In the unsanctioned, underground, and unhinged world of extreme Ping-Pong, the competition is brutal and the stakes are deadly. Now, this outrageous new comedy serves up this secret world for the first time on-screen. Down-and-out former professional Ping-Pong phenom Randy Daytona is sucked into this maelstrom when FBI Agent Rodriguez recruits him for a secret mission. Randy is determined to bounce back and recapture his former glory, and to smoke out his father's killer Â¿ one of the FBI's Most Wanted, arch-fiend Feng (Academy Award winner Christopher Walken). But, after two decades out of the game, Randy can't turn his life around and avenge his father's murder without a team of his own. He calls upon the spiritual guidance of blind Ping-Pong sage and restaurateur Wong, and the training expertise of Master Wong's wildly sexy niece Maggie, both of whom also have a dark history with Feng. All roads lead to Feng's mysterious jungle compound and the most unique Ping-Pong tournaments ever staged. There, Randy faces such formidable players as his long-ago Olympics opponent, the still-vicious Karl Wolfschtagg. Can Randy keep his eye on the ball? Will he achieve the redemption he craves while wielding a paddle? Is his backhand strong enough to triumph over rampant wickedness?

Balls of fury - A Hugh Comedy with Tiny Balls

Ball of Fury is the outrageous new comedy from the team of Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon, screen writers of the blockbuster movie Night at the Museum.
One day, the duo saw a news item about Ping-Pong (a.k.a table tennis) champion who, says Lennon, 'couldn't walk down the street without being mobbed, as if he were a rock star.'
Cross-breeding that concept with their penchant for martial arts, the pair wrote a screenplay to rectify the fact that one of the world's most popular sports hadn't yet been exploited in motion pictures.
Garant elaborates, ' we're big Bruce Lee fans, and we thought, what if you took all the kung fu out of a kung fu movie and replaced it with Ping-Pong? So we researched the game for a year; there's a training facility in Hong Kong that looks like something out of The Last Emperor. Writing the Ping-Pong sequences was an interesting challenge; we had to keep the scenes dynamic and show the tide of the game turning and/or players cheating.'
Oscar winner Christopher Walken, who has become an icon to moviegoers because of his eclectic body of work, plays the film's ber-villian, the notorious Feng. Walken remarks,
' When I read the script, the first thing I noticed was how good the dialogue was. I felt Feng would be an interesting character to play. And I can still play Ping-Pong pretty well; it was very popular when I was a kid.'



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