Arnold Schwarzenegger , on top of a giant dinosaur , massive gun in hand , shoot Nazis . It was footage that launched a thousand blog postsacross the internet . leak footage , in fact , from a movie calledKung Fury 2which , despite being filmed in 2019 and also featuringMichael Fassbenderas a cocky , over - the - top supercop , has never been released . But that ’s not because consultation are n’t ready for all thatArnold awesomeness . It ’s because of money . Is n’t it always ?
In a unexampled interview withVariety , Kung Fury 2star , author , and director David Sandberg detail multiple suit that proceed to chivvy the film , now over five years later . Those center principally on Creasun Entertainment USA , the U.S. outgrowth of a Taiwanese film troupe anticipate Creasun Media . In 2019 , Creasun sign up on to aid finance two - one-third ofKung Fury 2 , let in about $ 10 million in ocular effects work from the company Double Negative . Production went fine , but then something changed . “ Once we started get to VFX , thing started to really slow up down , and things became a bit weird , ” Sandberg said . “ And then it turn out that our Chinese financier had basically stopped all payments . ”
A lawsuit was filed and , after about a twelvemonth and a half , a small town was reached in which Creasun was die to pay what it owe . But , apparently , that still did n’t go on . So Creasun was sued again , but it did n’t discontinue there . Creasun filed countersuits accuse producer of stealing money from the production . Sandberg says that is n’t genuine , and Variety report some of the other producers on the motion picture tried to buy Creasun out . It declined .
We still can’t see the glory that is sure to be Kung Fury 2.Image: Laser Unicorns
“ They just kind of stonewall every single effort to figure out the payoff , ” he say . “ And it was just really grievous for me as an artist who ’s worked on this for years . And there are so many people who have swarm their hearts into this , and I feel super terrible for them . ”
And so the dense legal cognitive operation continues , secure that despite principal photography being complete , as well as an edit of the movie , between $ 5 and $ 10 million of visual personal effects stay bare . In fact , the footage that leak earlier this month had temporary effects , which were never presuppose to be seen by the public . “ It ’s a fantastic movie and I ’m so lounge about that I ca n’t show it , ” Sandberg pronounce . “ But I have n’t given up on it . One daylight , for sure , it will get released . But we just have to power through it . But it ’s incredible . Fassbender is incredible . Arnold is unbelievable . We had such a marvellous experience on set and everyone feel the beloved behind it . So it ’s just a pity that it would end up this direction . But it ’s not over . It will get out there finally . ”
say more from Sandberg , including some teases of the movie he ’s been making as theKung Fury 2legal struggle continue to play out , over at Variety .
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