Keepers
05-08-2003, 09:49 PM
No doubt the most silly thing I've done so far, but I'm having a good time. I guess that's what matters, right?
THE DOORWAY
BY PAUL LAFLECHE
PAGE ONE
Panel 1: This panel shall be simply blank; white.
Panel 2: Close on the outline of a doorknob, using lines to show it’s being turned open.
Panel 3: The door opens a crack, black seeping in.
Panel 4: The door is fully open now. In the darkness, silhouetted in white stands the figure of a man, average build.
VOICE (O.P)
John -- John James? Well I’ll be a sight for sore eyes!
PAGE TWO
Panel 1: JOHN JAMES (34) stands now in a white room, wearing a lab coat, dress shirt and tie. His hair is well kept and styled, thick glasses on his nose. He’s smiling.
JOHN JAMES
Lou? Lou Lazerus? Well if it isn’t my old nemesis.
Panel 2: A wide shot of three men sitting at a table playing cards, two of which are shadowed, one free chair. LOU LAZERUS (53) is your typical villain, bald, one eye monocled and one metal hand. He is turned, smiling towards John who is O.P.
LOU LAZERUS
It’s been a long time old friend. I wondered if they would even send you here.
LOU LAZERUS (CONT’D)
You will join us of course?
JOHN JAMES (O.P)
It would be my pleasure.
Panel 3: Wide shot once again, this time all four men are sitting at the table each with five cards in hand.
CAPTION
Later.
Panel 4: We close on the other two men now. JACQUES JACQUES (28) a burly fellow, bearded, with a plaid fleece shirt on smirks at his cards. The other, CRAZY CHIRPY CHARLEY (18) lanky, practice hockey jersey on, and a goalie mask cut to show just the bottom of his face. His eyes are a little wild.
LOU LAZERUS (O.P)
I doubt you’ve meet my associates here -- Jacques Jacques and Crazy Chirpy Charlie?
JACQUES JACQUES
`Ello.
CRAZY CHIRPY CHARLIE
Hiya.
Panel 5: Close on John, stiffening a laugh.
JOHN JAMES
Um -- No, no I haven’t.
PAGE THREE
Panel 1: All panels on this page shall be wide shots. The first is of the party playing cards, Jacques with his cards to his chest, the other hand in a gesture of assurance.
JACQUES JACQUES
`Tis okay to laugh monsieur, we can take it. We’re Canadian.
LOU LAZERUS
Yes, well -- on to more pressing matters. Tell me John, how did they manage to defeat my old adversary?
Panel 2: The next series of panels will have John to the left, faint flashback images to the right of him as he’s telling his tale. The first will be a faint image of a young John standing at the base of the Grand Canyon.
JOHN JAMES
Well, you all know of my origin.
Panel 3: A faint image of John being hit my a small meteor fragment.
JOHN JAMES
How I was hit by a meteor fragment that contained immense amounts of cosmic energy.
Panel 4: We see John as he is flown into the rock face of the canyon, the meteor fragment imbedded in his chest, glowing.
Panel 5: We see the rock face as it contorts, fusing itself over John’s body.
JOHN JAMES
Changing me from your weak male zoologist, angered from repressed childhood beatings going through anger management into --
Panel 6: We see John, transformed into a stone behemoth.
JOHN JAMES (CONT’D)
-- The Invincible Gorge!
LOU LAZERUS (O.P)
That’s fine and dandy John. Now, to my question.
PAGE FOUR
Panel 1: Close up of John with a questionable expression on his face.
Panel 2: Close up of John still, now understanding what Lou is talking about.
JOHN JAMES
Ah yes, my demise. Quite simple really. You remember Betty Booty.
Panel 3: We see Lou, a smile on his face. In the background we see the ghost image of a voluptuous woman in her twenties decked out in J. Scott Campbell.
LOU LAZERUS
How could I forget? I kidnapped and tried to seduce here enough times.
THE DOORWAY
BY PAUL LAFLECHE
PAGE ONE
Panel 1: This panel shall be simply blank; white.
Panel 2: Close on the outline of a doorknob, using lines to show it’s being turned open.
Panel 3: The door opens a crack, black seeping in.
Panel 4: The door is fully open now. In the darkness, silhouetted in white stands the figure of a man, average build.
VOICE (O.P)
John -- John James? Well I’ll be a sight for sore eyes!
PAGE TWO
Panel 1: JOHN JAMES (34) stands now in a white room, wearing a lab coat, dress shirt and tie. His hair is well kept and styled, thick glasses on his nose. He’s smiling.
JOHN JAMES
Lou? Lou Lazerus? Well if it isn’t my old nemesis.
Panel 2: A wide shot of three men sitting at a table playing cards, two of which are shadowed, one free chair. LOU LAZERUS (53) is your typical villain, bald, one eye monocled and one metal hand. He is turned, smiling towards John who is O.P.
LOU LAZERUS
It’s been a long time old friend. I wondered if they would even send you here.
LOU LAZERUS (CONT’D)
You will join us of course?
JOHN JAMES (O.P)
It would be my pleasure.
Panel 3: Wide shot once again, this time all four men are sitting at the table each with five cards in hand.
CAPTION
Later.
Panel 4: We close on the other two men now. JACQUES JACQUES (28) a burly fellow, bearded, with a plaid fleece shirt on smirks at his cards. The other, CRAZY CHIRPY CHARLEY (18) lanky, practice hockey jersey on, and a goalie mask cut to show just the bottom of his face. His eyes are a little wild.
LOU LAZERUS (O.P)
I doubt you’ve meet my associates here -- Jacques Jacques and Crazy Chirpy Charlie?
JACQUES JACQUES
`Ello.
CRAZY CHIRPY CHARLIE
Hiya.
Panel 5: Close on John, stiffening a laugh.
JOHN JAMES
Um -- No, no I haven’t.
PAGE THREE
Panel 1: All panels on this page shall be wide shots. The first is of the party playing cards, Jacques with his cards to his chest, the other hand in a gesture of assurance.
JACQUES JACQUES
`Tis okay to laugh monsieur, we can take it. We’re Canadian.
LOU LAZERUS
Yes, well -- on to more pressing matters. Tell me John, how did they manage to defeat my old adversary?
Panel 2: The next series of panels will have John to the left, faint flashback images to the right of him as he’s telling his tale. The first will be a faint image of a young John standing at the base of the Grand Canyon.
JOHN JAMES
Well, you all know of my origin.
Panel 3: A faint image of John being hit my a small meteor fragment.
JOHN JAMES
How I was hit by a meteor fragment that contained immense amounts of cosmic energy.
Panel 4: We see John as he is flown into the rock face of the canyon, the meteor fragment imbedded in his chest, glowing.
Panel 5: We see the rock face as it contorts, fusing itself over John’s body.
JOHN JAMES
Changing me from your weak male zoologist, angered from repressed childhood beatings going through anger management into --
Panel 6: We see John, transformed into a stone behemoth.
JOHN JAMES (CONT’D)
-- The Invincible Gorge!
LOU LAZERUS (O.P)
That’s fine and dandy John. Now, to my question.
PAGE FOUR
Panel 1: Close up of John with a questionable expression on his face.
Panel 2: Close up of John still, now understanding what Lou is talking about.
JOHN JAMES
Ah yes, my demise. Quite simple really. You remember Betty Booty.
Panel 3: We see Lou, a smile on his face. In the background we see the ghost image of a voluptuous woman in her twenties decked out in J. Scott Campbell.
LOU LAZERUS
How could I forget? I kidnapped and tried to seduce here enough times.