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Nick Staniforth

Michael Fassbender and Arnold Schwarzenegger help kill Nazis in leaked Kung Fury sizzle reel

Michael Fassbender as Colt Magnum in Kung Fury: The Movie.

If your weekend was lacking intense action awesomeness then worry not, as out of space and time comes legendary cop and rock star, Kung Fury, who has returned from the annals of YouTube absurdity with a leaked sizzle reel for Kung Fury 2 aka Kung Fury: The Movie aka the best god damn thing you've ever seen in your boring little life maybe. Making his debut in 2015, Kung Fury was a Swedish short movie that exploded onto the scene by way of its titular hero (played by writer and director David Sandberg), who was tasked with saving Miami from the worst criminal of all time – Hitler. Along the way he fights Nazis, ninjas and werewolves and assembles a team known as the Thundercops, comprised of a real T-rex, TriceraCop, Hackerman and Barbarianna.

The short spread like wildfire thanks to its neon-lit nostalgia of '80s movies and stupendously cheesy one-liners, and in 2018, it was confirmed that a feature film was being made starring Michael Fassbender and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Problems struck Kung Fury's next big case, though, when a lawsuit was filed against one of the film's investors, Creasun. According to the suit, the company owed $10 million to go to the production, which never came to pass. With nothing ever coming from the suit, there was seemingly no chance of seeing Kung Fury's return – until now…

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