The Mighty Kung-Fu Punks

The Mighty Kung-Fu Punks is an upcoming American animated action, adventure, comedy and science fiction film written and directed by Luís Pedro and produced by Genndy Tartakovsky. The film is distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment and produced by Colombia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation and JaegerBox Studios.

The film tells the story of five superpowered teenagers from around the world who are brought together to train in various martial arts to become super monks who are defenders of planet Earth.

Synopses
Set on an unspecified date between the late 1990s and early 2000s, the nerdy defender of nature teenager Koji Hideojima (who hides pyrokinetic powers from everyone) lives a boring and peaceful life together with the eccentric family of his mother's ex-boyfriend in a coastal town in the interior of the USA, but after coming into contact with another dimension full of mystical creatures, he and 4 other teenagers with paranormal powers, will be forced to train hard in various martial arts and join a secret clan of super-powered monks, and live double lives as the secret protectors of the world human.

Main Characters:

 * KOJI HIDEOJIMA: A kinda nerdy, kinda silly delinquent, not patient at all and hyperfixated on music (mainly rock and hip hop), born in Japan who moved to the US with his mother, whose mother is always traveling for work, so he spends most of his time at his mother's ex-girlfriend's family home, and works as a delivery boy for the family's Mexican restaurant. Koji has the power to shoot any type of lightning and projectiles from his body, from thorns and missiles, to laser beams, freezing rays, shrinking rays and etc.
 * WILLIAN "WILL" MANDOOLL: A platinum-haired, magenta-eyed Irish teenager with a serious, aloof personality who hates just about everyone and considers himself to be the real thing. Will possesses in addition to the standard vampire powers, such as turning into a bat and invisibility, psychic powers, such as telekinesis, telepathy, manipulation of psychic energy and more.
 * MILLA BLIMKUPP: A South African girl with a huge heart, great compassion and an unwavering sense of justice, she is the glue that holds the whole group together, she is relaxed, compassionate, kind, caring, friendly and supportive of animals, and she is also an intern at a museum in her hometown, and therefore is a great connoisseur of history. Milla possesses powers to generate and control storms.
 * MÁRCIO GUIMARÃES: A Brazilian boy, incredibly foul-mouthed, spoiled, sadistic, narcissistic and short-tempered, but that's just a shell, which he uses to hide his true personality, more insecure and not so confident. He secretly takes the form of an anthropomorphic capybara and acts as a vigilante on the streets of São Paulo, using his powers such as elasticity and shape and size change to fight crime in the city. He accepted Mia's invitation because he thought he needed friends and this would be a great opportunity to make friends.
 * RAVI ABDUNAJ: Ravi is an Indian boy and quite eccentric, he is the brain and those of the team, extremely intelligent and perceptive, capable of coming up with great strategies, due to his intelligence, he always ends up developing gadgets, weapons and accessories for his teammates, he talks a lot and is quite noisy, and almost no one takes him seriously. He possesses incredible portal-creating powers.
 * MASTER MIA LEE WANG: The beautiful and enigmatic sensei of the 5 boys, who recruited the 5 to train them and transform them into the new defenders of Earth against the terrible monsters that threaten our world. A master of 13 different martial arts and loved, hated and feared throughout the Multiverse for her far above average fighting skills, legend has it that she is over 5,000 years old and not even human she should be.
 * SWEEKS: Mia's robot butler/bodyguard is an old, rusty, grumpy robot who doesn't have much patience for anything.

Fishwoods High School:

 * JENNA LOPEZ: an ambitious, serious and studious Latina girl who always tries to show a responsible attitude. A huge enthusiast of cryptozoology, ufology and conspiracy theories, Jenna is also extremely antisocial, the only people she gets along with are Koji and Han, she can't maintain a healthy relationship with anyone and hates herself for it, and prefers stay at home studying than doing anything else.
 * HANNIBAL "HAN" FISHER: classmate of Koji and Jenna, his father owns an electronics store, and he ended up inheriting this interest in technology from his father, especially video games, being a huge expert on the subject. He and Koji have been friends since childhood, as the two identify with each other as they are immigrants (Han was born in New York, but moved to Fishwoods as a child)
 * MR. MERQUINTON: Koji, Jenny and Han's history teacher, a man in his 35s, an alcoholic who has no patience with teenagers. It is a recurring comic relief of the series.
 * SUSAN TANGLESBURG: A spoiled cheerleader who practically runs the school, being the daughter of two CEOs of two of the biggest companies in the world, her mother being CEO of the biggest cosmetics company in the world and her father being CEO of the biggest clothing company in the world. world
 * BILL AND CONNOR BRIDGHES: Two twin brothers whose main hobby is to turn the lives of non-white students at Fishwoods High into complete hell, they are two completely clueless who share the same neurons

Fishwoods City:

 * BRADLEY JOESTICK: The news anchor for CNQ News on Channel 64
 * LYDIA BAXTER: Channel 64's CNQ News Co-Anchor
 * BRITNEY SHARPEY: A field reporter for Channel 64's CNQ News
 * GEOFF: A CNQ News cameraman who accompanies Britney in her reports

The White Fists:
They used to be a normal gang of white supremacist drug dealer criminals, until most of their members turned into bizarre mutants.
 * PROFESSOR ERICK HIGHFFERSON: The physics and biology teacher at Fishwoods High, a brilliant scientist and engineer, very famous for his revolutionary inventions, his teaching profession is just a cover for his real profession, which is a weapons developer for a criminal organization called White Fist
 * PINKY AND FLOYD: A couple of maniacal teenage criminals madly in love with each other, they are White Fist members who volunteered as Dr. Highfferson's lab rats, and were injected with Mutangon and became an anthropomorphic bat and an anthropomorphic wolf
 * GILLIHAN: The second-in-command of the White Fists, a psychotic racist and a pathological pervert, who sees things like assault, murder and kidnapping only as a hobby, he was injected with Mutangon by Highfferson against his will and turned into an anthropomorphic eel with two giant fins on his back that he uses as wings, he also gets the power to control and transform into water.
 * MEGARANTULA: Also known as Kevin, is Erick's pet tarantula, which after being mutated thanks to exposure to Mutangon, turned into a bizarre arachnid monster and Erick's bodyguard.
 * ROUNDWORMER: He was a skeletal member of the White Fists, who, despite his nickname, transforms into an anthropomorphic centipede when injected with the Mutangon, rather than a roundworm, which is capable of spewing corrosive acid.
 * RADICAL SHRIMP: Another member of the White Fists, who has transformed into an anthropomorphic pistol shrimp, who is also one of the most spirited members of the gang.

The Wrath Syndicate:
A fascist empire that rules the Omega Zone with an iron fist, formed by an army of bloodthirsty monsters led by Spartun
 * LORD SPARTUN: The unscrupulous and megalomaniac ruler of the Omega Zone, a bizarre and grotesque biomechanical brute obsessed with his ambitious plan to destroy the barrier that separates the Zones and thus merge all the Zones into a single Kingdom, in order to become the great all-powerful leader of the Multiverse. He was once a lowly scientist, but after consuming the so-called Black Mutangon, he went mad and established a dictatorship in the Omega Zone.
 * LABLANKA: A sadistic and depraved witch, who pretends to be in love with Spartun, but this is just a facade to manipulate his emotions. She can be considered a formidable threat thanks to her powers to manipulate the body mass of her opponents.
 * LEATHERTRAPP: Spartun's adopted son, a 14-foot-tall, four-armed monster with purple skin and glowing orange eyes. Leathertrapp is a fearless and formidable warrior known for being extremely ferocious and cruel during combat, as he has the bizarre habit of devouring the corpses of his enemies. He develops a strange rivalry with Márcio throughout the series.

Cast

 * Aleks Le as Koji Hideojima
 * Timotheé Chalamet as Will Manndoll
 * Ayo Edebiri as Milla Blimkupp
 * Nik Dodani as Ravi Abdunaj
 * Nicholas Torres as Marcio Guimarães
 * Rinko Kikuchi as Mia Lee Wang
 * Brian Tyree Henry as Sweeks
 * Alex Cazares as Jenna Lopez
 * Daveed Diggs as Han Fisher
 * Hannibal Buress as Mr. Merquinton
 * Ashley Tisdale as Susan Taglesburg
 * Ben Schwartz as Bill Bridghes
 * Seth Green as Connor Bridghes
 * Troy Baker as Bradley Joestick
 * Laura Bailey as Lydia Baxter
 * Jenna Coleman as Britney Sharpey
 * Tom Kenny as Geoff
 * Patton Oswald as Doctor Erick Highfferson
 * Post Malone as Gillihan
 * Mae Whitman as Pinky
 * Jason Schwartzman as Floyd
 * Dee Bradley Baker as Megalantula
 * Bill Nighy as Lord Spartun
 * Toni Collete as Lablanka
 * John DiMaggio as Leathertrapp

The Score:
The film's soundtrack was composed by Mark Mothersbaugh, known for scores and films such as The Lego Movie, Thor Ragnarok, 21 Jump Street, Hotel Transilvania and The Mitchells vs The Machines. He composed the score as a mix of punk rock with traditional Asian music and an extra touch of superhero orchestras in the heroes part, while in the more casual and slice of life part of the track, it has a lo-fi hip hop vibe, and on the villains part, the score has an energy similar to sci-fi B movie soundtracks from the 60s/70s mixed with Nordic barbaric operas.

Albun Inspired by The Film:
The film had an album featuring original songs written for and inspired by the film. A soundtrack featuring songs made for the film, titled The Mighty Kung-Fu Punks (Soundtrack from & Inspired by the Motion Picture). The soundtrack features songs performed by an array of artists, including The Weeknd, Post Malone, Gorillaz, Tame Impala, Starcrawler, Rise Against, Soccer Mommy, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Decemberists, My Chemical Romance and Tenacious D, with the Tenacious D song being a punk rock cover to Carl Douglas's iconic song Kung-Fu Fighting, which plays in a training sequence from the film

Licensed Songs in The Film:
The film had a collection of licensed songs, all of them being songs that appeared in the late 90s and early 2000s (some even a little earlier), which helped a lot in the setting of the film, containing songs by artists such as Ramones, Avril Lavigne, Blink 182, A Tribe Called West, Dead Kennedys, Jane's Addiction, Fugazi, Bad Religion, The Racounters, Paramore, 3 Doors Down, Green Day and Linkin Park