zachary Levi In The First Set Photo
The latest film phase is set to arrive next Spring with the April 5, 2019 release of New Line Cinema’s DC adaptation, Shazam!. James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly unveiled the new official first look prominently featuring Zachary Levi in costume as the superheroic adult counterpart of young Billy Batson, played by actor Angel Asher. Also seen in the photo with Levi is It co-star, actor Jack Dylan Grazer. We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson’s (Angel) case, by shouting out one word—SHAZAM!—this streetwise 14-year-old foster kid can turn into the adult Super Hero Shazam (Levi), courtesy of an ancient wizard. Still a kid at heart—inside a ripped, godlike body—Shazam revels in this adult version of himself by doing what any teen would do with superpowers: have fun with them! Can he fly? Does he have X-ray […]
KUNG FURY 2: THE MOVIE Lines Up Financing, Character Details For September Shoot
One of the biggest and most important keys to getting a feature film going with help from partners at a major market at Cannes is obtaining funding. Filmmaker and actor David Sandberg knows this all too well having earned a world of support for his 2015 OTT half-hour 80’s-inspired fantasy martial arts time travel fantasy thriller, Kung Fury. Fast forward to 2018 and following brewing announcement since then for its feature film fruition and long since debuting at Cannes, Sandberg’s return to the sales floor this year is proving to be well worth the effort. Andreas Wiseman’s exclusive at Deadline on Monday is confirming a September production start for Laser Unicorn’s feature film evolution, Kung Fury 2: The Movie. The report reveals that Argent Pictures, the backer of the 2017 hit drama, Hacksaw Ridge, has joined the upcoming action-comedy production as a financier and producer with Sandberg set once again […]
KUNG FURY 2: THE MOVIE Adds Eiza Gonzalez
Adding to the fervor this week is Eiza Gonzalez, now set to follow up her breakout stardom in Baby Driver with a role in David Sandberg’s latest, Kung Fury 2: The Movie. The actress will be joined by an accrued cast that so far lists Michael Fassbender, Arnold Schwarzenegger and David Hasselhoff for the sequel sheperded by Sanberg following the hit release of 2015 crowdfunded shortfilm success, Kung Fury from his Laser Unicorn banner. Set in 1985 in Miami, which is kept safe under the watchful eye of Kung Fury, the greatest damn cop of all time. Kung Fury’s Thundercops are the ultimate police force assembled from across history to defeat the villainous Kung Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler. After the tragic death of a Thundercop causes the group to disband, a mysterious villain emerges from the shadows to aid in the Fuhrer’s quest to attain the ultimate weapon. Kung Fury must […]
KUNG FURY 2: THE MOVIE Casts Arnold Schwarzenegger
The mega success of David Sandberg’s crowdfunded, stylish martial arts love letter to the 80’s Kung Fury, has opened the floodgates in fine form. The very shortfilm in question is the subject of the bustling news out of Berlin this week as Sandberg readies production on Kung Fury 2: The Movie with several big names attached, including that of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Hollywood Reporter notes. The Maggie and Aftermath star is set to be joined by the newly added Michael Fassbender and David Hasselhoff with Sandberg directing as well as reprising in the title role. Sandberg is producing via his Laser Unicorns label with Fassbender next to It producers David Katzenberg, Seth Grahame-Smith at KatzSmith Productions with Aaron Schmidt. Also producing are Philip Westgren of B-Reel Films and Conor McCaughan with Pelle Strandberg executive producing on behalf of Laser Unicorns. Taking its myriad cues from ultra-lit 1980s fantasy […]
KUNG FURY 2: THE MOVIE Casts Michael Fassbender And David Hasselhoff
It was on Sunday that actor, producer and filmmaker David Sandberg teased forthcoming announcements for the long-awaited sequel, Kung Fury 2: The Movie. His social media posts on Twitter and Instagram featured conceptual artwork by Ivan Reiss, Marcelo Maiolo, Josan Gonzales, and Alexis Ziritt along with mentions of certain producers now tied to official trade news confirmed as of Monday about the upcoming summer shoot. Word has it that Michael Fassbender is joining the film in an undisclosed role along with actor David Hasselhoff who sang the theme to the 2015 shortfilm that successfully blew past its Kickstarter goals a few years earlier, now with more than 40 million views in its wake before confirming a feature film effort in summer of 2016. Bloom is handling international sales at EFM this week with Endeavor Content and CAA repping North America. Taking its myriad cues from ultra-lit 1980s cult fantasy fervor, […]
KUNG FURY Unleashes Its Fury Online Today!
Filmmaker and Kickstarter success story David Sandberg is likely having a really good year right now. Having started from almost nothing but an idea, a small crew, a nostaligic appreciation for the 1980’s and love for things fantastic of the decade therin, his newest half-hour short, Kung Fury is about to kick its way online starting at 3:00pm EST/12:00 PST with a televised premiere on El Rey Network at 6:30pm EST/5:30pm CT.. And yes, this is all a pretty big deal too with a feature-length picture also in the works in the wake of the shortfilm’s notable reception at the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes this month. KUNG FURY is an over-the-top action comedy written and directed by David Sandberg. The movie features: arcade-robots, dinosaurs, nazis, vikings, norse gods, mutants and a super kung fu-cop called Kung Fury, all wrapped up in an 80s style action packed adventure. Kung Fury takes […]
Cannes 2015: 80's Martial Arts Fantasy Flick, KUNG FURY, Gets Distribution
It’s been a fantastic journey for independent filmmaker, David Sandberg and his team at Laser Unicorns in the past few years, and I don’t use the word “fantastic” too loosely. His mission to conceive his latest neon-lit labor of love, Kung Fury, in its grandiose adherence to the lasting cult fandom of all things 1980’s-oriented and whimsical, hasn’t been an easy one to accomplish, and were it not for the explosively successful crowdfunding campaign that earned him and his skeleton film crew three times over their original goal, it’s safe to say that the project likely wouldn’t have picked up as much steam as it has, especially in this climate. Save for its experimental nature, Sandberg‘s got credentials and he applied them quite well in a such a workable proof-of-concept, now accompanied with even more prominence by way of singer and actor David Hasselhoff as of earlier this month performing a […]
Watch The New Music Video For KUNG FURY Featuring David Hasselhoff!
The highly successful crowdfunding and subsequent production of Laser Unicorn’s upcoming online free release, Kung Fury, is finally headed toward a late May release. The project has garnered plenty of attention in the past year as independent filmmaker and actor David Sandberg launched funding for the project in stellar fashion with mind-blowing footage that harkens back to just the correct tone of 80’s outlandish sci-fi cheese and flair one could take in. Needless to say, as much as this was a small-budgeted indie actioner with a skeleton crew, Kung Fury is proof that where applicable, the vision is what matters. And it’s a winning vision at that: a rogue martial arts cop in the futuristic neon-lit 1980’s who accidentally rides a keyboard into an 8-bit portal through to the viking age while trying to kill Hitler – Yes, this one is definitely for the niche it was meant for, and […]
Big Kicks, Flamethrowers And Ripping Off Arms On The Set Of KUNG FURY
It’s been nearly a year since we’ve heard from independent filmmaker David Sandberg who debuted the pitch trailer for his latest project, Kung Fury, back in December. However, hopefully you have been following the project via social media where they’ve been sharing some really cool production gems, incl uding some neat Instagram nuggets you will find just under the last paragraph line. Inspired by all the tropes of 1980’s cyberpunk action and cheesy, over-the-top storytelling, Kung Fury sees its lead character, a martial arts Rambo-stylized kung fu cop who must find a way back to the 1980’s after accidentally landing in the Viking age during a failed time-travel mission to kill Adolf Hitler. Signaling Sandberg‘s new foray into another shortfilm endeavor at the time, the trailer was accompanied by a major crowdfunding effort via Kickstarter which would soon follow with a huge overnight response from donors, making Kung Fury a […]
Bring The Hot Kick Ass Action Of KUNG FURY To Your City!
Initially targeted late last year for a fundraising budget for $200,000, independent filmmaker David Sandberg and Oscar-nominated producer Mathias Fjällström‘s newest passion project, Kung Fury, literally became an overnight kickstarter success story when it nearly doubled its goal in a matter of up to a day. And with eight days left to go as of this article, accompanied by a new stretch goal for $750,000, the folks at Sweden-based independent film company Laser Unicorn are looking to bring all the time traveling, neon-lit load of action, cheese and glop they can throw at you in a SPECIAL SCREENING to the first two cities with the most votes listed at the official website for the film. If you need reminding about just why this is important, or you are if at all new to this ambitious throwback to good old-fashioned, unapologetic, over-the-top action and adventure with a side of bullets, babes […]
KUNG FURY Needs Your Help To Kick Ass And Blow S**t Up!
Extra cheese please! If you are into mullets, DeLoreans, headbands, powergloves, skateboards, synthesizer music, viking babes with machine guns and towering giants, shoulderpads, visually cheesy and epic, over-the-top violence, then you are in for the wildest dinosaur ride of your life! As of today, there are only 29 days left for actor, writer and director David Sandberg‘s kickstarter for his brand new 30-minute comedic action thriller, Kung Fury, starring Sandberg as a rogue cop who goes on a desperate mission to put an end to Adolf Hitler’s reign of kung fu terror, only to be thrown too far back in time and no choice but to find a way to complete his mission…with a little extra help. Laser Unicorn, the geniuses behind this radical 1980’s exploitation martial arts cyberpunk action cinema spoof on fantasy karate cop movies, have already completed most of the film, and are asking to the tune […]
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