Jurassic Puddle
(This is a new version I will be filming shortly, a remake of an older version)
SCENE 1: The Running Man
The bushes shake
A man wearing sunglasses and an orange hard hat runs along a path glancing back at the jungle behind him.
POV shot from the beast behind the leaves watching the man run.
POV shot of man looking back
Close up of the beast’s eyes framed by the leaves
Close up of the man’s eyeglasses and the reflection of the raptor charging at him.
Close up of the man’s mouth screaming.
Shot of leaves shaking along with the sound of tearing flesh
Shot of helmet, sunglasses, and blood on the ground
SCENE 2: Crab Attack
A man’s form is reflected upside down in the water.
Pan up to see man on raft with a basket at his feet.
Close up shows crabs in the basket
Man: (shouting to shore – we see a long shot of man, raft, and a boy waiting on shore with a rope)
Pull me in, Boy.
The boy pulls on the rope and the raft gets near the short.
The man hands the basket to the boy.
The basket falls
Crabs scatter.
A close up of the boy’s eyes scared
A close up of the advancing crab with clacking claws.
A close up of the boy’s mouth screaming.
The screaming and boy’s mouth face into the ringing of a telephone
SCENE 3: Sam Snoop Awakes
Opens on the image of a telephone ringing
Shot of phone on desk with Sam’s head rising from sleep.
Shot of hand reaching for the receiver.
Sam seated puts the phone to his ear. He glances to his right.
POV shot of window and the NYC skyline
SAM:
Hello?
MARY:
It’s me, Sam
I need your help.
SAM:
The check’s in the mail, honest.
MARY:
It’s not about the alimony this time.
SAM:
Then what is it about?
MARY:
I can’t go into it over the phone.
Trust me, it’s important.
SCENE 4 The Dig
A very close up of a hand brushing sand off of a bone.
More hands slightly farther away, and a paint brush.
Four heads around the work site.
Then the image of a cleared skeleton.
Dust rises and we hear the sound of a helicopter.
More dust blows over the bones
We get a rear shot of a figure on the ground holding his or her hat and looking up at a descending helicopter.
Cut away to an external view of a trailer.
Then an inside shot of Sam and Mary with a window looking out at the desert.
SAM (looking out very uncomfortably)
This better be important, Mary.
You know how I feel about all this lizard stuff
MARY:
You still having those nightmares about frogs, Sam?
SAM:
They were crabs, not frogs.
Just tell me what this is all about.
MARY:
It’s my boss, Sam.
This whole whale slaughter has pushed him over the edge
He used to want to save the animals.
Now he’s plotting revenge.
SAM:
Revenge?
How?
MARY:
He claims he’s restored the dinosaurs and intends to let them loose on mankind.
SAM;
Can he do that?
MARY:
We have to find out.
I need you to meet me on his island so we can get proof.
Then I’m sure the authorities will stop him.
5- FLIGHT
A shot looking down at the flat surface of the ocean with a helicopter moving from top to bottom.
Shift to a front (slightly to the side) view of the helicopter, which approaches the camera.
An interior shot of Sam and Pete from behind with the approaching island visible through the windshield.
PETE:
I don’t know why you need me on this trip, Sam
SAM (Voice as we get an exterior shot of the helicopter over a green valley)
You’re the only person I know who hunts.
PETE: (Interior)
But what exactly am I hunting?
SAM:
I don’t know yet.
The helicopter shakes as it descends.
Pete grabs for seat belts.
An external shot of the helicopter descending passed a waterfall.
It lands on a pad at the edge of a small pond where the two men rush out towards a waiting jeep.
MARY: (behind the wheel. she frowns when she sees Pete.)
Why did you bring him?
You know how I feel about hunters.
SAM:
We may need him if what you suspect is true.
MARY:
We’re here to document the beasts, not kill them.
But we don’t have much time.
The jeep starts off down a jungle road. Peter looks out to see warning signs on the fences.
PETE:
What kind of joint is this?
A prison?
MARY:
It’s a kind of animal sanctuary.
(She pulls the jeep up to the gate which opens before them)
PETE:
What kind of animal needs 10,000 volts?
King Kong?
The jeep passed through the gate. We see the eye of a dinosaur peeping through the leaves as it passes.
SCENE 6: Jurassic Institute
The jeep pulls up before the building with a sign above the door.
Cross cut to a computer screen and then, a match cut with the Doctor looking at the screen where we see the image of the Mary, Sam and Pete exiting the jeep.
A rear shot of them climbing the stairs towards the door.
The next shot shows them entering a museum full of dinosaur skeletons.
The next shot shows them approaching a door marked “laboratory.”
Door opens to show a room filled with test tubes, beakers, computers, and a table filled with large egg.
Pete, Mary and Sam pause at this table.
MARY:
The mad man’s actually done it.
SAM:
What do we do now?
MARY:
We take samples.
You two take some eggs.
(She pulls out a can of shaving cream)
I’ll take some of the embryos.
(She picks up one of the test tubes)
SAM: (Shot of him looking down at the eggs. POV shot of the eggs. Then a shot of his anxious expression)
Must I?
MARY: (A shot over her shoulder of Sam at the table with the eggs)
It’s not going to bite, Sam.
SAM:
You don’t know that.
(A shot of his hand picking up an egg. A more remote shot of him putting it into a canvas bag.)
PETE: (near the door and retreating back to where Sam is)
Someone’s coming
(The doctor with guards enters through the door – we see a projector throwing images on the walls around them for the duration of this scene)
DOCTOR:
What exactly are you doing, Mary?
MARY:
I’m stopping you before you do something you’ll regret.
You’ve not been yourself lately.
DOCTOR:
That’s because I’m a new man.
MARY:
I liked the old you better.
DOCTOR:
The old me couldn’t stop human kind from destroying other creatures.
SAM:
And the new you can?
DOCTOR:
I can give animals a fighting chance.
MARY:
By creating monsters?
DOCTOR:
By restoring a species who ruled the world before us, who except for a freak accident would still be ruling the world.
SAM:
You’re insane.
DOCTOR:
As is the world, Mr. Snoop.
What other species would deliberately do to itself with global warming what an asteroid did to the dinosaurs?
MARY:
But you’ve always been opposed to killing.
DOCTOR:
I’ve opposed meaningless slaughter, such as killing whales for oil we don’t need, and hunters killing bears and deer for kicks.
This slaughter has a purpose
It will restore the balance of nature
MARY:
We can’t let it happen
(She throws an egg at the Doctor)
Run!
(Sam, Pete and Mary rush out another door. We get a shot of the computer nearby showing an image of them coming out of the door into the compound. Then we get a shot of the doctor waving his cane.
DOCTOR:
Stop them!
SCENE 7: The compound
Sam, Pete and Mary are in a barn yard with fenced in areas, and moving away from the lab door.
There is a rumble in the distance.
We get a close up of Sam’s startled face
SAM:
What the hell was that?
MARY (looking up at the sky)
It sounds like thunder, but there’s not a cloud in the sky.
PETE:
That was no thunder.
It was an animal.
But it’s no animal I ever heard before.
MARY:
This way to the jeep
(They climb into the vehicle as the camera pans out to show the leg of a Brontosaurus with tiny dinosaurs chirping at its toes. The jeep drives off without noticing.)
SCENE 8: The beasts in the field
The jeep passes into grass lands, and then we see a brontosaurus.
We get a close up look of Sam’s face in the car.
SAM:
Stop the car.
MARY:
Why – my God!
(We get a longer shot of the Brontosaurus and smaller dinosaurs at a pond)
So it is real.
SAM:
Much too much for my tastes.
Let’s get the hell out of here.
MARY:
Don’t panic, Sam.
These aren’t meat eaters.
It’s the other ones we have to worry about.
SAM:
I worry about them all
(They drive on. Then Mary sees a sick Dinosaur on the side of the road and jumps out. Pete and Sam reluctantly follow)
SAM:
This is not a good idea.
MARY: (Leaning over the beast)
Something’s wrong. The animal is dying. Maybe they all are.
PETE:
You sound disappointed.
MARY: If I know, Doc knows it, too, and he may move up his plans.
(several military style helicopters appear overhead. The doctor’s voice sounds over a PA)
DOCTOR:
Come back, Mary.
I’m sure we can work things out.
MARY:
He sounds scared.
PETE:
Maybe he thinks we can actually get escape.
SAM:
I’m scared we won’t.
(Cross cut to the Doctor sitting before a computer screen and microphone)
DOCTOR:
You can’t possibly survive out there if I let the carnivores loose)
(cross cut back to the jeep)
SAM:
He wouldn’t do that, would he?
MARY:
I don’t know what he’s capable of now.
(Cross cut to over the shoulder shot of the doctor looking at the screen and tapping his cane)
DOCTOR:
Very well. You leave me no choice.
(to his guards)
Close all the gates.
Open the pens.
SCENE 9 The T-Rex attacks
The jeep rumbles over the dirt road through the jungle. Mary, Sam and Pete are inside as it grows dark outside. We get a few drops of rain on the windshield, then a rumble of thunder, more rain and a few streaks of lightning.
Absentmindedly, Pete fingers the controls to the radio and the jeep stops.
PETE:
What did I do?
MARY:
Nothing.
This is an electric vehicle.
We’re out of power.
SAM:
Oh, great.
Now what do we do?
MARY:
We walk.
The beach isn’t far.
That’s where the fences end and we can get out.
(The water glass vibrates)
PETE:
That’s an impact vibration
SAM:
Which means what?
MARY (Yelps)
Something’s coming!
(Sam turns on a flash light and illuminates the eye of a t-rex looking through the window at them.
They all scream.
The t-rex bangs against the side of the jeep.
The three jump out the other door.
The beast hits the car again
PETE: (holding his rifle)
You two go.
I’ll handle this.
MARY:
We can’t leave you
PETE (Taking aim)
This is why I came.
(Sam and Mary climb over a wall and then onto the top of a tree beyond.
The gun sounds from above.
Pete screams.
The beast pushes the car, the headlights of which appear at the edge of the wall now above the descending Mary and Sam
SAM:
Hurry.
The car’s falling
(we see hands and feed on branches while above them the car begins to fall along the trunk of the tree.
Sam loses his grip and falls, landing with a thud and nose to nose with a tiny dinosaur.
He panics.
Marry arrives, drags him out of the way as the car crashes to the ground.
Sam, standing, looks around at the tiny creatures.
SAM:
What the hell are those things
MARY:
They’re nothing more than rodents.
We have worse things to worry about.
(She points to a track in the ground)
Raptors!
(The puddle vibrates. We hear something snorting in the jungle. Branches move. Dinosaur eyes show.
Run!
(She pulls Sam along the path)
This way.
It’s not far now.
(They reach the beach and wade out into the water. The raptors halt and yap at them.
Cross cut to the computer screen and the doctor looking at Mary and Sam in the water)
DOCTOR:
Stop them!
They’re getting away.
(A shot of a pair of clawed feet appearing at the door, and a snort
The doctor turns, sees the raptor, looked horrified.
We get a close up of the raptor’s eyes. Then the raptor leaps.
The doctor screams as we fade into the beach scene again with Mary and Sam looking back at the short.
MARY:
We’re safe now, Sam
(Close up of same looking nervously into the water)
SAM:
So you say.
Are there any crabs in these waters?
(end)