Animation director Jeff Lew has posted the entire opening scene for Killer Bean Forever, an independent animated film that took him five grueling years to produce just by himself. Best known for his sensational short film Killer Bean 2 in 2000, he has since gained an impressive resume working on X-Men, The Matrix Reloaded and the highly anticipated Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The first scene comprised about 6 minutes of crazy action goodness and silly humor that no self-respecting animation fan can afford to miss. It got break-dancing. It got gun-fu. And it even got a Vince Carter slam dunk. What more can you ask for? This is more fun than a barrels of monkey.
It could be any urban jungle in the world. Warehouses full of illegal merchandise, machine gun toting mobsters, and a police force stretched thin. Except that this is Beantown! A world of break dancing, gun-toting bad ass coffee beans, covert bean assassins, slacker mob beans, mercenary bean battalions, and twitching trigger-fingered bean cops!Enter KILLER BEAN – the most ruthless, reckless, dazzling coffee bean assassin to ever lay foot in Beantown! In a spectacle of gun wielding artistry and jaw-dropping martial arts, Killer Bean attacks a warehouse full of partying thugs. Mob boss Cappuccino, threatened by the assault on his warehouse, fortifies for retaliation.
Detective Cromwell, a lawman obsessed with Cappuccino, is forced to choose between apprehending Killer Bean or encouraging his vigilante agenda.
Killer Bean needs no friends and soon finds out that he has none when the covert agency that he works for calls for his death. With wise-cracking bravado, Killer Bean blazes his way through a relentless onslaught of elaborate gun fights and over the top face-offs to the ultimate showdown between himself and a mysterious assassin from the East.
The DVD is available for pre-order at the official site in regular or a special edition with the release date set for late June. You'll find the opening scene and the trailer in HD after the break.
Entire first scene.
Trailer 1.