What’s “The Navada Gang” all about?
Like zombies? Even puking ones? How about sci-fi stuff like laser gun fights, spaceships, and space bats?
Okay then, how about a bunch of lovable twats shooting laser guns at projectile vomiting zombies, while escaping a prison spaceship and bitching at each other about who flushed their pet space bat down the toilet?
Not too complicated for you?
Well if you answered “yes” to one or more of these questions (especially that last one), then “The Navada Gang” is just for YOU!
The lovable twats/protagonists are “The Navada Gang” themselves; Palmo, Guthrie, Brenda and Dave. A mercenary group so rubbish at their job, their highest customer rating on Rent-A-Merc is a single three star review from some bloke they accidentally castrated while rescuing.
Now the baddies/antagonists of “The Navada Gang” on the other hand aren’t twats but right bastards. There’s Vertex, Warden of the prison spaceship The Pahpshmir, and lover of polka music (so unsurprisingly is a sadomasochist). His sycophant number two in command, and unrequited love interest, Barry. And then there’s Jimmy Squiggly; a giggling hard as nails gangster, with a canister of bioengineered nanobot zombie virus shoved up his bottom.
And lets not forget The Pahpshmir’s crew and prisoners; who all get turned into zombies struggling to retain fragments of their lost humanity, while throwing up everywhere.
So strap in, strap-on, and pop in a suppository, because “The Navada Gang” is one wild sci-fi horror comedy!
What about filming it?
There are two main filming locations - the smallish space frigate The Navada Spirit and prison spaceship The Pahpshmir. The script is written so the same sets can be re-dressed for different scenes in these locations.
There are also a handful of exterior scenes of the two ships.
The bulk of the special effects will need to go on the zombie and blob scenes, including a vomiting zombie head on a stick, the blob’s ass cheeks made up of two talking sentient zombie heads, and lashings of thick projectile yellow zombie vomit.
So what’s tasty today?
In this script sample (taken from the complete screenplay by Mike Lomax) learn how Jimmy Squiggly turned the entire crew and prisoners of The Pahpshmir into zombies, using a zombie head on a stick and a traumatised Barry.