Okay, so I was watching TV the other night and caught about 30 mins of Friday the 13th part II on cinemax, and I started thinking about Jason, which led to Freddy vs. Jason, which led to fanboy speculation about Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash, and suddenly as if in a vision I had this idea for the script which continued to grow and breathe until I had the whole thing.
What I'm thinking is a heel turn for the next movie--Jason, the face of the previous flick, becomes the bad guy in a big way. Here's the way the narration plays out in my mind
(this is long, so bear with me)
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Movie opens with a young geeky kid and his similarly geeky girlfriend out in the well-travelled but still abandoned environs of Crystal lake. The kid is some kind of Lovecraft-protag, interested in secrets of unknown gods etc., and has through not-necessarily explained means traced the legendary Necronomicon Ex Mortis to the abandoned camp. (See F13 pt. 8 or 9) The girl is much more interested in getting geeky-freaky than the boy, so she tries to lure him into skinny dipping (naturally), but he just wants to go look for the book. The girl strips down, runs toward the lake, where she meets our good friend Jason, who dispatches her gruesomely right before her boyfriend's eyes. The boy runs like Barry Allen and gets away. This is the pre-credit sequence.
Over the credits we see Jason dragging the girl's corpse back to his "well of souls" that we say in FvJ. He tosses her in, lots of supernatural highlander-style empowering stuff happens. Jason's eyes glow red. Title: BRUCE CAMPBELL VS. FREDDY VS. JASON: THE WELL OF SOULS.
Cut to a suburban town in an unnamed state. Close up of a meat cleaver chopping vegetables delicately with the speed and precision of a japanese chef. Pan out to reveal the cleaver attached to an arm stump where a right hand should be. Reveal Ash, making dinner in his suburban home. His wife, the girl from the end of AoD shopping center sequence, says something about dinner plans. Ash grumbles, obviuosly dissatisfied with suburban life after his many varied adventures. Maybe some more "day in the life" stuff, showing him mowing the lawn or trimming the hedges with a hedge-trimmer-arm attachment instead of his chainsaw. Like Ulysses after coming home, this adventurer's life is not as exciting as it used to be.
Dream sequence--Ash dreaming about deadites, a well coreographed and very cool fight scene. After dispatching several deadites, he meets the Deadite King--a hulking brute of a beast with a Sauron-ish mask. After tying in, Ash realizes the guy is unbeatable. He's about to kill our hero with a giant sword when a knock at the door awakens him.
It's the dead of night, but the kid from the precredit sequence is on the doorstep. In a brief getting-to-know-you scene, the kid explains what he was looking for, how he traced Ash through tabloid articles about the S-Mart massacre at the end of AoD, read stories he told others about it (no one believed). He then explains that Jason Voorhees is a deadite--not just A deadite, but the Mother of All Deadites. He's filling a well of souls with his victims, and when it overflows, it'll be hell on earth. According to calculations Jason must have nearly 666 or 1000 or however many victims already, so time is of the essence. The must stop him before it's too late.
Ash refuses, naturally. "I don't do that anymore, Kid." The kid goes into a tearful speech about how Ash never had a girl he loved get killed like the kid's girl did, which leads to sugary string music and Ash clutching the magnifying glass trinket he still wears around his neck. But then the wife wakes up and asks what's going on, and Ash closes the door in the kid's face.
The kid, determined, goes to Crystal Lake on his own. He finds the cabin, finds the well of souls, is looking in there for his girlfriend. Jason appears. The kid puts up a brave fight, but he's obviously machete meat. Just as Jason is about to deliver the death blow, his machete is shot out of his hadn by a well-timed shotgun blast. Ash has arrived, and invites Jason to come get some.
Epic battle ensues. Ash gets the better of it first, but Jason is too strong. The kid screams that they have to get his girl out of the well. Ash is thrown to the door next to the well, looks in and sees dozens of souls floating around. Can't tell who's who, what's what, and Jason is closing in. Somehow with a well-timed kick or shot or something, he dazes Jason momentarily and in slapstick desperation reaches into the well and pulls out the first soul he can get his hand on. You can't see who it is. As the kid says, "That's not her", Jason awakes, and Ash convinces the kid to blow. They take the soul with them and leave, getting away.
When they finally get to light, they look at the shivering, drenched form with them. Close up on the back of his head, shoulders. In a slow tightening close up, the rescued soul turns around and we see the unscarred face of Freddy Kruger, human again.
Neither Ash nor the Kid know him, and Jason is coming again. Freddy tries to use some powers, but can't--he's been reborn, he's not the nightmare demon anymore. Meantime Ash and Jason are fighting again, Jason getting more powerful by the second. Freddy, powerless and a coward, runs through the woods to get away. The woods come to life at Jason's command, and a branch falls to knock Freddy unconscious.
Bad move--unconscious, Freddy's dream self is free to wreak havoc. He fights with Jason in full dream master mode, making short work of him but still unable to destroy him. Ash tries to get in on it, but Freddy blasts him as well. Still, Freddy and Ash need each other, and realize it as the battle wears on. Finally, at a stalemate, Jason retreats to the lake. Ash and the Kid collect Freddy's human body and run.
Time passes. Freddy is no babyface--he's still a maniac killer and seems to have designs on the kid, but with Ash there to protect him and still weak from the well of souls, doesn't make any moves. Ash is slipping no-doze into Freddy's drinks, keep him awake and controllable. The kid divines they have to get the Necronomicon (big surprise) to destroy Jason for good and free all the souls from the well (although they won't come back to life--the only reason it happened with Freddy is b/c he's "special"). They plan to find the book, open the well, and destroy Jason, setting the stage for the final climactic battle. Freddy's scheming on his own, but goes along with Ash and the kid.
In the final battle, Freddy is knocked unconscious by Ash, loosing the dream demon. Big battle, but even Freddy is finding it hard to keep up with the Deadite King. Ash and the Kid find the book, guarded by the forest and deadites Jason has summoned. They find it, destroy it, and Jason is finished. But then there's still the problem of Freddy, who is lusting after the Kid's blood. He chases the kid through the woods, uses his dream powers, almost kills him, but then of course Ash steps up to the plate and destroy's Freddy's human body. The end.
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So, whattaya think?
I'm thinking there'd be adventure, comedy, slapstick, gore, everything. There could be scenes cut in to show Jason collecting more souls between scenes with Freddy and the Kid--stoned teenages getting bisected, sherrifs with their heads crushed, any and everything, so long as it's gory. Further, there could be some neat cameos--I'm thinking the girl who survived F13 part one and is the first victim in part 2 could appear in the well when the Kid finds it, tell him something about it--or they cuold summon somebody using the kid's arts. Maybe even Corey Feldman? wink
Ah, if only I had an agent...and knew how to write a screenplay...
What I'm thinking is a heel turn for the next movie--Jason, the face of the previous flick, becomes the bad guy in a big way. Here's the way the narration plays out in my mind
(this is long, so bear with me)
:
Movie opens with a young geeky kid and his similarly geeky girlfriend out in the well-travelled but still abandoned environs of Crystal lake. The kid is some kind of Lovecraft-protag, interested in secrets of unknown gods etc., and has through not-necessarily explained means traced the legendary Necronomicon Ex Mortis to the abandoned camp. (See F13 pt. 8 or 9) The girl is much more interested in getting geeky-freaky than the boy, so she tries to lure him into skinny dipping (naturally), but he just wants to go look for the book. The girl strips down, runs toward the lake, where she meets our good friend Jason, who dispatches her gruesomely right before her boyfriend's eyes. The boy runs like Barry Allen and gets away. This is the pre-credit sequence.
Over the credits we see Jason dragging the girl's corpse back to his "well of souls" that we say in FvJ. He tosses her in, lots of supernatural highlander-style empowering stuff happens. Jason's eyes glow red. Title: BRUCE CAMPBELL VS. FREDDY VS. JASON: THE WELL OF SOULS.
Cut to a suburban town in an unnamed state. Close up of a meat cleaver chopping vegetables delicately with the speed and precision of a japanese chef. Pan out to reveal the cleaver attached to an arm stump where a right hand should be. Reveal Ash, making dinner in his suburban home. His wife, the girl from the end of AoD shopping center sequence, says something about dinner plans. Ash grumbles, obviuosly dissatisfied with suburban life after his many varied adventures. Maybe some more "day in the life" stuff, showing him mowing the lawn or trimming the hedges with a hedge-trimmer-arm attachment instead of his chainsaw. Like Ulysses after coming home, this adventurer's life is not as exciting as it used to be.
Dream sequence--Ash dreaming about deadites, a well coreographed and very cool fight scene. After dispatching several deadites, he meets the Deadite King--a hulking brute of a beast with a Sauron-ish mask. After tying in, Ash realizes the guy is unbeatable. He's about to kill our hero with a giant sword when a knock at the door awakens him.
It's the dead of night, but the kid from the precredit sequence is on the doorstep. In a brief getting-to-know-you scene, the kid explains what he was looking for, how he traced Ash through tabloid articles about the S-Mart massacre at the end of AoD, read stories he told others about it (no one believed). He then explains that Jason Voorhees is a deadite--not just A deadite, but the Mother of All Deadites. He's filling a well of souls with his victims, and when it overflows, it'll be hell on earth. According to calculations Jason must have nearly 666 or 1000 or however many victims already, so time is of the essence. The must stop him before it's too late.
Ash refuses, naturally. "I don't do that anymore, Kid." The kid goes into a tearful speech about how Ash never had a girl he loved get killed like the kid's girl did, which leads to sugary string music and Ash clutching the magnifying glass trinket he still wears around his neck. But then the wife wakes up and asks what's going on, and Ash closes the door in the kid's face.
The kid, determined, goes to Crystal Lake on his own. He finds the cabin, finds the well of souls, is looking in there for his girlfriend. Jason appears. The kid puts up a brave fight, but he's obviously machete meat. Just as Jason is about to deliver the death blow, his machete is shot out of his hadn by a well-timed shotgun blast. Ash has arrived, and invites Jason to come get some.
Epic battle ensues. Ash gets the better of it first, but Jason is too strong. The kid screams that they have to get his girl out of the well. Ash is thrown to the door next to the well, looks in and sees dozens of souls floating around. Can't tell who's who, what's what, and Jason is closing in. Somehow with a well-timed kick or shot or something, he dazes Jason momentarily and in slapstick desperation reaches into the well and pulls out the first soul he can get his hand on. You can't see who it is. As the kid says, "That's not her", Jason awakes, and Ash convinces the kid to blow. They take the soul with them and leave, getting away.
When they finally get to light, they look at the shivering, drenched form with them. Close up on the back of his head, shoulders. In a slow tightening close up, the rescued soul turns around and we see the unscarred face of Freddy Kruger, human again.
Neither Ash nor the Kid know him, and Jason is coming again. Freddy tries to use some powers, but can't--he's been reborn, he's not the nightmare demon anymore. Meantime Ash and Jason are fighting again, Jason getting more powerful by the second. Freddy, powerless and a coward, runs through the woods to get away. The woods come to life at Jason's command, and a branch falls to knock Freddy unconscious.
Bad move--unconscious, Freddy's dream self is free to wreak havoc. He fights with Jason in full dream master mode, making short work of him but still unable to destroy him. Ash tries to get in on it, but Freddy blasts him as well. Still, Freddy and Ash need each other, and realize it as the battle wears on. Finally, at a stalemate, Jason retreats to the lake. Ash and the Kid collect Freddy's human body and run.
Time passes. Freddy is no babyface--he's still a maniac killer and seems to have designs on the kid, but with Ash there to protect him and still weak from the well of souls, doesn't make any moves. Ash is slipping no-doze into Freddy's drinks, keep him awake and controllable. The kid divines they have to get the Necronomicon (big surprise) to destroy Jason for good and free all the souls from the well (although they won't come back to life--the only reason it happened with Freddy is b/c he's "special"). They plan to find the book, open the well, and destroy Jason, setting the stage for the final climactic battle. Freddy's scheming on his own, but goes along with Ash and the kid.
In the final battle, Freddy is knocked unconscious by Ash, loosing the dream demon. Big battle, but even Freddy is finding it hard to keep up with the Deadite King. Ash and the Kid find the book, guarded by the forest and deadites Jason has summoned. They find it, destroy it, and Jason is finished. But then there's still the problem of Freddy, who is lusting after the Kid's blood. He chases the kid through the woods, uses his dream powers, almost kills him, but then of course Ash steps up to the plate and destroy's Freddy's human body. The end.
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So, whattaya think?
I'm thinking there'd be adventure, comedy, slapstick, gore, everything. There could be scenes cut in to show Jason collecting more souls between scenes with Freddy and the Kid--stoned teenages getting bisected, sherrifs with their heads crushed, any and everything, so long as it's gory. Further, there could be some neat cameos--I'm thinking the girl who survived F13 part one and is the first victim in part 2 could appear in the well when the Kid finds it, tell him something about it--or they cuold summon somebody using the kid's arts. Maybe even Corey Feldman? winkAh, if only I had an agent...and knew how to write a screenplay...
