KUNG FURY Premieres Tomorrow!

Last year, the internet went nutso with the Kickstarter campaign for a film called Kung Fury. A concept trailer was posted alongside with the crowdsourcing campaign and it spread like wildfire. With the production finished earlier this year, some people were wondering when the general public would get to see the film. There also seems to be a misconception that this a feature-length film as well. It isn’t. But, it is 30 minutes long and, according to the press release, the filmmakers are planning to do a feature-length version of the film. The film premieres tomorrow on Robert Rodriguez’s El Rey Network. For those of you that are already crying about not getting that channel via your cable provider, you can actually get it via Sling TV. Sling offers a 7 day trial for those of you that want to give it a shot, after that it is $20/mo and includes other channels than just the awesome El Rey Network.

El Rey Network announced the world exclusive broadcast premiere of the short film “Kung Fury” on Thursday, May 28th at 6:30 pm/ET. An official selection of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, thevisually spectacular 30-minute action comedy was created by Swedish filmmaker David Sandberg and backed by the Kickstarter community. In a Kung Fu fury the short film’s supporters took to Kickstarter and raised its entire campaign goal of $200,000 in 24 hours with only the trailer online. Today, “Kung Fury” has raised $630,019 and has over 10 million views of the trailer on YouTube.

The film follows Kung Fury’s revenge after one of his friends was assassinated by the most dangerous Kung Fu master criminal of all time: Adolf Hitler, aka Kung Führer. Kung Fury travels back in time to Nazi Germany, in order to kill Hitler, avenge his friend, and end the Nazi empire once and for all.

David Hasselhoff performed his theme song for the groundbreaking short film, “True Survivor,” and commented that “The 80s was about fun, action, and heroes. Kung Fury has it all! I’m honored to be involved with David Sandberg, an up-and-coming force of nature in the animation digital entertainment world.  The song is perfect for me as I really am, in real life, a True Survivor.”

David Sandberg is a Swedish filmmaker with years of experience in directing television commercials and music videos. In 2012, he quit the commercial directing business, opened his production company Laser Unicorns, and focused on writing the script for “Kung Fury.” The film stars Sandberg as Kung Fury, Eleni Young as Barbarianna,Helen Ahlson as Katana, Andrea Cahling as Thor, Steven Chew as Dragon, Leopold Nilsson as Hacker-man, Jorma Taccone as Adolf Hitler, and Per-Henrik Arvidius as Chief McNichols.

The filmmakers will soon be going into production to launch a full-length version of the film.

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