Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Pages Two and Three AKA Frankenstein Must Die!

PAGE TWO: SPLASH, EXT. PAPER AIRSHIP FLOTILLA OVER SOUTH SEAS

panel 1: EXT. AERIAL SHOT, FLOTILLA WITH FLAGSHIP AT CENTER

CAPTION: The South Seas, Two Weeks Before

EMPRESS NADIRA (caption [or, word balloon from FLAGSHIP]): Queens and kings, emperors and sultans.

Empress Nadira (ditto): Generals, ministers, investors, tycoons.

EN (ditto): If any of them learns our secrets, the world is ruined!

EN (ditto): And now you want me to meet with these... fools?



PAGE THREE: ACTION-ADVENTURE! VERY JOE KUBERT! (7 panels)

panel 1: INT. FLAGSHIP, BAMBOO DANCER AT BAY, SURROUNDED BY BLADES

EN (off-panel?): Frankly, I'm beginning to question your loyalty. (show back?)

EN (off-panel?): Tell me why I should spare your life.

panel 2: CLOSE-UP ON BAMBOO DANCER, IN A CIRCLE OF SWORDS

BAMBOO DANCER: Three things.

panel 3: CLOSER ON BD

Bamboo Dancer: One: I'm also working for Victor Frankenstein.

panel 4: CLOSER ON BD

BD: Two: He's making BIG monsters. That can fly. And carry a rider.

panel 5: SILHOUETTE OF EMPRESS NADIRA? BACK VIEW?

EN: And...?

panel 6: CLOSE-UP ON BAMBOO DANCER

BD: And. Three: He's looking for you.

panel 7: INT. FLAGSHIP, EMPRESS NADIRA BRANDISHES CUTLASS

EN: Then Victor Frankenstein must die! (camera swings around to reveal Nadira?)

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