UPDATE: the google calendar will not be used on this project.
UPDATE: I just uploaded the new clip of the laboratory setup I sill be using in the film. Look for it at the bottom of this post.
Note before reading the script:
I was on a very tight schedule when I started working on this film. Once I finished the first draft of the script I had to move immediately from development into pre-production. What you are about to read is still the first draft. I will most likely leave it like it is with some parts being more detailed than others. It will leave just about the right amount of room for the spontaneous energy of improvisation and all the great ideas that can spring into existence at the spur of the moment. Filming this project is going to be a lot of fun!
The video clips bellow the script are test footage for special effects. The actual footage for the movie will be cleaner and somewhat more realistic.
If you are interested in being a part of this project let me know ASAP. Mostly I need actors, but I certainly wouldn't sneeze at an offer for help behind the camera as well. In fact, it's not actually out of the question that I would pay eternal homage to any person (and all of their descendants) if he/she could take the position of Assistant Director.
UPDATE: The google calendar will not be used on this project.
My email is mdg4321@gmail.com
- opening scene
Fourth street location Twilight
Establishing shot: Pan long shot area, flash shots from steady cam M running. closer M rounds corner
M is running scared. Big group of vamps chasing him. >>a few close-ups of vamp fangs<<
M is firing auto pistol without much success on vamps. M rounds far corner and tosses grenade back around. vamps loose ground. Close-up of consternated growling vampire.
>Last of opening credits and title of film
M's House Location
on the front porch to establish location
>>Close- up<<
M pants and tries to pull himself together. Looks intently at glowing potion in his hand. Door opens, D comes out worried but excited
>D: "Father! You made it... you're bleeding. OMG are you all right?!!?"
FLASHBACK ONE
>>Black & White of birthday party M giving his daughter the pendant with close-up and pull back first on pendant then on the interchange (make sure to establish party is further back in time, D says 'daddy' instead of 'father' and other such).<<
Shattuck Ave location
M furtively enters lab through elevator or side door
Lab location
M mixes hard won glowing potion with his other ingredients (phenolthalein etc). Just after he injects, M puts in a cell call to the "Revered", his best confidant and ally against the vamps. While he is waiting for the cell to connect, we get...
FLASHBACK TWO
Same Location as Flashback One
wife
child 1
child 2
Dead, bloody family members are strewn across the floor. Head Vampire is lording (in a visible walk) over the carnage. Chest where daughter is hiding should be prominent but not focused on.
cut to angle of HV not showing his feet.
Lesser vampire enters from behind HV
we hear a cell phone ringing faintly
Lab Location
M holding phone to ear, phone rings and is answered
>Friend: "Hello?"
>M: "F!"
>F: "M!"
>M: "I did it!" >>holds up vial or syringe triumphantly<<
>Friend: "M! Where have you been?!!? I have it! I found the whip of saint (Fra Girolamo Savonrola, Ceasare Borgia, –– girolamo borgia)!"
The word 'whip' is emphasized with an importance like reverence
>>close-up of face and pull back fast on the word "have" to show F with whip in hand and a pistol and maybe rifle on table Do the actual take at full pull out and put pull out in at edit<<
>M: "The whip?"
>F: "The serum?"
>M: (dreamily) "The serum... Yes, the serum. It's going to work this time... I know it, my body will heal. (pause) They can't kill me."
>>medium shot, m looking at serum in hand, marveling, lifts it turning his body as he speaks. Speaking more to the vial than his friend<<
>F: "But now you can kill them... they will die..."
The word 'die' is stretched out >>voice over, camera still on M<<
>M: (still dreamily) "I just need a way to kill those fuckin' scum." >>medium close-up slow zoom in slightly as M muses and his attention focusses back to the phone & his friend<<
>F: "The whip, man, the whip... just listen to me... I have it... It's here, now. I have the whip, you can kill them......... forever."
>>tight of F<<
>M: "I need to kill him." >>tight close-up on M<<
>F: "Then listen to me." very insistent >>as voice over<<
FLASHBACK THREE
-lording over the bodies
>LV: "Did you get him?"
HV looks left, right, floats backwards to LV, speaks to him but does not deign to look at him.
>HV: "No, this is just his family."
>LV: "How did you get in?"
>HV: "His wife invited me... she didn't suspect a thing."
>>HV leaves followed by his minion. Lid of chest lifts, D cautiously peaks out<<
>D: "Daddy?"
cut back to phone conversation
>F: "Listen to me! To make it kill, these words MUST be spoken with the whip in hand, and passed hand to hand, or it will deactivate." >>Medium close-up sitting at table<<
>M: "I know, I know, I know... I know, you tell me every time"
>>medium close-up, almost full body as M shakes hypodermic impatiently in his hand<<
>F: > "Science is not enough. You MUST understand this once and for all. They will always come back... HE will always come back unless you use the whip. We don't have time. They were here once already tonight. Now quick, repeat these words... klatu verata nicto" >>as F speaks the words the whip lashes out and slices something in half (a pumpkin?)<<
>M: "Yeah, yeah. Klatu verata nicata... yeah, yeah, ok, nicto, nicata, whatever. They can get in without your permission, right? So, just be cool, stay put, I'll be there. And, (pauses and speaks patronizingly but compassionately) don't go outside... even with that whip, ok?
They're multiplying fast. There's too many to handle now without the serum."
M hangs up phone and Looks at bloody bandage.
FLASHBACK 4
(old?) Lab Location
M and HV are at work. HV is overseeing as M is combining the clear liquids. they do not change color.
>M: "Nothing... again. I don't know why it won't react."
>HV: "Have you tried phenolthalein?"
>M: "No. The only source is in vampire territory."
Friend's House Location
Establishing shot from outside. M walks up to door. Inside F is going from window to window clutching whip and pistol, muttering things like " I know you're out there, let's see you satanic little shits try and get in here now, you etc."
cut to shot of M removing bandage and healed wound, raising his hand to bang on door.
cut to shot inside of F reacting to loud banging by running to the door and firing pistol through door. Short pause. Loud thump of body hitting floor. F waits a second, cocks his head, perks ears...
>F: "Got you! You **, and now I'm going to finish you off."
>>F hefts the whip and reaches for the door.<<
cut to shot from outside of F opening the door and his reaction to having killed M.
>F (wailing): "Oh god, oh god! What did I do?"
>> camera pans down to whip in hand. F shoots himself, whip drops<<
cut to shot of M's head and torso. Whip is resting on his chest near vial/hypo of glowing serum. slow zoom in to face. eyes flash open.
OR MAYBE
F has fallen forward, his hand is resting on top of M's hand, the whip in between. The whip retains it's power, no need to activate again.
cut to scene on late night street. m is stumbling home, so much a zombie he can barely walk. >>use reverse stumbling, then go to froward motion stumbling as he heals a bit<<>
more scenes as he continues home. he is healing slowly, becoming more dexterous, but not coherent.
he enters his house, (>D [hopefully excited, happy]: "Daddy?) and cut to
~~~ INTERMISSION ~~~
and cut to
Dawn, and M is on living room floor (or at the table?), eating his daughter. His expression is still vapid. He still has sunken zombie eyes.
cut to M waking up (on floor, bed, couch?). Bullet hole(s) healed, sunken zombie eyes are gone, but he is still bloody from having eaten. D's pendant is dangling from his mouth. Bewildered by his bloody mess D picks up a pistol/knife/ handy weapon and starts looking around for a cause, calling to D, asking things like "what happened to me? are you alright? where are you?"
cut to shot from behind at hip level to show pendant dangling from his hand and of D's half eaten body on the floor/table. Pow stab whatever, he kills himself.
cut to zombie M tied up on floor >>reverse composite to show healing<<
cut to M waking up healed. goes out on front porch
HV on front porch dangling/hefting whip... welcome to my world
>>maniacal laughter, and fade to black<<
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