Minor Project: Trailer script draft

Trailer Music

EXPERIMENT IX TRAILER – FIRST DRAFT

INT. BLACK SCREEN

The sound of a helicopter gradually fades in

INT. CITYSCAPE OF JENNISBURG CITY

A helicopter flies over Jennisburg City

FEMALE NEWS REPORTER 1

Jennisburg City’s mayor, despite critical illness,

continues to make questionable decisions regarding the recent protests-

MALE NEWS REPORTER 1

-Fat Cat has called for yet another show of military force against the city’s civilians-

FADE TO BLACK

INT. STREETS OF JENNISBURG

A group of protestors face off against a line of militarized Jennisburg police and a tank. The police raise their rifles and open fire on the protestors.

CUT TO BLACK

MALE NEWS REPORTER 2

Many have spoken out against Fat Cat’s seat in office, calling it a ‘corruption of Government’.

FEMALE NEWS REPORTER 2

Recent speculations attribute the mayor’s ‘unnatural abilities’ to his iron grip on the city and his declining health.

INT. FAT CAT’S LAIR

Fat Cat’s hand hovers over a control panel where wires and electrical tubing infused in green psychic energy extent from his hand and into the console.

FADE TO BLACK

INT. STREETS OF JENNISBURG

Military police shove a struggling civilian protestor with a bag over his head into the back of a truck. Televisions in the window of a technical appliance store show Fat Cat talking to an interviewer

FAT CAT

Some might say I’m a monster. I disagree.

INT. ISSAC’S BASE OF OPERATIONS

Issac types at his computer and presses the enter key.

CUT TO STREETS OF JENNISBURG

The large digital billboards flash with static interference, briefly displaying the words: “Fight for Freedom” followed by the Molenov Initiative logo.

FAT CAT

The real monsters are those who aim to disturb the order I’ve created.

CUT TO TV SCREEN

Fat Cat is still being interviewed

INTERVIEWER

-and the online allegations of cloning for an heir to your seat in power?

FADE TO BLACK

INT. CLONING FACILITY

9 fluid-filled cloning tanks fill the room containing 8 failed, experiments and fetuses. All except one fully formed female clone.

FADE TO BLACK

CUT TO TV SCREEN

FAT CAT

Cloning is a fantasy.

FADE TO BLACK

INT. CLONING FACILITY

FAT CAT

If such things were a reality, it’s possible for such subjects to ‘rebel’.

The fully formed female clone leaps through and breaks through the glass, hands and eyes glowing with purple psychic energy.

SCENE FLASHES BLACK

FADE INT. ROOFTOP

Experiment 9 ‘Kat’ looks over the city

KAT

Who am I?

INT. JENNISBURG STREET

Kat, wrapped in tattered sheets, walks through the streets and rips a propaganda poster against the Molenov Initative off the wall.

ISSAC

I’ve seen the files. You’re an experiment. A clone.

INT. ALLEYWAY

Kat hides behind a trash can while military police force another bag-headed civilian into the back of a truck.

KAT

There’s so much injustice in this city. What can we do?

INT. ISSAC’S BASE

Issac turns around in his seat from his computer and looks up at Kat

ISSAC

It’s called the Molenov Initiative.

CUT TO KAT

Kat clenches her fist out in front of her as purple psychic energy flows up her arm.

KAT

How can I help?

FADE TO BLACK

FADE INT. CABINET

Two iron doors slide open, revealing Kat’s new superhero costume

CUT BACK TO ISSAC IN CHAIR

ISSAC

Let’s see what you can do.

CUT TO BLACK

FADE INT. TARGET PRACTICE FACILITY

Kat throws an energy ball at a target robot and disintegrates it.

CUT INT. JENNISBURG STREET

Kat runs out of an alleyway and leaps into a psychic-energy motorcycle in the shape of a cheetah as police sirens are heard in the background

CUT TO VIEW OF POLICE CAR

Two police cars collide. One flips over the other and explodes.

FADE TO BLACK

CUT INT. ROOFTOP

A helicopter hovers just off the rooftop’s edge as it fires on Kat, who has leaped out behind a wall, throwing two energy balls at the helicopter’s blades.

CUT INT. JENNISBURG STREETS

Kat fights hand-to-hand with a military policeman.

CUT INT. JENNISBURG STREETS

Kat, in ethereal tiger form, growls and stomps on a tank’s barrel before bending it upward with her hands.

          

          FADE TO BLACK

          FADE INT. ISSAC’S BASE

Issac is staring at his computer screen, stunned in disbelief.

ISSAC

Damn.

         

          FADE TO BLACK

          FADE INT. JENNISBURG STREETS

          An organized army of military police walk in lockstep.

FAT CAT

I want her found.

           

           CUT TO SCREEN OF FAT CAT

FAT CAT

-And she will sit at my side in this new era.

          

          CUT TO ALLEYWAY

Kat raises her hands as a pair of firearms form from psychic energy in her hands in her hands.

CUT TO STREET

Kat leaps out from an alley in her leopard form and, in slow motion, fires upon the military barricade in the middle of the road.

CUT TO ALLEY

A hooded youth spray-paints the roman numerals IX on the wall.

KAT

I know what you tried to make me into

CUT INT. ISSAC’S BASE

Issac shifts around some holographic displays.

KAT

A power-hungry monster.

CUT TO ALLEY

The hooded youth continues to spray-paint the roman numerals IX on a brick wall.

ISSAC

Today we take back our city.

CUT INT. ISSAC’S BASE

Issac shifts around some more holographic displays and hits the enter key.

FADE INT. STREET

Issac’s silhouetted face is on a digital billboard in the city’s center. His voice is masked and deepened.

ISSAC

This monster is responsible for the deaths-

FADE TO BLACK

FADE INT. DARK ROOM

Issac is tied up to a chair with a single spotlight on him. He looks up in anger.

ISSAC

-and disappearances of hundreds of people.

CUT TO FAT CAT ON-SCREEN

FAT CAT

They will learn NOT. TO. QUESTION!

CUT TO ALLEY

The hooded youth continues to spray-paint the roman numerals IX on a brick wall.

CUT TO ROOFTOPS

Kat is running across rooftops, leaping and flipping with boundless agility.

KAT

It’s time we finished this.

Kat leaps off of a building to avoid an explosion

CUT TO INSIDE OF BUILDING

Kat roundhouse kicks a knife-wielding military policeman before another enters the fray.

FADE TO BLACK

CUT TO STREET

Kat revs her psychic-energy motorcycle and makes a U-turn in the road. before driving up the front of a police vehicle, doing a backflip before landing at the entrance of a tunnel and driving down into it.

FADE TO BLACK

CUT TO ALLEY

The hooded youth continues to spray-paint the roman numerals IX on a brick wall.

FAT CAT

You have no idea what you're dealing with, child.

CUT TO FAT CAT'S LAIR

Fat cat turns around from a computer as tendrils of metal, claw-like appendages descent from the ceiling.

FADE TO BLACK

CUT TO FAT CAT'S LAIR

Kat stands at the entrance to Fat Cat's lair, her hand swelling with purple energy as she prepares for battle.

CUT INT. STREET

A line of military police raise their rifles and arm them.

FADE TO BLACK

FAT CAT

(Mocking) So you consider yourself a hero?

CUT TO OUTSIDE WINDOW OF SKYSCRAPER

A tendril claw shatters the window, pushing Kat out with it in its grasp

KAT

This city doesn't need heroes. It needs hope.

CUT TO ALLEY

The hooded youth continues to spray-paint the roman numerals IX on a brick wall, finally finishing it.

KAT

I am that hope.

CUT TO BLACK

Everything cuts to black except the spray-painted IX which ignites in a purple ethereal fire. The word 'Experiment' forms in the same way in front of it.