The awarding is decided by a sub-committee of the Awards Committee. Within the framework of this program, FFF has also supported Oliver Stone’s Snowden, Lisa Langseth’s Euphoria, Rupert Everett’s The Happy Prince, Jason Lei Howden’s Guns Akimbo, and Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Resistance. Like the short film, the feature film will also be shot in the genre of the action comedy: The invincible policeman Kung Fury and his colleagues, the Thundercops, have to stop a gang of anarchistic hooligan werewolves. The sequel to Kung Fury, which will be shot in numerous areas all over Bavaria, is set in 1985 in Miami. 'Kung Fury 2 is the very exciting vision of David Sandberg, and it contains all the elements of a magical and fun ride for. The short film references American blockbusters from the 1980s, was nominated for the European Film Award as Best Short Film, and with over 29 million Youtube views, is one of the most widely seen short films worldwide. Kung Fury 2 is set to go into production July 29 in Bulgaria and Germany. FFF Bayern is supporting the production within the framework of the funding program for international co-productions with two million euros.ĭavid Sandberg financed the short film Kung Fury with Kickstarter and presented it in 2015 at the Festival de Cannes in the Directors’ Fortnight. Genre: Action, Comedy Original Language: English Director: David Sandberg Producer: George Acogny, Steve Chasman, Seth. Further leading roles will be taken on by Michael Fassbender, Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Hasselhoff, Elza Gonzáles and Eleni Young. Kung Fury battles Hitler and a mysterious new villain in 1985 Miami. He also collaborated with Tyler Burton Smith on the screenplay. In addition to principal shooting, a substantial part of the VFX design will also be realized in Bavaria.ĭavid Sandberg will be directing and taking on the leading role. Bloom Media will be handling international sales. Licensing rights for German-speaking territories are with Tobis.
Michael Fassbender, Conor McCaughan and Pelle Strandberg are executive producing.
The German producers are Phillipp Kreuzer (maze pictures) and Joe Neurauter (Occupant Entertainment) who will be realizing the project with the producers David Katzenberg, David Sandberg, Seth Grahame-Smith, Aaron Schmidt and Philip Westgren.