{"id":77864,"date":"2015-07-20T09:49:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T08:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=77864"},"modified":"2015-07-20T09:52:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T08:52:29","slug":"apocalypse-now-now-film-coming-from-district-9-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/apocalypse-now-now-film-coming-from-district-9-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Apocalypse Now Now film coming from District 9 writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Apocalypse-Now-Now.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-77868\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Apocalypse-Now-Now-616x925.jpg\" alt=\"Apocalypse-Now-Now\" width=\"616\" height=\"925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Apocalypse-Now-Now.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Apocalypse-Now-Now-600x901.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Apocalypse-Now-Now-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\"><\/a>Charlie Human&#x2019;s fantastic (and fantastically mad) novel <strong><em>Apocalypse Now Now<\/em><\/strong> has been picked up by XYZ studios&#xA0;to be adapted into a movie.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joblo.com\/horror-movies\/news\/xyz-films-acquires-apocalypse-now-now-133\">Arrow In The Head<\/a> reports that <strong><em>District 9 <\/em><\/strong>and&#xA0;<strong><em>Chappie<\/em>&#xA0;<\/strong>co-writer Terri Tatchell is working on the screenplay for the film, which blends fantasy, horror and all-round weirdness..actually, let&#x2019;s just give you the synopsis.<\/p>\n<p>&#x201C;Baxter Zevcenko is making a name for himself as the kingpin of his smut-peddling high-school syndicate, while the other gangs are staying out of his business, and he&#x2019;s dating the girl of his dreams, Esme. But when Esme gets kidnapped, things start to get seriously weird, and the only man drunk enough to help is a bearded, booze-soaked, supernatural bounty hunter that goes by the name of Jackson &#x201C;Jackie&#x201D; Ronin.<\/p>\n<p>Plunged into the increasingly bizarre landscape of Cape Town&#x2019;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.&#x201D;<\/p>\n<p>&#x201C;South Africa has always pushed through the usual limits of my imagination and Apocalypse Now Now is no exception,&#x201D; enthused Tatchell. &#x201C;Charlie has actually upped the game and obliterated them all altogether.&#xA0;I am beyond excited!&#x201D;<\/p>\n<p>Baxter&#x2019;s story has already continued in Human&#x2019;s equally brilliant follow-up Kill Baxter, and we&#x2019;d recommend reading both novels immediately. We&#x2019;re very, very excited about the idea of a what a film could be like, provided that the weirdness, filth and violence don&#x2019;t get toned down&#x2026;<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can&#xA0;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Apocalypse-Now-Charlie-Human\/dp\/0099580772\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1437381864&sr=8-1&keywords=apocalypse+now+now&tag=scifinowmag-21\">buy <em>Apocalypse Now Now<\/em> for &#xA3;8.99 at Amazon.co.uk<\/a> and you can read our interview with Charlie Human, Lauren Beukes, Sarah Lotz and Joey Hi-Fi about the boom and South African SF <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/interviews\/are-we-seeing-a-boom-in-south-african-sci-fi\/\">here<\/a>. Keep up with the latest genre news with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/index.php\/catalog\/product\/view\/id\/3685\/s\/scifinow-issue-108\/?utm_source=SciFiNow&utm_medium=cover&utm_campaign=Product-Widget\">the new issue of SciFiNow<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Human&#8217;s mad SA SF novel Apocalypse Now Now is getting turned into a film, rejoice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":77868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[4602],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Apocalypse-Now-Now.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}