Blade: Trinity Page #14

BLADE:

You gotta be kidding me.

KING:

He's real, Blade. Dig beneath all the

movies and myths. All the layers of

bullshit that've cluttered our culture for

the last five hundred years and eventually

you'll strike the truth.

BLADE:

(incredulous)

So the movies are true?

KING:

(shaking his head)

The movies are just a comforting

fairytale compared to the real deal.

There's no happy ending with this guy.

Peter Cushing isn't going to run in at the

last second and save the day with a cross

and some holy water.

(re:
the comicbook)

See, good old Brain Stoker, he wrote a

nice yarn. But the events he described in

1897 were only a tiny piece of the mosaic.

The rea1 Dracula's origin goes back much

earlier than that.

BLADE:

How early?

ABIGAIL:

Try six or seven thousand years.

Off Blade's astonished look we --

CUT TO:

EXT. MESOPOTAMIA - NIGHT

FLASH! We see the man we met earlier (DRACULA/DRAKE) on the

banks of the river Euphrates, striding towards us, engaged in

fierce battle with UBAIDIAN SOLDIERS. He's clutching the same

sword we saw in the ziggurat, clad in the same armor.

KING (V.0.)

Dracula's only one of the names he's gone

by. Now they call him Drake. If you

believe the legends, he was born in

ancient Sumeria.

As Drake SLASHES his sword downward we CUT BACK TO --

INT. NIGHTSTALKERS HEADQUARTERS - NIGHT

-- King continuing his story. As the hunter's monologue

progresses we will INTERCUT with Drake's own progression

through history. Brief, violent FLASHBACKS.

(NOTE:
The backgrounds surrounding Drake will be

expressionistic, digital composites, constantly shifting. The

focus of the flashes is Drake himself, fighting a shadowy

horde, his attire continually evolving through time.)

KING:

Nobody really knows the specifics of his

origin. But we do know this: he was the

first of his kind. The patriarch of the

hominus nocturna.

EXT. EGYPTIAN DESERT - NIGHT

FLASH! We are in Egypt now, circa 1650 BC. Drake wages war

against the HYKSOS. He is closer to the camera. And will

continue to move closer with each successive flashback.

KING (V.0.)

Every single vampire -- every single

monster that's walked the earth since then

-- owes their existence to Him.

INT. NIGHTSTALKERS HEADQUARTERS - NIGHT

Back to King, holding court before Blade and Abigail.

KING:

He's like the Patient Zero of evil. The

original Serpent in the Garden of Eden.

And just like the Great White shark, he's

never had to evolve. This guy was born

perfect. Scour the history books --

EXT. THRACE - NIGHT

FLASH! The Peloponnesian War, Southern Thrace, circa 405 BC.

We see Dracula battling ATHENIANS. Even closer now, his face

spattered with blood. At the same time, the SOUNDTRACK is

gradually swelling, expanding in complexity and volume.

KING (V.0.)

-- read between the lines --

EXT. HUNGARIA - NIGHT

FLASH! 5th century AD, battling the GOTHS. With every swipe

of his sword, we WIPE FORWARD into the future.

KING (V.0.)

-- you'll find countless references to

Him. Always mentioned, never named.

EXT. EUROPE - NIGHT

FLASH! 8th century AD, the reign of Charlemagne. Battling

the VIKINGS. The FLASHBACKS come faster now, assaulting us

with ever-increasing rapidity.

Drake continues striding forward while the rest of the world

evolves around him, centuries whizzing by via computer

generated time-lapse photography.

KING (V.0.)

He's been there --

EXT. VARIOUS - NIGHT

FLASH! 12th century AD, the time of the Crusades. The

violence intensifies.

KING (V.0.)

-- moving behind the scenes --

FLASH! 17th century France, the time of Louis the XIV. The

pace becomes breathless.

KING (V.0.)

-- cutting a bloody path through the Ages

until suddenly --

FLASH! 18th century Russia, the time of Peter the Great. The

soundtrack is THUNDEROUS. Drake has become a bloody blur of

bestial rage and unfettered horror and --

KING (V.0.)

-- just like that --

INT. NIGHTSTALKERS HEADQUARTERS - NIGHT

-- King SNAPS his fingers. We are back in the present.

KING:

-- he up and disappeared. About a century

ago the trail went cold. Then we heard a

rumor. The vampires were searching for

him -- trying to find the place where he'd

retreated. According to our information,

they found him in Iraq about six months

ago.

(beat)

And he was pissed.

EXT. DOWNTOWN COMMERCIAL DISTRICT - NIGHT

Grime. Neon. Near-silence as the cacophonous soundtrack

recedes into the background, replaced by the steady drone of

inner-city TRAFFIC.

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