Iron Sky is a 2012 comic-science-fiction action film directed by Timo Vuorensola and written by Johanna Sinisalo and Michael Kalesniko.

[4][5][6] It tells the story of a group of German Nazis who, having been defeated in 1945, fled to the Moon, where they built a space fleet to return in 2018 and conquer Earth.

Iron Sky comes from the creators of Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning and was produced by Tero Kaukomaa of Blind Spot Pictures and Energia Productions, co-produced by New Holland Pictures and 27 Films, and co-financed by numerous individual supporters; Samuli Torssonen was responsible for the computer-generated imagery.

A sequel, titled Iron Sky: The Coming Race, was crowdfunded through Indiegogo and released in January 2019,[8] to a more hostile critical reception and a box office bomb, leading to the bankruptcy of two production companies involved in the sequel's production: Blind Spot Pictures, and Iron Sky Universe.

When Richter strives to demonstrate his Wunderwaffe to the current Führer, Wolfgang Kortzfleisch, the phone's battery is quickly exhausted.

Adler declares himself the new Führer before returning to orbit in Kortzfleisch's flying saucer, deserting Vivian but taking her tablet computer.

During the battle, Washington disconnects Vivian's tablet from the control panel of the Götterdämmerung, while Renate kills Adler before he can fire at Earth.

At Wreck-a-Movie, a collaborative film-making web site, the producers invited everyone interested to contribute ideas and resources to the project.

[13][14][15] On 11 February 2009, it was announced that the film would star German actress Julia Dietze,[16] while the Slovenian industrial music group Laibach would be recording the soundtrack.

[17] Appropriately enough for a film about Nazism, the orchestral soundtrack incorporates leitmotifs from the operatic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and other operas by Richard Wagner, a composer whose music was favoured by the Nazi leaders.

[24] Following high demand from the film's online fanbase, Revolver revised its decision and Iron Sky's UK cinema release was extended.

"[27] Jeff Shannon of The Seattle Times gave the film two out of four stars, describing it as "great idea, lousy execution".

[28] Leslie Felperin of Variety described Iron Sky as being "...neither good enough to rep a proper breakout hit nor bad enough that it might attain cult status; it’s just kind of lame".

[30] On 5 October 2011, Blind Spot released a digital comic prequel to the film, titled Iron Sky: Bad Moon Rising, written by the writer of Alan Wake, Mikko Rautalahti, and fully illustrated by comic artist Gerry Kissell, creator of IDW Publishing's Code Word: Geronimo.

[32] On 19 August 2012, TopWare Interactive announced Iron Sky: Invasion, an official video game adaptation and expansion of the film, to be developed by Reality Pump Studios.

A promo video was to be shot for the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and the final draft of the script was scheduled to be published by the end of 2014.

In the wake of the sequel's release and its copyright dispute, Blind Spot Pictures, the main production company for Iron Sky, declared bankruptcy on 17 September 2019.