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Michael Fassbender to Star in 'Kung Fury' Feature Film
I see Fassbender is really leaning into the Mr. Peanutbutter School of Thought when it comes to his choice of roles.
"The universe is a cruel, uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't the search for meaning; is to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually, you will be dead."
That seemed out of character when I first heard him say it, but it made more sense over time.
It’s such a powerful realization when you understand that’s probably one of the best summaries of his true character
He is dog.
Just as we are all Secretariat
What is this, a crossover episode??
THIS... what an experience it is...
I've never heard of this school. Tell me more?
Well that didn't clear anything up for me
I must be on Reddit!
That's remarkably astute, do you perhaps pursue a career in law enforcement by any chance?
I doubt it. I'm an armchair detective, reddit class.
Hahaha god I fucking love that show. The ending credits are a must watch every time
You know I’ve never actually known what the words were. My mind is blown.
Don't act like you don't know
This song actually has alternate lyrics to the original. This one aired s4e1(I think) in an episode with no Bojack. The normal lyrics are about him
there's also the one abt the 2007 tv show during that arc
I'm sure you know this but for those not in the know: These lyrics are only for that one episode, the end credits usually play the same song but with lyrics about Bojack himself
It’s a reference to Mr. Ed. The horse was made to “talk” by feeding it peanut butter so that it would move its mouth.
Always take the meeting!
Got Kung Fury mixed up with Hong Kong Phooey and was real confused with this whole article. Then realized I was a dumbass.
Mr Peanutbutter should definitely play Hong Kong Phooey though.
You think Paul F Tompkins could mocap him?
Yesterday: "Man, Fassbender had a tough 2017. Hope this is his year."
Now: "Welp."
I'm sure he's crying into his piles of money every night.
Surrounded by many beautiful women.
More like one beautiful woman, since he just got married to Alicia Vikander.
Wow, they're gonna make beautiful little tomb-raiding assassin mutant robo-babies together.
Does this make him a womb raider?
God just thinking of them creating those murderous babies makes me so.... red....
So 2017 was his year after all.
She looks simultaneously 14 and 40
Assassin's Creed / Tomb Raider crossover confirmed?
I still remember the time someone posted on r/relationships where his GF cheated on him with Fassbender.
wtf
link?
'tis a hard way to live.
And into a pile of his huge penis
I don’t mind crying into a pile of his huge penis
It would suck if no one mentioned Michael Fassbender’s beer-can cock.
I scan the forums everyday to make sure it’s mentioned at least once a day
Actually, due to deepfaking, all films this year will star Nicholas Cage instead
He married Alicia Vikander in 2017. MUST HAVE BEEN REAL TOUGH
Well this certainly lessens my chances
well, at least they are under the same video games universe umbrella now lol
I'd do Kung Fury over Shawshank Redemption if I was an actor. Come on.
No one wants to be the schmuck to fuck up a shawshank remake
who the fuck would remake that movie?
FUCK.
As long as we keep paying to be disappointed, they'll keep destroying the best movies.
At least Back to the Future is safe until Bob Zemeckis and Bob Gale are dead. They've said that's the only way they'll hand over remake rights.
Someone who is tired of having a career.
That doesn't mean anything, Shawshank is just the closest prison to Castle Rock.
Shawshank is the prison in this world. The movie is based off a "short"story in the book Different Seasons
I honestly don't know what is happening to his career at this point. I'm a bit sad as a fan tbh, I think he is an incredible actor and I was expecting different kind of roles from him. Fun is fine, money is fine, but just go grab that oscar, fassbender!
??? He was literally in two huge movies. Both weren’t great in the end but we’re suppose to make huge box offices.
Who in their right mind would say no to a Ridley Scott project? Guess he will just have to go back to being magneto this year.
Dude is fine.
He seems to be a huge science fiction and gaming fan. So he's been gravitating to those types of movies, even though they're unlikely to do really well. As long as he's happy.
He seems to be a huge science fiction and gaming fan.
Dude fulfilled ever gamer’s dream and married Laura Croft.
Lara.
He’s been in more than 2 bad movies in the past few years. Let’s not get things twisted. And I’m not talking about the Alien films.
2011-14 he was doing some amazing work. Since then not so much.
Macbeth, Slow West and Steve Jobs within like 6 months. Slow West was so good too.
Fassbender's performance is never the problem. He's doing fine.
And yea Slow West kicks ass.
I'm throwing this out there I loved Kung fury and the addition of Michael ass blaster has me all for it
Does everybody forget that he was amazing in Steve Jobs and honestly should have won over Leo at the Oscars?
He was great but that movie is a bit forgettable. All in all a good film but you probably won't hear anyone recommending it out of the blue.
I recommend it out of the blue all the time! I don't get why it's so unpopular, the second time I watched it in theaters I was the only one in my auditorium.
Yeah, I thought it was a really engaging.
Danny Boyle's movies are always fun to watch, I love Aaron Sorkin monologues, and the performances were brilliant. Totally overlooked imo.
It's funny because it took this comment for me to look it up and wow, yeah, what happened? He's a very talented actor, his wife chooses good parts and has production/studio ambitions.
Mikey, wake up before it's too late!
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The Daily Beast put out an in-depth article today on the alcoholism and alleged abuse of his ex girlfriend so that's why it is trending again.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-shocking-abuse-allegations-against-michael-fassbender
Geez.
I had no idea this was a thing until just now. That is really unfortunate if any of that is true.
Why is everyone a fucking asshole God daaaaamn
Not watching unless Hasselhoff is involved in some way shape or form.
He is
You. Have. Made. My. Day.
Hahaha. This is what the report says "David Hasselhoff, who sang the theme to the original '80s homage cult short, will also appear in the action-comedy"
He somehow managed to work his way into the feature length film...............like a true survivor
Cuz we need some cuz we need some ACTION!
It's the first thing in the article dude...
"What article?"
He is
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I also just think that Kung Fury worked because there wasn't that much invested in it. I can see this being the sort of project where the studio pours tons of money into an IP that's weird and niche, and then they get worried because it's weird and niche and they're afraid they just lost their tons of money, so they make a bunch of changes so the IP isn't weird and niche anymore, alienating the fanbase and negating the whole point of buying the IP in the first place.
It could work if they handled it well.
For an example, look to "Army of Darkness." Coming from Evil Dead 2, they had a major release and a bigger budget. Instead of going over the top with big budget effects and casting, they took the money and made a movie packed to the seams with the sort of schlocky weirdness that made the originals work.
I definitely question whether or not the premise of Kung Fury has the legs to be a feature, but I wouldn't rule it out.
Army of Darkness made $11.5 million (domestic) on an $11 million budget.
in the US. 21.5 million worldwide
Theatrically.
How much do you think it has now made in DVDs, stream rentals, and toys/merch? It even has a show now, decades later.
Army of Darkness made $11.5 million (domestic) on an $11 million budget.
Who cares. Its one of the best cult movies of all time.
You see this, you primitive screwheads?? This is my BOOMSTICK!!!
The people funding it probably cared
Hey, I'll take that .5 million could pay off my student loans, even get a house... well half of a house... Stupid student loans.
Except as an investor, you could have gotten a better return from a savings account back then.
Im sure its gone on to much more with the video sales over the years
Wasn't Pixels originally a short movie on YouTube before some studio picked it up and then it became an Adam Sandler movie and everyone was like "Who asked for this?"?
Actually I think it was a Futurama episode first.
I AM LRR OF THE PLANET NINTENDU SIXTY-FOUR!
Gonna bookmark this for when Kung Fury inevitably ends up as you say so I can get that sweet BestOf karma.
I feel you just explained what happens to 99% of the movies made in Hollywood today.
I listened to a Q and A from Jeremy Irons regarding his work on the D&D movie. Apparently he hated the script, the director, and the production of it. However (and to Paraphrase) "I needed to put a new roof on my castle in Scotland and the check for the movie covered it exactly, so... D&D."
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This is similar to how Ian Ziering got involved with Sharknado. He saw the script and thought it was terrible but his wife told him they had a baby and needed money.
The difference being I don't think anybody was asking why Ian Ziering was in sharknado.
It was more like, "hey, that's the guy from 90210. Good for him"
Right? It was probably more like, "What the fuck is this Sharknado thing? Oh, shit, so Ian Ziering isn't dead. Good for him!"
If Mitch Murder is scoring it it’s a definite watch.
Have you seen Danger 5? Season 1 is basically Kung Fury but as a TV series (I'd be amazed if the guys who made Kung Fury didn't draw heavy inspiration from it). It didn't feel tired at any point so it's possible this could work, although they'd need the right writers on board to pull it off.
Danger 5 was made by the same people who made Italian Spiderman, which was a great, self-contained thing. Stuff like this is great for 30 minutes of fun, but to make it bigger defeats the purpose.
I'm with you.
This announcement in particular just dampened my spirits. This feels like Sharknado 2, where the 'joke' and charm just falls apart when you apply real money and actors to the project.
Sharknado 1 had the same problem. It was trying to be a "so bad/stupid it's good" movie, which never works.
For it to be like that, it has to come from somewhere genuine, like The Room.
I found Sharknado 1 to be enjoyable. It was bad in subtle and clever ways once you got past the premise, and despite trying to be bad on purpose, it was so ridiculous that it kind of worked.
My favorite running gag in the movie was the incredibly confusing rising/falling water-depth levels.
For example, showing the characters next to a deep dark puddle, then cutting away to stock, sunny, deep-ocean shark footage as if the shark is a nearby threat. Then the character go to a mansion on a hill, and the water catches up such that it floods their living room and starts to come up the stairs. The characters then jump out the window, get in a car, and drive (downhill) back into town.
For Sharknado 1 and Kung Fury - I think the reason they work (despite their purposeful corniness) is because they're still small budget movies with a passionate crew and director...
It's just that they have movie-making talent and they've apparently seen a movie in their life before. The same can't be said for Johnny Wiseau, James Nguyen, or Neil Breen - who've made movies that are good-bad in a different, less competent way.
Whatever, if its McGruber or Hot Rod level wacky, I'm all in. Fassbender is the cherry on top.
Yeah as long as it has a plot that can sustain 90mins of gags, it's no worse than lots of movies coming out but taking themselves seriously.
How the fuck was McGruber as good as it was? Seriously I laughed all the way through it and I just can't believe it was as good as it is in my mind
Val Kilmer, man.
Iggy man...That one scene in Mcgruber where he tells his partner about why he can't understand why val kilmer's character hates him and then goes on to tell him about all that stuff he had done....I don't think I've ever laughed that hard.
I’m sure this adaptation of a short, super-geeky concept to a two-hour high budget film created by people who don’t understand the subject matter will go extremely well...just like Pixels did. 🤪
It's a sequel not an adaptation. Same director/star/co-writer.
Michael fassbender starred in the first one?
You probably didn't recognize him because of his new red bandana.
Might be a controversial opinion, but I thought the trailer for Kung Fury was miles better than the whole movie.
If they had less cringe slapstick and more of the first scene of the movie, it would have been fantastic.
I feel like Kung Fury fell apart right around the 12 minute mark, after the hilarious time hacking scene. It just lost steam and kind of coasted to the end.
Kung Fury was basically just a 30 minute meme. Now it's going to be a feature length meme. What The Emoji Movie was to kids, this will be to Redditors.
Turbo Kid already did the concept of a tongue in cheek 80s throwback movie great since it actually had heart and characters that the audience cared about. Kung Fury was 30 minutes of a long joke pretty much. The concept has been done way better even Danger 5 did it.
Turbo Kid was great imo. sountrack, gore, everything. 10/10
Soundtrack was top notch, it had the perfect blend of comedy and gore where it wasn’t disturbing when people got mutilated
Turbo kid was seriously a play through of a Fallout game if it were 80s trend instead of 40s
Even Danger 5 overdid it a bit at some point, the first season that was parodying 60s shows like thunderbirds was a lot fresher.
Yeah I enjoyed the 60s parody a bit more but the 80s one had a lot of high moments, mainly the extremes that they took each character.
"The music! It's not blocking out the communism!"
You take that back. Agent Hitler and Mckenzie are the best things to happen to that show.
The kaiju battle with hitler was amazing
And now I need to go find out of there is any news of a Danger 5 season 3.
Sadly enough Danger 5 won't get a season 3. Think they even auctioned off most of the props.
Can confirm, am currently the proud owner of the Coke Snorting Anaconda puppet used in season 2
I follow those guys on twitter. It’s long gone.
That makes me sad.
and it's not even authentic parody. They just CG everything, for the parody to be authentic you have to look like the real thing. Look at Black Dynamite, they actually shot it on film and paid attention to the detail to make it look like a real 70s blaxsploitation movie. Kung Fury looks like a shitty video game cut scene.
Jesus fuck, this thread...
Kung Fury was a kickstarter, by a guy and his friends. They started in his garage.
It was done on a shoestring budget and those old school practical effects are far more expensive and take a long time to make. Having a decent budget means we may actually get proper effects.
That's why I loathe Robert Rodriguez' "grindhouse" films like Planet Terror and Machete. Shit's jam-packed with lame fucking CGI. Why not use shitty practical effects instead? Literally no one likes digital blood or tacky green screen bullshit. Just lazy.
Some of Fassbender's recent role choices are obviously research and preparation for Shame 2.
Snap.
They already made a kung fury feature film it was called kung fury
That's why they are making a sequel.
Come on. We all know if anyone should be in this movie, it should be the king of underrated performances, Jon Hamm.
holy shit this thread is salty..
well at least i'm pretty excited for this.
I seriously was not expecting this kind of reaction. Basically everyone I know that saw Kung Fury loved the hell out of it.
to each their own. i genuinely enjoyed the original and excited for this.
Same here. I think it's fine if people aren't interested in a feature-length film of this, but I will say it's mighty odd that so much circlejerking was happening when this movie came out and the fanfare for it was off the charts on reddit.
Now it seems like everyone has had a change of attitude. And by that, I mean all of the top comments are negative towards it.
Reddit loved it too. But now we've reached the anti-circlejerk circlejerk part of Reddit's obsession with something. It's the point where Reddit's cynical nature implodes on itself.
I mean have you read the top comments? They are basically saying yeah it was good, but already overstayed its welcome at 30 minutes. More isn't exactly better in this case.
I mean they already said they wish they had a chance to make it longer, the original plan was to have Kung Fury fight Hitler all throughout different points in time, but the budget didn't allow it. I would love to see that.
I (and I am sure many others) got to the end of Kung Fury and wished it was longer.
Yeah... Literally every movie rests on "if they do it well." Most movies can be reduced to a single sentence or two to sum them up, its all in the execution
I enjoyed it because of the poor quality and the fact that it was only 30 min. Making it a hollywood movie seems like it missed the point
Never go full "Gerard Butler".
The accuracy of this comment is astounding.
Sorta related, I found out recently that Michael Fassbender was in 300. It was like his first big film role. I've seen that movie literally dozens of times and I never realized he was Stelios.
I'd rather this be Far Cry: Blood Dragon....
It'd be nice to have that as a movie
Fuck a movie, how about a sequel.
Huh, maybe I'm alone on this one, but I thought the 30-minute version was already a little too long for this kind of movie. Some ideas just work better as short films (~10 minutes).
I loved Kung Fury and it was absolutely a bit too long. Not sure how a feature would work unless they spaced the ridiculousness around a thin story (ala McGruber).
Dumb, goofy features can work but there is a fine line between it working and failure.
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I just pictured Michael Fassbender in the Kung Fury outfit and laughed my ass off. This is gonna be terrible and I’m gonna be there opening night.
I just assumed he was playing Kung Führer
No. Jorma Taccone or bust for Kung Fuhrer.
This will certainly be the picture to put him back on the Oscars radar
"I'll never play bond"
along trots this bullshit
"Sign me up"
This guy needs a new agent
And a new wife, she's better off with me and by better I mean way worse.
I think we should all take a moment to appreciate how few fucks Fassbender gives to the idea of a sensible acting career.
TIL people here hate kung fury, fuck you i thought it was hilarious
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The 30min version was structured and paced for a 30min run time. If they expand to something like 90 minutes, it will be structured accordingly.
But 10 minutes (what many people prefered) would be way too short. It would leave you hanging with the desire for more
About 30 minutes was perfect
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I mean... yeah the short film was fun but man, what kool-aid are you drinking Mike? You went from acclaimed, prestige pics like Shame, Hunger, 12 Years A Slave and Steve Jobs to this?
For shame.
Don't forget Inglorious Bastards in the acclaimed films list, he was great in that.
And Macbeth; I absolutely loved his performance (and everything else) in that film.
He was also in Band of Brothers.
I liked him in Prometheus too.
He was fantastic in Covenant too.
My guess is he's having fun.
Well he better stop because I paid for 0.00000000000001% of his paycheck when I saw Alien Covenant so I have a say in what he chooses to act in.
I think Michael Fassbender is an incredible actor. And I LOVE that he's always down to do garbage shit like this.
Yeah I like that he isn't up his own arse, like his other pretentious counterparts.
Granted, I do wish he'd choose other projects than his recent picks.
Like it's this double-edged knife. I want him to do well and be able to do niche projects like this, but I also really adore watching the more high-brow stuff he's done in the past.
I also would like him not to have another movie like The Snowman and end up turning himself into someone who's seen as a bad investment.
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Does every movie an actor do have to be aiming for Oscar prestige? Can't an actor do smaller films just for fun?
It could be cool. I'll reserve judgement until it's actually made.
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