Here’s a weird thing: Back in 2015,David Sandberg’s 80s pop culture-obsessed short action-comedy filmKung Furymade waves across the Web for its over-the-top weirdness and insane action sequences. A few short years later and not only isKung Furynow prepping to become afeaturefilm, it’s got Oscar-nominated actorMichael Fassbendersigned on for the starring role.
Varietyreports that Fassbender will star as the title character–yes, his name is Kung Fury–a police officer in 1985 Miami’s “Thundercops” police force. He’ll be joined byDavid Hasselhoff, who returns after appearing in the original short. Sandberg will direct, star in, and produce the feature which aims to start shooting this summer.David Katzenberg,Seth Grahame-Smith, andAaron Schmidtwill also produce through KatzSmith Productions withPhilip Westgrenof B-Reel Films andConor McCaughanproducing as well;Pelle Strandbergis executive producing on behalf of Sandberg’s Laser Unicorns banner.
Originally funded in part throughKickstarter, theKung Furyshort went on to enjoy an awards circuit complete with a number of nominations and wins, including a run during Cannes Directors Fortnight. You can watch it in its 31-minute entirety below, along with Hasselhoff’s music video:
Kung Furyis 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.
During an unfortunate series of events a friend of Kung Fury is assassinated by the most dangerous kung fu master criminal of all time; Adolf Hitler, a.k.a Kung Führer. Kung Fury decides to travel back in time, to Nazi Germany, in order to kill Hitler and end the Nazi empire once and for all. Kung Fury is a visually spectacular action comedy that has it’s foundation in 80s cop movies.
Here’s the synopsis for the newKung Furyfeature film:
The feature film will be set in 1985 in Miami, which is kept safe under the watchful eye of the police officer Kung Fury through his Thundercops police force. 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.
