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Iron Sky - The Coming Race (2019)
Iron Sky: The Coming Race is a 2019 Finnish-German comic science fiction action film directed by Timo Vuorensola. The sequel to Vuorensola's 2012 film Iron Sky, its production was crowdfunded through Indiegogo. Like its predecessor, the film mixes political themes with repeated allusions to the popular culture and various conspiracy theories, but is generally more action-adventure oriented. A major inspiration of the content (and title) is the Vril conspiracy theory.
The plot follows a group of nuclear holocaust survivors living in an abandoned Nazi base on the far side of the Moon. Boarding a barely functioning spacecraft, they travel to the nucleus of the hollow Earth in an attempt to recover the Holy Grail from a group of reptilian shape-shifters who are led by Tyrannosaurus-riding Adolf Hitler.
Produced on a budget of 17 million euros, The Coming Race is the most expensive Finnish live-action picture ever made. The production suffered from repeated delays and a two part copyright dispute, with a Finnish court denying that copyright even existed in the subject matter of the case apart from one 3D model, the Japanese Ship. The second half of the case was a counterclaim by the production companies to sue the original Iron Sky 3D artists for continued use of their work. The court ruled that the production companies had not shown any evidence of copyright ownership themselves and dismissed the counterclaim.
The Coming Race was released on 16 January 2019 in Finland, but performed poorly in the box office. Most reviews were negative, citing problems such as unidimensional characters, low-quality CGI, dated jokes, and confused script. The self-conscious ludicrousness of the storyline divided critics, with some finding it amusing while others criticized it as disorienting and unfunny. Lara Rossi′s and Udo Kier′s performances received some praise, however.
The year is 2047, 29 years after the nuclear war between the Earth and Moon Nazis rendered the planet inhospitable. The last survivors have rallied together on "Neomenia", the former Moon Nazi base on the far side of the moon, struggling to coexist with the former Moon Nazis who also live in the base. Over the years, the base has started to deteriorate due to overpopulation and the damage on the moon caused by the nuclear war. Meanwhile, Jobsism, a cult formed around the teachings of Steve Jobs and their leader Donald, has become the moon base's official religion.
Obi Washington, daughter of James Washington and Renate Richter, has spent her life keeping Neomenia's life support systems functional. While examining a Russian refugee ship, she encounters Wolfgang Kortzfleisch, the former Moonführer, who gives her Vrilia, the cure to Renate's terminal illness. When Renate's health is restored, Kortzfleisch reveals to Obi that he is a Vril, a race of Reptilians that arrived on Earth during the age of the dinosaurs. While studying the primates that emerged during prehistory, Kortzfleisch created humankind by injecting vrilia into an apple and feeding it to his monkeys Adam and Eve. The Vril have since gone underground to the center of the Earth once mankind had evolved. Kortzfleisch offers Obi a mission to travel to the subterranean city of Agartha and take the city's Vrilia to ensure the survival of her colony. Obi, along with the refugee ship's pilot Sasha, security officer Malcolm, and the Jobsists, fly to Earth and crash in the Hollow Earth.
In Agartha, the Vril, who have been parading around as world leaders throughout history, kill the President of the United States for making the surface world uninhabitable. The Jobsists and Malcolm are captured by Steve Jobs and brought to Adolf Hitler, and Donald offers Hitler the whereabouts of Kortzfleisch in exchange for the Jobsists to live in Agartha, only for Hitler to betray them and have Jobs eat the Jobsists. Meanwhile, Obi and Sasha take the Holy Grail, the source of the Vrilia, but cause Agartha's sun to collapse and destroy the city. Malcolm escapes from captivity and rejoins Obi and Sasha before they fly back to Neomenia. Hitler launches the Vril spaceship out of Antarctica to follow them. Upon the trio's arrival, Kortzfleisch holds Renate hostage for Obi to surrender the Holy Grail, but Hitler and his tyrannosaurus Blondi invade the moon base. After drinking from the Holy Grail, a rejuvenated Renate confronts and kills Hitler, but is mortally wounded by Kortzfleisch. Obi, Sasha, Malcolm, and the surviving inhabitants escape in an old ship, but Kortzfleisch chases after them. Using Sasha's old Nokia 3310, Obi hacks into Donald's iPhone, triggering the self-destruct mechanism and destroying the Vril spaceship.
During dinner, Malcolm comes out as gay, but collapses and dies from allergens in the food. Both he and Renate are given a space funeral, but Malcolm suddenly gets out of his coffin, revealing that he only went into a short coma. As the ship makes its long travel to Mars, Obi and Sasha express their love for each other.
In a mid-credit sequence, it is revealed that Mars has been colonized by the Soviet Union.
Directed by Timo Vuorensola
Produced by
Tero Kaukomaa
Oliver Damian
Peter De Maegd
Screenplay by Dalan Musson
Story by
Johanna Sinisalo
Timo Vuorensola
Jarmo Puskala
Tero Kaukomaa
Samuli Torssonen
Based on
Characters
by Energia Productions
Blind Spot Pictures
Johanna Sinisalo
Michael Kalesniko
Starring
Lara Rossi
Vladimir Burlakov
Kit Dale
Julia Dietze
Stephanie Paul
Tom Green
Udo Kier
Music by Laibach
Cinematography Mika Orasmaa
Edited by Joona Louhivuori
Production
company
Iron Sky Universe
120dB Film Finance
Distributed by 101 Films
Scoundrel Media
Release date
16 January 2019 (Finland)
Running time
92 minutes
Country
Finland
Germany
Language
English
German
Budget €17 million
(US$10–25 million)
Box office $400,000 (excluding Finland)
Cast :
Lara Rossi as Obianaju "Obi" Washington
Vladimir Burlakov as Sasha
Kit Dale as Malcolm
Julia Dietze as Renate Richter
Stephanie Paul as the President of the United States (a parody of Sarah Palin) who is secretly a Vril
Tom Green as Donald
Udo Kier as Wolfgang Kortzfleisch and Vril Adolf Hitler
John Flanders as Gary the Base Commander
James Quinn as Deputy Commander Johan
Emily Atack as Tyler
Martin Swabey as Ryan
Pierce Baechler as the Altar Boy
Christoph Drobig as the Guilty Jobsist
Edward Judge as Fat Tyler
Kari Berg as Lena the Jobsist
Victor Au as a Vril Officer
Vasco De Beukelaer as the Vril Chairman
Muya Lubambu Tshinioka as Vril Idi Amin
Antoine Plaisant as Vril Mark Zuckerberg
Amanda Wolzak as Vril Margaret Thatcher
Francesco Italiano as Vril Caligula
Duta Skhirtladze as Vril Joseph Stalin
Jukka Hilden as Vril Pope Urban II
Abbas Shirafkan as Vril Osama bin Laden
Kari Ketonen as Vril Vladimir Putin
Hon Ping Tang as Vril Genghis Khan
Lloyd Lai as Vril Kim Jong-un
Tero Kaukomaa as Vril Urho Kekkonen
Gaëtan Wenders as Vril Steve Jobs
Alexander Moens as Vril Temple Guard
Alan Lumb as Vril Temple Guard and Moonbase Citizen
The plot follows a group of nuclear holocaust survivors living in an abandoned Nazi base on the far side of the Moon. Boarding a barely functioning spacecraft, they travel to the nucleus of the hollow Earth in an attempt to recover the Holy Grail from a group of reptilian shape-shifters who are led by Tyrannosaurus-riding Adolf Hitler.
Produced on a budget of 17 million euros, The Coming Race is the most expensive Finnish live-action picture ever made. The production suffered from repeated delays and a two part copyright dispute, with a Finnish court denying that copyright even existed in the subject matter of the case apart from one 3D model, the Japanese Ship. The second half of the case was a counterclaim by the production companies to sue the original Iron Sky 3D artists for continued use of their work. The court ruled that the production companies had not shown any evidence of copyright ownership themselves and dismissed the counterclaim.
The Coming Race was released on 16 January 2019 in Finland, but performed poorly in the box office. Most reviews were negative, citing problems such as unidimensional characters, low-quality CGI, dated jokes, and confused script. The self-conscious ludicrousness of the storyline divided critics, with some finding it amusing while others criticized it as disorienting and unfunny. Lara Rossi′s and Udo Kier′s performances received some praise, however.
The year is 2047, 29 years after the nuclear war between the Earth and Moon Nazis rendered the planet inhospitable. The last survivors have rallied together on "Neomenia", the former Moon Nazi base on the far side of the moon, struggling to coexist with the former Moon Nazis who also live in the base. Over the years, the base has started to deteriorate due to overpopulation and the damage on the moon caused by the nuclear war. Meanwhile, Jobsism, a cult formed around the teachings of Steve Jobs and their leader Donald, has become the moon base's official religion.
Obi Washington, daughter of James Washington and Renate Richter, has spent her life keeping Neomenia's life support systems functional. While examining a Russian refugee ship, she encounters Wolfgang Kortzfleisch, the former Moonführer, who gives her Vrilia, the cure to Renate's terminal illness. When Renate's health is restored, Kortzfleisch reveals to Obi that he is a Vril, a race of Reptilians that arrived on Earth during the age of the dinosaurs. While studying the primates that emerged during prehistory, Kortzfleisch created humankind by injecting vrilia into an apple and feeding it to his monkeys Adam and Eve. The Vril have since gone underground to the center of the Earth once mankind had evolved. Kortzfleisch offers Obi a mission to travel to the subterranean city of Agartha and take the city's Vrilia to ensure the survival of her colony. Obi, along with the refugee ship's pilot Sasha, security officer Malcolm, and the Jobsists, fly to Earth and crash in the Hollow Earth.
In Agartha, the Vril, who have been parading around as world leaders throughout history, kill the President of the United States for making the surface world uninhabitable. The Jobsists and Malcolm are captured by Steve Jobs and brought to Adolf Hitler, and Donald offers Hitler the whereabouts of Kortzfleisch in exchange for the Jobsists to live in Agartha, only for Hitler to betray them and have Jobs eat the Jobsists. Meanwhile, Obi and Sasha take the Holy Grail, the source of the Vrilia, but cause Agartha's sun to collapse and destroy the city. Malcolm escapes from captivity and rejoins Obi and Sasha before they fly back to Neomenia. Hitler launches the Vril spaceship out of Antarctica to follow them. Upon the trio's arrival, Kortzfleisch holds Renate hostage for Obi to surrender the Holy Grail, but Hitler and his tyrannosaurus Blondi invade the moon base. After drinking from the Holy Grail, a rejuvenated Renate confronts and kills Hitler, but is mortally wounded by Kortzfleisch. Obi, Sasha, Malcolm, and the surviving inhabitants escape in an old ship, but Kortzfleisch chases after them. Using Sasha's old Nokia 3310, Obi hacks into Donald's iPhone, triggering the self-destruct mechanism and destroying the Vril spaceship.
During dinner, Malcolm comes out as gay, but collapses and dies from allergens in the food. Both he and Renate are given a space funeral, but Malcolm suddenly gets out of his coffin, revealing that he only went into a short coma. As the ship makes its long travel to Mars, Obi and Sasha express their love for each other.
In a mid-credit sequence, it is revealed that Mars has been colonized by the Soviet Union.
Directed by Timo Vuorensola
Produced by
Tero Kaukomaa
Oliver Damian
Peter De Maegd
Screenplay by Dalan Musson
Story by
Johanna Sinisalo
Timo Vuorensola
Jarmo Puskala
Tero Kaukomaa
Samuli Torssonen
Based on
Characters
by Energia Productions
Blind Spot Pictures
Johanna Sinisalo
Michael Kalesniko
Starring
Lara Rossi
Vladimir Burlakov
Kit Dale
Julia Dietze
Stephanie Paul
Tom Green
Udo Kier
Music by Laibach
Cinematography Mika Orasmaa
Edited by Joona Louhivuori
Production
company
Iron Sky Universe
120dB Film Finance
Distributed by 101 Films
Scoundrel Media
Release date
16 January 2019 (Finland)
Running time
92 minutes
Country
Finland
Germany
Language
English
German
Budget €17 million
(US$10–25 million)
Box office $400,000 (excluding Finland)
Cast :
Lara Rossi as Obianaju "Obi" Washington
Vladimir Burlakov as Sasha
Kit Dale as Malcolm
Julia Dietze as Renate Richter
Stephanie Paul as the President of the United States (a parody of Sarah Palin) who is secretly a Vril
Tom Green as Donald
Udo Kier as Wolfgang Kortzfleisch and Vril Adolf Hitler
John Flanders as Gary the Base Commander
James Quinn as Deputy Commander Johan
Emily Atack as Tyler
Martin Swabey as Ryan
Pierce Baechler as the Altar Boy
Christoph Drobig as the Guilty Jobsist
Edward Judge as Fat Tyler
Kari Berg as Lena the Jobsist
Victor Au as a Vril Officer
Vasco De Beukelaer as the Vril Chairman
Muya Lubambu Tshinioka as Vril Idi Amin
Antoine Plaisant as Vril Mark Zuckerberg
Amanda Wolzak as Vril Margaret Thatcher
Francesco Italiano as Vril Caligula
Duta Skhirtladze as Vril Joseph Stalin
Jukka Hilden as Vril Pope Urban II
Abbas Shirafkan as Vril Osama bin Laden
Kari Ketonen as Vril Vladimir Putin
Hon Ping Tang as Vril Genghis Khan
Lloyd Lai as Vril Kim Jong-un
Tero Kaukomaa as Vril Urho Kekkonen
Gaëtan Wenders as Vril Steve Jobs
Alexander Moens as Vril Temple Guard
Alan Lumb as Vril Temple Guard and Moonbase Citizen
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