Riders on horseback cross the desert. From this distance they appear to be a company of Army Cavalry Soldiers.
CLOSER ANGLES ON THE RIDERS
Reveal only details of saddles, hooves and uniforms. The riders are silhouetted against the rising sun as they ride into an ancient CLIFF PUEBLO.
The OFFICER IN COMMAND raises his hand halting his troops.
OFFICER
Dis-mount!
RIDERS climb down from their mounts.
REVEAL that
this cartoon is being filmed LIVE ON A SOUND STAGE. The
title card sits on an easle. The female legs are paper
mache props manipulated by two HUMAN CREW MEMBERS. Wearily,
they lean the legs up against the stage wall. A human
DIRECTOR, wearing a tweed jacket and baggy pleated pants,
steps onto the set. From the equipment and the dress of the
crew, we can tell its the 1940s. Baby Herman
revealed to be a hanging center-
piece in the display window of a store that sells Batman *
sleds, lunch boxes, T-shirts, and ticking-to-twenty-
before-Seven clocks.
8 EXT. GOTHAM PLAZA--EARLY EVENING 8
Bathed in pristine snow and packed with ELATED SHOPPERS,
POINSETTIA GRASPING LOVERS, BLESSED CAROLERS, and an
overwhelming array of Christmas decoration, the intimate
Plaza center of Gotham City h
backs up to reveal Telly having sex with the girl. Telly is seventeen years old. He is short, dirty, slightly muscular, he has an interesting face, he is a street-smart punk, He is biting his bottom lip, the two of them are sweating like mad, the sound of the bed post smashing against the wall combines with the rhythmical moaning of the two.
RAPID FADE TO BLACK
BACK IN TIME - BEFORE THEY HAD SEX
shower into the room.
A second torch cuts through. They move with machine precision, cutting a rectangular path, converging. The torches meet. Cut off. The door falls inward REVEALING a bizarre multi-armed figure. A ROBOT WELDER.
FIGURES ENTER, backlit and ominous. THREE MEN in bio-isolation suits, carrying lights and equipment. They approach a sarcophagus-like HYPERSLEEP CAPSULE, f.g.
LEADER
The Hollow Man
written by Andrew W. Marlowe
Red Wagon
Prods.
Revised Draft
6/26/98
FADE IN:
On complete darkness.
A SMALL DOOR swings open.
A circle of light reveals that we I re looking down the
length of a tube. At the far end of the tube, we see a
gloved hand dangling a rat. The hand shoves the
frightened rat into the tube and closes the door behind
it. The rat s stark white fur bristle
A beautiful golden sun is setting. The sky is on fire. The CAMERA starts to move downwards. A large neon sign rises into shot. It rests on top of a skyscraper and fills the frame. The building is neither past nor future in design but a bit of both.
Slowly we pan downwards revealing the city that spreads below... A glittering conglomeration of elevated transport tubes, smaller square buildings wh
reveal the huge decomposing body of JASON. His HEAD IS
COMPLETELY COVERED BY AN ARMY OF DISGUSTING MAGGOTS.
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HAWES GASPS
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He fights with his stomach to keep his dinner down..
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TOMMY CLIMBS OUT OF GRAVE
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He turns and stares down at his nemesis. A slow hatred begins
to build. We PRESS IN on Tommy, HEARING his horrid memories:
His sister screams, NO, TOMMY, NO while 10-year-old Tommy
kills J
REVEAL:
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EXT. EBOLA RIVER - FERRY CROSSING - MORNING
A handful of ZAIREAN POLICE guard the primitive landing.
REFUGEE VILLAGERS camp along the banks in the b.g.
One POLICEMAN passes out half-cooked monkey.
The POLICE CAPTAIN chews on a bloody haunch, licking his
fingers. The Ferry Bell RINGS O.S.
Now a jeep HORN HONKS O.S. approaching --
THEIR POV - THE EBOLA RIVER
The primitive Ferry parts the
reveals itself to
be the BRAINIAC SKULL SHIP - a tentacled craft that looks like it
sounds. A set of "jaws" protrude and puncture the hull of the
small craft. It glows white hot with power.
INT. SKULL SHIP - OPERATING THEATRE
We see a surgical table, its contents obscured by the shadows,
save for the back of a malformed head. Computer banks and monitors
are everywhere. A small ROBOT works beside