Heavy Metal

FADE UP ON:

A WHEATFIELD:

A beautiful field of wheat glistens in the morning sun.

As the camera skims overtop, titles start to roll. Ahead

of us an odd-looking service van comes into view, sputtering

along a dirt road. Getting closer, we can see the driver, a

thin, bookish man with a neat mustache. This is AUSTIN GRIMALDI.

The truck pulls up to a strange Victorian house in the middle

of the wheatfield. The house has several futuristic radar

devices on the roof that rotate constantly.

AUSTIN gets out, opens the van's rear doors, and pulls out

two large metal boxes.

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THE ATTIC WINDOW

The curtains part ever so slightly, and a pair of eyes peer

down.

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THE VAN:

AUSTIN shuts the van's rear doors, and carries the two metal

boxes into the house. The titles stop rolling as we;

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INSIDE THE HOUSE

AUSTIN is reading a schematic diagram as he sits in front of

the exposed chassis of a complicated futuristic electronic

contraption, twice his size. There are strange tools all

over the floor.

Putting down the diagram, he opens one of the metal cases and

takes out a sophisticated-looking glass sphere with electronic

receptacles mounted in the sides.

He places this sphere in a space in the middle of the contraption,

clamps it down, and plugs some wires into the globe's receptacles.

Then he opens the second box. Inside is a glowing green ball.

Using a pair of special tongs, AUSTIN carefully lifts the ball

out, and inserts it into an opening at the base of the machine,

in the back.

As soon as the ball is inside, the machine hums to life. The

glass sphere sparkles, and a holographic picture of a green

planet in space appears inside it.

AUSTIN:

(looking at the holograph)

Hmmmm ....

He takes a strange tool, and moves out of frame to make an

adjustment underneath the machine. Suddenly a wire comes

loose from the sphere and begins to spark.

AUSTIN:

(seeing sparks)

Uh - oh ....

As the camera pulls closer to the holograph screen, the

green planet begins to silently shake.

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SPACE:

With an explosion that rocks the universe, a huge chunk rips

out of the green planet and shoots off into space, leaving

thousands of glowing particles in its wake.

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AUSTIN:

Not noticing the silent image on the holograph, he quickly

repairs the sparkling connection and returns to his other

adjustments.

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A FOREST:

From the forest floor we see the green planetoid fly overhead,

dropping balls. We watch as it moves away and disappears beyond

a far-off mountain range. The forest rumbles as the planetoid

crashes in the distance.

The camera then pans over to a forest patch, where a beautiful

girl approaches, picking mushrooms.

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A GREEN BALL NEAR HER FEET

An ominous note is struck as the girl notices the glowing

ball, and is drawn to it. Picking the sphere up, she looks

at it. Something inside her warns her of its danger, but,

unable to resist, she puts it in her basket and continues on.

DISSOLVE TO:

THE GATES OF KRAAN

Night falls over this futuristic chromoid city as the beautiful

girl passes through the glass gates and heads home.

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THE GIRL'S BEDROOM

The girl yawns and gets into bed as the camera pans over to

her basket in the corner. Through its side, the green ball

begins to glow brightly.

Getting closer, we see a slimy silk-like webbing ooze out of

the ball and move towards the sleeping girl, pulling the green

ball behind it.

The ball starts to glow and pulse as the webbing begins to

surround the girl, like a cocoon. Slowly the camera pans

up the wall, and moves out through the window, and beyond

the city gates, rising higher and higher.

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THE OUTLANDS:

Flying quickly overtop futuristic villages, the camera

heads further and further out into the less civilized sectors,

where the rusting pipelines and crumbling utility stations of

a past civilization have been overgrown by scrub-bush and weeds.

The camera zooms across this strange landscape toward the distant

mountains where the huge planetoid fell. Finally, from high

above the foothills, we begin to come down.

In the hills below us, hundreds of blue humanoid barbarians are

moving along, mesmerized, toward a pulsing green glow high in

the mountaintops. Suddenly the mountains begin to rumble.

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THE LINE OF BARBARIANS

At the front of the line, the largest barbarian - obviously

their leader - stops and points.

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THE MOUNTAINS:

A strange, green, foamy liquid comes pouring down the mountains

toward the barbarians.

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THE LINE OF BARBARIANS

The barbarians stand frozen as the foam washes over them and keeps

on going. One by one, their eyes turn green and they start to

change, becoming hairier, uglier, and stronger.

As their transformations are complete, the barbarians gather

behind their leader into an ever-growing mob of murderous

looking sub-humans.

DISSOLVE TO:

THE GATES OF KRAAN

A frightened Kraanian councillor spurs his horse forward through

the beautiful glass gates, as in the distance we hear the sound

of ten thousand approaching footsteps.

The camera pans to a hillside overlooking Kraan. In the glow

of sunset, the outline of the BARBARIAN LEADER, riding a black

war-horse, appears at the hillside and stops. Then with a

thundering of footsteps, the outline of five thousand barbarians

comes into view behind him, filling the horizon.

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THE BARBARIAN LEADER

He is now wearing a strange medallion around his neck as, wild-

eyed, he screams to signal the attack. The bloodthirsty horde

charges down the hill behind him.

The camera moves with the barbarians as they crash through the

gates of the city, destroying everything in their path. Smoke

and flames are everywhere. Ahead of us, terrified Kraanians

run from the onslaught.

As we track up over the burning rooftops, we see the BARBARIAN

LEADER riding his war-horse in the streets below. Shouting

a command, he waves his men on as they move toward an impressive

doomed building in the middle of the city.

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THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS

At the far end of this huge glass hall, the Kraanian Council

sits around a marble table. From outside, we hear the battle

raging.

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