A FILM BY JAN WINTERS · TOBY NICHOLS · RILEY J. BUTCHER

Bubblegum DOOMSDAY

"The world ends in eighty years. Everyone knows. Nobody cares anymore.
Except Dub Dixon."

Narrative Feature· Dark Comedy· PG-13· Budget: $500K

A film about the end of the world that makes you glad to be alive.

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Visual Influences

The films, art, and aesthetics shaping the look of Bubblegum Doomsday

Visual DNA: the references, textures, and films that shaped the world of Bubblegum Doomsday.

It's the end of the world... but Not Yet. We still got
80 more years
to live. So who cares?

A rogue planet called Gideon is confirmed to collide with Earth. There was panic. Then grief.
Then everyone remembered they still had work tomorrow.

Life continues. Most of the adults in charge will never live to see Gideon. Why worry about a future that belongs to someone else?

Death sits above Earth's orbit, laughing at us. Some people inherit money or houses. The youth inherited the countdown.
Among them: a Dreamweaver, a genius inventor, a girl who wants to disappear, and an angsty destroyer of worlds who wears sunglasses indoors.

A film about the end of the world that makes you glad to be alive.

01

Dub Dixon

The Town Dreamweaver

Takes it upon himself to help wayward souls achieve their dreams. Hero complex almost as big as his ego. Cannot stand that Gideon has made everyone stop dreaming.

02

Prudence

The Girl Who Wants to Disappear

All she wants is to be alone. Can't go anywhere without being noticed. She's just so easy to love — the worst nightmare for a girl who hates herself.

03

Tag Tegan

The Brilliant Inventor

Can build anything, no ideas of her own. Thinks love has to be earned through hard work. Building a rocket to the Moon for Prudence because that's all she knows how to do.

04

K-Vega

The Destroyer of Worlds

The archnemesis of Dub Dixon. He hates everything. Believes the bad on Earth outweighs the good. Found something in a cave that gave him the power to end the world. Wears sunglasses indoors and wields a baseball bat.

05

Brain

The Mute

Mute kid. Former Aquanaut (a group of young seafaring boys whose HQ was annihilated). More interested in a yo-yo than conversation.

06

Toto Topeka

The Carp Farmer

Life's work: the carp. His farm was destroyed. Everyone finds both him and his fish more than mildly annoying. He is also a bit of a creep.

THINGS YOU WILL SEE.

A purple planet the size of the horizon hanging in the sky like it owns the place.

A man digging an ocean by hand in Kansas. One cup at a time.

Rocket shoes.

A villain doing a figure skating routine at the local rink while everyone watches.

The Moon, harpooned. A rope tied around it. Touching down to Earth.

A mute kid who communicates exclusively through yo-yo.

A rocket rigged with TNT. One trigger. Several people sweating.

A balding boy whose name is scratched out of every yearbook in town.

No penguins because they have gone extinct (no one is sure why).

The end of the world treated like a Tuesday.

Black Hole Warp Stars.

An Alien crash-landing on a Peach Tree.

Sea-faring Boyscouts who call themselves the Aquanauts.

Hamburger Helper.

Two-Headed Trout.

Homeless Driving Instructors.

A Giant Kraken.

Illusionism and Mentalism.

Alternative scientific explanations of gravity.

The Power of Love and Hope.

A purple planet the size of the horizon hanging in the sky like it owns the place.

A man digging an ocean by hand in Kansas. One cup at a time.

Rocket shoes.

A villain doing a figure skating routine at the local rink while everyone watches.

The Moon, harpooned. A rope tied around it. Touching down to Earth.

A mute kid who communicates exclusively through yo-yo.

A rocket rigged with TNT. One trigger. Several people sweating.

A balding boy whose name is scratched out of every yearbook in town.

No penguins because they have gone extinct (no one is sure why).

The end of the world treated like a Tuesday.

Black Hole Warp Stars.

An Alien crash-landing on a Peach Tree.

Sea-faring Boyscouts who call themselves the Aquanauts.

Hamburger Helper.

Two-Headed Trout.

Homeless Driving Instructors.

A Giant Kraken.

Illusionism and Mentalism.

Alternative scientific explanations of gravity.

The Power of Love and Hope.

THE
REFERENCES.

EarthBound Bottle Rocket Hausu Cowboy Bebop Majora's Mask Dick Tracy Neon Genesis Evangelion Baron Munchausen Scott Pilgrim Punch-Drunk Love Juno Joe Versus the Volcano Save the Green Planet! The Double Peanuts

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY

JAN
WINTERS

moonmustdie.com ↗

Over a decade of editing and experimental filmmaking, focused on pacing, structure, and handmade visual effects.

Practical worlds built on small budgets: the Moon pulled toward Earth, bullets crossing impossible distances, characters reaching places they shouldn’t be able to reach. Painted backdrops, clay animation, and in-camera effects.

This film comes from personal experience. Trying to keep things together while everything falls apart and trying to save people even when it's impossible. That pressure runs through every character because I refuse to believe in the impossible. I can save everyone.

A film built from lived material, shaped into fiction.

Plastic Cowboy

2026

The most recent short film from Jan Winters. This is the clearest preview of the tone, style, and visual world of Bubblegum Doomsday.

Directed by Jan Winters. Assistant Director Riley J. Butcher. Starring Toby Nichols. Scored by Orion M.

The same approach. Scaled up.

Captain Bartleby
Loves the Moon

2024

Large-scale impossible sequences built entirely by hand on a minimal budget. The Moon descending to Earth. Handmade practical effects, painted backdrops, in-camera tricks.

This is where Jan learned to make the impossible look real.

Bubblegum Blast-Off!!

2023

This is where Bubblegum Doomsday began. A different story, but it carries the Prudence storyline we have since expanded into the emotional center of the entire feature. The handmade props, the practical effects, the vibe — it's all here. And we shot it for almost nothing.

The heart of the film was always here.

The film is preparing to film.
You found us early.

Everything is in place. Summer 2027, Louisiana. It takes $500K to put the true vision on screen — and you can watch every step of it happen.

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Script

Written. Ready to shoot.

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Cast

Casting beginning soon.

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Crew

AD Riley J. Butcher & Composer Orion M attached. The rest of the crew will be local hires in the state of Louisiana.

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Shoot

Summer 2027 · Louisiana

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Festival Circuit

Screening the film in theaters until selling to a distributor. We will accept nothing less than a nationwide theater release rollout.

$500K

to put it on screen

The script is written. The team is assembled. Louisiana is locked. We need money for the talent, crew, props, sets, marketing, and chicken pot pies.

Bubblegum DOOMSDAY

A film by Jan Winters

"A movie that will make you feel good about being alive."

The script is written. The cast is attached. The crew has made multiple films together. Louisiana is locked for Summer 2027.

Now we're building it in public: see our props and practical effects, every step we can show from the script to screen.

@bubblegumdoomsday

we need the fans.

Want to back this film? $10K minimum — you get paid back, and then some. Drop your email and we'll reach out when the paperwork is ready.

Narrative Feature · Dark Comedy · Shoot: Louisiana · Summer 2027