Kung Fury Director Proclaims Bonkers New Movie Impressed by Star Wars, Mad Max & LOTR

David Sandberg, the author, director and star of the viral Kung Fury movie, simply unveiled a “loopy” new film. It attracts inspiration from the likes of Star Wars, Mad Max and Lord of the Rings.

Per Selection, Sandberg’s new undertaking is known as Dragonlord, a “fantasy punk” movie that can mix motion, comedy and sci-fi. The filmmaker says the undertaking is “like Star Wars, Mad Max, Lord of the Rings and He-Man mashed into one, the place dinosaurs from the previous co-exist with robots from the long run – and all the pieces in between.” Sandberg will as soon as once more take the lead within the film, starring because the titular character.

Dragonlord will inform the story of a treasure-obsessed hunter whose greatest good friend is a T-Rex known as Blaze Falcon. “Relatively than hunt for but extra treasure, Blaze simply needs to hang around and play video video games, however when he’s kidnapped by the evil Dreadmancer (assume He-Man‘s archenemy Skeletor), Dragonlord should pull collectively an Avengers-like workforce of bonkers heroes to save lots of his dino buddy,” the official description reads.

Different characters within the movie will embody the Dread Riders (the “Stormtroopers of our world”), a tech man known as Quantum Cobra, Sword Lord (a former employee of Dreadmancer who fell in love together with his unicorn and is now a great man), a personality known as Titanus whose identify is pronounced as “Tight Anus”, Budgie (a “hen man who sh**s acid”) amongst others. In accordance with Sandberg, the script remains to be being polished, with casting set to start quickly.

Dragonlord, which begins manufacturing in 2026, is being financed by Finnish entrepreneur Mikko Kodisoja, the co-founder of gaming firm Supercell (Conflict of Clans). The movie is reportedly the primary of many initiatives Sandberg and Kodisoja are engaged on collectively, with Dragonlord using digital manufacturing applied sciences at Kodisoja’s Finnish services.

Dragonlord Shares Similarities With Kung Fury

Sandberg’s brief movie Kung Fury was an over-the-top homage to the martial arts films of the Nineteen Eighties, filmed largely on a inexperienced display with a restricted funds. The viral movie grew to become an enormous success, resulting in a deliberate sequel that’s at present caught up in a lawsuit delaying its launch. Nevertheless, relatively than specializing in the destructive, Sandberg plans to seize the magic of the unique Kung Fury with Dragonlord.

Because of Kodisoja’s funding, Sandberg can flip his full consideration to the wild world he is creating. “It is a actually enjoyable, actually wealthy world with loads of humorous characters,” Sandberg shared. “It is tonally much like Kung Fury. It’s such a loopy mishmash of stuff. There’s no film that I can consider that’s precisely prefer it. But it surely’s positively gonna really feel tremendous totally different, I feel, from something.”

Dragonlord doed not have a launch date right now.

Supply: Selection