In this extract from The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, host Tom Beasley is joined by director Tim van Dammen, who discusses his feature, the barmy sci-fi action comedy crime drama Mega Time Squad, along with the New Zealand film industry.
Check out the interview below, or click here for the full podcast episode where Tim also discusses his favourite movie, the classic Japanese horror Onibaba…
Welcome to Thames, New Zealand. Population: 7,518 and falling. Unless of course you’ re Johnny (Anton Tennet), the new member of a local gang led by Shelton (Jonathan Brugh, What We Do in the Shadows). He’s multiplying.
After Johnny is foiled in an effort to double-cross Shelton at his own game of masterminding the sleepy town’s unsurprisingly tame criminal underbelly, he inadvertently steals an ancient bracelet with which he can turn back time and in the process create multiple clones of himself. This gives Johnny the ability to literally form his own gang against Shelton’s. The only problem is: how can you learn to live your best life, when you re also having to figure out which one of you exactly that is? Oh, that and there’s a demon after him for bending the rules of time, physics and just general common sense.
Mega Time Squad is available now. Order via Amazon UK or Amazon US.
Originally published May 31, 2019. Updated February 10, 2020.
