The Crazy Kung Fury 2 Trailer Brings Together Michael Fassbender, Arnold Schwarzenegger and David Hasselhoff, But You May Never Get to See the Actual Movie

Kung Fury 2, the feature-length follow-up to the YouTube abbreviated and viral deed Kung Fury, has been stuck successful a ineligible quagmire for years contempt having been announced successful 2015 and changeable successful 2019. But this past weekend, a trailer/sizzle reel for the sequel showed up online to enthrall those fortunate capable to spot it with a preview of the ridiculously insane premise, characters, and excesses of writer/director/star David Sandberg's homage to 1980s enactment cinema.

The archetypal abbreviated was released successful 2015 aft a crowdfunding run done Kickstarter which raised implicit $600,000. Through tons of greenscreen and plentifulness of innovation, Sandberg introduced the satellite to the rubric quality (who helium besides plays) who travels done clip to combat Hitler ("Kung Führer"), of course. Oh, there's besides vikings and dinosaurs successful the premix too.

A feature-length version/sequel was announced successful 2016, and successful 2018 Michael Fassbender, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and David Hasselhoff were confirmed to beryllium starring successful the movie alongside Sandberg. Kung Fury 2 was changeable the pursuing twelvemonth with a 2022 merchandise day planned. That was pushed to 2023, but the movie ran into ineligible issues and remains unreleased six years aft it was shot.

So erstwhile the trailer/footage for Kung Fury 2 showed up connected an anoymous relationship this play connected YouTube, it was a spot of a astonishment for the fans who person been wondering immoderate happened to the project. It features 10 minutes from the movie, including Schwarzenegger arsenic an action-star mentation of the U.S. president and Fassbender arsenic mullett-endowed FBI cause Colt Magnum.

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Sandberg tells Variety that the video, which has since been pulled from the archetypal relationship that posted it, was meant for interior promo viewing: "I anticipation astatine slightest radical tin spot the passionateness that we poured into the movie, the satellite deserves to spot it arsenic it was meant to beryllium seen. This movie has been held hostage for the past 5 years but I committedness to support warring for it and marque definite this movie gets the accidental it genuinely deserves.”

Sandberg is seemingly referring to a suit betwixt the producers and capitalist Creasun Entertainment USA, which accuses the institution of not paying $10 cardinal "that it promised, efficaciously shutting down the production," according to Variety. "At the time, Creasun asserted that the suit was meritless and filed due to the fact that it had exercised its contractual rights to takeover the film."

Unfortunatley, Kung Fury 2 has been stuck without a merchandise day ever since then.