King Kong Page #15

JACK:

Who's With me? NOBODY steps forward.

SAILOR 1

You're mad, Driscoll.

SAILOR 2

It's hopeless.

JACK:

Come on. Fellas. Come on!

PEEK:

In it for you? ... is she that good in bed?

JACK punches PEEK to the ground! He has one last scornful look at the

DENHAM and the SAILORS ... then turns and heads into the JUNGLE ALONE.

DENHAM:

Dinosaur munchie traveling!

The SAILORS chuckle.

EXT. JUNGLE GLADE - DAY

A PACK OF UTAHRAPTORS are feasting on a DINOSAUR CARCASS, intent on

stripping every last piece of flesh off the bones. A RAPTOR suddenly

looks up, alarmed by a NOISE ...

WHACK! KONG'S FIST smashes down on his head, KNOCKING HIM OUT! The

other RAPTORS turn to flee ...

WHACK! KONG'S FOOT stamps down on another ... He grabs another by the

head, SNAPPING IT'S NECK with a quick flick.

The surviving RAPTORS scurry into the JUNGLE ... KONG sits down,

placing ANN on the ground. She looks and frightened and exhausted. KONG

starts eating the DEAD RAPTORS like someone with a KFC craving!

EXT. LOG CHASM - DAY

WIDE SHOT KONG hungrily eating in the distance ... ANN is visible at

his feet.

JACK crawls into the FG! He peers out from behind a bush ... KONG is

about 150 feet away, on the other side of a NARROW CHASM. A HUGE TREE

has fallen across the CHASM ... creating a LOG BRIDGE.

JACK hurries towards the LOG, carefully staying low and ducking from

bush to bush.

The CHASM is deep, maybe 100 feet to the bottom - a VINE ENTANGLED

MORASS. JACK carefully starts to cross the LOG BRIDGE ... it is covered

in wet moss and quite slippery. He is totally vulnerable ... He watches

KONG carefully, but the Gorilla is seemingly focused on his RAPTOR

finger food.

JACK is over halfway across when KONG casually GLANCES IN HIS DIRECTION

... JACK throws himself forward on the log, trying to stay out of sight

behind a bulky lichen covered STUMP. He carefully sneaks a look at KONG

... who is still peering over towards the LOG.

EXT. SWAMP BEACH - DAY

DE, PEEK and the last 4 SAILORS are still on the SWAMP BEACH, gathering

What remains of their equipment together.

They TURN IN UNISON ... as a TRICERATOPS lumbers towards them along the

beach! These are 30 foot long Rhino-like DINOSAURS. DENHAM and the

SAILORS step back warily as the TRICERATOPS slowly wanders past them

... not paying them any attention.

CLOSE ON The TRICERATOPS innocently steps on PEEK'S TAPE RECORDER,

instantly CRUSHING IT.

BAM! BAM! BAM! The TRICERATOPS FAT.T.S DEAD ... PEEK advances forward,

his TOMMY GUN smoking ... a look of disbelief on his face as he looks

at the MANGLED REMAINS of his beloved EQUIPMENT!

PEEK:

That cost me seventy-five bucks!

PEEK kicks the DEAD TRICERATOPS.

AN ANGUISHED BELLOW.LOW! WHIP PAN onto 3 more TRICERATOPS, including a

LARGE BULL, ROARING WITH GRIEF!

DENHAM and the SAILORS react with horror as the TRICERATOPS CHARGE! ...

They move with surprising speed ... HUGE HORNS lowered for the kill!

BAM! BAM! BAM! PEEK fires, but the bullets RICOCHET off the BONY FRILL

that surrounds the TRICERATOPS'S head!

The GROUP turns and flees into the JUNGLE!

EXT. JUNGLE GLADE - DAY

KONG and react to the sounds of GUNFIRE and MEN YELLING. KONG SNARLS

... he scoops ANN up and places her HIGH in the BRANCHES OF A DEAD

TREE, some 30 foot off the ground.

KONG bounds away towards the CHASM!

EXT. LOG CHASM - DAY

JACK is still clinging to the LOG ... he turns at the SOUNDS of the

APPROACHING SAILORS ...

PEEK rushes out of the JUNGLE first, followed by DENHAM, the SAILORS

and 3 ANGRY TRICERATOPS! A SAILOR trips and is immediately ENGORGED by

a TRICERATOPS'S HORN!

PEEK races onto the LOG in a blind panic, followed by the 3 surviving

SAILORS and DENHAM ... PEEK only just realizes JACK is in his way and

almost collides with him ... PEEK looks up suddenly and SCREAMS!!!

WHIP ONTO:

KONG STANDING at the end of the LOG BRIDGE, towering above PEEK! He

beats his chest, ROARING FIERCELY! The SAILORS are trapped on the LOG

BRIDGE between the enraged TRICERATOPS on one side and the enraged KONG

on the other!

KONG reaches Dow and LIFTS his end of the LOG BRIDGE. JACK, DENHAM and

the 3 SAILORS cling on for dear life ... PEEK desperately leaps from

the LOG and CLINGS onto VINES hanging over the cliff on KONG'S side of

the CHASM.

KONG vigorously TWISTS and SHAKES the LOG, bucking the MEN into the

air. JACK manages to hang onto the STUMP, but behind him SAILORS are

FALLING OFF!

BOTTOM OF CHASM SAILORS PLUMMET to the bottom ... ONE SAILOR crunches

onto rocks, but the OTHER TWO have their falls broken by a THICK

NETWORK of VINES, and appear to land relatively UNHURT.

JACK and DENHAM cling on ... KONG ROARS with FRUSTRATION and HURLS the

END OF THE LOG into the CHASM! DENHAM - who is close to the far side -

manages to LEAP TO THE BANK, but JACK RIDES THE LOG DOWN!

CRASH! The LOG SMASHES INTO THE ROCKS and JACK flies off it ... He

bounces off vines and lands on the ground, STUNNED.

A SAILOR is crawling along the ground with a SPRAINED ANKLE ...

SUDDENLY!!! A ROUND DIRT LID - larger than a manhole cover - POPS OPEN

and a HUGE DOOR SPIDER DARTS OUT!! It grabs the SAILOR and drags him

SCREAMING into it's LAIR, the LID neatly closing again!!

JACK scrambles to his feet! Ail around, MONSTROSITIES OF NATURE emerge

from DANK BURROWS and crawl towards him and the LAST SURVIVING SAILOR

... These are HUGE INSECTLIKE THINGS - combinations of SPIDERS, CRABS,

MANTISES and CENTIPEDES!

JACK snatches up a LONG STICK and uses it like a SPEAR to' fend these

CREATURES off. He looks on helplessly as the SAILOR attempts to CLIMB

THE WT.T. out of the CHASM, but slips in the PINCERS of some

CRAB/SPIDER THING!

A GROUP of SPIDERS with 7 foot LEG SPANS close in on JACK! Behind them

hangs a LONG VINE, leading directly up to the top of the CHASM ... JACK

charges at the SPIDERS, LEAPING as HIGH as he can. He lands on the BACK

of the FIRST SPIDER, and using the bounce, he propels himself onto the

back of the NEXT, and the NEXT - like a series of MINI-TRAMPS!! He

leaps off the LAST and GRABS HOLD OF THE VINE, pulling himself away

from the FRENZIED SPIDERS!

JACK is climbing HAND OVER HAND ...

SUDDENLY! He starts RISING FAST ...

KONG is perching on the EDGE of the CHASM, pulling the VINE up ... like

a FISHERMAN reeling in a CATCH!!

JACK is HELPLESS!!

EXT. JUNGLE GLADE - DAY

ANN looks around FEARY from her PERCH - HIGH in the BRANCHES of the

ROTTEN TREE ... she has heard the SCREAMS, but has seen nothing.

A HUGE SHAPE moves beneath her ... ANN freezes at the sight of an

ALLOSAUR. Entering the clearing. This is a 25 foot tall MEATEATERS -

SKULL ISLAND'S most fearsome predator!

The ALLOSAUR snatches a DEAD RAPTOR off the ground and crunches it in

POWERFUL JAWS ... It pauses, as if SNIFFING. The ALLOSAUR'S head is

only a FEW FEET below ANN ... she is too scared to breathe!

The ATJOSAUR suddenly looks up ... straight at ANN! He immediately

CIRCLES THE TREE in big powerful strides ... ANN shifts her position to

keep the ALLOSAUR in sight ... it is clearly getting very AGITATED!

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