TURBO KID 2 Will Be an Ambitious ROAD WARRIOR-Style Sequel
The 2015 80s-inspired radcore film Turbo Kid was an absolute blast! If you’ve seen it, you’re most likely a fan, and if you haven’t seen it, I’m pretty sure you’d enjoy it. The film tells an action-adventure story that is set in a post-apocalyptic 1997. It follows an “orphaned teenager who goes on an adventure to save his female-robot companion from the hands of an evil warlord who controls the only water supply.”
The film was heavily inspired by Mad Max, and there’s a sequel in development from the directing team of François Simard, Anouk Whissell, and Yoann-Karl Whissell. Producer Ant Timpson recently talked about the sequel with Bloody-Disgusting, and he says that it will be an ambitious Road Warrior-style sequel. He explains:
Well look, that’s been a long time coming. There’s a script for Turbo Kid 2. We want to make it, that’s all I can say. It’s really a case of finding the backers [financiers] because it’s way more ambitious. It’s kind of like Road Warrior‘s step up from Mad Max. Its sort of that kind of ambition…you needs a little bit more money than we had for the first film. They want to make that a dream project.
If I had the money, I’d fund the film! I would love to see Turbo Kid 2 get made! It’d be cool to see the vision of these filmmakers for the sequel brought to life.
The film stars Munro Chambers, Laurence Leboeuf, Edwin Wright, Aaron Jeffery, and Michael Ironside. The original film currently holds a 90% approval rating over on Rotten Tomatoes with a Critics Consensus that reads: "A nostalgic ode to kids' movies of yesteryear, Turbo Kid eyes the past through an entertaining -- albeit surprisingly gory -- postmodern lens.”