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The
artwork is also suitable for use in "Jimmy Watson's Magic
Dinobot."
A proposed network TV serialization, about boy who saves his paper round
money to buy himself a robot for Christmas. Then, when assembled, it
come to life, to become his friend. ARTWORK
- Somewhat better than the huge ants in "Them," but perhaps not as good as
the CGI in Antman. Now a
museum
exhibit in Sussex, England.
The artwork is based on an Australian Bulldog
ant.
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USS
ARKTOS
SCENE 2: TUNNEL COMPLEX
- THE LABYRINTH BENEATH THE ICE
EXT. ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET - DAY (CONTINUOUS)
The endless white expanse. A landscape defined by the SCREAM of wind, the distant GROAN of shifting glaciers. The sheer, immense WEIGHT of a continent slowly collapsing.
But now, a new sound. A low, resonant HUMMING, barely perceptible beneath the natural cacophony.
AERIAL SHOT
A section of the ice sheet. Not a fracture from the previous scene, but a deliberate, almost geometric rupture. It looks like a colossal, invisible hand has pulled back a veil.
CLOSE ON - The exposed ice beneath. It's not clear. It's CARVED.
INT. TUNNEL COMPLEX - ANCIENT - DAY (FLASHBACK/HYPOTHETICAL)
QUICK CUTS – HYPOTHETICAL/VISUALIZE:
- Shadowed, impossible architecture carved into ice.
- Vast, dark spaces.
- The hint of something moving, or having moved, within.
This is the LABYRINTH. Ancient. Impossibly old. Preserved in secrecy for millions of years. Now, revealed by the relentless thaw. An architectural impossibility hidden from mankind until now.
EXT. RESEARCH OUTPOST - ICE SHEET - DAY (PRESENT DAY)
A small, isolated research outpost. A single tracked vehicle sits abandoned, half-covered in snow. A single tent flap flutters in the wind.
The only sounds are the wind and the FLAPPING of the tent. No human voices. No equipment hum. No distress signal. No trace.
A scientist vanished. Disappeared. Without warning. Without a sound.
Only a single piece of information remained. A leak.
INT. SKY NEWS BROADCAST ROOM - LONDON - NIGHT
MONITORS glow with breaking news alerts. The controlled chaos of a global newsroom. The low murmur of urgent conversations.
A young RESEARCHER, late 20s, hunched over a tablet. Headset on. Her eyes are wide, fixed on a cryptic message, fragments of data scrolling quickly across the screen. A rushed transmission.
SOUND DESIGN: A distorted, broken audio clip plays in her ear, then cuts out. A guttural ROAR, alien, ancient, mixed with crackling static.
On the screen, a crude outline. Something prehistoric. Entombed in ice. Massively huge. Utterly
alien to modern classification. Her fingers fly across the keyboard, typing a quick summary.
CLOSE ON SCREEN - Text: "Prehistoric Antarctic Discovery. Estimated scale:
KING
KONG."
The discovery is too big to contain.
INT. BBC NEWS WORLD SERVICE - BROADCAST STUDIO - CONTINUOUS
The familiar, cool blue glow of a news desk. A BBC NEWS WORLD SERVICE BUG blazes on a monitor.
JILL
BIRD, veteran anchor, straightens her jacket. A technician gives a silent countdown.
JILL BIRD (V.O., crisp, authoritative)
And a late item—researchers in Antarctica say they have discovered a subsurface tunnel complex beneath the compacted snow and ice. We'll bring you more on this breaking story as it comes in.
The news cuts to a graphic of a stylized ice sheet with a tunnel network diagram.
INT. CHARLEY TEMPLE'S APARTMENT - LONDON - NIGHT
A spartan, functional space. Low light. The only illumination is the glow from a high-end tablet.
CHARLEY TEMPLE (30s, sharp, intense eyes, no-nonsense) leans over the tablet. The BBC News World Service live feed plays in a small window. Her fingers are poised over the screen.
CLOSE ON TABLET - The news graphic. And beneath it, a secure messaging app. An unread message from an anonymous source.
SCREEN TEXT:
"The tunnels. They found them. And the jaw. It's out."
Charley's eyes narrow. The pieces click. The vanished scientist. The leaked findings. The tunnels. This isn't coincidence.
She taps out a rapid, encrypted message.
CLOSE ON MESSAGE SCREEN:
TO: STORM
SUBJECT: ANTARCTICA - URGENT
MESSAGE: It's happening. The tunnels. And something else – something huge. We need to move.
Her finger hovers, then with a decisive tap, sends it.
John Storm is halfway across the globe. But Charley knows. She knows with absolute certainty that he'll drop everything the moment he reads this.
EXT. ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET - NIGHT
A low-angle shot. The immense, dark, and silent mass of the continent. The occasional CREAK or CRACK from beneath.
The world had long convinced itself that Antarctica was untouchable. A neutral zone. A wilderness protected by treaties. A fragile lie.
But nothing lasts forever. The treaty was ending. Negotiations stalled. And beneath the surface, a silent war was brewing. Nations staking claims. Corporations laying groundwork. Secret operations unfolding beneath the ice.
The tunnels had surfaced at exactly the wrong time. Or perhaps, the right time for those seeking opportunity.
This was no longer just a scientific discovery. It was a gold rush.
And someone – somewhere – was about to make a move.
John Storm just had to beat them to it.
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GOLD
RUSH
A
startling discovery in the ice, sharp jaws protruding from a block of
solid ice.
SECTASAUR™
- SCENES (APPROX 5 MINS PER SCENE)
PART
1
CHAPTER
1: US ARKTOS 1838 EXPEDITION -
The ice melts at both poles revealing features on the land not seen for
thousands of years. A converted Frigate, the US Arktos is discovered at the South Pole locked into melting
ice, then freed.
CHAPTER 2: TUNNEL COMPLEX - Discovery of a labyrinth of tunnels beneath the ice, dated by scientists to be
many millions of years old, is leaked to Jill Bird, BBC world service,
via Sky news and Discovery Channel. Supporting John Cleves Symmes theory
of 1818.
CHAPTER 3: GOLD RUSH - Three expeditions launched by competing concerns, Swedish,
Multinational & Cathy Carter, backed by the
CIA.
The third funded by Chinese, Lin Po
Chang. Land grab for mineral rights and archaeological exclusivity,
prehistoric insect DNA.
CHAPTER 4:
U.N. CALL FOR JOHN STORM - MI6 and the
UN
decide to send in John
Storm and the Elizabeth Swan. Dan Hawk and
Charley Temple
speed from the
Southern Ocean to the Weddell Sea and there to Deception Island, an extinct volcano.
CHAPTER
5: IT'S MURDER ON THE ICE - Several fatal accidents occur in quick succession, then an egg clutch is discovered in a section of a tunnel.
Chang eliminates the remaining opposition. Then nurtures one thawed
egg through a simulated incubation.
CHAPTER 6:
BOUND FOR ENGLAND - The creature is smuggled aboard Ice Patrol survey vessel
'KoolArctic' bound for England, eats two crew members. Second mate on KoolArctic reports the chaos aboard
vessel to the British Admiralty, abandons ship.
CHAPTER
7: BASECAMP - John's team set up camp onshore, locate the excavation site,
using the 'Ark' (a DNA database) Storm finds dead explorers & uncovers disturbing new evidence to support
theory that dinosaurs were not entirely wiped out by a
meteor striking the
earth.
PART
2
CHAPTER
8: WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH - Confirmed, they
lived when dinosaurs ruled the earth. Dinosaurs starve in volcanic/asteroid
winter. Sectasaurs have higher
tolerance to freezing conditions, eat competition, then hibernate.
Suki Hall hypothesis merit worthy, supported scientific community.
CHAPTER 9: WORST FEARS CONFIRMED - From DNA analysis aboard
energy depleted Elizabeth
Swan, Storm estimates species grew to between 3-5 metres, warm blooded with
high tolerance to low temperatures. Team realize danger to humans, alert
MOD
& CIA to the danger.
John made Master
& Commander RN.
CHAPTER 10: -
ATLANTIC EXPRESS - Storm and crew head to England at high
speed, breaking record on hydrofoils. Sectasaur stows away on Atlantic
Express. Meanwhile Chang has landed in
Portsmouth.
CHAPTER 11: HAMPSHIRE - The giant prehistoric animal jumps ship,
feeds on New Forest ponies, gaining attention of Hampshire police, relayed to
MI6 and thence to John Storm.
CHAPTER 12:
BUCKLERS HARD - Storm heads up the Beaulieu River to Bucklers
Hard, following pony corpses toward a wooded area near Worts Gutter (Furzey Lane). Storm
calls military for backup. Chang heads to Buckler's Hard, and Worts
Gutter.
CHAPTER 13:
CAT & MOUSE - Storm and Temple
play cat and mouse with Sectasaur - when the giant insect came up from behind over the brow of a ravine and
knocks Charley nearly unconscious. Storm strikes the creature with an axe,
causing partial shock.
CHAPTER 14: FIRST AID - Charley and John patch creature's wound with antiseptic and bandages. The
giant insect feigns immobility. Understands dialogue between John and Charley is not aggressive or threatening,
and marks these two humans down as allies.
PART
3
CHAPTER 15: SECTASAUR RESCUES JOHN - John panics with axe.
Creature lashed out in reflex throwing John over a ledge. John at the mercy
of creature.
The huge insect puts itself at risk to pull John up to safety. Meanwhile government troops,
Territorial Army reservists are closing in.
CHAPTER 16: PUZZLING SITUATION - John dusts himself, while magnificent insect
cleans itself. John offers hand palm up to the creature. The animal
studies with both feelers, tickling him. John's heart pounding, at risk
of amputation, enjoying leap of faith. It understands and responds to
voice communication.
CHAPTER 17: ALL FRIENDS - Charley joins from bracken and saw the interaction between John and the insect.
She proffers her hand, the prehistoric insect smelled her all over with its antennae. Charley giggled at the
friendly touch. Temple shot in arm by troops, insect in head. Chang witnesses interchange.
CHAPTER 18: HOSTILE FIRE - Troops fire wounding animal. John & Charley both
leap in front of insect yelling to stop firing, but Charley is shot in the arm and
screams. The giant insect moves to protect them both from the gunfire,
taking more hits and another to the head. It collapsed, feelers limp.
Dead. Gone.
CHAPTER 19: ATTACK SUBSIDES - John and Charley shout as loud as they
can,
stopping firing. They reach insect. They raised its feelers, Charley and
John take one each, and the trio embraced for a minute, its antennae
were limp - there was no reviving it - tears, anger - it was gone. J&C
in shock for a moment.
CHAPTER
20: NO REMORSE - John & Charley anger welling up inside, tears
gave way to action. A rhinoceros soldier
is delighted at kill. "Yes," cried the soldier. "Yes," said John,
punching the trigger happy fool out. Up to that point other military thought they had saved
their lives. Chang is devastated at loss.
CHAPTER 21:
EPILOGUE & DEBRIEFING - John files a report with
the United
Nations and MI6, advising of a great loss to science.
Keep watching brief for any repeats, finds, missing links, etc. Watching
brief with increased security, military conflicts. Further investigations needed. Chang vows to return to Antarctica.
Charley
temple and John Storm - comfort the wounded Sectasaur
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