‘Turbo Kid’ Fights to Save His Girl in the First Official Trailer for the 1980s-Style Post-Apocalyptic Film

Epic Pictures Group has released the first official release trailer for Turbo Kid, a 1980s-style BMX action splatter comedy film by writers Anouk Whissell, Franiois Simard, and Yoann-Karl Whissell of RKSS Films. The trailer follows Turbo Kid (Munro Chambers) as he searches for his true identity and fights to save his girl, Apple (Laurence Leboeuf). Turbo Kid is currently scheduled to blast into theaters on August 28, 2015.

The film originally premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and won the Midnightrers Audience Award at SXSW this past March.

Set in the Wasteland of a post-apocalyptic parallel future of 1997, an orphaned teenager named The Kid is scavenging for relics when he befriends a mysterious girl. Yet, when she is kidnapped by Zeus, the tyrannical leader of the Wasteland who murdered The Kid's parents, The Kid must face his ultimate destiny: destroy Zeus, avenge his parents' death and get the girl of his dreams.

images via Turbo Kid and Epic Pictures Group

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