Ahead of its theatrical release in 7 days, you can also check out two new clips from the film. The first features a BMX bike chase, which is pretty rad! In the second, Apple (Laurence Leboeuf) destroys a villain with her noam stick. Lastly, don’t forget to take a look at our video interview we had with Laurence during the Fantasia Film Festival.

For screenings in the Montreal / Quebec area, then continue reading right below.

Montreal

Cineplex Quartier Latin, VF
Cineplex Forum, VOA
Cinéma du Parc, VOSTF
Guzzo Pont-Viau, VF
Guzzo Terrebonne, VF
Guzzo Jacques Cartier, VF

Quebec

Le Clap
Maison du Cinéma Sherbrooke

The film was very well received at SXSW earlier this year, so make sure you don’t miss Turbo Kid on the big screen in August for anything. If your near the Montreal area in Quebec you can even catch an earlier screening during the annual Fantasia Film Festival. Tickets for Fantasia 2015 go on sale July 15th at 1:00 P.M at the Concordia Hall Theater (1455, boul. de Maisonneuve Ouest, Metro Guy-Concordia). Don’t wait too long for your ticket because I’m sensing the demand for tickets is going to be record breaking this year.

Now, what are you waiting for? Watch and enjoy the Turbo Kid trailer above.

About Turbo Kid

In a post-apocalyptic future a young solitary scavenger obsessed with comic books must face his fears and become a reluctant hero when he meets a mysterious girl. From horror masterminds Ant Timpson (The ABCs Of Death 1 & 2, Housebound) and Jason Eisener (Hobo With A Shotgun).

Turbo Kid is expected to hit the film festival circuit this year, starting in the midnight lineup at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on Monday, January 26, 2015. For the full Turbo Kid schedule at Sundance, follow this link.

About Turbo Kid

It’s 1997. In a ruined post-apocalyptic world, the orphaned Kid survives on his own through drought-ridden nuclear winter, traversing the Wasteland on his BMX, scavenging for scraps to trade for a scant supply of water. When his perpetually chipper, pink-haired new best friend Apple is kidnapped by a minion of evil overlord Zeus, the Kid summons the courage of his comic book hero and prepares to deliver turbocharged justice to Zeus, his buzzsaw-handed sidekick Skeletron, and their vicious masked army.

If you aren’t following the RKSS Facebook fan page, then you might have missed yesterday’s news about their first feature length film, Turbo Kid. A post-apocalyptic splatter comedy with a romantic twist set in a wasteland run by a sadistic leader, Zeus (Michael Ironside). It’s up to The Kid (Munro Chambers) to stop his madness and rescue a mysterious girl he encounters in his epic journey named Apple (Laurence Leboeuf).

Will he be able to overcome his fears and become the hero in the wasteland?

One way to find out if The Kid has what it takes to be a superhero is to catch the world premiere of Turbo Kid at next year’s Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, during the midnight run of horror and comedy films. There’s no exact word yet on when Turbo Kid will begin screening, but you can be sure it will play sometime between January 22 and February 1, in 2015.

As soon we know the exact date and time, we’ll be sure to update you guys on Yell! Magazine. In the meantime, enjoy this exclusive photo from Turbo Kid, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly.

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Filming appears to be well underway for Turbo Kid, a Canadian splatter comedy based on the fan-favorite ABCs of Death short T is for Turbo. Production kicked off earlier this month and one of the film’s key stars has already wrapped up his evildoing.

Last week, we broke news that Michael Ironside was spotted in Montreal and all geared up for his role as “Zeus,” the self-proclaimed leader of the Wasteland in Turbo Kid. According to Executive Producer Jason Eisener (Hobo with a Shotgun) and team RKSS, Ironside wrapped up “Zeus” and said his goodbyes to the set of Turbo Kid over Easter weekend.

Yesterday was Michael Ironside’s last day with us on set. Working with him was truly a blast, and we feel very privileged. For the occasion, we share with you a second frame of the movie: Michael Ironside as Zeus, Eisener said via Facebook.

Turbo Kid is a Canadian (EMAfilms) and New Zealand (T&A Films) co-production that also stars Munro Chambers (Degrassi – The Next Generation, Cracked) as The Kid, Laurence Leboeuf (19-2, Trauma) as Apple, Aaron Jeffery (X-Men Origins) as Frederic, Edwin Wright (Top of the Lake) as Skeletron, and Romano Orzari (Omertà) as Bagu.

Although, Ironside’s part is now complete, more filming for Turbo Kid is expected to take place in Montreal.

Michael Ironside Talks Turbo Kid

If you thought the Turbo Kid project was a dead break for Roadkill Superstar (RKSS) because there hasn’t been much news about it, then you are dead wrong and you must have missed the memo on Thursday.

RKSS and the entire team involved with the feature film project, including Hobo with a Shotgun director Jason Eisener announced that Turbo Kid has been approved for financing, and production will finally start early next year. Telefilm Canada with the New Zealand Film Commission will help fund Turbo Kid with filming scheduled for late February 2014.

In addition, the team also announced that casting has begun in Canada and New Zealand. So expect names to drop like flies in the upcoming months. We’ll make sure to keep our readers in loop when more details become available.

Who should play the title character? John Francis Daley? Jesse Eisenberg? Leave your say in the comments section below.

Turbo Kid Synopsis

Turbo Kid is the story of a lonely orphan obsessed with comic books who scavenges the Wasteland in order to stay alive. When he meets a mysterious girl named Apple, he is must confront his fears and look to the hero deep within himself when both are targeted by Zeus, the sadistic and self-proclaimed leader of the devastated world. Armed with little more than blind faith and an ancient turbocharged weapon, the kid embarks on an incredible journey to rid the Wasteland of evil and save the girl of his dreams.

Do you remember that competition for The ABCs of Death that sought to find the 26th director to helm in a feature-length film? The one presented by Drafthouse Films, with the letter “T” assigned to various independent directors to push a short film beyond the boundaries of hell? It was also the one where the judges of that competition didn’t see eye to eye with the voters, and selected the wrong friggin’ winner in my opinion. No disrespect to Lee Hardcastle, who garnered the first-place win with T is for Toilet, but the one that had my thumbs up, and I mean way up, was for T is for Turbo (aka, Turbo Kid). It came in a measly third. It was a disappointing announcement that day, one that the Montreal filmmakers, RKSS (Roadkill Superstar), likely will never forget.

Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell, Ant Timpson, François Simard, and Jason Eisener at the 2012 Fantasia Film Festival.

Luckily, one of the judges on that jury, my finger is pointing to Canadian director Jason Eisener (Hobo with a Shotgun, Treevenge), has been a fan of RKSS since the release of Le bagman, and a fake trailer titled Demonitron: The 6th Dimension. Jason Eisener and Ant Timpson (producer of The ABCs of Death) went on a mission to seek out a deal during the 2012 Fantasia Film Festival to turn the fully written Turbo Kid script from RKSS into a feature-length film.

Now, a month after the close of Fantasia, an announcement was made today that the Turbo Kid project is officially signed with a Montreal-based film production company, EMAfilms, to produce the film along with Ant Timpson and Jason Eisener as executive producer.

Ant Timpson commented that he was:

“…excited to collaborate with Anne-Marie from EMAfilms who ‘gets’ the project. After I saw RKSS’ hilariously gory post-apocalyptic BMX short T FOR TURBO during THE ABCS OF DEATH short film competition, I knew I needed to work with them on expanding it to a feature. TURBO KID is like the ultimate video mix-tape put together by an ’80s movie obsessive after 20 energy drinks.”

Jason Eisener added:

“The RKSS crew have been a huge inspiration over the years and it’s a pleasure to help them get their first feature film off the ground. Now the Turbo team is assembled with a full charge and ready to blast awesomeness onto the screen!”

With all this to say, and regardless of the outcome of The ABCs of Death, team RKSS has this chance of a lifetime to bring Turbo Kid to life, and we’re looking forward to seeing the finished product, which may come earlier than expected.

Turbo Kid Feature Length Film

As you will be able to tell, the creators have worked very passionately on the concept (as simple as it is) and on the production, which is far superior than some of the other entries. So give these guys a hand and submit your vote for T is for Turbo before October 31, 2011 by following the link below.

Vote for T is for Turbo here

T Is For Turbo Cast:

François Gadbois and Yves Corbeil; Director of photography, Jean-Philippe Bernier; Art director, Patricia Rioux; Production manager, Shaida Missaghi; Assistant director, Maxime Lamontage; Audio post-production, Jean-Nicolas Leupi; Music by LE MATOS; VFX, Eddie69; Animation sequence, Samuel Bellerose and Martin Cright; Directed by RKSS: François Simard, Anouk Whissell, and Yoann-Karl Whissell

About The ABCs of Death:

Twenty-six directors will participate from all corners of the world: Australia, United Kingdom, Serbia, USA, Japan, Thailand, Chile, India, Denmark, Indonesia, Finland, Mexico, Belgium, Mexico, Spain, and France.

Established filmmakers and emerging new stars will make up the diverse roster of creative talent that will showcase these tales of termination, beginning alphabetically with the letter A and eradicating all life right through to the letter Z.

Each director is assigned a letter and every letter represents a word that acts as a springboard to tell a short story about death. A linking device will open, connect and close.

This unique anthology will be a celebration of death in all its forms, from the shocking and exotic to the humorously droll. It’s up to each director to interpret the letter they are assigned as creatively and outrageously as they see fit.