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Ten Years After ‘Kung Fury’ Rocked Cannes, Director David Sandberg Unwraps ‘Heartbreaking’ Legal Chaos That Left Feature-Length Sequel in Limbo
David Sandberg discusses the heartbreaking legal drama that has left his 'Kung Fury 2' movie limbo and 10 years since the cult short came to Cannes
The 10-minute promo — uploaded to an anonymous YouTube account (and removed less than a day later) — showcased an insane medley of action comedy and martial arts in a wildly over-the-top and mostly bonkers homage to the 80s, with Michael Fassbender as a renegade cop with an impressive mullet hairdo and Arnold Schwarzenegger as a Nazi-fighting U.S. president. “I have such fond memories of that time, not only Cannes, but the whole process leading up to it,” says writer/director David Sandberg, who also plays Kung Fury and whose hugely-successful Kickstarter campaign saw investors literally travel from around the world to his house in rural Sweden to assist on the short. Along the way, Creasun reportedly fought back with counter claims that producers had stolen money from the production, but repeated auditor checks couldn’t find anything in the figures to suggest that was true.
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