APOCALYPSE NOW NOW: DISTRICT 9 Writer Teri Tatchell Will Adapt Novel
Good news out of South Africa yesterday. Variety reported that South African author Charlie Human's urban fantasy novel Apocalypse Now Now will adapted to film by District 9 and Chappie writer Teri Tatchell.
"South Africa has always pushed through the usual limits of my imagination and 'Apocalypse Now Now' is no exception," Tatchell said. "Charlie has actually upped the game and obliterated them all altogether."
The novel centers on the kingpin of a smut-peddling high school who's dating the girl of his dreams. After she's kidnapped, he and a supernatural bounty hunter are plunged into the increasingly bizarre landscape of Cape Town's underworld to save her while facing a brush with the Apocalypse.
Apocalypse Now Now will be a South-African Canadian co-production. And what is the Canadian connection? Why I am glad you asked. ScreenAnarchy lord and master Todd Brown is the executive producer on this project, on which he has been working on for a while. XYZ Films, where he is a partner, is collaborating with Canadian production house Redlab Digital who have all the film rights.
Then XYZ Films will handle global sales once everything is in the can. Nicholas Sorbara for Redlab Digital, Sean Drummond and Michael Matthews for South Africa-based Be Phat Motel will produce the flick.
(Todd didn't even tell the rest of the ScreenAnarchy family about the Variety article. That's how humble he is. So it really doesn't need to be said that he did not make me write this news. I'm just borrowing his copy of Apocalypse Now Now. Indefinitely.)
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