I'll put up some corresponding sketches later, my home scanners acting odd again.
- - - -1st 5 pages of Zombie Dinosaur script (rough draft) - - - - -
Page 1
Splash Page: We see a Hadrosaur, wearing a tie and broken glasses running franctically toward reader, through a city street. Behind him a group of Infected (zombie) Dinosaurs are in pursuit, lusting after the Hadrosaur's flesh. Various signs and marquees show this to be a modern looking city but populated by Dinsosaurs.
HADROSAUR
Oh Dino-Christ! Zombies!
Cap Box: Finally the truth of how the dinosaurs became extinct. Ignore the erronious theories
of meteors, volcanoes, and ice age, in fact what brought down the thunder lizards. . .was something more fearsome. For what truly brought the Dinosaurs down. . .was ZOMBIES!
Page 2
Panel 1: Hardrosaur POV: looks behind shoulders to see a pack of zombie dinosaurs right on his tail get closer.
HADROSAUR
C'mon, C'mon
Panel 2: The Hadrosaur runs into an alley, desperately trying to get away.
Panel 3: We see the zombie dinosaurs run past the alley as the Hadrosaur keeps his back to the wall, as the Hadrosaur keeps his back to the wall, trying to hold his breath.
HADROSAUR
(Whispering) Can't believe that worked
Panel 4: As the Hadrosaur slinks further back into the alley, we see pair upon pair of small, hungry eyes emerge from the refuse of the alley. A pack of infected Compies. They slink silently toward their unsuspecting prey.
HADROSAUR
Okay. Okay. If I can just get to a car. Something I can.. .
Panel 5: Long Panel; We only see the shadows of what is happening at the alley, as the Hadrosaur screams. The pack of Compys is obviously attacking and killing him.
HADROSAUR
ARRGH!
CAP BOX: But how did this once great civilization, so much like our own, die and crumble, and more importantly how did their dead come to rise against the them. To discover this we must go back some three months before this poor soul's demise.
Page 3
Panel 1: Top down perspective above a lush jungle. Large dragonflies buzz about in the distance, shimmering in the sunlight. The pristine wilderness is only marred by a long plume of brackish smoke oozing into the air from a small clearing in the jungle.
CAP BOX: Three months ago; the Pangaean Rainforest (Cairns Australia)
Panel 2: We see what would look like a normal logging operation in the amazon today, except it’s Dinosaurs that are working the machines, and chainsaws.
A Pair of Dinos, Earl (Megalosaurus) and Roy (T Rex) are walking through scene.
ROY
So Earl you hear the rumors about Richfield?
EARL
The Boss? What now?
Panel 3: The pair stop in front of an enormous tree, which lumbers over them. They crane their necks upwards to look at it. It has an X painted on it.
ROY
Yeah it’s this one. Anyway, some of the guys think he’s dumping some of the waste from the refinery out here in the middle of nowhere.
Panel 4: Earl starts to prep the chainsaw, priming it, pulling the cord.
CHAINSAW: BRUMP-a-Click-Click-Click
EARL
Roy that’s ridiciculious, even for Richfield. . .stupid chainsaw. . .look. . .even Richfield wouldn’t be that greedy or stupid to dump toxic waste by his own logging site.
Panel 5: From the shadows of the jungle canopy we can see a dark form watching the pair, chitinious legs tensed to pounce. Earl continues to stuggle with the chainsaw.
EARL
Stupid . . .chainsaw.
ROY
I don’t know pally-boy, the way he’s been cutting costs. . .I
could see that happening
Panel 6: We see what’s waiting in the underbrush, watching the pair. A giant, mutated zombie ANT!
ROY
(cont) . . .after all it’s not like he cares about us. . .
Page 4
Panel 1: It’s nighttime and we see some dubious looking dinosaurs (wearing black turtlenecks and dock caps) dumping barrels of Toxic waste in the Jungle. Little ants scurry about as they are dumping the waste on an anthill, unaware or uncaring.
CAP BOX: Unfortunately Roy was correct about their boss’s concern for both them and the environment.
Panel 2: Close up of the waste soaking into the jungle, anthill, and more importantly leaves.
CAP BOX: For weeks, the underhanded company had been dumping waste from one of their other capital ventures, since they had procured the rights to the land for logging purposes. .
Panel 3: Close up of a ‘zombie ant’ on a leaf releasing its spores. The spores are mixing with the waste, creating a glowing snow of undeath on the unsuspecting ants below.
CAP BOX: . . .to disastrous results.
Panel 4: We see the zombie ant start to shudder and mutate as radioactivity does something. . odd to the fungus.
CAP BOX a pod of ants infected by the fungus Ophiocordyceps Unilateralis, had positioned itself by the impromptu dump site in their death knells. The fungus reproduces by infecting the ants, then through chemical manipulation forcing the ants to climb the foliage so the fungus can reproduce through spores, killing it’s host all the while. Turning the ant into . . .a zombie!
Panel 5: The ant is getting bigger, as the radioactivity and fungus tear at it, as it’s carapace tries to expand to compensate. Think of the old movie THEM but more zombiesque and fungusy (fungi-y?)
CAP BOX: Already a nasty parasite, once it was mutated by radioactivity, the results were. . .
PAGE 5:
Panel 1: LARGE PANEL; A Zant (Large Mutated Zombie Ant) erupts from the foliage and attacks the pair.
ROY
What the
EARL
Roy look out!
Panel 2: Roy is getting mangled off panel. Earl runs up behind cranking the chainsaw, his fright and concern for his friend finally getting enough thrust to turn the motor over
ROY (OP)
AHHHH!
EARL
Get off him you. . .!
Panel 3: Earl PLUNGES the Chainsaw into the ZANT
EARL
Die you @#$%%$@%!!!!
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So there you have it folks. 5 Bonus points to those who get the 'hidden' joke(s)-Hint: think 90's.
Loving it! Especially:
ReplyDelete1. Love the Lee/Kirby-esque cap box text -- could even see it exaggerated a bit more.
2. Still love the term "zant"
3. I apparently can't see the word "hadrosaur" without reading "hairdresser" (which makes for an odd frisson in the narrative)
4. Earl and Roy... I remember the show you're referencing...