King Kong Page #13

DENHAM suddenly gets an idea ...

DENHAM (CONT'D)

HEY! I GOTTA GREAT IDEA! WE COULD TURN THIS PLACE INTO A HUGE AMUSEMENT

PARK SORTA LIKE CONEY ISLAND WITH DINOSAURS!

(excited)

It's a goldmine! I'll cut you boys in for twenty percent! We're gonna

be rich!

The SAILORS CHEER.

JACK:

Hey!

JACK is yelling from up the valley, waving for the group to join him.

JACK (CONT'D)

This way! Come on

Frowns at JACK.

DENHAM:

Let's keep this between ourselves...a**hole's are not included!

SAILORS LAUGH.

AT THAT MOMENT ... The GROUND TREMBLES!

The SAILORS look around - ALARMED. JACK almost loses his footing as the

ground under him literally BOUNCES. He looks up the WINDING VALLEY ...

A DUST CLOUD suddenly spills out from around the next corner ...

immediately followed by the BREATHTAKING SIGHT of a herd of TWELVE

BRONTOSAURS, RUNNING in a WILD PANIC, down the narrow valley!! A PACK

of 15 CARNOTAURS - 9 foot tall MEATEATERS - are PURSUING THEM.

Spectacular TRACKING SHOT With the STAMPEDE ... A CARNOTAURUS leaps

onto the back of a FLEEING BRONTOSAUR, causing the it to falter and

slide against the cliff. TWO MORE CARNOTAURUS leap onto the ailing

BRONTOSAUR as the rest of the pack stream past.

JACK turns and starts running! The STAMPEDING DINOSAURS are stretched

across the valley behind him, less than fifty yards away and closing!

JACK runs down the rocky slope towards DENHAM and the SAILORS - who

seem to be frozen in fear!

JACK:

(yelling)

Run!

EVERYONE TURNS and FLEES! GUNS and EQUIPMENT are abandoned ... HERB

hoists the TRIPOD & CAMERA on his shoulder and limps after the others!

JACK is running as fast as he can ... he glances over his shoulder -

the WALT. Of THUNDERING BRONTOSAUR LEGS are about to ENGULF HIM! JACK

changes direction slightly, to make sure he is BETWEEN DINOSAURS ...

They overtake JACK and he suddenly finds himself in a SEA of HUGE LEGS

-like wildly pounding Redwood trees! The CARNOTAURS are snapping and

snarling at the LEGS ... They see JACK! His only hope of survival is

too stay WITHIN THE STAMPEDE, out of reach of the MEATEATERS!

PEEK is running faster than the others He is way ahead, still clutching

his TOMMY GUN ... as the STAMPEDE engulfs DENHAM and the OTHER SAILORS.

QUICK IMAGES 20 SAILORS in the SEA OF LEGS ... A SAILOR trips and is

CRUSHED UNDER FOOT. A COUPLE OF SAILORS lump clear of the BRONTOSAURS -

only to be set on by the CARNOTAURS. DENHAM .. HERB . . . SAILORS,

everyone is running madly, dodging 'BRONTOSAURS, CARNOTAURS and trying

not to trip'

A CARNOTAUR focuses on JACK ... It skillfully weaves IN BETWEEN and

UNDER BRONTOSAURS and emerges right behind JACK, it's SNAPPING JAWS

inches away from his head! JACK suddenly SIDE-STEPS, bringing the

CARNOTAUR right along side ... he SHOULDER-BARGES it SIDEWAYS - under a

BRONTOSAURS LEGS. The CARNOTAUR is instantly trampled!

PEEK is managing to stay ahead of the stampede - possibility RUNNING

FASTER than any human before him! A CARNOTAUR races out in front of the

stampede and bears down on PEEK with incredible speed! PEEK desperately

waves the TOMMY GUN back towards the CARNOTAUR ...TOWARDS THE STAMPEDE!

JACK sees it coming ...

JACK (CONT'D)

(yelling)

NO!!!

PEEK FIRES, missing the CARNOTAUR ...

... but he hits the LEAD BRONTOSAUR in the chest. The BRONTOSAUR

COLLAPSES AT FULL SPEED! It CARTWHEELS OVER, it's huge NECK and TAIL

thrashing out. The OTHER BRONTOSAURS PLOUGH INTO IT, tripping and

rolling!

JACK, DENHAM and the SAILORS suddenly find themselves in the middle of

an amazing FLESHY FREIGHT TRAIN PILE-UP! SAILORS are crushed as

BRONTOSAURS come down on top of them! A CARNOTAUR is squashed when TWO

BRONTOSAURS slam together.

JACK throws himself onto the ground, rolling against a rock as

MOUNTAINS of BRONTOSAUR TUMBLE all around him. The space of seconds,

the MIGHTY HERD of BEHEMOTHS is reduced to a VAST PILE of DEAD or

WOUNDED ANIMALS ... The CARNOTAURS immediately go to work, leaping onto

BRONTOSAURS, ripping into fleshy stomachs.

Amazingly JACK, DENHAM, HERB and at least 9 SAILORS have survived ...

however, they must now escape from the blood crazed MEATEATERS.

JACK crawls past huge HEAVING BELLY'S and TWITCHING LEGS ... he looks

around for some escape route ... He spots PEEK - desperately scrambling

up a steep rocky slope. It leads to a narrow fissure in the cliff - a

possible way out.

JACK staggers out of the DINOSAUR PILE-UP ... he turns back at the

SOUND OF LOUD HISSING - A Carnotaur is climbing over a DEAD BRONTOSAUR,

intent on JACK ... he can do nothing! The CARNOTAUR leaps ...

BAM! BAM! BAM! The CARNOTAUR is suddenly riddled with BULLETS and falls

DEAD at JACK'S FEET!

KURT hurries towards JACK clutching his TOMMY GUN!

KURT:

I'LL keep the bastards at bay'.

JACK nods ... he waves at SURVIVING SAILORS that are emerging from the

PILE-UP.

JACK:

(yelling)

This way!

SURVIVING SAILORS scramble past JACK and head up the steep slope.

DENHAM puffs his way past - not looking at JACK - totally focused on

personal survival. By some miracle, HERB limps out of the PILE-UP,

covered in DUST -but still carrying the CAMERA & TRIPOD on his

shoulders!

KURT blasts at a CARNOTAUR'S - it TOPPLES BACKWARDS. He turns to JACK

...

KURT:

Go Jack!

JACK heads up the slope. KURT backs away ... TWO CARNOTAURS suddenly

charge at him. He fires the TOMMY GUN, shredding them with bullets, but

cannot react fast enough when a THIRD ATTACKS from the other direction!

KURT SCREAMS BRIEFLY as he falls to the ground, under CLAWING FEET and

SNAPPING JAWS.

The FOUR SURVIVING CARNOTAURS head up the slope!

JACK:

Hurry !

JACK and the OTHERS are desperately scrambling up the STEEP SHALE SLOPE

- LOOSE STONES that are impossible to get a grip on ... SAILORS start

sliding backwards in their panic. The CARNOTAURS are sliding too, but

their powerful legs are working furiously, propelling them closer and

closer to the flailing SAILORS!

A SAILOR loses his footing completely ... he rolls past TWO CARNOTAURS

before being grabbed by the JAWS of THE THIRD.

The SAILORS grab hold of WEEDS, ROCKS ... ANYTHING, to get away from

the DINOSAURS. They move into a network cf NARROW FISSURES between

PINNACLES ... The CARNOTAURS can barely squeeze through.

ONE SAILOR is trying to escape up a sheer rock face ... he slips and

falls back into the CARNOTAUR'S CLUTCHES.

The SAILORS REACH SAFETY ... a narrow fissure - too small for the

CARNOTAURS - leads into STEAMY JUNGLE/ beyond the VAT.LEY. JACK looks

back ...

HERB is struggling, a CARNOTAUR'S snapping at his heels. JACK climbs

back down the slope to help pull him up. The CARNOTAURUS lunges at

HERB, grabbing his FOOT in it's JAWS! HERB screams and rolls over on

his back, the camera on his chest. The CARNOTAUR is CRUSHING HIS ANKLE

between it's TEETH!... Luckily it's HERB'S ARTIFICIAL LEG!

DENHAM looks at the frantic struggle ...

DENHAM:

(yelling)

Roll camera!

HERB flicks the switch, aiming CARNOTAUR'S head, only inches away! The

CAMERA at the

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