simultaneously.
A HUGE DINOSAUR FOOT steps down hard and is VAPORIZED with a deafening ROAR.
Voice : One hundred trillion tons of dirt and rock hurled into the atmosphere.
EARTH, seen from space, is rocked with an IMMENSE SHOCKWAVE. A SHEET OF DEBRIS washes across the North and South Hemispheres.
Voice : A blanket of dust the sun is powerless to penetrate. For five thousand years our world is rob
one and buggered the whole issue.
- Place insured?
- Yes.
- You insured?
- Of course.
The old place stood up very well, though.
I was gonna rent one of your caravans
until I get my new boat.
Take a pick.
I dont want to crowd you and Jules,
- me being the ex and everything.
- You wont.
Does Jules know you guaranteed my loan?
You sure youre insured?
Have you looked at your policy?
Its in the boat.
One DEAD CREWIE
is seen through fractured plexi, body pocked and bloodied. But
in the next cryo-locked...
The CAPTAIN is struggling awake. Frys face floods with relief.
Slapping an intercom:
FRY
Hear me? Capn? Some kinda compromise to
the hull...holding for now, but...Goddamn,
Im glad youre alive. Gotta pull your
E-release...no, red handle, red handle.
Ill get the warm-ups out while --
PHFUT-PHFU
one window is a bank of TV sets - on the great majority of the screens is the face of Mr. Helpmann - the Deputy Minister of Information. He is being interviewed. No-one bothers to listen to Helpmann.
INTERVIEWER
Deputy minister, what do you believe is behind this recent increase in terrorist bombings?
HELPMANN
Bad sportsmanship. A ruthless minority of people seems to have forgotten certain good o
one hundred languages -- comes to
you from Earth.
Brainiac regards the message curiously.
LEX (V.O.)
I am Lex Luthor, owner and C.E.O. of
LexCorp -- a vast and powerful
conglomerate that dominates trade on this
planet. To whatever life form that may
receive this, I extend an invitation to
our world. Non-hostile and eager to
establish contact with extraterrestrial
races, Earth welcomes a visit fro
one a mile across, as it hurtles
past an observation ship.
OFFICIAL VOICE
The Bugs send another meteor our way !
A BRIGHT EXPLOSION in space out beyond the moon.
OFFICIAL VOICE
But this time we are ready !
Planetary defenses are better than ever !
Would you like to know more ?
3 KLENDATHU --- WHY WE HAVE TO FIGHT !
Klendathu, a fierce orange planet ringed by an asteroid belt,
orbits a double star
simulate flotation.
AT THE CONSOLE, Miriam uses a pen to hit specific areas of
the touch-sensitive screen, changing the complex CHEMICAL
SYMBOLS displayed there.
IN THE PROCEDURE ROOM, a series of pharmaceuticals are
injected into an intravenous tube feeding the sleeve/arm of
the figure. A featherweight cloth MASK electronically rises,
revealing the sleeping face of Catherine.
AT THE CONSOLE, Mir
carry on but he just wont get it
Hell be back on his knees so please
Express yourself
So you can respect yourself
By the time we left Japan, I was getting attached to the dancers...
and I started feeling like a mother to them.
Gabriel, since you never give me attitude, you get the oldest one.
Thank you.
When we got to America, I got to meet the mothers...
of all the children I temporarily clai
Silence. Gradually the sound of distant traffic becomes audible. A LOW ANGLE bounded on one side by a chain-link fence and on the other by the one-story public school buildings. Spray-can hieroglyphics and distant streetlight shadows. This is a Los Angeles public school in a blue collar neighborhood.
ANGLE BETWEEN SCHOOL BUILDINGS
Where a trash dumpster looms in a LOW ANGLE, part of the clutter b
Metropolis Script
More than a quarter of the film
must be regarded as irretrievable lost.
Few other films have been so
systematically changed, mutilated,
corrupted as this one. Shots and titles
have been omitted and changed
However, of no other such mistreated film
do we know so well
what the film originally looked like.
Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou,
different-sex Siamese twins.
Just like their