Ein soziopathischer Schoolboy und sein Hippie-Kopfgeldjäger-Kumpel in einer post-apokalyptischen Stadt, der erstmal eine Ratte köpft und sich dann eine Line Koks gönnt. So beginnt der Kurzfilm «Apocalypse Now Now», der sich quasi in Form eines langen Trailers als richtiger Spielfilm bewirbt. Ich will mehr. Hier die Story der Buchvorlage:
Neil Gaiman meets Tarantino in this madcap, wildly entertaining journey into Cape Town’s supernatural underworld. I love the smell of parallel dimensions in the morning. Baxter Zevcenko’s life is pretty sweet.
As the 16-year-old kingpin of the Spider, his smut-peddling schoolyard syndicate, he’s making a name for himself as an up-and-coming entrepreneur. Profits are on the rise, the other gangs are staying out of his business, and he’s going out with Esme, the girl of his dreams.
But when Esme gets kidnapped, and all the clues point towards strange forces at work, things start to get seriously weird. The only man drunk enough to help is a bearded, booze-soaked, supernatural bounty hunter that goes by the name of Jackson ‹Jackie› Ronin.
Plunged into the increasingly bizarre landscape of Cape Town’s supernatural underworld, Baxter and Ronin team up to save Esme. On a journey that takes them through the realms of impossibility, they must face every conceivable nightmare to get her back, including the odd brush with the Apocalypse.