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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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TUNNEL
COMPLEX
SCENE
3: GOLD RUSH
EXT. ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET - DAY (CONTINUOUS)
The vast, indifferent white. The HOWL of the katabatic winds. The CRACK and GROAN of a continent in flux.
We see the subtle, undeniable signs of retreat. Dark fissures in the ice, growing wider. Meltwater carving temporary
rivers.
MONTAGE - THE NEW GOLD RUSH
1. SWEDISH EXPEDITION
EXT. SWEDISH BASE - DAY A compact, rugged base, designed for extreme cold. High-tech, but with a utilitarian, almost Viking-esque aesthetic.
BJORN ATLAS (40s, bearded, powerful build, eyes glinting with a fierce determination), dressed in heavy-duty polar gear, barks orders to a team loading supplies onto a tracked vehicle. He moves with an almost reckless energy.
SVEN JOHANSSON (40s, thinner, intense gaze, clearly a thinker, not a brawler) is hunched over a complex
GPS array, shivering despite his thick parka. He mutters, mostly to himself.
SVEN
(Muffled)
You realize this place is going to kill us before we get a damn thing out of it.
Bjorn just grins, teeth gleaming beneath his frost-crusted brows. He pulls on thick gloves.
BJORN
That's what makes it a prize worth taking.
He claps Sven on the shoulder, a brutal, bone-jarring clap. Sven just winces.
2. MULTINATIONAL EXPEDITION
EXT. MULTINATIONAL BASE - DAY A larger, more established base. Flags from Canada and the US ripple in the wind. A sense of disciplined professionalism.
CATHY CARTER (40s, sharp, commanding, with the quiet authority of someone who's seen too much) stands with three VETERAN ARCTIC EXPLORERS. Their faces are etched with scars from places where the cold doesn't just cut, but guts. Cathy pulls her thermal hood tight, studying the shifting ice sheets through high-powered binoculars. Her brow furrows.
CATHY
There's movement.
One of her men, grizzled, mid-50s, chuckles, breath pluming.
VETERAN 1
Ice moves, Captain.
Cathy lowers the binoculars, her gaze distant, sensing something fundamentally wrong.
CATHY
(Murmuring, half to herself)
No. Not like that.
3. CHINESE EXPEDITION
EXT. CHINESE BASE - DAY A gleaming, state-of-the-art facility. Sleek, cutting-edge vehicles. A stark contrast to the slightly worn American stations seen in previous scenes. The image of power in transition.
LIN PO CHANG (20s, impossibly young, elegant, dressed in tailored arctic gear, a quiet intensity in his eyes) examines the jagged entrance of a newly exposed tunnel network in the ice. He traces a finger along the ancient, weathered rock face. Two SILENT HENCHMEN, built like brick walls, stand impassively behind him.
Lin exhales. His breath curls into the frigid air, a perfect white plume.
LIN PO CHANG
They were here.
One of the HENCHMEN, his voice a low rumble, asks.
HENCHMAN 1
Who?
Lin's smile is sharp as broken ice. Cold, predatory. He looks into the dark maw of the tunnel.
LIN PO CHANG
Not who. What.
A subtle, deep HUMMING emanates from the exposed tunnel entrance. Just on the edge of hearing.
THE RACE
WIDE SHOT - ANTARCTICA
Three distinct trails of vehicles stretch across the vast, ice-covered landscape. Converging. A silent, desperate race for something buried beneath. The sheer scale of the continent dwarfs them all.
INT. MOBILE COMMAND UNIT - MULTINATIONAL EXPEDITION - DAY
Cathy studies a detailed holographic map of the tunnel complex discovered in the previous scene. New sensor data overlays it, showing deeper, more intricate sections.
VETERAN 2
Reports are coming in. Geological. Seismic. This isn't natural.
CATHY
(Quietly)
No. It’s too... deliberate.
EXT. ANTARCTIC ICE - VARIOUS - DAY
The landscape changes again. Not just from melting glaciers. But from human activity. Massive drills pierce the ice. Temporary landing strips appear. The continent is no longer just a neutral zone. It's a battleground.
The visual contrast is stark: the vast, rusting skeletal structure of a long-abandoned American research outpost looms in the background of one shot, while in the foreground, a sleek, new Chinese icebreaker, larger than anything else on the horizon, carves through the ice.
This isn't about treaties anymore. This is a gold rush.
INT. CHINESE BASE - LIN PO CHANG'S PRIVATE QUARTERS - NIGHT
The room is minimalist, functional. A single monitor displays complex biological schematics alongside ancient paleontological diagrams of arthropod evolution. Lin Po Chang sits before it, eyes alight with an almost fanatical intelligence.
He traces a diagram of a prehistoric insectoid jawbone – the same one from the leaked data. He was a paleontologist. He knew. He had theorized. He knew what lay beneath the frost long before the world cared enough to look.
He wasn't just after minerals. He was after something living. Something far older than humanity.
EXT. TUNNEL COMPLEX ENTRANCE - NIGHT
The entrances to the newly revealed tunnel complex are now bustling with activity. Lights cut through the perpetual twilight. Teams in arctic gear move in and out, setting up equipment.
Bjorn Atlas's team is focused on securing the 'archaeological prize' – whatever immediately recognizable artifact or mineral deposit is visible.
Cathy Carter's team is methodical, cautious, establishing a secure perimeter. Her eyes constantly scan the distant horizon, looking for threats not on a map.
Lin Po Chang stands at the mouth of the largest tunnel entrance, his two henchmen silent shadows behind him. He looks down into the dark abyss.
The ice was retreating, exposing secrets buried for millennia. Three expeditions raced against time—and each other—to stake their claim before nature swallowed her
treasures again.
The shifting of alliances. The shifting of ice. Both inevitable. Both deadly.
The HUMMING from within the tunnel grows almost imperceptibly. A low, resonant thrum.
And this time, Antarctica wasn’t just giving up her ghosts. She was releasing something that had never learned how to die.
>>>
UN
CALL FOR JOHN STORM
A
startling discovery in the ice, sharp jaws protruding from a block of
solid ice.
V2 Genre: Sci-Fi Horror Setting: Antarctica – Present Day Tone: Cold. Ruthless. Ancient.
EXT. ANTARCTICA – NIGHT – BLIZZARD CONDITIONS
A vast white hell. Wind howls like a banshee. Ice cracks beneath the weight of ambition.
SUPERIMPOSE: “Wilkes Land, Antarctica – 2047”
INT. SWEDISH CAMP – COMMAND TENT
Maps flutter. Instruments beep. BJORN ATLAS (50s, frostbitten charisma) slams a gloved fist on the table.
BJORN
We dig at first light. If the Americans beat us to it, we’re just tourists.
SVEN JOHANSSON (40s, weary geologist) adjusts his cracked goggles.
SVEN
This place is going to kill us before we get a damn thing out of it.
Bjorn grins. Viking blood in his eyes.
BJORN
That’s what makes it a prize worth taking.
EXT. MULTINATIONAL CAMP – ICE RIDGE – NIGHT
CATHY CARTER (40s, composed, haunted) scans the horizon. Her three ARCTIC VETERANS stand behind her, scarred and silent.
CATHY
There’s movement.
VETERAN #1
Ice moves, Captain.
CATHY (quietly)
Not like that.
A low rumble. The ice shifts unnaturally. Something is waking.
INT. PRIVATE EXPEDITION – TUNNEL ENTRANCE – NIGHT
LIN PO CHANG (20s, child prodigy turned predator) kneels beside jagged stone. His HENCHMEN flank him, silent shadows.
Lin taps the rock. Breath curls in the air.
LIN
They were here.
HENCHMAN #1
Who?
Lin smiles. Cold. Precise.
LIN
Not who. What.
MONTAGE – THE RACE BEGINS
- Bjorn’s team drills through ice, narrowly avoiding a crevasse collapse.
- Cathy’s crew deploys seismic sensors, detecting hollow chambers beneath.
- Lin’s team descends into the tunnel network, their lights swallowed by darkness.
INT. TUNNEL COMPLEX – LIN’S POV – NIGHT
Ancient carvings. Fossilized exoskeletons. A low hum—organic, mechanical, wrong.
Lin’s eyes gleam.
LIN (to himself)
They never died. They adapted.
EXT. ANTARCTIC RIDGE – WIDE SHOT – NIGHT
Three camps. Three flags. One continent. Beneath them, something stirs.
NARRATOR (V.O.)
The shifting of alliances. The shifting of ice. Both inevitable. Both deadly.
Antarctica isn’t just giving up her ghosts. She’s releasing something that never learned how to die.
CUT TO BLACK
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UN
CALL FOR JOHN STORM
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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