War of the Stars – Act I Scene 1
PAN TO EXT –day, Mark is sitting on a swing over in the play ground. MARK It’s going to be one of those bad guys plotting stretches, so beware of some important exposition coming.
PAN TO EXT –day, Mark is sitting on a swing over in the play ground. MARK It’s going to be one of those bad guys plotting stretches, so beware of some important exposition coming.
CUT TO EXT –night, a voice comes from behind a bush. MARK You know, a great many bits of intrigue are planned out on a park bench.
CUT TO INT – Night, Mark is sitting alone in a small, dirty movie theater. MARK I do kind of wonder if both of these two are thinking of the same kind of movie.
PAN TO EXT – Day, Mark is sitting alone on another bench with a box of chocolate and a bunch of wilted flowers. MARK Some people just don’t handle rejection very well.
CUT TO INT – Day, Mark is sitting in a doctor’s waiting room with cobwebs growing around him. MARK I promise, this is the last of plotting, we’ll be getting back the main characters next week.
PAN TO INT – Day, Mark is laying passed out in the corner wearing a party hat with a noise maker hanging out of his mouth.
CUT TO INT – Day, a comic book store where Mark is browsing the collectibles aisle. MARK It’s nice to see that Zortic is spending his money on something other than action figures.
CUT TO EXT – Day, Mark is standing next to an empty desert road wearing a pair of rocket powered roller skates. MARK I always like these strips with minimal dialogue. It’s very Chuck Jones-ish.
CUT TO EXT – Day, Mark is sitting in a time machine DeLorean. MARK You may recognize the Calvary from Classic Zortic. However it has been upgraded a little.
PAN TO INT – Day, Mark is dressed as a HMS Calvary guard. MARK In the original version of Zortic, Captain Cutter turned out to be a bit too much like Zap Brannigan from Futurama (although Cutter did come first). […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…