The creators of Video Game High School and co-hosts of Dungeons and Daddies, Freddie Wong and Matt Arnold, are bringing you their next feature film - a high-octane martial arts action comedy called Nail House.
Nail House is the next chapter in RocketJump’s journey of independent filmmaking and the culmination of everything we became known for. This film has been our obsession for over a decade, and we are building it with the same handcrafted spectacle, breakneck action, and signature blend of action and comedy that you came to know and love from Video Game High School and years of YouTube mayhem.
This campaign offers Backerkit Exclusive perks you won't find anywhere else.
Early access to the finished film before wide release
Limited edition collectibles
Daily Prop Giveaways to Backers
Digital and physical rewards from Mama's Secret Gift (Guaranteed to improve your cooking), to Name Credit, to apparel, to extended director's commentary.
Exclusive Invites to Backer Exclusive Screenings and Q&A Panel Events with the cast & creators
Items are early renderings and their final forms may change
Dicky and Danny Wong grew up roughhousing in Mama Wong’s Dumpling House, their mom Karen’s humble restaurant. After her sudden and tragic death, they vowed to keep it running together... but Danny skipped town to chase fame, leaving Dicky alone to shoulder the burden of tradition, debt, and dumplings.
Twenty years later, a soulless tech corporation wants Dicky's land, and a gangster wants Danny's kneecaps, so the estranged brothers reunite, lock the doors, and fight like hell.
Isolated and trapped in a construction pit with no resources, the brothers must fend off killer lawyers, ruthless monsters, hunger, thirst, and even an army of rats.
This campaign is packed with Backer-exclusive rewards and limited-run items to thank you for your support in bringing this project to life. Please note that all items are renderings and the final look may vary slightly.
Here's a peek at a few of the rewards.
🎬 The Movie
Backerkit Exclusive Packaging
Save Mama Wong's with style. Backers will receive Nail House in their choice of DVD, Blu-Ray 1080p, or Blu-Ray 4k in a BackerKit exclusive foil-stamped collector's slip case so shiny and cool that from a distance, you'll mistake it for your Berserk collector's box set.
Blu-ray 1080p editions will be available in Region A (North America, South America, Japan, East Asia) and Region B (Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Middle East, Africa) formats. Unfortunetly Region C (Central and South Asia, Russia, China) will not be available as a part of this campaign.
🥢 Dumpling Dice
A complete set of 7 polyhedral dice stuffed with probably delicious (but seriously, DO NOT eat or step on these) Mama Wong's steamed dumplings, created by legendary dice crafters FanRoll. These are standard 17mm dice, hand-polished to a beautiful, sharp edge because it's all the rage.
🚨 Patron Exclusive Offering
If you are a patron of RocketJump or Dungeons and Daddies, you will receive access to a unique tier, Chef's Special: The Secret Menu, where you'll receive $25 off the Dumpling Dice.
*If your BackerKit email and Patreon Email do not match, you can follow the instructions here and we'll get you fixed right up.
👕 Mama Wong's Dumpling House Apparel
When Creator Clash 3 imploded and Freddie lost his chance to promote Nail House on the back of his robe after beating up (or getting beat up by) an animation YouTuber, many of you offered to carry Mama Wong's Dumpling House name with you in honor of this lost opportunity. Now is your chance to do just that with the limited-edition Mama Wong's T-shirt and Hat!
🎟️ Backer Exclusive Screenings and Panels
We will host two events, one digital and one physical, to screen Nail House exclusively for backers of this campaign. You're invited to be among the first fine folks to view this film, and to stay afterwards for a meet & greet and Q&A with the cast and crew (popcorn and beverages not included).
The physical screening will be in Los Angeles (exact location TBD), and reward tiers that include invites to this event do not include travel and lodging.
And Much, Much More.
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BackerKit makes supporting creative projects simple. Here’s how it works:
Click the blue BACK IT button to choose a Reward Tier
After you've selected a tier, you can "Add-on" items, like the Dumpling Dice or Mama's Secret Gift, to your pledge.
That's it! You did it. Thank you for your support.
Crowdfunding is a little different than shopping online. Your payment is not collected until the end of the campaign. After that, in the coming weeks, you’ll get a BackerKit survey to your email where you can confirm your shipping details, make any needed choices like DVD or Blu-ray and T-Shirt size, as well as customize your rewards.
Every day during the campaign, we’ll drop a brand-new prop straight from the world of the project, and one lucky backer will be chosen to receive it with their pledge! All you need to do is:
Nail House has been our obsession for the past decade. Every creative brainstorming conversation eventually morphs into spitballing more gags and stunts for Nail House. It’s the culmination of everything that we became world famous for - highly visual comedy, breakneck action, and jaw-dropping stunts.
With our debut feature, We're All Gonna Die, we proved we could make a movie independently. Now we're taking it to the next level. We've built the entire restaurant set, Freddie underwent a rigorous eight-month boxing training regimen to prepare for the fights in this film, and pre-production is underway.
Support independent film and get your hands on some cool stuff!
This campaign offers Backerkit Exclusive perks you won't find anywhere else.
Early access to the finished film before wide release
Limited edition collectibles
Daily Prop Giveaways to Backers
Digital and physical rewards from Mama's Secret Gift, to Name Credit, to apparel, to extended director's commentary.
Exclusive Invites to Backer Exclusive Screening and Q&A Panel Event with the cast & creators
Your pledge will go towards making Nail House the best martial arts comedy we can deliver. No Hollywood middlemen. Just us, our incredible cast and crew, and you.
Over the course of our careers, we've been incredibly fortunate to work closely with talented stunt performers. We bring our decade of experience directing high-octane action cinema to make Nail House one of the most dynamic and inventively shot martial arts movies ever made.
Freddie Wong and Matt Arnold are co-creators of the cult-classic Video Game High School, RocketJump: The Show, Dimension 404, and the RocketJump YouTube channel, which has built a global fanbase, garnering 9 million YouTube subscribers and billions of views. Their debut feature, We're All Gonna Die, premiered at SXSW 2024. You may know them from Dungeons and Daddies, a top Spotify comedy podcast with nearly 100 million downloads.
Dicky is the head chef, head waiter, head busboy, and head custodian of Mama Wong's Dumplings, a small dumpling restaurant that he and his estranged brother Danny inherited from their mom.
An anxious, stubborn mama’s boy, Dicky works himself to the bone to keep his mother’s restaurant and legacy alive. He’s never forgiven Danny for abandoning the family business to chase fame in the big city. But with danger knocking at his doorstep, this perpetual underdog will have no choice but to let his older brother back into his life...
Dicky will be played by Brandon H. Lee(Cobra Kai), who brings earnest younger brother energy to the role, as well as sharp, powerful kicks owing to his achievements in the world of competitive Taekwondo and his stuntman origins.
Danny is an arrogant chef with the oily charm of a carnival huckster. As a boy, he chafed under the tutelage of his mother, and when she died, he left Dicky behind to take his cooking in bold new directions. But while Dicky believes that his brother has become the toast of the restaurant world, in reality, Danny has become a homeless, penniless, boxcar hobo.
When a vicious gangster from his past catches up to him, he promises to retrieve a precious heirloom from Mama Wong’s to pay off his debts - setting him on a collision course with the brother he left behind… and the guilt he still carries in his wounded soul.
Danny will be played by Freddie Wong himself.
The hard assed, hard-working single mother of our two rowdy boys, Karen, came to America with nothing but the change in her pocket and made a life for herself and her family one dumpling at a time. Though she died while her boys were still young, she watches over them from the afterlife, sending the occasional miracle their way and giving them both a swift kick in the ass when they need it most in their darkest hour.
Karen will be played by Meng’er Zhang(Shang Chi, The Witcher), who balances warmth with the stone cold power and fearsome energy of a stern Asian mom.
Don Chang is a sly gangster whose taste for violence is only matched by his taste for haute cuisine... and his hatred of Danny Wong. As the Godfather of The Mafiyakuziad, an Asian Fusion Crime Syndicate, Don Chang invested a significant amount of money in Danny's latest restaurant and lost it all when bad reviews poured in. Now that Danny's skipped town, Don Chang and his boys have vowed to hunt down the runaway chef and make him pay - in more ways than one!
Don Chang is played by Kenneth Choi(9-1-1, The Wolf of Wall Street, Spider-Man: Homecoming) who brings his signature charm, oddball humor, and a dash of menace to the role of gangster gourmand.
Richmond Piedmont is the absurdly evil SVP of Corporate Real Estate for a ruthless tech giant: Big Box. Pleasant, polite, and ruthless as all hell, Piedmont will stop at nothing to get Big Box’s new campus constructed on time and under budget - even if that means obliterating a beloved local dumpling shop and the two dimwit brothers inside.
Richmond Piedmont will be played by veteran stuntman Andy Lister (name the superhero - he’s doubled him). His devilish charm and charisma are matched by his incredible talent as one of the most sought-after stunt actors in the world.
Freddie Wong and Matt Arnold are creators of the cult-classic Video Game High School,Dimension 404 (Hulu), and the RocketJump YouTube channel, which has built a global fanbase, garnering 9 million YouTube subscribers and billions of views. Their debut feature, We're All Gonna Die, premiered at SXSW 2024. You may know them from Dungeons and Daddies, a topSpotify comedy podcast with nearly 100 million downloads.
Yung Lee is an action designer mentored by the late, legendary Second Unit Director and Stunt Coordinator Brad Allan (Jackie Chan Stunt Team Alumni). Yung is known for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Solo: A Star Wars Story, The King's Man, and Kingsman 2, intricately working with the industry's best stuntmen, visual effects supervisors, and editors to design the high-octane moments you've grown to love on the big screen.
Ashim is a 2018 Film Independent Producing Fellow who has spent over a decade producing film, TV, and digital content for Disney, RocketJump, Lionsgate, Hulu, and MACRO, most notably on the digital series GENTE-FIED, which was adapted into a Netflix show. As a VFX Executive Producer, he's led projects for Apple, A24, Universal, and HBOMax. Recent credits include We're All Gonna Die (SXSW 2024), Handle With Care, and Patel, starring Utkarsh Ambudkar, Kunal Nayyar, and Kal Penn.
Cherish is a Chinese American writer-producer who co-wrote the story for My Dead Friend Zoe (SXSW 2024 Audience Award), starring Sonequa Martin-Green, Ed Harris, and Morgan Freeman, and co-produced We're All Gonna Die. As a comics writer, she debuted in Image Comics' Radiant Black (2021), wrote the miniseries Radiant Red (2022), and is currently writing Marvel/Lucasfilm's Star Wars: DOCTOR APHRA.
This crowdfunding campaign was made possible by Morgan Murayama, Ashley Nicolette, Cindy Denton, Dustin Wyatt Cohen, and our Patrons. Special Thanks to: Dungeons & Daddies, The Backerkit Crew, FanRoll Dice, The Spice Guy
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About RocketJump
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