The Croods Page #4

GUY:

(laughing)

It's not alive.

EEP:

But you said it was dying.

GUY:

Uh sorry,-

EEP:

It comes from where you come from?

GUY:

No. I make it.

Eep BALLS her fist, GRABBING Guy tightly by the hair.

EEP:

Make some for me.

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GUY:

Ow. Okay, it doesn’t come out of me.

EEP:

Make. MAKE! MAKE IT!

Eep SQUEEZES Guy like a tube of toothpaste.

GUY:

You do this a lot.

Something CRACKS. Eep DROPS Guy - he’s broken.

EEP:

Are you dead? Can I have your fire ifyou’re dead?

Belt RUBS two flat rocks together and places them on

Guy’s chest like defibrillator paddles. Guy BOLTS

upright.

GUY:

Hey, those are cold!

BELT:

Squirf!

GUY:

You think? Listening shells, activate.

Belt AND Guy use shells to LISTEN to the ground.

GUY (CONT’D)

I concur. Tiger girl, we need to leave

immediately.

He tries to pull her by the arm. She stays put like an

anchor.

EEP:

I don’t even know you.

GUY:

(pained, rushed)

Ow. I’m Guy.

EEP:

Guy?

GUY:

And this is Belt. Cook,

conversationalist, navigator, also keeps

my pants up.

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BELT:

Hhiiyaa! Yaaa!

EEP:

What are “pants up?”

GUY:

Who are you?

EEP:

Eep.

GUY:

(cutting her off)

Let me clarify, Eep. The world is

ending.

EEP:

What?

GUY:

I’m calling it...

(very dramatic)

The... End.

BELT:

Da da daaaaa.

EEP:

How do you know?

Guy and Belt both do gestures to accompany the Da dadaaaa. It seems very important to them.

GUY:

I’ve seen it. It’s coming this way.

First, the Earth is going to shake. Then

it breaks open. Everything falls in.

Fire. Lava. I don’t mean to sound too

dramatic, but Aaaaaaaugh. Believe me,

everything we’re standing on, all this

right here, will be gone.

Again with the gestures. It’s a little weird to Eep.

GUY (CONT’D)

We’ve got to get to high ground. I know a

mountain, that way-

He points into the distance.

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GUY (CONT’D)

It’s our only chance.

(extending his hand)

Come with me.

Guy and Belt reach out their hands to Eep.

EEP:

I can’t.

Guy hands the shell to Eep. And Eep is mesmerized. Guypulls his hog-mask back down.

GUY:

Okay. Here. If you survive, call me.

Eep test-blows the shell. It makes a sound, she giggles.

When she looks up to thank Guy, he is GONE.

EEP:

Thank you. Hello? Hey!

Eep BUMPS directly into Grug.

EEP (CONT’D)

Dad!

GRUG:

Are you hurt? What took you?

EEP:

Nothing. I left on my own.

GRUG:

You... youuuuuuu... ww-what?!

EEP:

Dad, let me explain...

A low GROWL interrupts them.

ON THE BEAR OWL Sniffing around. It passes over a log.

CRANE DOWN to reveal Grug hanging under the log by one

hand, Eep dangling in the other.

EEP (CONT’D)

(whispered)

You never let me talk.

GRUG:

You’re grounded.

CUT TO:

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SEQ. 610 - EARTHQUAKE

EXT. CANYON - OUTSIDE THE KEYHOLE - MORNING

Grug and Eep move up the canyon. Eep furiously kicks a

rock, it nearly hits Grug.

GRUG:

Hey!

Things are tense between the two. At the KEYHOLE, they

are met by the rest of the Croods.

UGGA:

Eep!

EEP:

Mom!

UGGA:

Grug! What happened!?

GRUG:

You know what, I am so mad right now,

that I can’t talk to her.

UGGA:

Eep?

EEP:

You’ll never believe it. I found

something new.

CROODS:

New?!

The Croods all SNATCH up stones. They form a defensivecircle.

GRUG:

New’s a big problem!

Eep is trapped in the middle of the defensive formation.

She SQUEEZES out.

EEP:

Wait. Wait!

UGGA:

Eep. Stay inside the family kill circle.

EEP:

It wasn’t bad.

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GRUG:

New is always bad.

EEP:

No. He was nice.

GRUG:

What?! Excuse me? He?

EEP:

Oh. Well, I thought he was a warthog,

but then he turned into a boy.

GRAN:

Strange. Usually it’s the reverse.

Grug RAISES an eyebrow.

THUNK:

Eep’s got a boy hog! Eep’s got a boyhog!

Eep ELBOWS Thunk in the back of his head.

EEP:

There was a boy. Watch, okay. I’m gonna

call him.

Eep pulls out the SHELL. She BLOWS into the shell - the

sound ALARMS the Croods.

They SMACK the shell from Eep’s hand and SMASH it with

their rocks.

Eep is incredulous. The dust clears - the panting Croods

are satisfied the object is gone.

EEP (CONT’D)

What is wrong with you?

GRUG:

It was dangerous.

EEP:

(very angry)

It was beautiful. You want to see

dangerous? Here.

She pelts Thunk with a rock.

THUNK:

Owww! My sniffer!

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GRUG:

Okay Eep, that’s it. We’re going back to

the cave and you’re going to stay in

there until you’re older than... her!

EEP:

What?! You can’t keep me inside forever!

Eep throws a tantrum of epic proportion. She SLAMS a

rock on the ground. It SHATTERS to dust.

CREAK! A strange GROAN is heard from under the ground.

Then a small amount of sand falls from up above. A crack

starts to splinter under their feet.

EEP (CONT’D)

He said this would happen.

Then BOOM! The ground starts to SHAKE!

GRUG:

Get to the cave! GO!

The Croods RACE through the CANYON NARROWS, fighting

their way through falling boulders and shifting ground,

heading towards the safety of their cave.

The Croods see the cave entrance. The canyon walls abovetheir home start to crack. Grug sees that the fallingrock will crush the cave.

GRUG (CONT’D)

Look out! Stop!

Grug leaps and tackles his family, protecting them from

the mass of rocks crashing down.

The top of the canyon collapses and the Crood’s cave isdestroyed. Everything is engulfed by dust. The earth

settles.

DISSOLVE TO:

SEQ. 710 - CROSSING OVER

The dust clears a bit - the Croods are in a tight ball,

covered by Grug. Grug stands, all Croods were sheltered

and safe under his mighty arms.

GRUG (CONT’D)

Is everyone okay?

UGGA:

Yes. Grug, the cave, it’s gone.

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Grug looks back to Crood cave. It is gone.

GRUG:

No.

Grug searches the rubble for any sign that the cave might

still be there. He finds one handprint, split in two.

He carefully fits them back together. Emotional, he

lowers his head.

As Eep steps forward, a shaft of light filtering through

the dusty veil from the wreckage crosses her face-As

the dust descends, Eep sees A NEW WORLD beyond.

EEP:

You really need to see this...

The dumbfounded Croods stare in awe at the beautiful

world.

The Croods look out at the new world.

EEP (CONT’D)

We should go there!

GRUG:

No. No one is going anywhere.

Grug pulls Eep back from the precipice.

GRUG (CONT’D)

What else did that boy say?

WHOOSH! Suddenly, bursting from the New World is a giant

flying creature - a TURTLE DOVE.

The Croods reel back as it sails overhead. They turn to

watch the Turtle Dove as it flies away.

They hear a familiar menacing growl. It’s the BEAR OWL!

It roars and charges toward the Croods.

Grug instinctively GRABS a giant boulder and rolls it in

front of his family.

The Bear Owl runs and swats the massive boulder away like

a ball of yarn.

But the Croods are not behind it. They are running

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