Arnold Schwarzenegger is shooting at the Nazis in a giant dinosaur holding a huge gun in his hand. It is the lens that launches a thousand blog posts on the internet. In fact, from a movie called Kung Fu 2 Despite filming in 2019 and playing with Michael Fassbender as a arrogant super, it has never been released. But that's not because the audience isn't ready for all the awesomeness of Arnold. This is because of money. Isn't it always?
In a new interview with the breed, Kung Fu 2 Star, writer and director David Sandberg detailed several lawsuits that continue to haunt the film, now five years later. These are mainly concentrated in Creasun Entertainment USA, a U.S. branch of a Chinese film company called Creasun Media. In 2019, Creasun signed to help fund two-thirds of the Kung Fu 2including the company's visual effects work double negatives of about $10 million. Production went well, but then changed. “Once we started to get to VFX, things started to get very relaxed and things got a little weird,” Sandberg said. “And then it turned out that our Chinese financiers had basically stopped all payments.”
The lawsuit was filed, and about a year and a half later, a settlement was reached and Cresson was to pay the owed. But, obviously, this still hasn't happened. So Creasun was sued again, but it didn't stop there. Creasun submitted an anti-joint server, accusing the producer of stealing money from production. Sandberg said that this was not the case, and Variety reported that some of the other producers in the film tried to buy Creasun. It refused.
“They just try to solve this problem,” he said. “It's heartbreaking as an artist who has been doing it for years. There are a lot of people who fall in love with it and I feel very scary about them.”
As a result, the slow legal process continues to ensure that despite the completion of the main photography and editing of the film, the visual effects are still not completed between $50 million and $10 million. In fact, footage leaked earlier this month has temporary effects that the public should never see. “It's a great movie, and I'm so frustrated that I can't show it,” Sandberg said. “But I haven't given up yet. One day, it's going to be released. But we just need to start with it. But it's incredible. Fassbender is incredible. Arnold is incredible. We have such a great experience on site and everyone feels the love behind it. So it's a shame that this way will end up everywhere there.
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