BLOOD-ORANGE a Redneck Samurai script

Page 1
Panel 1
Widescreen. Smashed & shot up late 70's Nova sits stalled on the side of the road in a small ditch. The driver's side door is open. The front end of the car has smashed a thick wood post fence, made of large tree trunk posts, and time has worn it down a bit. Beyond that starts an orange grove extends off into the distance seemingly out to the sun itself. The sun is a deep orange hue as it begins to drop on the horizon. The long shadows drip from the scene. The silhouette of a Triad swordsman is in the bottom left, close up as if we're looking over his shoulder. We just see his head, flowing hair, and the outline of the sword handle jutting over his shoulder. If possible to make this the last thing we notice on the page, some of the orange trees are tussled, as if someone has slipped between them, while all the others are perfectly aligned.

Panel 2
Triad killer front shot. Main badass with sword, surrounded by four Triad thugs in suits, shades, and sporting uzis.

Panel 3
RedNeck Samurai, a young guy, sandy blonde hair, baseball cap tucked into his back pocket, a gas mask in his one hand, a sheathed sword in the other. He's running away from us, and looking back over his shoulder at us, a look of "I'm in over my head, but fuck it."

Page 2
Panel 1
From inside the grove we see the Triad walking into the grove, oranges hanging all about. Think like a bamboo forest from samurai/kung fu movies, but Florida style. They're bathed in the setting sun's light, shielding their eyes. The main killer stands on the side of the road above, surveying the scene.

Panel 2
RedNeck Samurai is slipping on the gas mask as he darts past oranges.

Panel 3
Closer in on two of the thugs as they begin poking through the plants, looking for RedNeck Samurai. Itchy trigger fingers.

Panel 4
Closer in on RedNeck Samurai as he slips his hat over the gas mask.

Panel 5
Tight shot of one of the thugs as he lifts up his sunglasses to look around. There's a flash of steel over his shoulder, between the oranges, two lenses of a gas mask glisten in the sun.

Page 3
Panel 1
RedNeck Samurai's sword come slicing upwards from between the trees as the guy is sliced in half, a look of utter horror on his face as it comes from behind. The other thug looks over in shock. His uzi shaking in his hand.

Panel 2
Over the thug's shoulder we see him firing and ripping apart the trees and the oranges.

Panel 3
The bullets tear apart the oranges over RedNeck Samurai's head as he dives into a roll away from the blast.

Panel 4
RedNeck Samurai is slicing dowards right towards us, almost cutting the page in two, as he chops the Thug's arms off at the elbows, his gun firing as it flips away from him with his hands and forearms still clutching it. He screams bloody murder.

Panel 5
RedNeck Samurai Spins around slicing the thug's head, his back now turned to the body, as if it wasn't worth his time to turn around and look. The thug spurts blood and collapses.

Page 4
Panel 1
Side shot of RedNeck Samurai looking downwards, the shadows cast long over him, sunny noir. The orange trees next to him seem slightly rustled.

Panel 2
Same shot as Panel 1, except the trees have fallen away, sliced so cleanly that they just slide off. It reveals two of the other thugs looking over the edge of the trees, their guns raised up and about ready to fire.

Panel 3
Same shot as Panel 2, except the thugs' heads and hands holding their guns, are sliced clean off by the same slice that took the top of the trees off and the first thug's head. As their heads drop, we get a glimpse of the Triad Killer, the sword still sheathed upon his back.

Panel 4
They stand there opposite each other, the half of two orange trees and headless thugs, complete with sliced oranges and blood spurts, between them.

Panel 5
RedNeck Samurai whips up his blade as the Triad Killer whips the sword off his back in one fluid motion and swings down at him. The flow of action is much more frantic and frenetic here.

Page 5
Panel 1
They slice by each other, just missing one another.

Panel 2
They run along the grove on opposite sides, the sun starts to turn red as it dips below the horizon and paints them both in long shadows. RedNeck Samurai is close up to us, we see his head up close on the right, Triad Killer in the middle, just visible between the trees and oranges, the RedNeck Samurai's sword jutting up into the panel.

Panel 3
The Triad Killer is readying his strike as we see the scene reversed, pull out a bit from Triad Killer so we see him waist up from behind, running, sword swung behind him. On the other side between the trees and oranges is RedNeck Samurai, pointing his sword at the Triad as they both continue to run along.

Panel 4
The Triad leaps into the air, the sun at his back, hoping to distract his prey with it's brilliance, it's now a dark red, and only just half above the horizon. The triad performs some sort of insane maneuver.

Panel 5
RedNeck Samurai stands firm, the shadow of the Triad at his feet, the sun reflecting off the gas mask lenses and the sword.

Page 6
Panel 1
RedNeck Samurai slices upwards, cutting the Triad's head in half as the sun and blood mix and spurt upwards in an arc.

Panel 2
Close up of blood dripping off the oranges and leaves, onto a sliced orange sitting on the floor. RedNeck Samurai's shadow stretching past it.

5 Page "FIRE" Trailer Script

Spider-Man vs Human Torch in "the ROOF is on FIRE!"

Page 1

P1
Spider-Man perched on the side of a building, camera in hand, nighttime cityscape all around him.

"Ugh. I really need some photos to sell to Jolly Jameson, but the only crime is that I'm spending my Friday night up here alone..."

P2
Spidey spots something and zooms in with his camera lens. It's the Human Torch as he heads into a club down below, with a girl in each arm.

"While that matchstick makes out like a bandit."

"I knew I shoulda been Butterfly Boy, girls dig butterflys...hey, what's that?"

P3
Spidey spots a door closing on the roof of the building Johnny Storm just entered.

"Hmm"

P4
Spidey leaps across to the other building and fires a gob of webbing. The webbing plops around the handle and props it open.

P5
Spidey changes into his Parker dorky wear and centers the camera around his chest before sneaking in and down the stairs.

"Peter Parker, club photographer, paparazzi of the power crowd..."

Page 2

P1
A few quick dodges and he makes it through the kitchen, close calls, physical comedy, slapstick.

P2
Just as he's about strut through the open doors, they fly open, and an awestruck/agitated lady in a business skirt busts in and grabs Peter.

"Photographer?! What are you wearing?! Ugh."

P3
She musses up his hair, spruces his look up a bit, and slaps him on the butt through the doors into the crowd.

P4
Peter absently takes shots of swanky patrons who do their best to ignore him. It's dark in here and swirls of light spin around the room. The music is blaring as Peter imagines fake conversations for them.

"Oh I just love the photography of that Peter Parker, the sexy young lad that shoots for that rag Daily Bugle. Oh yes, we really must draw up a contract to have him shoot our models, especially with that hunky..."

P5
Peter overhears, "Spider-Man? Hah, I know that chump. Little kid running round in pajamas."

Page 3

P1
Peter parts the crowd and sees Johnny Storm up in the VIP section, girls surrounding him, gesturing wildly as he talks of himself.

"Now, a real hero, well he needs a high tech suit, a swank Midtown HQ, and most definitely some badass powers."

P2
Johnny lets loose with a small pyrotechnic display.

P3
Peter leaps up the stairs, over the rope, to get a shot of Johnny.

"A true hero talks trash at bars to get chicks apparently."

P4
Johnny stands and walks over to Peter.

"Parker right? Always snapping pics of superheroes so that boss of yours can drag our name through the mud. Tired of following around your wannabe hero and trying to snap me? Piss off."

P5
Johhny pushes Peter backwards down the stairs.

Page 4

P1
Peter stumbles down the stairs backwards, quite gracefully, almost too gracefully. So he drops back and rolls into the crowd.

P2-3-4
Johnny laughs as he heads back to his table. Glimpses of Peter changing into Spider-Man between people's legs. Johnny laughs it up with his dates.

"That's how you gotta handle these photographers, bunch of kids running around, trying to provoke you, get a shot of you their paper can take out of context, ruin a hero's rep. That's enough of that though, what say we go dance..."

P5
Spider-Man pops up the middle of the crowd.

Page 5

P1
Spidey leaps through the crowd with skill, landing even more so. Johnny is not impressed. Spidey does some tricks with his webbing, some acrobatics, and flips backwards sliding across the empty dance floor.

"Top that Flamey."

P2
Human Torch climbs the railing and leaps off as he Flames On! He seems to be heading straight for Spidey.

P3
Human Torch busts out some flamey dancey moves, sliding across the floor, making the crowd hot and sweaty, but the crowd seems to be getting into it.

P4
Spidey slides under and around as their dance/fight escalates. Human Torch is pressing down on Spidey, his flame intensifying, the crowd is dancing and yelling, sweat flying everywhere.

Page 6

P1
The whole dance floor is going mad as Human Torch's dates walk off with some other dudes. Human Torch & Spidey are whipping and flipping and things are getting intense when Human Torch unleashes a fireball straight up at Spidey in anger, but misses and sets the roof on fire.

P2
Both stop and look stunned as the crowd runs off.

P3
Spidey raises the roof (dance move).

"The roof, the roof, the roof is on fiiiirrrreeee."

Page 7

P1
Spidey & Human Torch are soaking wet as they get bounced out the front doors. They hit the pavement scowling at each other.

P2
Spidey shrugs his shoulders innocently.

"Dude, you trashed my entire night out. They prolly won't even let me back in there for at least a month."

"I wasn't the one who set off the sprinklers, dude."

P3
A purse snatching happens right across the street, seen to be happening right between the heroes' line of sight. The snatcher runs off, they glance at each other and take off after him.

"I got this one Webhead..."

"You ain't gonna catch nothing but a cold, Human Splash."

SkyWindCloud Notes

From Valley to Space.
Finding Mother figure.
Coming of Age.
Male distrust.
Cat-Sneaky/Witch. Bird-Flight/Princess.
Feather/Star.
Cloud Kingdom.
Race of CloudRunners.
Gliding, soaring, flight.
Air Pirates. Ships on updrafts.
Weather/wind.
Feather.
Becoming Goddess.

Climbing trees. Rock climbing. Surfing.

Thief. Witch. Princess.
Cat. Owl. Dog.

Ma'at. Goddess of truth and order.
Thunderbirds. Invisible birds. Feathers birth birds.
Thunder, lightning, rain.

Flood. Bandits. City.

Crone/Crane.
Maiden/Owl/Witch
Zegogo

Auto Cinema

Easy Rider
Vanishing Point
Bullitt
Two Lane Blacktop
Crazy Mary & Dirty Larry
French Connection
Starksy & Hutch
Knight Rider
Fast & the Furious
Initial D
Death Proof

Defining Vertigo Runs

Alan Moore - Swamp Thing
Grant Morrison - The Invisibles
Warren Elis - Transmetropolitan
Garth Ennis - Preacher
Bill Willingham - Fables
Neil Gaiman - Sandman
Peter Milligan - Shade, the Changing Man
Brian K. Vaughn - Y the Last Man
Mike Carey - The Unwritten
Brian Wood - DMZ

Notes

LF t-shirts
AB bumper stickers
CafePress

Kill 4 pilots for movies. Shorts.
Revenge body swap
Honorable Samurai -righteous, humane, reliable, respectable & wise

LF
Lost style brought out by brash next generation rival
Evil General sitting and waiting, letting minions drum up a challenge
Grandmaster Kang, teacher to Tze & Zhao

LF short post WotR
Ultraman, Godzilla, Catgirls, Schoolgirls, Robot, Mech
All break out of the lab where Wulong smashes the airship into United Corp. Wulong learns of Tze's quest for more power. Zhao vs. Japanese Heroes

LF Strength of the Stream
Wulong on a ship, Rough waves, dragon helmed wooden ship, beaten and tired. Hiding beneath a blanket. Bounty hunters as the come into port at Hong Kong. Marketplace chase. Toshiro. Wulong saves Toshiro. Gets away.

Wulong along lake, camping out. Toshiro and more bounty hunters. Toshiro kills Gyzer. Gyzer to Toshiro. Yama/Ying. Raiko/United Corp. Kaego/Kole.

ShenXian Mountain - loses to Kole

LF Eternal Water Falling
Jian, Wei Lin, Mao
Swordsman/Soldiers, Temple/Monks, Fortress/Emperor
Revenge vs Duty, Peace vs Involvement, Structure vs Politics
As Kole rises to battle gods, so Wulong goes to test the mettle of the people of his country. Its hidden masters, its righteous priests, its superior numbers. Once fallen, risen, the fall is purposeful. 

Recognize!