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THOR: RAGNAROK
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Written by
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Eric Pearson and Craig Kyle & Christopher L. Yost
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1 OMITTED 1
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A2 OMITTED A2
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A3 THE MARVEL LOGO. SMOLDERING, BEGINNING TO TURN ORANGE IN THE A3
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HEAT AS WE TILT UP TO SEE-
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-FIRE. NOTHING BUT FIRE.
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2 INT. TIGHT SPACE - INDETERMINATE TIME 2
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Dark and cramped. The soft red light of fire seeps through
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iron slats. Inside this cage is a man, bound by chains.
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It's THOR. His beard is long and his clothes are worn. That
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rough, grizzled look of a man who's spent years on the road.
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He awakens with a JOLT. Looks around.
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THOR
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Now I know what you're thinking.
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Oh no! Thor's in a cage. How did
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this happen?
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(then:)
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Well, sometimes you have to get
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captured just to get a straight
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answer out of somebody. It's a long
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story but basically I'm a bit of a
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hero. See, I spent some time on
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earth, fought some robots, saved
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the planet a couple of times. Then
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I went searching through the cosmos
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for some magic, colorful Infinity
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Stone things... didn't find any.
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That's when I came across a path of
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death and destruction which led me
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all the way here into this cage...
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where I met you.
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Reveal that he's talking to a weird alien skeleton in chains.
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THOR (CONT'D)
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How much longer do you think we'll
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be here?
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NOISE. Sounds of metal gears TURNING.
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Suddenly the bottom DROPS OUT! Thor PLUMMETS until - SHLINK!
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Chains CINCH and abruptly halt his descent. Thor dangles six
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feet off the ground. Pull back to reveal we are in-
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BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 2.
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3 INT. SURTUR'S LAIR - CONTINUOUS 3
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A cavernous space. The walls, floors, and ceilings are
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molten rock, which has creepy glimmers of fire within it.
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Stationed in the center is a volcanic rock throne, and
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sitting in that throne is a charred demonic skeleton.
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SURTUR (O.S.)
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Thor, Son of Odin.
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Thor's chain turns to reveal-
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-SURTUR on his throne. Eighteen-feet-tall, flesh made of
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fire, and demonic spiked horns on his skull.
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THOR
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Surtur. Son of a bitch...you're
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still alive! I thought my father
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killed you, like, half a million
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years ago.
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SURTUR
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I cannot die. Not until I fulfill
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my destiny and lay waste to your
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home.
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THOR
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You know, it's funny you should
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mention that because I've been
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having these terrible dreams of
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late. Asgard up in flames, falling
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to ruins, and you Surtur are at the
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center of all of them.
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SURTUR
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Then you have seen Ragnarok, the
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fall of Asgard. The great prophecy--
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THOR (O.S.)
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Hang on. Hang on.
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Reveal that Thor's chain is turning VERY SLOWLY.
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THOR (CONT'D)
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I'll be back around shortly. I
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really feel like we were connecting
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there.
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After a beat, Thor rotates around to face Surtur.
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THOR (CONT'D)
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Okay, so, Ragnarok. Tell me about
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that. Walk me through it.
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SURTUR
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My time has come. When my crown is
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reunited with the Eternal Flame, I
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shall be restored to my full might.
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I will tower over the mountains and
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bury my sword deep in Asgard's--
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THOR
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Oh, hang on. Give it a second.
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Once again, Thor is turning VERY SLOWLY.
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THOR (CONT'D)
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I swear I'm not even moving, it's
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just doing this on its own. I'm
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really sorry.
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(then:)
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Okay, let me get this straight.
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You're going to put your crown into
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the Eternal Flame, and then you'll
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suddenly grow as big as a house--
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SURTUR
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A mountain!
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THOR
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The Eternal Flame that Odin keeps
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locked away on Asgard?
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Surtur grins, evil.
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SURTUR
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Odin is not on Asgard. And your
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absence has left the throne
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defenseless.
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That elicits a concerned look from Thor.
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THOR
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Okay, so where is it? This crown?
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SURTUR
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This is my Crown, the source of my
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power.
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Surtur points at the V-shaped horns on his head..
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THOR
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Oh, that's a crown? I thought it
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was a big eyebrow.
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SURTUR
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It's a crown.
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THOR
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Anyway, it sounds like all I have
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to do to stop Ragnarok is rip that
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thing off your head.
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Surtur stands up and approaches Thor, DRAGGING his sword.
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SURTUR
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But Ragnarok has already begun. You
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cannot stop it. I am Asgard's
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doom, and so are you. All will
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suffer, all will burn.
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Surtur steps forward and GRABS the chain above Thor's feet,
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holding it so he and Thor are face to face.
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THOR
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That's intense. To be honest,
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seeing you grow really big and set
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fire to a planet would be quite the
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spectacle. But it looks like I'm
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going to have to go with option B
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where I bust out of these chains,
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knock that tiara off your head, and
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stash it away in Asgard's vault.
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SURTUR
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You cannot stop Ragnarok. Why fight
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it?
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Behind his back, Thor opens his hand. Sending out the SOS.
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THOR
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Because that's what heroes do.
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Nothing happens. Thor appears annoyed at himself.
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THOR (CONT'D)
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Wait, sorry. I didn't time that
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right.
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(pause)
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And, now!
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BOOM! Thor's hammer Mjolnir CRASHES through the wall!
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Thor BREAKS FREE from his chains, GRABS Mjolnir, spins, and
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flies a distance away. He FLINGS Mjolnir back at Surtur,
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smashing the giant in the face. Mjolnir returns.
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SURTUR
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You have made a grave mistake,
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Odinson.
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THE WALLS COME ALIVE! A seemingly infinite swarm of FIRE
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DEMONS rally to Surtur's aid.
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THOR
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I make grave mistakes all the time.
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Everything seems to work out.
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In the shadows, a massive FIRE DRAGON ROARS.
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The fire demons SURGE FORWARD. Thor backs up, HAMMERING
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AWAY. He then leaps back, SPRINGBOARDS off the wall, and-
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-LANDS HARD, SLAMMING Mjolnir down. The resulting shockwave
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KNOCKS BACK THE LEGION OF FIRE DEMONS.
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The Fire Dragon STRAINS against a chain leash.
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Thor is now facing off with Surtur. Surtur thrusts his hands
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at Thor, generating a humongous PROJECTILE WALL OF FIRE!
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Thor SPINS Mjolnir so fast that it creates a kind of SHIELD.
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The God of Thunder and the Fire Giant engage in ferocious
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hand-to-hand combat. Each landing power shots, sending
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sparks of both fire and electricity into the air.
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Thor SLIPS behind Surtur and TAKES OUT his knees. Thor then
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LAUNCHES HIGH into the air and summons a HUGE LIGHTNING BOLT.
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Descending hard, he uses all his power to-
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-LOP SURTUR'S HEAD OFF OF HIS BODY! Surtur's body DEFLATES
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and COLLAPSES into a heap of charred bones.
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Thor straps the crowned skull to his back. He turns to find-
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-the army of Fire Demons regrouping as reinforcements flood
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in, filling the space to capacity. Recognizing the threat,
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Thor thrusts Mjolnir above his head.
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THOR (CONT'D)
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Heimdall. I know it's been a while,
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but I could use a fast exit!
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Nothing. Thor just stands there as the Fire Demons advance.
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THOR (CONT'D)
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...Heimdall?
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Heimdall is nowhere to be found. Instead, we meet SKURGE.
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He's bald, strong, mean looking, a little eager to be liked.
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At the moment, Skurge is entertaining two ASGARDIAN WOMEN.
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SKURGE
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Heimdall was an idiot. This job
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should have made him rich. Now,
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the job ain't easy, but it does
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have its benefits. The Bi-Frost
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gives me access to everything the
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Nine Realms have to offer. I mean
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it's all mine for the taking.
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(beat)
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Behold...my stuff.
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Skurge has drawn their attention to a pile of weapons and
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treasures he has stashed off to the side.
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He hefts up two M-16 assault rifles, trying to play it cool.
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SKURGE (CONT'D)
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I'm particularly fond of these. I
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pulled `em out of a place on
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Midgard called Texas. I even named
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them. Des and Troy. You see, when
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you put them together...they
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destroy.
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5 INT. SURTUR'S LAIR - CONTINUOUS 5
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Having expected to have been Bi-Frosted out of there, Thor is
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OVERRUN BY THE GIANT WAVE OF FIRE DEMONS!
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The Fire Dragon BREAKS FREE of its chain.
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Realizing he's in trouble, Thor TAKES OFF, rocketing up to-
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6 EXT. MUSPELHEIM - CONTINUOUS 6
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Thor CRASHES out of the ground and LANDS on a craggy surface.
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Disoriented and singed from the fire demon onslaught.
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Thor's cloak is on fire, and he frantically PATS OUT the
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flames. He picks up Mjolnir, holds it up once more. Nothing.
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THOR
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Heimdall, come on.
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THE GROUND SHAKES! Like an earthquake. Thor backs up as the
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ground begins to give way all around him. And then-
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-THE FEARSOME FIRE DRAGON BURSTS OUT OF THE GROUND! The
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dragon opens its tremendous jaws for an ear-splitting roar...
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...but Thor STUFFS Mjolnir into its mouth and lets go.
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THUD! The hammer DROPS, pinning the beast down by its bottom
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jaw. It THRASHES and GROWLS, trying to break free.
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THOR (CONT'D)
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Stay.
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(looks up to the sky:)
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I'm running short on--
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Thor notices that all around him the ground is CRUMBLING like
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a field of sinkholes giving way to more snarling Fire Demons!
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THOR (CONT'D)
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-options.
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Thor calls for Mjolnir and TAKES OFF. The dragon SCREECHES!
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7 OMITTED 7
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8 OMITTED 8
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9 INT. THE OBSERVATORY - SAME 9
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Skurge continues showing off for the ladies.
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THOR (O.S.)
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Heimdall?
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Behind Skurge the Bi-Frost starts MOVING. One of the women
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notices the Bi-Frost glowing.
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ASGARDIAN WOMAN
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Skurge, is that important?
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Skurge turns and notices the Bi-Frost activity.
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SKURGE
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You girls are in for a treat.
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Angle on Heimdall's sword, which has been sloppily cast aside
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in another pile of "stuff." Skurge hastily runs and grabs it.
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10 EXT. MUSPELHEIM - CONTINUOUS 10
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Thor is FLYING at top speed, but that dragon is right on his
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heels! The fire demons LAUNCH flaming projectiles from below!
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Thor looks back, genuinely nervous. The dragon is OPENING
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its jaws to swallow Thor whole when-
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-Suddenly Bi-Frost OPENS! The portal surrounds Thor and
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engulfs the dragon's head! In an instant, they're gone.
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MAIN TITLE
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11 INT. THE OBSERVATORY - MOMENTS LATER 11
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Skurge has plunged Heimdall's sword into Bi-Frost.
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BOOM! Thor EXPLODES out of the portal along with the severed
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head of the dragon! SPLAT! Blood and guts RAIN DOWN on
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Skurge and the two women, DRENCHING them with purple gore.
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The dragon's head SLIDES slowly across the floor, coming to
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rest right in front of the women who are frozen in shock.
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The women SHRIEK and rush out of the Observatory. Thor
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meanwhile is clean and staggering back to his feet. He looks
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up to Skurge, who is wiping dragon guts off of himself.
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SKURGE
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Girls!
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(beat)
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Well well, look who decided to pop
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in. Thanks for scaring away my
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company and drenching my workplace
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in brains.
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THOR
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Who are you?
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SKURGE
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Don't you remember? I'm Skurge.
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(Thor doesn't)
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We fought together on Vanaheim.
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THOR
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Right. Where's Heimdall?
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SKURGE
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That traitor. No one knows, he's a
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fugitive of the throne.
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THOR
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Traitor?
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SKURGE
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Yeah, you see, Odin charged
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Heimdall with negligence of duty,
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but he disappeared before the
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trial. Hard to catch a guy who can
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see everything in the Universe.
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Thor starts to say something, but then gives up. Instead he
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starts towards the exit... but Skurge stands in his way.
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THOR
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Sure.
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SKURGE
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Hold on. I'm supposed to announce
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your arrival.
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Thor SPINS UP Mjolnir and takes off in a blur. Skurge starts
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the loooong run down the Rainbow Bridge.
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12 OMITTED 12
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A13 EXT. THEATER ENTRANCE - DAY A13
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THOR arrives with Surtur's skull.
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There's a small crowd making its way through a threshold over
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which stands a monumental statue of Loki, arms out-stretched
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in the `savior' pose.
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Confused, Thor turns to a theater patron.
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THOR
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What the hell is that?
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13 EXT. ASGARD - ROYAL TERRACE - PATIO - MOMENTS LATER 13
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LOKI falls into frame, GASPING FOR BREATH... although it's
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|
not Loki. This is ACTOR LOKI and we're watching a STAGE PLAY.
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|
In the background, a single musician plays the haunting score
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|
from THOR: THE DARK WORLD on a pan flute.
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Suddenly, ACTOR THOR leans into shot, holding Actor Loki.
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ACTOR LOKI
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Oh, brother. This is it. I take
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my leave.
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ACTOR THOR
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You fool, you didn't listen!
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ACTOR LOKI
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I'm sorry.
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ACTOR THOR
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|
Lady Sif! Get help!
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"Sif" awkwardly runs off. The "Warriors Three" watch sadly. A
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|
small choir JOINS IN as the music builds to a CRESCENDO.
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ACTOR SIF
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Somebody help!
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|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 10.
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In the middle of the audience we reveal ODIN, sitting upon a
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chaise lounge, sipping wine and thoroughly enjoying the show.
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|
Unseen, Thor arrives behind the audience and watches.
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ACTOR LOKI
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Sorry for all I've done.
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ACTOR THOR
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It's all right. Hold on.
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ACTOR LOKI
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I'm sorry I tried to rule Earth.
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ACTOR THOR
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|
They'd be lucky to have you.
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ACTOR LOKI
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|
I'm sorry about that thing with the
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|
Tesseract. I just couldn't help
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|
myself.
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ACTOR THOR
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|
I know.
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ACTOR LOKI
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|
I'm a trickster.
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ACTOR THOR
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|
So mischievous.
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|
ACTOR LOKI
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||
|
Sorry about that time I turned you
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|
into a frog.
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|
ACTOR THOR
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|
It was a wonderful joke.
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|
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|
ODIN
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|
(to no-one in particular)
|
||
|
Twas indeed hilarious.
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||
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|
ACTOR THOR
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|
You are the savior of Asgard.
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||
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|
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|
ACTOR LOKI
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||
|
Tell my story.
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||
|
ACTOR THOR
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|
I will.
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|
ACTOR LOKI
|
||
|
Build a statue for me.
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|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 11.
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|
ACTOR THOR
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|
We will build a big statue for you.
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||
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|
ACTOR LOKI
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||
|
With my helmet on, with the big
|
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|
bendy horns.
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|
ACTOR THOR
|
||
|
I will tell Father what you did
|
||
|
here today.
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|
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|
Odin mouths Actor Loki's final line along with him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ACTOR LOKI
|
||
|
I didn't do it for him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Actor Loki then "dies".
|
||
|
|
||
|
ACTOR THOR
|
||
|
Noooooo!!!
|
||
|
|
||
|
The brothers freeze in a TABLEAU as ACTOR ODIN steps forward.
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||
|
|
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|
ACTOR ODIN
|
||
|
And so Loki died of his wounds,
|
||
|
giving his life for ours. He
|
||
|
fought back those disgusting dark
|
||
|
elves. He brought peace to the
|
||
|
realm.
|
||
|
|
||
|
He takes a 4-YEAR-OLD BOY, PAINTED BLUE, into his arms.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ACTOR ODIN (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Loki, my boy...`Twas many moons ago
|
||
|
I found you on a frost-bitten
|
||
|
battlefield.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor watches, incredulous. He then notices that a woman next
|
||
|
to him is openly SOBBING at the play.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ACTOR ODIN (CONT'D)
|
||
|
On that day, I did not yet see in
|
||
|
you Asgard's savior. No. You were
|
||
|
merely a little blue baby icicle...
|
||
|
that melted this old fool's heart.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The crowd erupts in rapturous applause. The players bow. Odin
|
||
|
stands up, leading the crowd in this STANDING OVATION.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN
|
||
|
Bravo! Bravo! Well done. Bravo.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Father.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 12.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
Odin sees Thor taking a knee. Curses under his breath:
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN
|
||
|
Oh, shit.
|
||
|
(then, announcing)
|
||
|
My son! Thor has returned!
|
||
|
Greetings my boy.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Odin goes through a weird internal transformation. His
|
||
|
fluidity is replaced by a rigid and regal posture. He bats
|
||
|
away his maiden and turns to Thor, who stands up.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
It's an interesting play. What's
|
||
|
it called?
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN
|
||
|
The Tragedy of Loki of Asgard. The
|
||
|
people wanted to commemorate him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Indeed they should.
|
||
|
(provoking)
|
||
|
I like that statue. A lot better
|
||
|
looking than he was when he was
|
||
|
alive, though. A little less
|
||
|
weasely. Less greasy maybe.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Odin sours, masking his agitation. Thor holds up the skull.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
You know what this is?
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN (ADR)
|
||
|
The skull of Surtur? That's a
|
||
|
formidable weapon.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor approaches an E-Guard and hands it over.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Do me a favor. Lock this in a
|
||
|
vault so it doesn't turn into a
|
||
|
giant monster and destroy the whole
|
||
|
planet.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN
|
||
|
So it's back to Midgard for you, is
|
||
|
it?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor starts YO-YOing Mjolnir, turns back to Odin.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Nope. I've been having this
|
||
|
reocurring dream lately.
|
||
|
(MORE)
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 13.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Every night I see Asgard fall into
|
||
|
ruins...
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN
|
||
|
That's just a silly dream... Signs
|
||
|
of an overactive imagination.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Possibly... but then I decide to go
|
||
|
out there and investigate. And
|
||
|
what do I find, but the Nine Realms
|
||
|
completely in chaos. Enemies of
|
||
|
Asgard assembling, plotting our
|
||
|
demise, all while you, Odin, the
|
||
|
protector of those Nine Realms, are
|
||
|
sitting here in your bathrobe,
|
||
|
eating grapes.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN
|
||
|
Well, it is best to respect our
|
||
|
neighbors' freedom.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Of course, the freedom to be
|
||
|
massacred.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN
|
||
|
Yes, besides, I have been rather
|
||
|
busy myself.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Watching theatre.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN
|
||
|
Board meetings, and security
|
||
|
council meetings...
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
You really going to make me do it?
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN
|
||
|
Do what?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor SPINS Mjolnir and then HURLS it off into the distance,
|
||
|
GRABS Odin by the back of the neck.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Odin's royal attendants GASP in shock. The Einherjar
|
||
|
bodyguards rush Thor, but he KICKS them away.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
You know that nothing will stop
|
||
|
Mjolnir as it returns to my hand.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Mjolnir stops mid-air and starts ROCKETING BACK.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 14.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Not even your face.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN
|
||
|
You've gone quite mad. You'll be
|
||
|
executed for this!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Mjolnir approaches at a terrifying speed as Odin struggles.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Then I'll see you on the other
|
||
|
side...brother.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The jig is up. A shimmering illusion dissipates, revealing:
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
Alright, I yield!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor DROPS Loki to the ground and catches Mjolnir. Loki
|
||
|
looks to Thor, hands up defensively. Skurge arrives on the
|
||
|
scene, a little late to warn Loki.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SKURGE
|
||
|
Behold! Thor..Odinson.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
You had one job! Just the one.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Where's Odin?
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
You just couldn't stay away, could
|
||
|
you? Everything was fine without
|
||
|
you. Asgard was prospering
|
||
|
(gestures to the crowd)
|
||
|
You've ruined everything. Ask
|
||
|
them.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Those who aren't freaked out are becoming gradually angrier.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor advances on Loki, who backs up onto the chaise lounge.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Where's father? Did you kill him?
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
You had what you wanted, you had
|
||
|
the independence you asked for!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor PRESSES Mjolnir onto Loki's chest.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 15.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Ow-ow-ow! Alright! I know exactly
|
||
|
where he is.
|
||
|
|
||
|
14 OMITTED 14
|
||
|
|
||
|
15 OMITTED 15
|
||
|
|
||
|
16 OMITTED 16
|
||
|
|
||
|
17 EXT. SHADY ACRES NURSING HOME - MANHATTAN - DAY 17
|
||
|
|
||
|
A NURSING HOME sign on a brick wall. Suddenly the wall
|
||
|
crumbles out of shot, revealing a demolition site.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Reveal Thor and Loki wearing street clothes. Thor carries an
|
||
|
umbrella, Loki is dressed in a weird avant-garde suit.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
I swear, I left him right here.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Right here on the sidewalk? Or
|
||
|
right there, where the building
|
||
|
that's being demolished? Great
|
||
|
planning.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
How was I supposed to know? Can't
|
||
|
see into the future. I'm not a
|
||
|
witch.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Then why do you dress like one?
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
Hey.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I can't believe you're alive. I saw
|
||
|
you die. I mourned you, I cried for
|
||
|
you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
I'm honored.
|
||
|
|
||
|
COLLEGE GIRL 2
|
||
|
Ask him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
COLLEGE GIRL 1
|
||
|
Hi. Would you mind taking a picture
|
||
|
with us?
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 16.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Sure.
|
||
|
(to Loki:)
|
||
|
Start figuring out where he is.
|
||
|
|
||
|
COLLEGE GIRL 1
|
||
|
Oh, my god.
|
||
|
|
||
|
COLLEGE GIRL 2
|
||
|
Sorry to hear that Jane dumped you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
She didn't dump me, you know. I
|
||
|
dumped her. It was a mutual
|
||
|
dumping.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor notices something going on around Loki.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
What's this, what are you doing!?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki looks down to see that the sidewalk has started to GLOW
|
||
|
BENEATH HIM! A circle of ancient symbols.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
This... isn't me.
|
||
|
|
||
|
WHOOMPF! Loki DROPS out of sight, vanishing through solid
|
||
|
concrete! Thor sees a CARD on the sidewalk where Loki was.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor pokes the business card.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Loki?
|
||
|
|
||
|
He picks up the card. It reads:
|
||
|
|
||
|
177A Bleecker Street
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor picks up the card and - WHOOSH!
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
18 EXT. SANCTUM SANTORUM - DAY 18
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor approaches 177A Bleecker Street.
|
||
|
|
||
|
He knocks ONCE, TWICE, and then WHOOSH!
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
19 INT. SANCTUM SANCTORUM UPSTAIRS PARLOR - CONTINUOUS 19
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor is suddenly inside Doctor Strange's lair!
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 17.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
STRANGE (O.S.)
|
||
|
Thor Odinson.
|
||
|
|
||
|
From a dark corner we glimpse a shape - DOCTOR STRANGE.
|
||
|
Levitating, he drifts towards Thor.
|
||
|
|
||
|
STRANGE (CONT'D)
|
||
|
God of Thunder.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor holds up the ratty umbrella, ready to defend himself.
|
||
|
|
||
|
STRANGE (CONT'D)
|
||
|
You can put down the umbrella.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor gives Strange a sideways look but then sets his umbrella
|
||
|
down. When he looks back up, the environment is furnished.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
So earth has wizards now?
|
||
|
|
||
|
STRANGE
|
||
|
The preferred term is "Master of
|
||
|
the Mystic Arts."
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Alright wizard, who are you? Why
|
||
|
should I care?
|
||
|
|
||
|
STRANGE
|
||
|
My name is Doctor Stephen Strange
|
||
|
and I have some questions for you.
|
||
|
Take a seat.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor and Strange are now sitting in high-backed chairs.
|
||
|
|
||
|
STRANGE (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Tea?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor now has a cup of tea in his hand.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I don't drink tea.
|
||
|
|
||
|
STRANGE
|
||
|
What do you drink?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Not tea.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor now has a stein of beer in his hand. He drinks it
|
||
|
throughout the scene, but it always stays full.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 18.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
STRANGE
|
||
|
So I keep a watch list of
|
||
|
individuals and beings from other
|
||
|
realms that may be a threat to this
|
||
|
world. Your adopted brother Loki
|
||
|
is one of these beings.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
He's a worthy inclusion.
|
||
|
|
||
|
STRANGE
|
||
|
Then why bring him here?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
We're looking for my father.
|
||
|
|
||
|
STRANGE
|
||
|
So. If you were to tell you where
|
||
|
Odin was, all parties concerned
|
||
|
would promptly return to Asgard?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Promptly.
|
||
|
|
||
|
DR. STRANGE
|
||
|
Great. Then I'll help you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
If you knew where he was, why
|
||
|
didn't you call me?
|
||
|
|
||
|
DR. STRANGE
|
||
|
I have to tell you, he was adamant
|
||
|
that he not be disturbed. Your
|
||
|
father said he had chosen to remain
|
||
|
in exile.
|
||
|
(beat)
|
||
|
And you don't have a phone.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
No, I don't have a phone, but you
|
||
|
could have sent an electronic
|
||
|
letter. It's called an email.
|
||
|
|
||
|
STRANGE
|
||
|
Yeah, do you have a computer?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
No. What for?
|
||
|
(beat)
|
||
|
Anyway, my father is no longer in
|
||
|
exile. So if you could tell me
|
||
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where he is, I can take him home.
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BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 19.
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|
DR. STRANGE
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|
Gladly. He's in Norway.
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Strange stands up and suddenly they are standing by a book-
|
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|
case. Strange takes down an ancient book, flips through it.
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|
STRANGE
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|
I'm just seeing whether this
|
||
|
incantation requires any Asgardian
|
||
|
modifications.
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|
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|
Thor reaches out to the bookcase to steady himself.
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|
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|
STRANGE (CONT'D)
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|
Nope.
|
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|
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|
Suddenly they are both across the room at Strange's work
|
||
|
station. Because Thor was touching the bookcase, he has
|
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|
magically brought it across the room as well.
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|
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||
|
STRANGE (CONT'D)
|
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|
Oh, we don't need that.
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|
|
||
|
Suddenly Thor is back across the room. Books fall off the
|
||
|
shelf and Thor's beer spills.
|
||
|
|
||
|
He is queasy and unsteady from the teleporting.
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|
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||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Will you stop doing that?
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|
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||
|
STRANGE
|
||
|
I need just one strand of your
|
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|
hair.
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|
THOR
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||
|
Let me explain something, my hair
|
||
|
is not to be meddled wi-!
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||
|
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||
|
Strange is behind Thor, he plucks a strand of hair.
|
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|
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||
|
Strange extends the hair, infuses it with magic, does a few
|
||
|
gestures that create a BRIGHT LIGHT and suddenly-
|
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|
A20 INT. SANCTUM SANCTORUM - FRONT STAIRCASE - CONTINUOUS A20
|
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|
|
||
|
Bottom of the stairs. Strange is standing. Thor is rolling
|
||
|
down the stairs. A magic portal leading into a peaceful
|
||
|
meadow has opened beside Strange.
|
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|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
We could have just walked.
|
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|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 20.
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|
|
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|
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|
DR. STRANGE
|
||
|
(re: the portal)
|
||
|
He's waiting for you.
|
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|
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||
|
THOR
|
||
|
All right.
|
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|
|
||
|
STRANGE
|
||
|
Don't forget your umbrella.
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|
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||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Yes.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor extends his arm and holds out his hand. Crashing noises
|
||
|
are heard. Lots of crashing noises.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Sorry
|
||
|
|
||
|
Finally the umbrella flies into his hand.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
I suppose I'll need my brother
|
||
|
back.
|
||
|
|
||
|
DR. STRANGE
|
||
|
Yeah, right.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Suddenly we hear SCREAMING.
|
||
|
|
||
|
From above, LOKI drops out of a portal. He LANDS HARD on the
|
||
|
floor and then STAGGERS to his feet. On edge, confused.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
...I have been falling...for thirty
|
||
|
minutes!
|
||
|
|
||
|
DR. STRANGE
|
||
|
(to Thor:)
|
||
|
You can handle him from here.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Yeah of course.
|
||
|
(they shake hands)
|
||
|
Thank you very much for your help.
|
||
|
|
||
|
STRANGE
|
||
|
Good luck.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
Handle me? Who are you?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Loki.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 21.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki DRAWS a dagger, ready to attack Strange.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
..you think you're some kind of
|
||
|
sorcerer? Don't think for one
|
||
|
minute, you second-rate...
|
||
|
|
||
|
DR. STRANGE
|
||
|
Bye-bye.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Strange GESTURES with both hands and-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-WHOOSH! PULLS the magic portal over them.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Just like that, Thor and Loki are gone.
|
||
|
|
||
|
20 OMITTED 20
|
||
|
|
||
|
21 EXT. CLIFFS - DAY 21
|
||
|
|
||
|
Beautiful, undisturbed nature. We hear the ocean nearby.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI lands on the ground, portal closes behind them.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Father?
|
||
|
|
||
|
A lone figure stands at the other side of the meadow at the
|
||
|
cliff's edge, waves CRASHING below.
|
||
|
|
||
|
It is ODIN. He's dressed plainly in humble human clothes.
|
||
|
The boys approach him quickly.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN
|
||
|
Look at this place. It's beautiful.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Father, it's us.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN
|
||
|
My sons. I've been waiting for
|
||
|
you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki is surprised to hear Odin call him his son.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I know. We've come to take you
|
||
|
home.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN
|
||
|
Home, yes. Your mother, she calls
|
||
|
me. Do you hear it?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor fires a look at Loki, who holds up his hands in defense.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 22.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Loki, lift your magic.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Odin turns to Loki, who stiffens. But Odin smiles.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN
|
||
|
Took me quite a while to break free
|
||
|
from your spell. Frigga would have
|
||
|
been proud.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki is moved by this gesture. He looks over to see Thor
|
||
|
staring at him, anger building.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Odin puts a hand on Thor's shoulder, calming him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Come and sit with me. I don't have
|
||
|
much time.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Odin sits, out of breath, weak. His sons sit beside him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I know that we failed you, but we
|
||
|
can make this right.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN
|
||
|
I failed you.
|
||
|
(beat)
|
||
|
It is upon us...Ragnarok.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
No, I've stopped Ragnarok. I put
|
||
|
an end to Surtur.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN
|
||
|
No. It has already begun. She's
|
||
|
coming. My life was all that held
|
||
|
her back, but my time has come. I
|
||
|
cannot keep her away any longer.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Father, who are you talking about?
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN
|
||
|
The Goddess of Death. Hela. My
|
||
|
first born.
|
||
|
(faces Thor)
|
||
|
Your sister.
|
||
|
|
||
|
That hits Thor hard. Loki can't believe what he's hearing.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
...what?
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 23.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN
|
||
|
Her violent appetites grew beyond
|
||
|
my control. I couldn't stop her,
|
||
|
so I imprisoned her. Locked her
|
||
|
away. She draws her strength from
|
||
|
Asgard...and once she gets there,
|
||
|
her powers will be limitless.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Whatever she is, we can stop her.
|
||
|
We can face her together.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN
|
||
|
(takes Thor's hand)
|
||
|
No we won't. I'm on a different
|
||
|
path now. This you must face
|
||
|
alone.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Odin looks into Thor's eyes, struggling to breathe.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN (CONT'D)
|
||
|
I love you my sons.
|
||
|
|
||
|
For the briefest of instances, father and sons share a quiet
|
||
|
moment together. Tears well in Thor's eyes.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Look at that.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Ethereal sun-rays stream down upon the ocean.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Remember this place. Home.
|
||
|
|
||
|
A warm glow washes over Thor's face and he turns to see that-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-ODIN IS DISSIPATING INTO STARDUST. THE ALLFATHER HAS DIED.
|
||
|
|
||
|
A moment as the brothers separately mourn for Odin.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The sky above DARKENS and THE WIND PICKS UP.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor stands and turns toward Loki, his eyes burning with
|
||
|
rage. Loki takes a step back.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
Brother.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor faces Loki. Electricity CRACKLES at Thor's hands.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
This was your doing.
|
||
|
|
||
|
CRACK! Behind them a black portal SPLITS OPEN!
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 24.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor SLAMS DOWN his umbrella, transforming into his Asgardian
|
||
|
armor (with Mjolnir). Loki changes into his armor as well.
|
||
|
|
||
|
A piercing scream cuts the air as a figure is hurtled out of
|
||
|
the portal, crashing out of this dimensional rift is HELA.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela takes a second to consider her surroundings. Then:
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
So he's gone?
|
||
|
(beat)
|
||
|
That's a shame. I would've liked
|
||
|
to have seen that.
|
||
|
|
||
|
A tense moment as they stare each other down.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
You must be Hela. I'm Thor, son of
|
||
|
Odin.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
Really, you don't look like him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
Perhaps we can reach an
|
||
|
arrangement.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
You sound like him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki shifts nervously. Thor's grip tightens on Mjolnir.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Kneel.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
Beg your pardon?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela MANIFESTS a pitch black blade.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
Kneel...before your Queen.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I don't think so.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor winds up and HURLS Mjolnir at Hela...
|
||
|
|
||
|
- THUD - the mighty hammer comes to a cold stop, against
|
||
|
Hela's hand.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor is shocked. He stretches out his hands, trying to call
|
||
|
Mjolnir back to him.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 25.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
The hammer trembles in Hela's hand, like a mini game of tug-o-
|
||
|
war. But ultimately Hela keeps possession.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
It's not possible.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
Darling, you have no idea what's
|
||
|
possible.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA SHATTERS THOR'S HAMMER.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The blast of Mjolnir's destruction sends a wave of energy
|
||
|
through Thor and Loki who brace themselves against the
|
||
|
impact.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor is stupefied. In shock. He looks up to see Hela is
|
||
|
running her hands back over her head to create the terrifying
|
||
|
battle headdress.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki's reaction is more panic. He stands and calls up:
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
Bring us back!
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
No!!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela CHARGES Thor and Loki as-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-WHOOSH! The Bi-Frost envelopes all of them.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
22 INT. BI-FROST - CONTINUOUS 22
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor and Loki ZOOM UPWARDS, held inside this celestial beam
|
||
|
warping them towards Asgard. Loki and Thor look down to
|
||
|
see... Hela is in the Bi-Frost, behind them and CATCHING UP.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki turns and throws TWO DAGGERS at her. They find their
|
||
|
mark, stalling her for a second. But she PLOWS RIGHT THROUGH
|
||
|
Loki, KNOCKING HIM OUT OF THE BI-FROST. Gone in an instant.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Loki!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela projects a jet black grappling hook and GRABS HOLD of
|
||
|
Thor. Drawing him to her, preparing to finish him off. Thor
|
||
|
pulls up his legs, and KICKS Hela with both feet. This
|
||
|
effectively dislodges him from her grasp but also...
|
||
|
|
||
|
...KNOCKS THOR OUT OF THE BI-FROST! Now both he and Loki are
|
||
|
gone. If they aren't dead, then God knows where they went.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 26.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
23 INT. THE OBSERVATORY - CONTINUOUS 23
|
||
|
|
||
|
VOLSTAGG has a grip on Heimdall's sword, manning Bi-Frost's
|
||
|
controls. Behind him FANDRAL is overseeing Skurge, who is
|
||
|
mopping up the dragon guts.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BOOM! Hela emerges with thunderous impact. Fandral and
|
||
|
Volstagg draw their weapons, preparing to engage.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VOLSTAGG
|
||
|
Who are you!? What have you done
|
||
|
with Thor?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela fires TWO BLACK DAGGERS, each one dropping its target to
|
||
|
the ground. Hela then walks forward and-
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
I'm Hela.
|
||
|
|
||
|
-BRUTALLY KILLS FANDRAL AND VOLSTAGG!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela sees Skurge. Approaches calmly, a vision of death.
|
||
|
|
||
|
With Hela only a few feet from him, Skurge cowers. Pause.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SKURGE
|
||
|
I'm just a janitor.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Skurge ever-so-slightly peers up at her.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
You look like a smart boy with good
|
||
|
survival instincts. How would you
|
||
|
like a job?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela looks out upon Asgard as Skurge rises behind her.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
24 EXT. ASGARD - THE MOUNTAINS - SAME 24
|
||
|
|
||
|
A mysterious HOODED FIGURE watches Hela's arrival at the
|
||
|
Observatory and begins a steady descent towards the city.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
25 EXT. SAKAAR - THE WASTELAND SHORE - DAY 25
|
||
|
|
||
|
SUPER WIDE: A sky full of WORMHOLES. Thor, only a spec at
|
||
|
this distance, SHOOTS out of one of these wormholes. He HITS
|
||
|
the surface, causing a CLOUD of dust.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Find Thor on his back surrounded by strange colorful space
|
||
|
wreckage. Looking up, Thor sees a large metal object falling
|
||
|
from a different wormhole! He rolls out of the way. THUD!
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 27.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor runs up a dune to get away from the shower of debris.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor reaches the top of the dune and finds himself looking
|
||
|
down on A BEACH in a strange WASTELAND. Camera scans a filthy
|
||
|
dune littered with SPACE JUNK.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Out across the OCEAN he notices A NIGHTMARE WORMHOLE - a
|
||
|
giant open cylinder of whirling smoke and lightning storms.
|
||
|
|
||
|
A loud noise draws Thor's attention to a HUGE RECTANGULAR
|
||
|
"SCRAPPER" SHIP hauling a crashed SPACE VESSEL out of the
|
||
|
water. Beneath the ship are various SCRAPPERS, masked
|
||
|
humanoids. The ship is BLASTING WEIRD ALIEN MUSIC.
|
||
|
|
||
|
A Scrapper notices Thor, then signals to his crew.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LEAD SCRAPPER
|
||
|
Are you a fighter or are you food?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I'm just passing through.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LEAD SCRAPPER
|
||
|
It is food. On your knees.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor reaches out to summon Mjolnir. A reflex. Nothing.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The LEAD SCRAPPER levels a MAGNO-RIFLE at Thor and WHAP! A
|
||
|
solid metal projectile KNOCKS Thor flat on his back. More
|
||
|
Scrappers attack, throwing nets and firing more projectiles.
|
||
|
Thor tries to swat them away but they keep coming. The rest
|
||
|
of the scrappers move in with iron bats and clubs.
|
||
|
|
||
|
WHOOSH! A second ship arrives, landing nearby. It's cool,
|
||
|
sleek, and dangerous, deserving of its name: WARSONG. It is
|
||
|
also BLASTING DIFFERENT WEIRD ALIEN MUSIC.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The FRONT of Warsong FLIPS OPEN and a GANGPLANK extends down
|
||
|
to the ground. The scrappers stop and stare as we TRACK IN to
|
||
|
a HERO REVEAL of SCRAPPER #142 (S142 for short) - a beautiful
|
||
|
and ruthless asskicker.
|
||
|
|
||
|
S142 lifts a half-empty bottle to her lips and CHUGS it. She
|
||
|
finishes the bottle and smashes it on the side of her ship.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SCRAPPER #142
|
||
|
He's MINE.
|
||
|
|
||
|
She walks down the gangplank... before veering off course and
|
||
|
FALLING straight off into a pile of TRASH. She's PLASTERED.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The Scrappers shrug and start hauling Thor away.
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|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 28.
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||
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|
||
|
SCRAPPER #142 (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Wait!
|
||
|
|
||
|
S142 staggers to her feet, takes a deep breath. She holds on
|
||
|
to a piece of junk as support - some dead beast. Thor
|
||
|
continues to struggle with his captors, tangled in nets.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SCRAPPER #142 (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Wait! He's mine. So if you want
|
||
|
him, you go through me.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The Scrappers start brandishing their weapons.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SCRAPPER
|
||
|
But we've already got him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
S142 CLANGS her metal gauntlets together which activate.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SCRAPPER #142
|
||
|
Alright then I guess I go through
|
||
|
you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LEAD SCRAPPER
|
||
|
More food.
|
||
|
|
||
|
She holds out her fists as if she's operating machinery...
|
||
|
|
||
|
...Warsong WHIRS to life. S142 clenches her fists and we hear
|
||
|
a horrible SCREECHING NOISE as Warsong OPENS FIRE.
|
||
|
|
||
|
She sweeps her arms out in an arc, the spray of gunfire
|
||
|
lasting THREE SECONDS. She bangs her fists again, sending the
|
||
|
ship into IDLE MODE. The Scrappers are now little more than
|
||
|
tiny pieces of litter covering the beach.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor is fixated on this beautiful murderer approaching. One
|
||
|
final HUGE Scrapper comes at her with a bat. S142 casually
|
||
|
GRABS this Scrapper and HURLS him up into the air behind her.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Thank you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
From her belt S142 FLICKS a small glowing disc which LODGES
|
||
|
into Thor's NECK. Far in the background, the Scrapper she
|
||
|
threw finally HITS the ground with a loud THUD.
|
||
|
|
||
|
She holds up a fob device and presses the button - the disc
|
||
|
blinks and Thor is filled with the pain of a thousand
|
||
|
screaming squirrels. He hits the ground, stunned.
|
||
|
|
||
|
S142 DRAGS Thor towards her ship.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 29.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
30 INT. WARSONG SHIP - DAY 30
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor's face SMUSHED up against glass. His eyes are open.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor's POV - THE CAPITAL - an eclectic city composed of
|
||
|
salvaged items from all over the universe.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor is lying in a sort of small GLASS HOLDING CELL beneath
|
||
|
Warsong's COCKPIT. He looks up to see S142 piloting the ship.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor's eyes lock in on her belt, specifically the fob device
|
||
|
she used to activate the Obedience Disk/debilitate him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SCRAPPER #142
|
||
|
This is Scrapper 142. I need
|
||
|
clearance and an audience with the
|
||
|
boss. I've got something special.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Hey! Where are you taking me?
|
||
|
|
||
|
S142 ignores him, takes a swig from the bottle, and then
|
||
|
nonchalantly UNCLIPS the fob from her belt.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Answer me! Hey! I am Thor, son of
|
||
|
Odin. I need to get back to
|
||
|
Asgard.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SCRAPPER #142
|
||
|
Many apologies, your majesty.
|
||
|
|
||
|
S142 ZAPS him and guides her ship towards a COLOSSAL TOWER.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
26 EXT. OUTSKIRTS OF ASGARD - DAY 26
|
||
|
|
||
|
CLOSE ON: Hela, headdress retracted, hair down, her beautiful
|
||
|
face fully visible. We do not see who she is talking to.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
It's come to my attention that you
|
||
|
don't know who I am.
|
||
|
|
||
|
REVEAL THE ARMIES OF ASGARD FACING DOWN HELA.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Standing in front is HOGUN, sword and shield out.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA (CONT'D)
|
||
|
I am Hela, Odin's first born,
|
||
|
Commander of the legions of Asgard,
|
||
|
the rightful heir to the throne,
|
||
|
and the Goddess of Death.
|
||
|
(pause for effect)
|
||
|
(MORE)
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 30.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA (CONT'D)
|
||
|
My father is dead. As are the
|
||
|
princes. You're welcome.
|
||
|
(then:)
|
||
|
We were once the seat of absolute
|
||
|
power in the Cosmos. Our supremacy
|
||
|
was unchallenged, yet Odin stopped
|
||
|
at Nine Realms. Our destiny is to
|
||
|
rule over all others. And I am
|
||
|
here to restore that power. Kneel
|
||
|
before me...and rise into the ranks
|
||
|
of my great conquest.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THE E-GUARDS GET INTO ATTACK FORMATION.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HOGUN
|
||
|
Whoever you are... whatever you've
|
||
|
done, surrender now! Or we will
|
||
|
show you know mercy.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
Whoever I am? Did you listen to a
|
||
|
word I said?
|
||
|
|
||
|
HOGUN
|
||
|
This is your last warning!
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
I thought you'd be happy to see me.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela forms her headdress.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Fine.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The Asgardian archers LOOSE DOZENS OF ARROWS, but-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-Hela advances confidently, DESTROYS the SHIPS and SOARS INTO
|
||
|
THE EINHERJAR! In a symphony of spectacular terror, Hela
|
||
|
proceeds to DECIMATE the entire regiment. A tornado of
|
||
|
carnage, a legendary massacre.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
27 EXT. BELOW THE RAINBOW BRIDGE - SAME 27
|
||
|
|
||
|
While Hela slaughters up above, we tilt up from a boat,
|
||
|
moored at the base of the Observatory, to see the mysterious
|
||
|
figure from earlier is now SCALING the rocks towards the top.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
28 INT. THE OBSERVATORY - CONTINUOUS 28
|
||
|
|
||
|
Now silhouetted in the entrance way, the figure scans the
|
||
|
Observatory. His gaze falls on-
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 31.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
-Bi-Frost's controls. Specifically Heimdall's sword.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
29 EXT. OUTSKIRTS OF ASGARD - CONTINUOUS 29
|
||
|
|
||
|
It's eerily quiet. CLOSE on Hela scanning the battlefield.
|
||
|
100+ slain Einherjar at her feet.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ANGLE on Skurge as he steps forward - awe, admiration, fear.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
Oh, I've missed this. Still, it's
|
||
|
a shame. Good soldiers dying for
|
||
|
nothing...all because they couldn't
|
||
|
see the future. Sad.
|
||
|
(then she sees:)
|
||
|
Oh! Look, still alive.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Reveal Hogun, severely injured but staggering to his feet,
|
||
|
resilient.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Change of heart?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hogun draws a dagger as a last ditch attack.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HOGUN
|
||
|
Go back to whatever cave you crept
|
||
|
out of you evil demoness!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela IMPALES Hogun on a spike. She turns to Skurge.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
Let's go see my palace.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Skurge stares at Hogun before following Hela towards the
|
||
|
palace.
|
||
|
|
||
|
31 OMITTED 31
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
A32 INT. DARK TUNNEL - DAY A32
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR, strapped to the chair, suddenly finds himself slowly
|
||
|
moving forward. After a beat-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-the walls LIGHT UP and a SOOTHING VOICE speaks to him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SOOTHING VOICE (V.O.)
|
||
|
Fear not, for you are found. You
|
||
|
are home, and there is no going
|
||
|
back. No one leaves this place.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor STRUGGLES against his restraints.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 32.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
SOOTHING VOICE (V.O.)
|
||
|
But what is this place? The answer
|
||
|
in Sakaar.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The tunnel walls show images of Sakaar's place in the Cosmos.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SOOTHING VOICE (V.O.)
|
||
|
Surrounded by cosmic gateways,
|
||
|
Sakaar lives on the edge of the
|
||
|
known and unknown.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Images of the wormholes that cover Sakaar's atmosphere.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SOOTHING VOICE (V.O.)
|
||
|
It is the collection point for all
|
||
|
lost and unloved things. Like you.
|
||
|
But here on Sakaar, you are
|
||
|
significant. You are valuable.
|
||
|
Here, you are loved.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
What...the hell?
|
||
|
|
||
|
SOOTHING VOICE (V.O.)
|
||
|
And no one loves you more than the
|
||
|
Grandmaster.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Images of the Grandmaster, in silhouette, arriving on Sakaar.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SOOTHING VOICE (V.O.)
|
||
|
He is the original. The first
|
||
|
lost, and the first found. The
|
||
|
creator of Sakaar and the father of
|
||
|
the Contest of Champions.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Images of the arena where aliens battle to the death.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SOOTHING VOICE (V.O.)
|
||
|
Where once you were nothing, now
|
||
|
you are something. You are the
|
||
|
property of the Grandmaster.
|
||
|
(then:)
|
||
|
Congratulations! You will meet the
|
||
|
Grandmaster in five seconds.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Images around the tunnel begin speeding up. Chaos, violence,
|
||
|
and confusion mixed in with Grandmaster's face.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor, already bewildered, looks on the verge of panic.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SOOTHING VOICE (V.O.)
|
||
|
Prepare yourself. Prepare
|
||
|
yourself. You are now meeting the
|
||
|
Grandmaster.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 33.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor SCREAMS!
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
32 INT. GRANDMASTER'S CHAMBERS - CONTINUOUS 32
|
||
|
|
||
|
Suddenly Thor is somewhere else, surrounded weirdos and
|
||
|
insanely dressed palace guards.
|
||
|
|
||
|
His scream dies down self-consciously.
|
||
|
|
||
|
A musical beat PLAYS in the background.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THE GRANDMASTER, a tall mysterious man in golden robes. He is
|
||
|
looking right at us. He doesn't know what to make of us. He's
|
||
|
curious, thrilled, revolted, and titillated.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Pulling back we see TOPAZ, his trusty guard, at his side. Two
|
||
|
GOLDEN LADIES loiter off to the side. Other strange guests
|
||
|
can be seen in the background. Grandmaster just stares.
|
||
|
|
||
|
S142 stands beside Grandmaster. Finally:
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
He's wonderful.
|
||
|
(then:)
|
||
|
It is a he?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Reveal S142 standing beside Thor.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SCRAPPER #142
|
||
|
It's a he.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
Yeah. I love when you come to visit
|
||
|
142, you bring me the best stuff.
|
||
|
(to Topaz:)
|
||
|
Whenever we get to talking, Topaz,
|
||
|
about Scrapper 142...what do I
|
||
|
always say? "She is the..." and it
|
||
|
starts with a B.
|
||
|
|
||
|
TOPAZ
|
||
|
Trash.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
No, not trash. Were you waiting
|
||
|
just to call her that? It doesn't
|
||
|
start with a "B."
|
||
|
|
||
|
TOPAZ
|
||
|
Booze hag.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 34.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
I'm so sorry. No, "best." I was
|
||
|
thinking about "best."
|
||
|
(to S142:)
|
||
|
Because I always say you're the
|
||
|
best. She brought me my precious
|
||
|
beloved Champion, you know.
|
||
|
|
||
|
TOPAZ
|
||
|
You say that every time she's here.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
What have you brought today? Tell
|
||
|
me.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SCRAPPER #142
|
||
|
A contender.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
A what?
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
I need to go closer. I want a
|
||
|
closer look at this. Can you take
|
||
|
us closer? Thank you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Grandmaster advances on Thor. Examining him closely and
|
||
|
strangely. Then:
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Pay this lady.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Just wait a damn minute. I'm not
|
||
|
for sale.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Using all his might, Thor breaks out of his shackles, but-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-S142 ZAPS him again. Paralyzed by superheated veins.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
Man. He is a fighter.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SCRAPPER #142
|
||
|
I'd take 10 million.
|
||
|
|
||
|
TOPAZ
|
||
|
Tell her she's dreaming.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
For heaven's sake, transfer the
|
||
|
units.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 35.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
Topaz transfers S142 the units. Without sympathy or ceremony,
|
||
|
S142 exits.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
You'll pay for this!
|
||
|
|
||
|
SCRAPPER #142
|
||
|
No, I got paid for this.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor claws at the obedience disk, trying to RIP IT OUT.
|
||
|
|
||
|
He gets some separation from his skin, but the disk is
|
||
|
causing him even more pain. Thor eventually has to let go.
|
||
|
Grandmaster holds up HIS OWN fob device and uses it like a
|
||
|
wand to guide Thor's HOVER CHAIR, which follows Grandmaster
|
||
|
around as he speaks.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
Here's what I wanna know. Who are
|
||
|
you?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I am the God of THUNDER!!!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor THRUSTS his arms into the air but only a tiny bit of
|
||
|
static electricity POPS within Thor's hands.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
Wow. I didn't hear any thunder,
|
||
|
but out of your fingers, was that
|
||
|
like...sparkles?
|
||
|
|
||
|
TOPAZ
|
||
|
We located your cousin.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
Oh good!
|
||
|
(to Thor:)
|
||
|
Yeah, come on. I think you're gonna
|
||
|
like this.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Grandmaster moves Thor's chair to another section where-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-COUSIN CARLO is waiting. He's strapped to a chair like
|
||
|
Thor, and he is terrified.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER (CONT'D)
|
||
|
There he is. Hey, cuz. We almost
|
||
|
couldn't find you. What, have you
|
||
|
been hiding?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Cousin Carlo looks at Thor, cowering in fear.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 36.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Hi.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Carlo only further weeps.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
So...
|
||
|
|
||
|
COUSIN CARLO
|
||
|
Please. I'm sorry.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
Carlo... I pardon you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
COUSIN CARLO
|
||
|
Thank you. Thank you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
You're officially pardoned...from
|
||
|
life.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Grandmaster casually takes Topaz's Sakaarian Guard staff and
|
||
|
JABS it into his cousin's mid-section-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-CAUSING ALL OF HIS FLESH TO MELT OFF HIS SKELETON!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Carlo SHRIEKS IN PAIN before his vocal cords melt. Thor
|
||
|
looks on, in shock.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Oh, my god!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Liquid Carlo spreads towards Grandmaster.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
I'm stepping in it. I'm stepping
|
||
|
in it. Look out!
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
(repulsed)
|
||
|
Oh, the smell.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
What does it smell like?
|
||
|
|
||
|
TOPAZ
|
||
|
Burnt toast.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
What happened to my manners? I
|
||
|
haven't properly introduced myself.
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|
Come on. Follow me.
|
||
|
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|
Grandmaster gives Topaz back her staff.
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|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 37.
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|
Grandmaster and Thor arrive at a space where A GROUP OF
|
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|
MUSICIANS PLAY STRANGE INSTRUMENTS (the source of the music
|
||
|
thus far). Grandmaster joins them, still speaking to Thor.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Grandmaster begins PLAYING a strange piano-like contraption,
|
||
|
riffing a melody over the existing music.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER (CONT'D)
|
||
|
My name is Grandmaster. I preside
|
||
|
over a little harlequinade called
|
||
|
the Contest of Champions. People
|
||
|
come from far and wide to
|
||
|
unwillingly participate in it. And
|
||
|
you, my friend, might just be part
|
||
|
of the new cast. What do you say
|
||
|
to that?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
We're not friends, and I don't give
|
||
|
a shit about your games! I'm going
|
||
|
back to Asgard!
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
(amused)
|
||
|
Ass-gard?
|
||
|
(then:)
|
||
|
One, two, three, four.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Grandmaster really gets into his PLAYING. Grandmaster's
|
||
|
guards and VIP guests start MOVING TO THE MUSIC.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor takes a moment to look around at this bizarre spectacle
|
||
|
unfolding around him. In doing so, he zeroes in on one
|
||
|
particular group of VIPS, specifically...
|
||
|
|
||
|
...LOKI! He's lounging and dressed in Sakaarian garb.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
There was a wormhole in space and
|
||
|
time beneath me. At that moment, I
|
||
|
let go.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Loki!? Loki! Over here!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki notices Thor. Blanches a little. Sidles closer so as
|
||
|
to speak to Thor without looking like he's speaking to Thor.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
Excuse me one second.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Loki!
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 38.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki hustles over to Thor, SHUSHING him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
What? You're alive?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Yes, of course I'm alive.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
What are you doing here?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
What do you mean, what am I doing?
|
||
|
I'm stuck in this stupid chair.
|
||
|
Where's your chair?
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
I didn't get a chair.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Get me out of this one.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
I can't.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
What?
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
I've made friends with this man.
|
||
|
He's called the Grandmaster.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Oh, he's crazy!
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
I've gained his favor.. The Bi-
|
||
|
Frost brought me out here weeks
|
||
|
ago.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Weeks ago? I just got here.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Suddenly Grandmaster is right next to them.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
What are you whispering about?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Both Thor and Loki react, startled.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Time works real different around
|
||
|
these parts.
|
||
|
(MORE)
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 39.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER (CONT'D)
|
||
|
On any other world, I'd be like,
|
||
|
millions of years old. But here on
|
||
|
Sakaar...
|
||
|
|
||
|
Grandmaster beholds himself. Then turns to Loki. A truly
|
||
|
uncomfortable silence.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER (CONT'D)
|
||
|
In any case, you know this... You
|
||
|
call yourself Lord of Thunder?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
God of Thunder. Tell him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
I've never met this man in my life.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
He's my brother.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
Adopted.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
Is he any kind of a fighter?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki shrugs, gives the universal gesture for "so-so."
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
You take this thing out of my neck
|
||
|
and I'll show you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
Now listen to that. He's
|
||
|
threatening me. Hey, Sparkles,
|
||
|
here's the deal. If you wanna get
|
||
|
back to Ass-place, Assberg...
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Asgard.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
Any contender who defeats my
|
||
|
champion, their freedom they shall
|
||
|
win.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Fine. Then point me in the
|
||
|
direction of whoever's ass I have
|
||
|
to kick.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
That's what I call, contender!
|
||
|
Direction would be this way, Lord.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 40.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Loki!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Guards arrive. They haul Thor up and escort him out.
|
||
|
|
||
|
33 OMITTED 33
|
||
|
|
||
|
34 INT. THE ARENA - GLADIATOR CELLS - NIGHT 34
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor is shoved into a spacious cell where other alien
|
||
|
prisoners are lurking in the back.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The thick cell door SLAMS SHUT behind Thor. Thor gets up and
|
||
|
immediately begins THROWING his shoulder into the door. The
|
||
|
door doesn't budge, not even a little.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Behind him, KORG, a hulking Kronan rock alien, speaks up.
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG
|
||
|
Hey! Take it easy man!
|
||
|
(Thor looks back)
|
||
|
Over here. The pile of rocks
|
||
|
waving at you. Yeah I'm actually a
|
||
|
thing, I'm a being. Allow me to
|
||
|
introduce myself, my name is Korg.
|
||
|
I'm kind of like the leader in
|
||
|
here. I'm made of rocks, as you
|
||
|
can see, but don't let that
|
||
|
intimidate you. You don't need to
|
||
|
be afraid unless you're made of
|
||
|
scissors.
|
||
|
(GIGGLES to himself)
|
||
|
Just a little rock-paper-scissor
|
||
|
joke for you. This is my very good
|
||
|
friend over here, Miek. He's an
|
||
|
insect and has knives for hands.
|
||
|
|
||
|
MIEK, a slug alien inside a robot exoskeleton, says hello by
|
||
|
doing some karate moves.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
You're a Kronan, aren't you?
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG
|
||
|
That I am.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
How'd you end up in here?
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG
|
||
|
Well, I tried to start a revolution
|
||
|
but didn't print enough pamphlets,
|
||
|
so hardly anyone turned up.
|
||
|
(MORE)
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 41.
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Except for my mom and her
|
||
|
boyfriiend, who I hate. As
|
||
|
punishment, I was forced to be in
|
||
|
here and become a gladiator. Bit
|
||
|
of a promotional disaster.
|
||
|
(secretive)
|
||
|
But I'm actually organizing another
|
||
|
revolution. I don't know if you'd
|
||
|
be interested in something like
|
||
|
that. Do you reckon you'd be
|
||
|
interested?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor tries to run ahead down the circle and loops back around
|
||
|
behind Korg.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
How did you...
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG
|
||
|
Yeah, no. This whole thing is a
|
||
|
circle. But not a real circle,
|
||
|
more like a freaky circle.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
This doesn't make any sense.
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG
|
||
|
No, nothing makes sense here. The
|
||
|
only thing that does make sense, is
|
||
|
that nothing makes sense.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Has anyone here fought the
|
||
|
Grandmaster's Champion?
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG
|
||
|
Doug has. Doug!
|
||
|
(realizes)
|
||
|
Oh, right, Doug's dead. That's
|
||
|
right. Everyone who fights the
|
||
|
Grandmaster's champion perishes.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
What about you? You're made of
|
||
|
rocks.
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG
|
||
|
Perishable rocks.
|
||
|
(a pebble FALLS OFF)
|
||
|
There you go. Another one gone.
|
||
|
Yeah, no, I just do the smaller
|
||
|
fights, warm up the crowd and
|
||
|
whatnot. Wait. You're not gonna
|
||
|
face him, are you?
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 42.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Yes I am. Fight him, win, and get
|
||
|
the hell out of this place.
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG
|
||
|
That's exactly what Doug used to
|
||
|
say. See you later, new Doug.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Korg walks away and approaches Miek.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
A35 EXT. ASGARD - STREETS - SUNSET A35
|
||
|
|
||
|
The streets of Asgard are cold and silent, save for the
|
||
|
occasional distant sounds and screams of a city under siege.
|
||
|
|
||
|
35 OMITTED 35
|
||
|
|
||
|
A36 INT. THRONE ROOM - CONTINUOUS A36
|
||
|
|
||
|
Moving down the throne room corridor we see-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-SEVERAL DEAD EINHERJAR GUARDS.
|
||
|
|
||
|
One guy is still alive, desperately trying to crawl away.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SHLNK! A black blade finishes him off.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Reveal HELA and SKURGE looking down at the carnage.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela directs her attention to FRESCOS ON THE CEILING. Like
|
||
|
the Sistine Chapel, except these depict Asgard's shining
|
||
|
influence on the Nine Realms. Bountiful harvests, shepherds
|
||
|
with full flocks, common folk throwing parades for Asgard's
|
||
|
army, etc.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
Does no one remember me?
|
||
|
(awaiting an answer)
|
||
|
Has no one been taught our history?
|
||
|
Look at these lies. Goblets and
|
||
|
garden parties? Peace treaties?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela leads them towards the throne.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Odin... proud to have it... ashamed
|
||
|
of how he got it.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela FIRES SPIKES into the ceiling, RIPPING DOWN plaster.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Beneath the surface are older Frescos. These ones are far
|
||
|
more dark and sinister.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 43.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
Soldiers in battle. Blood. A giant war wolf. Young Odin
|
||
|
and young Hela. Slaves building the palace.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Skurge is at least somewhat disturbed by this.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA (CONT'D)
|
||
|
We were unstoppable. I was his
|
||
|
weapon in the conquest that built
|
||
|
Asgard's empire. One by one, the
|
||
|
realms became ours.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela turns from the murals to address Skurge.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA (CONT'D)
|
||
|
But then, simply because my
|
||
|
ambition outgrew his...he banished
|
||
|
me, caged me, locked me away like
|
||
|
an animal. Before that, Asgard's
|
||
|
warriors were honored, their bodies
|
||
|
buried as heroes beneath this very
|
||
|
place.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela beckons Skurge to follow her.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
B36 INT. ODIN'S VAULT - CONTINUOUS B36
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela enters the vault and descends the stairs towards the
|
||
|
magical items.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SKURGE
|
||
|
Odin's treasures.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SKURGE follows her. Hela walks towards the Infinity Gauntlet.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
Fake.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela KNOCKS the gauntlet off its pedestal.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Most of the stuff in here is fake.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Next: The Casket of Ancient Winter.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Or weak.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Next: Surtur's skull.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Smaller than I thought it would be.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Next: The Tesseract. She hesitates:
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 44.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA (CONT'D)
|
||
|
That's not bad?
|
||
|
(notices:)
|
||
|
But this... The Eternal Flame.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THE ETERNAL FLAME flickers in its chalice.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela DIGS HER HAND INTO THE ETERNAL FLAME. She pulls her
|
||
|
hand out now cupping GREEN FIRE, like a torch.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela approaches a large circular RUNE ETCHING on the floor.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela manifests a huge CLAW HAMMER. She SMASHES THROUGH THE
|
||
|
RUNES ON THE FLOOR, creating a gaping chasm.
|
||
|
|
||
|
She looks at Skurge.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Want to see what true power looks
|
||
|
like?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela looks down into the darkness below.
|
||
|
|
||
|
With her hand aflame, Hela JUMPS down into the chasm!
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
C36 INT. HIDDEN ASGARDIAN CATACOMBS - DAY C36
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela LANDS like a bad ass.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Dust settles. The light of Hela's hand torch reveals a stone
|
||
|
crypt. An ornate burial place for the heroes of Old Asgard.
|
||
|
|
||
|
We can see countless rotted skeletons in badass ancient
|
||
|
Asgardian armor. Hela's regiment.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Among them, A MASSIVE WOLF'S SKELETON. TERRIFYING AND
|
||
|
MONSTROUS, COLOSSAL CHAINS AROUND THE BONES OF ITS PAWS.
|
||
|
FENRIS.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela approaches Fenris' skeleton.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
Fenris. My darling, what have they
|
||
|
done to you?
|
||
|
|
||
|
She lifts her flaming hand above her head. She slams her hand
|
||
|
into the ground.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA (CONT'D)
|
||
|
With the Eternal Flame, you are
|
||
|
reborn!
|
||
|
|
||
|
The fire spreads out, covering Fenris and Hela's old army.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 45.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
As the fire covers the skeletons, they SHUDDER TO LIFE.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA (CONT'D)
|
||
|
I've missed you. I've missed you
|
||
|
all.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA'S BUTCHERS, rise up before their commander.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ABOVE: Skurge looks down, worried.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BELOW: A sinister light returns to Fenris's eyes as he
|
||
|
stands proudly before his master, allowing her to pet the fur
|
||
|
of his terrifying face.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
C36A INT. THE ARENA - GLADIATOR CELLS - NIGHT C36A
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor sits against the wall. Quietly praying.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Odin, I bid you take your place in
|
||
|
the halls of Valhalla...
|
||
|
(then:)
|
||
|
Where the brave shall live forever.
|
||
|
Nor shall we mourn but rejoice-
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D) LOKI (O.S.)
|
||
|
-for those that have died the -for those that have died the
|
||
|
glorious death. glorious death.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Reveal Loki standing across the cell. Thor gives him a hard
|
||
|
look.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI (CONT'D)
|
||
|
It hurts, doesn't it? Being lied
|
||
|
to. Being told you're one thing and
|
||
|
then learning it's all a fiction.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor picks up some stones that have fallen from Korg's leg
|
||
|
and casually starts throwing them through Loki's illusion.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI (CONT'D)
|
||
|
You didn't think I'd really come
|
||
|
and see you, did you? This place
|
||
|
is disgusting.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor throws another stone through Loki.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Does this mean you don't want my
|
||
|
help?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor throws another stone through Loki.
|
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|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 46.
|
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|
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||
|
|
||
|
LOKI (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Look, I couldn't jeopardize my
|
||
|
position with Grandmaster, it took
|
||
|
me time to win his trust. He's a
|
||
|
lunatic, but he can be amenable.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor throws another stone through Loki. Disinterested.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI (CONT'D)
|
||
|
What I'm telling you is, you could
|
||
|
join me at the Grandmaster's side.
|
||
|
Perhaps, in time, an accident
|
||
|
befalls the Grandmaster, and
|
||
|
then...
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki gestures: "we take over."
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor throws another stone through Loki. Bored.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI (CONT'D)
|
||
|
You're not seriously thinking of
|
||
|
going back, are you? Our sister
|
||
|
destroyed your hammer like a piece
|
||
|
of glass. She's stronger than both
|
||
|
of us. She's stronger than you.
|
||
|
You don't stand a chance. Do you
|
||
|
understand what I'm saying to you?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor just scowls.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Fine. I guess I'll just have to go
|
||
|
it alone. Like I've always done.
|
||
|
(Thor smirks)
|
||
|
Would you say something?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Now out of stones, Thor looks around the floor for more.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Say something!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor finally looks right at Loki, speaks fast and curt:
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
What would you like me to say? You
|
||
|
faked your own death, you stole the
|
||
|
throne, stripped Odin of his power,
|
||
|
stranded him on Earth...
|
||
|
(on Loki:)
|
||
|
-to die, releasing the Goddess of
|
||
|
Death.
|
||
|
(back to Thor:)
|
||
|
(MORE)
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 47.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Have I said enough, or do you do
|
||
|
you want me to go further back than
|
||
|
the past two days?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki's eyes burn. Thor stares coldly at him. Loki tries to
|
||
|
compose himself.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
You know, I haven't seen this
|
||
|
Beloved Champion he talks of, but
|
||
|
I've heard he's astonishingly
|
||
|
savage. I've placed a large wager
|
||
|
against you tomorrow. Don't let me
|
||
|
down.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki SHIMMERS, and his illusion vanishes. Korg runs in to
|
||
|
try to kick him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG
|
||
|
Piss off, ghost!
|
||
|
(then:)
|
||
|
He's freaking gone.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
40 INT. THE ARENA - RECEIVING AREA 40
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor, Korg, and a gaggle of other prisoners/fighters have
|
||
|
been led from their cells to a PRE-FIGHT HOLDING AREA.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Korg and Thor are by the weapons rack.
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG
|
||
|
Yuck! There's Still someone's hair
|
||
|
and blood all over this. Guys, can
|
||
|
you clean up the weapons once you
|
||
|
finish your fight? Disgusting
|
||
|
slobs.
|
||
|
(then:)
|
||
|
Thor...wanna use a big wooden fork?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
No.
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG
|
||
|
Yeah, not really useful unless
|
||
|
you're fighting off three vampires
|
||
|
that were huddled together.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I really wish I had my hammer.
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG
|
||
|
Hammer?
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 48.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Quite unique. It was made from
|
||
|
this special metal from the heart
|
||
|
of a dying star. And when I spun
|
||
|
it really, really fast it gave me
|
||
|
the ability to fly.
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG
|
||
|
You rode a hammer?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
No, I didn't ride the hammer.
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG
|
||
|
The hammer rode you on your back?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
No. I used to spin it really fast,
|
||
|
and it would pull me off the...
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG
|
||
|
Oh my God. The hammer pulled you
|
||
|
off?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
The ground. It would pull me off
|
||
|
the ground, up into the air, and I
|
||
|
would fly. Every time I threw it,
|
||
|
it would always come back to me.
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG
|
||
|
Sounds like you had a pretty
|
||
|
special and intimate relationship
|
||
|
wiht this hammer and that losing it
|
||
|
was almost comparable to losing a
|
||
|
loved one.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
That's a nice way of putting it.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor spots S142 dealing at the bar. He's once again eyeing
|
||
|
the fob device clipped to her belt. Scowls.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SCRAPPER #142
|
||
|
I said they're mine.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
See her, the one that put me in
|
||
|
here.
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG
|
||
|
Yeah, Scrapper 142. She's strong.
|
||
|
And she drinks a lot.
|
||
|
(MORE)
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 49.
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Gotta watch out for those
|
||
|
Asgardians, man. They are hard to
|
||
|
perish.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Asgardian?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor breaks away from the line and runs to S142.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Hey! Hey!
|
||
|
|
||
|
S142 holds up the fob.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Do not zap me with that thing. I
|
||
|
just wanna talk. Asgard is in
|
||
|
danger.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor then notices a series of PATTERNED SCARS, or BRANDS, on
|
||
|
her forearms. It's a moment of recognition and disbelief.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
My God, you're a Valkyrie. I used
|
||
|
to wanna be a Valkyrie when I was
|
||
|
younger...until I found out that
|
||
|
you were all women. There's
|
||
|
nothing wrong with women, of
|
||
|
course. I love women. Sometimes a
|
||
|
little too much. Not in a creepy
|
||
|
way, just more of a respectful
|
||
|
appreciation. I think it's great
|
||
|
that there is an elite force of
|
||
|
women warriors. It's about time.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SCRAPPER #142
|
||
|
Are you done?
|
||
|
|
||
|
WARDEN (O.S.)
|
||
|
Lord of Thunder, you're up.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Please, help me. I need your help.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SCRAPPER #142
|
||
|
Bye.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Fine, then you must be a traitor or
|
||
|
a coward because the Valkyrie are
|
||
|
sworn to protect the throne.
|
||
|
|
||
|
S142 finally turns her attention to Thor, intense.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 50.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
SCRAPPER #142
|
||
|
Listen closely, your majesty. This
|
||
|
is Sakaar, not Asgard. And I'm a
|
||
|
scrapper, not a Valkyrie.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Guards swarm Thor, dragging him back
|
||
|
|
||
|
WARDEN (O.S.)
|
||
|
Bring him in for processing!
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
And no one escapes this place. So
|
||
|
you're gonna die anyway.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Despite her denial, Thor has clearly hit a nerve. And from
|
||
|
now on we will refer to Scrapper #142 as VALKYRIE.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Valkyrie takes her booze and walks away. Thor is dragged
|
||
|
away, passing Korg and the other prisoners.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
40A INT. PROCESSING ROOM - DAY 40A
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor is strapped to a chair. Reveal a weird alien BARBER
|
||
|
(Stan Lee cameo) holding up some rusty shears.
|
||
|
|
||
|
STAN LEE
|
||
|
Now, don't you move. My hands
|
||
|
ain't as steady as they used to be.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
By Odin's beard, you shall not cut
|
||
|
my hair... lest you feel the wrath
|
||
|
of the might Thor.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Barber activates a menacing CUTTING TOOL. Thor freaks out.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Please. Please, kind sir, do not
|
||
|
cut my hair! No!
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
40B INT. THE ARENA - NIGHT 40B
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hundreds of thousands of spectators packed into the stadium
|
||
|
seats. Dozens of starships are parked above the arena.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Find THE GRANDMASTER'S LUXURY SUITE, a VIP box attached to
|
||
|
the fighting area. The Golden Ladies are in attendance.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki lounges in the suite, taking wagers on the fight card.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Grandmaster walks out into the center of the arena. Suddenly-
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 51.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
-THE GRANDMASTER GROWS TO 60-FEET TALL! This enlarged
|
||
|
projection of Grandmaster addresses the audience.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
Wow! Look at all of you. What a
|
||
|
show, WHAT-A-NIGHT! Who's having
|
||
|
fun? Please, I'm your host. Big
|
||
|
round of applause for all of our
|
||
|
undercard competitors... who died
|
||
|
so gruesomely. Good sports. What a
|
||
|
show! What a night! This is what
|
||
|
you've come for and so have I.
|
||
|
(applause)
|
||
|
And now, without further ado...
|
||
|
it's main event time!!
|
||
|
(INSANE APPLAUSE)
|
||
|
Making his first appearance, though
|
||
|
he looks quite promising, got a
|
||
|
couple of tricks up his sleeve.
|
||
|
I'll say no more, see what you
|
||
|
think. Ladies and gentlemen...
|
||
|
(LAUGHTER from the crowd)
|
||
|
I give to you...Lord of Thunder!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Enter Thor. Gladiator Thor. Shaved head, trimmed beard,
|
||
|
minimalist armor, covered in weapons. Two swords on his
|
||
|
back, giant mace in one hand, spiked shield in the other.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Watch out for his fingers. They
|
||
|
make sparks.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor looks up at the throngs of SCREAMING FANS. And then...
|
||
|
|
||
|
...puts on his helmet. A badass gladiator variation of his
|
||
|
classic winged helm. Thor is ready to rumble.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ABOVE: Find Valkyrie in her Warsong ship, parked amongst the
|
||
|
other tailgaters. She POPS open a bottle of booze. Drinks.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Okay, this is it. Let's get ready
|
||
|
to welcome this guy. Here he comes.
|
||
|
He is a creature. What can we say
|
||
|
about him? Well, he's unique.
|
||
|
There's none like him. I feel a
|
||
|
special connection with him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Suddenly the floor beneath Thor's feet LOWERS. A slow,
|
||
|
tension-building GRIND as he sees-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-A DOOR across the arena. Bigger and bigger.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 52.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
The entire crowd is on its feet. Palpable anticipation. The
|
||
|
spotlights change to bright stadium lights.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER (CONT'D)
|
||
|
He's undefeated. HE'S THE
|
||
|
REIGNING...HE'S THE DEFENDING...
|
||
|
Ladies and gentlemen... I give
|
||
|
you...
|
||
|
|
||
|
KA-BOOM! EXPLODING through a door is the Champion...
|
||
|
|
||
|
...THE INCREDIBLE HULK! He wears an armored shoulder guard
|
||
|
and a Spartan helmet. He carries a warhammer in one hand and
|
||
|
a battleaxe in the other. Hulk POUNDS his chest and ROARS,
|
||
|
further energizing an already frenzied crowd.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Meanwhile, the sight of Hulk makes Thor's arms drop to his
|
||
|
sides along with his jaw dropping to the ground. And then-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-Thor LAUGHS his ass off. Like, "that's my buddy over there!"
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Yes!
|
||
|
|
||
|
IN THE VIP BOX: Loki goes ghost white. Traumatic memories of
|
||
|
being Hulk-smashed flood his brain. Gone is all his joy.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
I have to get off this planet.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki tries to exit, but the Grandmaster stops him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
Hey, hey, hey! Where are you going?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Grandmaster plops Loki down in the front row, right against
|
||
|
the glass. Loki casually tries to hide his face in his hand.
|
||
|
|
||
|
IN THE ARENA:
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Hey! We know each other. He's a
|
||
|
friend from work.
|
||
|
(to Hulk:)
|
||
|
Where have you been? Everybody
|
||
|
thought you were dead. So much has
|
||
|
happened since I last saw you. I
|
||
|
lost my hammer. Like, yesterday,
|
||
|
so that's still pretty fresh.
|
||
|
(then:)
|
||
|
Loki! Loki's alive. Can you
|
||
|
believe it? He's up there.
|
||
|
(waves to Loki:)
|
||
|
Loki! Look who it is!
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 53.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki is petrified.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Banner, I never thought I would say
|
||
|
this, but I'm happy to see you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
IN THE ARENA: Hulk is still eyeballing Thor while the
|
||
|
capacity crowd CHANTS insanely for "HULK! HULK! HULK!"
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Banner. Hey, Banner!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk's face grimaces and contorts, suppressing puny Banner.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
NO BANNER! ONLY HULK!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk CHARGES at Thor. Insanely fast.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
What are you doing? It's me.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor DODGES the first few attacks, but then Hulk SHATTERS his
|
||
|
shield and sends Thor FLYING.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor draws a sword and STABS it into the ground to slow his
|
||
|
momentum. Draws the other sword and faces off against Hulk.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Banner, we're friends. This is
|
||
|
crazy. I don't want to hurt you!
|
||
|
|
||
|
They engage again. Hulk KICKS Thor, sending him SLAMMING
|
||
|
into the wall.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
Here we go.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor jumps down just in time to avoid Hulk's warhammer, which
|
||
|
HITS so hard that it remains lodged in the wall.
|
||
|
|
||
|
With Hulk charging again, Thor RIPS the warhammer out of the
|
||
|
wall and WALLOPS Hulk with it.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk goes CRASHING alongside the arena. He ends up sprawled
|
||
|
out in a pile of rubble, slightly dazed.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER (CONT'D)
|
||
|
What?
|
||
|
|
||
|
ABOVE: Val is watching through a set of high-tech
|
||
|
binoculars. She reacts to Thor, reluctantly impressed.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 54.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor advances on Hulk with all the swagger. He takes off his
|
||
|
helmet and CALLS OUT to Hulk, provoking him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Hey, big guy. The sun's getting
|
||
|
real low.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk takes off his helmet. Scowling. Teeth GRINDING.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
That's it. The sun's going down.
|
||
|
I won't hurt you anymore. No one
|
||
|
will.
|
||
|
|
||
|
WHOOSH! Thor is suddenly dragged out of frame. Hulk has
|
||
|
Thor by the leg and is WHIPPING him against the arena floor.
|
||
|
Over and over and over again.
|
||
|
|
||
|
IN THE VIP BOX: Loki's whole mood shifts. The joy returns to
|
||
|
his face, like "everything will be alright!" Loki LAUGHS.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
Yes! That's how it feels!
|
||
|
(to Grandmaster:)
|
||
|
I'm just a huge fan of the sport.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor is SMASHED into the floor face first.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk ROARS and RUSHES Thor with his axe.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
All right. Screw it.
|
||
|
|
||
|
CLANG! The giant weapons CLASH! Now Thor and Hulk are
|
||
|
fighting warhammer versus battleaxe...
|
||
|
|
||
|
...and Thor is winning! He's getting the better of these
|
||
|
exchanges, using Hulk's aggression against him. Thor
|
||
|
continually KNOCKS and/or TRIPS Hulk off his feet while
|
||
|
evading all of Hulk's best attacks.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
I know you're in there, Banner.
|
||
|
I'll get you out!
|
||
|
|
||
|
One particular vicious blow DISARMS Hulk, and Thor BREAKS
|
||
|
Hulk's axe with the warhammer. Thor then BASHES Hulk in the
|
||
|
chest, KNOCKING him to the ground.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
What's the matter with you? You're
|
||
|
embarrassing me! I told them we
|
||
|
were friends!
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 55.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
GROWLING, Hulk stands up and HITS Thor with a straight jab
|
||
|
that sends Thor TUMBLING across the arena. Hulk immediately
|
||
|
LEAPS after him and LANDS ON Thor!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk is now on top of Thor as they slide across the arena,
|
||
|
just PUMMELING him with punches. Left-right-left-right.
|
||
|
Thor's head snaps back and forth.
|
||
|
|
||
|
In the carnage, Thor sees VISIONS OF ODIN. Then-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-his eyes GLOW WHITE WITH ELECTRICITY. Like an instinctual
|
||
|
defense mechanism, Thor suddenly KNOCKS HULK BACK WITH A
|
||
|
BURST OF LIGHTNING!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Seething with electricity, Thor springs to his feet and then
|
||
|
BLASTS HULK WITH A MASSIVE LIGHTNING PUNCH! Hulk is LAUNCHED
|
||
|
BACKWARDS and Thor hits the ground HARD.
|
||
|
|
||
|
CROWD
|
||
|
Thunder! Thunder! Thunder!
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG
|
||
|
Thunder! Thunder! Thunder!
|
||
|
|
||
|
The crowd gets hushed. They've never seen this before.
|
||
|
|
||
|
IN THE VIP BOX: Grandmaster is pissed. Loki is amazed.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk and Thor stagger to their feet. Thor looks at himself,
|
||
|
a little surprised. There are still small charges of
|
||
|
lightning CRACKLING through his veins.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Meanwhile, Hulk RUMBLES towards Thor and they're at it again,
|
||
|
close-quarters boxing. Thor is winning the exchanges,
|
||
|
landing BRUTAL PUNCHES to Hulk's body. And then suddenly-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-BZZZ! The Grandmaster ZAPS him with the Obedience Disk fob!
|
||
|
Thor drops, totally caught off guard!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk plants his feet and JUMPS! He ZOOMS UP, rocketing out
|
||
|
of the arena, up-up-up into the sky! At the apex of his jump
|
||
|
Hulk clenches his fist and begins a missile-like descent.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Val sees this from her ship and decides to take off, like
|
||
|
"This fight is over, time to beat traffic."
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Another day, another Doug.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Down below, Thor groggily turns over. He does so just in
|
||
|
time to see Hulk coming at him like an atom bomb!
|
||
|
|
||
|
No time to avoid it. KA-BOOM!!! Right before impact Thor's
|
||
|
eyes go lightning white. Hulk HITS Thor like a meteor.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 56.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
The impact knocks Thor unconscious and we CUT TO BLACK.
|
||
|
Linger on darkness for a few beats...and then:
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
36 INT. THRONE ROOM - SUNSET 36
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela sits on the throne trying to get comfortable, headdress
|
||
|
& cowl off. Skurge stands at the foot of the throne.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
What is that noise?
|
||
|
|
||
|
SKURGE
|
||
|
The common folk aren't exactly
|
||
|
falling in line. There's a
|
||
|
resistance trying to knock down the
|
||
|
front gates.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela sends her BUTCHER TROOPS to deal with it.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
Tell me about yourself, Skurge.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SKURGE
|
||
|
Well, me dad was a stonemason, me
|
||
|
mum was-
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
(interrupts)
|
||
|
I'll just stop you there. What I
|
||
|
meant was what is your ambition?
|
||
|
|
||
|
SKURGE
|
||
|
I just want a chance to prove
|
||
|
myself.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
Recognition.
|
||
|
(then:)
|
||
|
When I was young every great King
|
||
|
had an executioner. Not just to
|
||
|
execute people, but also to execute
|
||
|
their vision. But mainly to
|
||
|
execute people. Still a great
|
||
|
honor.
|
||
|
(beat)
|
||
|
I was Odin's executioner.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela holds out her hand and uses her powers to FORM A DOUBLE-
|
||
|
SIDED OBSIDIAN AXE, which she offers to Skurge.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA (CONT'D)
|
||
|
And you will be my executioner.
|
||
|
Let's begin our conquest.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 57.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
37 OMITTED 37
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
41 OMITTED 41
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
42 OMITTED 42
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
44 EXT. RAINBOW BRIDGE - DAY 44
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela and Skurge arrive at the Observatory, army in tow.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
Skurge, where's the sword?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Reveal that the Bi-Frost sword is missing.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA (CONT'D)
|
||
|
That sword is the key to opening
|
||
|
the Bi-Frost.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela thinks, seething.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA (CONT'D)
|
||
|
These people you mentioned, the
|
||
|
ones who aren't falling into line.
|
||
|
Round them up.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
45 OMITTED 45
|
||
|
|
||
|
AA46 OMITTED AA46
|
||
|
|
||
|
AB46 OMITTED AB46
|
||
|
|
||
|
46 EXT. ASGARD - MOUNTAIN CREEK - DAY 46
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
A46 OMITTED A46
|
||
|
|
||
|
SPLASH! Boots running across the shallow water. We meet a
|
||
|
family of refugees from the city. FATHER, MOTHER, SON (14),
|
||
|
and young daughter (8). They're RUNNING FOR THEIR LIVES.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hot on their heels are a pair of Hela's sinister Butchers,
|
||
|
hunting like a pack of wolves.
|
||
|
|
||
|
After scrambling through a grove of trees the family make
|
||
|
their way through a narrow pass. The Butchers are hot on
|
||
|
their heels, their growls getting louder behind them when -
|
||
|
BAM! The son runs right into a tall, immovable object...
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 58.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
HEIMDALL! No regal armor, no golden helm. This Heimdall has a
|
||
|
thick beard and is wrapped in a cloak. The rest of the family
|
||
|
arrive, desperation.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HEIMDALL
|
||
|
Excuse me.
|
||
|
|
||
|
In one swift motion Heimdall draws the BI-FROST SWORD, steps
|
||
|
forward and SLASHES through the Butchers, ending them.
|
||
|
|
||
|
He then turns to the family, gestures for them to follow him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HEIMDALL (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Sorry about that. These bloody
|
||
|
things are everywhere. Come on.
|
||
|
|
||
|
47 OMITTED 47
|
||
|
|
||
|
48 EXT. ASGARD - MOUNTAIN RAVINE - DAY 48
|
||
|
|
||
|
Heimdall approaches the steep face of the mountain. Carved
|
||
|
into the rock is YGGDRASIL, the world tree. Heimdall kneels,
|
||
|
whispers a few words under his breath, and... A HUGE SECTION
|
||
|
OF THE MOUNTAIN FACE VANISHES IN A SHIMMERING ILLUSION!
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
49 INT. STRONGHOLD - DAY 49
|
||
|
|
||
|
It's busy with activity - hundreds of Asgardians who fled the
|
||
|
city after Hela's invasion are living here. Men, women, and
|
||
|
children. Strong and weak, young and old.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Heimdall turns to the family, even manages a smile.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HEIMDALL
|
||
|
You'll be safe here.
|
||
|
|
||
|
They enter the stronghold. As the doors SHUT we go to-
|
||
|
|
||
|
50 OMITTED 50
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
A51 OMITTED A51
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
51 INT. HULK'S WARRIOR SUITE - DAY 51
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor's eyes POP OPEN. He's lying in a heap on the ground,
|
||
|
still dirty, bruised, and beat up.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor is being tended to by TWO SAKAARIAN GLADIATOR NURSES who
|
||
|
are swabbing his wounds. This freaks him out, which results
|
||
|
in startled thrashing. That freaks out the two Gladiator
|
||
|
nurses, which results in them RUNNING AWAY.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 59.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor starts to get up, but then winces. He moves slowly.
|
||
|
|
||
|
He's in a GIANT ROOM with stark graphic patterns on the
|
||
|
walls. With a few achy grimaces, Thor stands up and wanders
|
||
|
around. There's furniture, large cushions, and a sleeping
|
||
|
area enclosed by the SKULL of a giant beast.
|
||
|
|
||
|
NOISE behind him. Thor follows the noise to find-
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk having eased himself into a large steaming JACUZZI. Thor
|
||
|
looks at him quizzically. Hulk isn't angry. He's RELAXED,
|
||
|
but he's not turning into Banner.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Are we cool?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk grunts. I guess so.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
It's Hulk in a hot tub.
|
||
|
(then:)
|
||
|
How long have you been like that?
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
Like what?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Like this. Big, green, ...stupid.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
Hulk always Hulk.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor takes this in, and then walks over to a window that
|
||
|
looks out across the city. Does some spatial math, realizes:
|
||
|
Thor looks back out the window.
|
||
|
|
||
|
He sees a ramshackle SPACESHIP taking off and ROCKETING
|
||
|
skyward. Higher and higher, it's going for a wormhole when-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-BOOM! One of Grandmaster's Palace Patrol ships, more modern
|
||
|
and heavy duty, BLOWS it out of the sky.
|
||
|
|
||
|
On Thor, wheels turning. He turns to Hulk.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
How'd you get here?
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
Winning.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
You mean cheating?
|
||
|
(re: Obedience Disk)
|
||
|
(MORE)
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 60.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Were they wearing one of these when
|
||
|
you won? How'd you arrive here?
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
Quinjet.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk mimes a plane landing in the water.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Yes. Where is the Quinjet now?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk stands up, and exits the hot tub, naked.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
That's naked. He's very naked.
|
||
|
It's in my brain now.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk points out the window.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
Quinjet.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor sees the Quinjet in a massive alien junkyard.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Yes! I'm getting us out of here.
|
||
|
This is a terrible, awful place.
|
||
|
You're gonna love Asgard. It's
|
||
|
big. It's golden. Shiny.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk sits on his bed, eating a pumpkin.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
Hulk stay.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
No, no, no. My people need me to
|
||
|
get back to Asgard. We must
|
||
|
prevent Ragnarok.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
Rag-na-ruh?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
The prophesied death of my home
|
||
|
world, the end of days, it's the
|
||
|
end of-
|
||
|
(Hulk's blank stare)
|
||
|
If you help me get back to Asgard,
|
||
|
I can help you get back to Earth.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
Earth hate Hulk.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 61.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Earth loves Hulk. They love you.
|
||
|
You're of the Avengers. One of the
|
||
|
team, one of our friends. This is
|
||
|
what friends do. They support each
|
||
|
other.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
You're Banner's friend.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I'm not Banner's friend. I prefer
|
||
|
you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
Banner's friend.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I don't even like Banner.
|
||
|
(bad impersonation)
|
||
|
"I'm into numbers and science and
|
||
|
stuff."
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
Thor go. Hulk Stay.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Fine. Stay here. Stupid place.
|
||
|
It's hideous, by the way. The red,
|
||
|
the white. Just pick a color.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor heads for the exit, a wide open door.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
Smash you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
You didn't smash anything. I won
|
||
|
that fight
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
I smashed you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Yeah, sure, sure.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
Baby Arms.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
What?
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
Baby.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 62.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Moron! You big child.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor heads to the open entrance. Hulk smiles, anticipating.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
Thor go!
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I am going.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ZAP! Thor's jolted back by the obedience disk. There are
|
||
|
perimeter sensors in the doorway.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk CHUCKLES at Thor as he hits the floor. Points.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
Thor go again!
|
||
|
(then:)
|
||
|
Thor home.
|
||
|
|
||
|
TIME CUT:
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor slumps against the wall, head sagging.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk grabs his giant battleaxe. He's armored up.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Hulk trains.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
That's great. Have fun.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk exits. Thor watches him go. Then, at the end of the
|
||
|
hallway Hulk meets up with Valkyrie! They begin play-
|
||
|
fighting, a clearly friendly rapport.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor can't believe it. He runs to the entrance, but by the
|
||
|
time he reaches the perimeter sensors they are gone.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor sighs. Walks over to the window. Looks up through a
|
||
|
wormhole, stars twinkling on the other end of it.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
A57 Heimdall, I know you can see me. A57
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor continues his plea at the window.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
I need you to help me. Help me
|
||
|
see.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Pause. Then Thor's eyes go golden like Heimdall's! The
|
||
|
stars in the wormhole begin to WARP OVER THOR AND-
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 63.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
AA57 INT. STREETS OF ASGARD - SAME AA57
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor suddenly finds himself in Asgard. Disoriented at first,
|
||
|
Thor turns to see Heimdall hiding in the shadows.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Heimdall harshly SHUSHES Thor and gestures for him to get up
|
||
|
against the wall. Thor complies. Sees the refugees.
|
||
|
|
||
|
After a beat a roving patrol of Hela's Butchers creep by
|
||
|
through the street. They don't spot our heroes. Pause.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Heimdall turns to Thor, speaks only in hushed whispers.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HEIMDALL
|
||
|
I see you. But you are far away.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
What's going on here?
|
||
|
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||
|
HEIMDALL
|
||
|
Come see for yourself.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Without warning, Heimdall leads the family out of the alley
|
||
|
and DASHES down the street. Thor follows...
|
||
|
|
||
|
...but then stops. Looks around to see THE OCCUPIED CITY OF
|
||
|
ASGARD, emitting a smoky aura of chaos. A chilling sight.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Down the street, Heimdall gestures for the family to slow
|
||
|
down. He sees something. Ushers them into an alcove.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor joins them just in time to avoid being seen by another
|
||
|
roving patrol of Hela's Butchers. Heimdall again motions for
|
||
|
Thor to "shh" until the threat has passed. Then:
|
||
|
|
||
|
HEIMDALL (CONT'D)
|
||
|
I'm providing refuge in a
|
||
|
stronghold build by our ancestors.
|
||
|
But if the garrison falls our only
|
||
|
escape will is Bi-Frost.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
You're talking about evacuating
|
||
|
Asgard?
|
||
|
|
||
|
HEIMDALL
|
||
|
We won't last long if we stay.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor LOOKS OUT on a ravaged Asgard, heartsick.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hold on the devastated Realm as:
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 64.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
HEIMDALL (O.S.) (CONT'D)
|
||
|
She draws her power from Asgard and
|
||
|
grows stronger everyday.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Back to Thor and Heimdall.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HEIMDALL (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Come on.
|
||
|
|
||
|
As Heimdall quickly leads refugees down a safe pathway:
|
||
|
|
||
|
HEIMDALL (V.O.) (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Hela is ravenous. If I let her
|
||
|
leave, she'll consume the Nine
|
||
|
Realms and all the cosmos.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Turns back to Thor, approaches him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HEIMDALL (CONT'D)
|
||
|
We need you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I'm working on it, but I don't even
|
||
|
really know where the hell I am.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Two packs of Butchers arrive simultaneously. Spot Heimdall.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HEIMDALL
|
||
|
You're on a planet surrounded by
|
||
|
doorways. Go through one.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Which one?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Heimdall RIPS into the attacking Butchers, CUTTING them down.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HEIMDALL
|
||
|
The big one!
|
||
|
|
||
|
WHOOSH! SUDDENLY THOR'S GONE! BLACK.
|
||
|
|
||
|
After slashing through the Butchers, Heimdall moves towards
|
||
|
the house where he hid the family... and then abruptly stops.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Heimdall turns slightly. He sees something.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BINOCULARS POV: Heimdall looking right at us, the Bi-Frost
|
||
|
sword visible in his hand.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Reveal Skurge on a palace tower balcony, surveilling the city
|
||
|
with Asgardian E-noculars. Skurge lowers the E-noculars.
|
||
|
|
||
|
There is conflict on his face. He knows that he should report
|
||
|
this to Hela immediately...yet he doesn't spring into action.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 65.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
57 INT. HULK'S WARRIOR SUITE - NIGHT 57
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor absentmindedly fidgets with his Obedience Disk.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THUD! THUD! THUD! ...resonates around the room. Hulk steps
|
||
|
up to Thor, looking inquisitively down at him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
Thor sad.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Shut up.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk HITS Thor, bullying him into opening up.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
THOR SAD!!!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor hops up, YELLS in Hulk's face. Paces around.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I'm not sad, you idiot. I'm pissed
|
||
|
off! Angry. I lost my father. I
|
||
|
lost my hammer.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THUD! THUD! He turns to see Hulk punching his pillow.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk stops. Stares.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
Whining and crying. Cry like baby.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
You're not even listening.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor KICKS a random helmet.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
Don't kick stuff.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
You're being a really bad friend.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
You bad friend!
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
You know what we call you?
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
No.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
We call you the stupid Avenger.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 66.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
You're tiny Avenger!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk throws a shield that nearly decapitates Thor.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
What, are you crazy?
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
Yes.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
You know what? Earth does hate you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk gets sad. Wanders over to his bed to mope.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor realizes he went to far. Joins Hulk on the bed.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
No.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I'm sorry I said those things.
|
||
|
You're not the stupid Avenger.
|
||
|
Nobody calls you the stupid
|
||
|
Avenger.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
It's okay.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
You just can't go around throwing
|
||
|
shields at people. Could have
|
||
|
killed me.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
I know. I'm sorry. I just get so
|
||
|
angry all the time. Hulk always,
|
||
|
always angry.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I know. We're the same, you and I.
|
||
|
We're just a couple of hot-headed
|
||
|
fools.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
Yeah, same. Hulk like fire, Thor
|
||
|
like water.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
We're kind of both like fire.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 67.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
But Hulk like real fire. Hulk like
|
||
|
raging fire. Thor like smoldering
|
||
|
fire.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Hulk, I need you to do something
|
||
|
for me.
|
||
|
|
||
|
TIME CUT: Morning.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BA-BOOM! BA-BOOM! BA-BOOM!
|
||
|
|
||
|
We follow Two Palace Guards as they enter Hulk's Suite.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk is throwing a LARGE BALL against the far wall. It's so
|
||
|
hard it makes dents in the wall. Hulk stops and turns.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Reveal that the guards are escorting Valkyrie. They leave...
|
||
|
Valkyrie and Hulk face off.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
Angry girl!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Val bounds forward and gives The Incredible Hulk a big hug.
|
||
|
Hulk laughs and then begins playfully roughhousing with Val.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
What's going on? What do you...?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk steps away, allowing Valkyrie to see Thor. Her smile
|
||
|
disappears. She stares at Hulk, so annoyed. Hulk mopes a
|
||
|
little. Like, "I done bad." Turns back to Thor:
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE (CONT'D)
|
||
|
You're so thick-headed that you
|
||
|
can't tell when someone's hiding
|
||
|
all the way across the universe and
|
||
|
wants to be left alone?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
We need to talk.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
No, you want to talk to me.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Valkyrie turns to leave.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
(to Hulk:)
|
||
|
I need her to stay.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Valkyrie is at the exit when the UPPER JAWBONE of Hulk's
|
||
|
massive skull bed CRASHES into frame, BLOCKING the doorway.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 68.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
Val shoots an annoyed sneer at Hulk. Hulk SNORTS back.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
Stay! Please?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Valkyrie looks him up and down. Obedience Disks to the max.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk begins BOUNCING his ball against the wall again.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Valkyrie walks over to Hulk's bar, picks up an UNOPENED
|
||
|
BOTTLE of liquor. Hulk snorts, disapprovingly. Val puts it
|
||
|
down and finds something cheaper, she pops the cork.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
All right. Here's the deal. I'll
|
||
|
listen to you till this is empty.
|
||
|
|
||
|
She TIPS BACK the bottle and starts CHUGGING.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Asgard is in danger and people are
|
||
|
dying. We need to get back there. I
|
||
|
need your help...wow.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
Finished. Bye.
|
||
|
|
||
|
She has indeed finished. She goes to leave.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Odin is dead.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Valkyrie stops short (the BALL BANGING noise continues). Her
|
||
|
silence speaks volumes. Thor has a realization.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Hela, the Goddess of Death has
|
||
|
invaded Asgard.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
If Hela's back then Asgard is
|
||
|
already lost.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I'm going to stop her.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
Alone?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Nope. I'm putting together a team.
|
||
|
It's me, you, and the big guy.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 69.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
No team. Only Hulk.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
It's me and you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
I think it's only you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Wait. Just listen. The Valkyrie
|
||
|
are legend, elite warriors of
|
||
|
Asgard. You are sworn to defend
|
||
|
the throne.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
I'm not getting dragged into
|
||
|
another one of Odin's family
|
||
|
squabbles.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
What's that supposed to mean?
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
Your sister. Her power comes from
|
||
|
Asgard, same as yours.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk's ball rolls into frame. An off screen GRUNT. Val
|
||
|
picks it up and tosses it back to Hulk.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE (CONT'D)
|
||
|
When it grew beyond Odin's control,
|
||
|
she massacred everyone in the
|
||
|
palace and tried to seize the
|
||
|
throne. When she tried to escape
|
||
|
her banishment, he sent the
|
||
|
Valkyrie in to fight her back. I
|
||
|
only survived because...
|
||
|
(trails off, brooding)
|
||
|
Look, I already faced her once back
|
||
|
when I believed in the throne, and
|
||
|
it cost me everything. THAT'S
|
||
|
what's wrong with Asgard. The
|
||
|
throne, the secrets, the whole
|
||
|
golden sham.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Pause. Thor moves towards Valkyrie, goes to put a comforting
|
||
|
hand on her shoulder.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I agree.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Val SNATCHES his hand. They are close, face to face.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 70.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
Don't get familiar.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I agree. That's why I turned down
|
||
|
the throne. But this isn't about
|
||
|
the crown. This is about the
|
||
|
people. They're dying and they're
|
||
|
you're people, too.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Val SHOVES him away. Thor stumbles back.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
Forget it. I have.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
(nods, understanding)
|
||
|
Okay.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
Okay.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Good. Great.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
Great.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Thank you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
For what?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
For this.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Reveal that Thor has lifted the fob device off Val's belt!
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Didn't see that did you?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor presses the button and ALL THE OBEDIENCE DISKS EMBEDDED
|
||
|
IN HIS NECK AND BELT POWER DOWN! Confident smirk.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
There... that's better. You know,
|
||
|
go ahead. Stay here and get drunk
|
||
|
and enslave people for that
|
||
|
lunatic. Keep drinking. Keep
|
||
|
hiding.
|
||
|
(beat)
|
||
|
But me...
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 71.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor gestures for Hulk to toss him the ball. Hulk does.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
I choose to run toward my problems
|
||
|
and not away from them. Because
|
||
|
that's what...
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor HURLS IT at the MAIN WINDOW - It bounces off, hitting
|
||
|
Thor in the face. He stands, facing Valkyrie.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Because that's what heroes do.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor then SMASHES THROUGH THE WINDOW! Hulk STANDS...
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
Friend Stay!
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
60 EXT. GRANDMASTER'S PALACE - DAY 60
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor is sliding down the SIDE of the GRANDMASTER'S TOWER.
|
||
|
|
||
|
He LAUNCHES HIMSELF OFF THE BUILDING and hurtles downward,
|
||
|
LANDING casually on the street below. Finally free.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
61 EXT. THE STREETS OF SAKAAR - CONTINUOUS 61
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor is HAULING ASS.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Never slowing down, Thor keeps the top of the arena in sight.
|
||
|
|
||
|
A few blocks back: Hulk is in pursuit. He's BUMPING people,
|
||
|
SWATTING vehicles out of the way, just being a menace.
|
||
|
|
||
|
On Sakaar, the citizens APPLAUD for him! Even when Hulk
|
||
|
DEMOLISHES a man's food cart, the man CHEERS Hulk on!
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
62 EXT. MASSIVE ALIEN JUNKYARD - CONTINUOUS 62
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor SPRINTS in. Looks around. Man, this place is big.
|
||
|
|
||
|
He RUNS down aisles of crushed and stripped spacecrafts, a
|
||
|
giant smelter, and then into what looks like a used car lot.
|
||
|
|
||
|
And then he sees it. The Quinjet!
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
63 INT. QUINJET - CONTINUOUS 63
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor enters and rushes to the controls.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 72.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
All right. Come on.
|
||
|
|
||
|
He is pressing buttons and flipping switches. After a beat-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-the flight deck POWERS UP! Thor places his hand on a pad
|
||
|
which SCANS his handprint. Lights up green.
|
||
|
|
||
|
QUINJET (V.O.)
|
||
|
Voice verification required.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Thor.
|
||
|
|
||
|
QUINJET (V.O.)
|
||
|
Access denied.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Thor, son of Odin.
|
||
|
|
||
|
QUINJET (V.O.)
|
||
|
Access denied.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
God of Thunder.
|
||
|
|
||
|
QUINJET (V.O.)
|
||
|
Access denied.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Strongest Avenger.
|
||
|
|
||
|
QUINJET (V.O.)
|
||
|
Access denied.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Strongest Avenger!
|
||
|
|
||
|
QUINJET (V.O.)
|
||
|
Access denied.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Damn you, Stark.
|
||
|
(rolls his eyes)
|
||
|
Point Break.
|
||
|
|
||
|
QUINJET (V.O.)
|
||
|
Welcome, Point Break.
|
||
|
|
||
|
CAH-RUNCH! Hulk BARGES IN through the Quinjet door!
|
||
|
|
||
|
The Hulk approaches, scowling. Any metal that stands in his
|
||
|
way PEELS BACK. Frantic, Thor turns to the Quinjet's console.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 73.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
Friend stay!
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
No, no, no!
|
||
|
|
||
|
As Hulk enters, he DESTROYS the hull of the Quinjet.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
Stay!
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Stop! Stop breaking everything!
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
Don't go!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor triggers a message on the flight console.
|
||
|
|
||
|
NATASHA (V.O.)
|
||
|
Nice work, big guy. We don't know
|
||
|
where Ultron's headed, but you're
|
||
|
going very high, very fast.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk stops short. His whole demeanor changes.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor steps out of the way so that Hulk can see a recorded
|
||
|
message from NATASHA ROMANOFF on the console.
|
||
|
|
||
|
NATASHA (V.O.)
|
||
|
...So, I need you to turn this bird
|
||
|
around, okay? We can't track you in
|
||
|
stealth mode...
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk is now right up against the console screen.
|
||
|
|
||
|
NATASHA (V.O.)
|
||
|
...So I need you to help me out.
|
||
|
Okay? I need you to...
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
No! No, Banner!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk CONVULSES. Drops to his hands and knees. His whole
|
||
|
body warping. Hulk ROARS and GRABS at his face, SHAKING his
|
||
|
head, trying to fight this back. But he can't help it...
|
||
|
|
||
|
...HE'S TRANSFORMING BACK INTO BRUCE BANNER! The transition
|
||
|
is rough and chaotic, it's as if Banner is fighting to get
|
||
|
out of the Hulk. Throughout the process, Hulk SMASHES back
|
||
|
and forth, further WRECKING the Quinjet.
|
||
|
|
||
|
And then, calm.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 74.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor rushes to Banner's side to help ease the transition.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Banner. Hey, hey, hey. You all
|
||
|
right, Banner? Sun's going down.
|
||
|
Sun's going down. That's it,
|
||
|
breathe. I won't hurt you. Sun's
|
||
|
going down.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
...Thor?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Yeah.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Banner is groggy, disoriented. Thoughts, memories, and
|
||
|
observations begin to flood his brain randomly.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
What happened to your hair?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Some creepy old man cut it off.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
It looks good.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Thanks.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Where are we? How's Nat?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Nat is good, I'm sure.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
And what about Sokovia?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Sokovia?
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
The city, Sokovia. Did we save it?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Banner, listen.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
What?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Sokovia. Ultron. That was two
|
||
|
years ago.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 75.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
What are you saying? I've been Hulk
|
||
|
for two years?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I'm afraid so.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Banner's eyes BULGE. Trying to process this information.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
What the hell happened?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Banner rushes to his feet. Thor follows.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Banner, there's something you
|
||
|
should know...
|
||
|
|
||
|
Banner goes to the flight console.
|
||
|
|
||
|
QUINJET (V.O.)
|
||
|
Voice Activation required.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Banner.
|
||
|
|
||
|
QUINJET (V.O.)
|
||
|
Welccome, Strongest Avenger.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
(puzzled)
|
||
|
What?
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Ship's log...
|
||
|
|
||
|
THE SHIP'S LOG POPS UP ON SCREEN.
|
||
|
|
||
|
FROM BEHIND THE DISPLAY (within the monitor looking out) we
|
||
|
see fragmented images of the Hulk's trip through deep space.
|
||
|
|
||
|
We see the angry green giant thrash around in zero gravity.
|
||
|
|
||
|
We see Hulk closer to the camera now, looking stressed and
|
||
|
car sick.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THROW FOCUS to see Banner's face watching the video, Hulk's
|
||
|
freaked out face is super-imposed over Banner's freaked out
|
||
|
face.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Thor, where are we?
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 76.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Yeah, about that.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Banner hears:
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER (O.S.)
|
||
|
It's bad news, bad news today.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Banner rushes over to the windshield. Through it he sees-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-Grandmaster, his hologram projection towering over the city.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Sakaar, hear ye. Attention please.
|
||
|
I have some bad news. My beloved,
|
||
|
exalted Champion has turned up
|
||
|
missing. Take to the streets.
|
||
|
Celebrate my champion.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Who's that?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
He kind of runs the place. You
|
||
|
actually lived in his house.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Back to Banner. A distant, confused stare.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
I did?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Yeah. Quite a lot's happened. You
|
||
|
and I had a fight recently.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Did I win?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
No, I won. Easily.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Doesn't sound right.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Well, it's true.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
It seems that that criminally
|
||
|
seductive Lord of Thunder has
|
||
|
stolen him away.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 77.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Seductive GOD of Thunder. We need
|
||
|
to move.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Oh, no. This is bad. This is
|
||
|
really, really bad. Thor, I think
|
||
|
I'm freaking out.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
No, no, no. Don't freak out.
|
||
|
You're okay. Put these on.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor tosses Banner some clothes. Banner looks at them.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
These are Tony's clothes.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I know, come on.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Is he here?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
No, he's not here. But listen.
|
||
|
Just stay calm, okay? The sun's
|
||
|
going down. The sun's getting
|
||
|
really low. Sun's going down.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
67 INT. GRANDMASTER'S CHAMBERS - DAY 67
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki and Valkyrie are brought before Grandmaster, who has at
|
||
|
least tripled the amount of bodyguards around him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
I'm upset! I'm very upset. You
|
||
|
know what I like about being upset?
|
||
|
Blame. Right now, that's the
|
||
|
mindset that I'm in. And you know
|
||
|
who I'm blaming?
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
Grandmaster, I-
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
Hey! Don't interrupt me!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Topaz hands the melt stick to the grandmaster.
|
||
|
|
||
|
TOPAZ
|
||
|
Here you go.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 78.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
Why are you handing me the melt
|
||
|
stick? He was interrupting. That's
|
||
|
not a capital violation.
|
||
|
(refocuses)
|
||
|
My precious champion has come up
|
||
|
missing and its all because of that
|
||
|
Lord of Thunder. It's all because
|
||
|
of him.
|
||
|
(to Loki)
|
||
|
YOUR brother. Whatever the story
|
||
|
is. Adopted, or complicated. I'm
|
||
|
sure there's a big history.
|
||
|
(to Valkyrie)
|
||
|
And YOUR contender.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
My dear friend, if you were to give
|
||
|
me twelve hours I could bring them
|
||
|
both back to you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
I can do it in two.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
I could do it in one.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
You know what? I woke up this
|
||
|
morning thinking about a public
|
||
|
execution. But for now, I'll
|
||
|
settle for this sweet little "who's
|
||
|
gonna get him first?" So you're on
|
||
|
the clock.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
64 INT. GRANDMASTER'S PALACE - DAY 64
|
||
|
|
||
|
Valkyrie exits in a hurry. Loki follows her.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
What have you done!?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Val reverses position, putting Loki up against the wall.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
I don't answer to you, lackey.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
It's Loki. And you will answer to
|
||
|
the Grandmaster.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 79.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki moves to reverse position again, but Val BREAKS AWAY,
|
||
|
drawing her TWO BLADES. In response, Loki UNSHEATHES two
|
||
|
long Sakaarian daggers. They eye each other, and then-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-FIGHT! A fast-paced and deadly battle of knives. After a
|
||
|
few exchanges, Val connects a BIG SHOT that SLAMS Loki into
|
||
|
the wall. He scowls.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Why would you help my brother
|
||
|
escape with that green fool?
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
I don't help anyone.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki trails off. He sees her wrist markings. A realization.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
You're a Valkyrie. I thought the
|
||
|
Valkyrie all died gruesome deaths?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Now Val ATTACKS Loki! She gets him up against the wall, her
|
||
|
blade against his throat. She looks ready to kill him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
Choose your next words wisely.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
Terribly sorry. Must be a very
|
||
|
painful memory...
|
||
|
|
||
|
Quick as a rattlesnake, Loki GRABS Val's head and CASTS an
|
||
|
illusion. Val's eyes CLOUD OVER with darkness as we go to:
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
65 EXT. HELA'S DIMENSION - FLASHBACK 65
|
||
|
|
||
|
A barren black void of death.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The VALKYRIE, in old school Asgardian armor, charge through
|
||
|
the DIMENSIONAL RIFT, an open portal to Asgard and the Nine
|
||
|
Realms. Val witnesses these events as moments frozen in time.
|
||
|
|
||
|
- Reveal Hela in all her glory, black lightning everywhere.
|
||
|
|
||
|
- Dozens of Valkyrie falling through the dark space.
|
||
|
|
||
|
- The Valkyrie's winged horses lay dead on the battlefield.
|
||
|
|
||
|
- Through the open portal we can see the throne of Asgard.
|
||
|
|
||
|
- Hela advancing on the final few Valkyrie - one is Val,
|
||
|
frozen in fear, shell-shocked.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 80.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
- Hela FIRING black weapons at Val...
|
||
|
|
||
|
- One of Val's sisters DIVING IN at the last second, SHOVING
|
||
|
VAL back through the PORTAL and taking the fatal hit!
|
||
|
|
||
|
- Val lands hard in the Throne room.
|
||
|
|
||
|
- Val scrambling to her feet and trying to re-enter the rift
|
||
|
but it's too late. It closes, the last image she sees is Hela
|
||
|
dealing the final killer blow to her doomed Valkyrie sisters.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
66 EXT. GRANDMASTER'S PALACE - CONTINUOUS 66
|
||
|
|
||
|
We find Val on her knees in front of Loki, trembling from
|
||
|
this visceral memory that she's tried so hard to suppress.
|
||
|
|
||
|
She turns on Loki, raging, and knocks him out.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
69 EXT. SAKAAR - STOOP - DAY 69
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER sits, groaning, head in his hands. THOR is beside
|
||
|
him, rubbing his back and on the lookout for threats.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
The sun's going down. It's getting
|
||
|
really low. The sun's going down.
|
||
|
It's getting real low.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Would you stop saying that!?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I just need you to stay calm.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Calm!? I'm on an alien planet!
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
It's just a planet. You've been on
|
||
|
a planet before.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Yeah! One!
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Now you've been on two. That's a
|
||
|
good thing. It's a new experience.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
My neurons, they're firing faster
|
||
|
than my brain can handle the
|
||
|
information.
|
||
|
(MORE)
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 81.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER (CONT'D)
|
||
|
The whole thing is totally
|
||
|
different this time.
|
||
|
(beat)
|
||
|
In the past, I always felt like
|
||
|
Hulk and I each had a hand on the
|
||
|
wheel, but this time it's like he
|
||
|
had the keys and I was locked in
|
||
|
the trunk.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Alright, well, you're back now,
|
||
|
that's all that matters.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
No, it's not what matters. What
|
||
|
I'm trying to tell you, is that if
|
||
|
I turn into the Hulk again, Banner
|
||
|
may never come back. And we're
|
||
|
stranded on a planet that is
|
||
|
designed to stress me out.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
We're not stranded, I'm gonna
|
||
|
figure out a way to get us home.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Thank you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Not your home, though. Asgard.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
What?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Listen, my people are in great
|
||
|
danger. You and I, we have to
|
||
|
fight this really powerful being
|
||
|
who also happens to be my sister.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Okay, that is so wrong on so
|
||
|
many... I don't wanna fight your
|
||
|
sister. That's a family issue.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
No, she's an evil being.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
I don't care what she is. I'm not
|
||
|
fighting any more beings. I'm sick
|
||
|
of it. I just told you.
|
||
|
(MORE)
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 82.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER (CONT'D)
|
||
|
If I turn into the Hulk, I am never
|
||
|
gonna come back again. And you
|
||
|
don't care.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
No, no. I'm putting together the
|
||
|
team. The Hulk is the fire.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Wait, you're just using me to get
|
||
|
to the Hulk.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
What? No!
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
It's gross. You don't care about
|
||
|
me. You're not my friend.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
No! I don't even like the Hulk.
|
||
|
He's all like... "smash, smash,
|
||
|
smash." I prefer you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Thanks.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
But if I'm being honest, when it
|
||
|
comes to fighting evil beings, he
|
||
|
is very powerful and useful.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Yeah, Banner's powerful and useful,
|
||
|
too.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Is he though?
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
How many PhDs does Hulk have?
|
||
|
Zero. How many PhDs does Banner
|
||
|
have? Seven.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Fine, you don't have to fight
|
||
|
anyone. But we're in danger here,
|
||
|
so we have to move.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor grabs a towel from the ground next to him. He puts the
|
||
|
towel over his head.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
What are you doing with that?
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 83.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I need a disguise. I'm a fugitive.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
I need a disguise.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
You are the disguise.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Banner finds a pair of Stark's sunglasses in his jacket.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
I'll be Tony Stark.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
What?
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Yeah. Tony and the gypsy.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
No, no you're not Tony. You're
|
||
|
Bruce Banner.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Then why did you dress me up like
|
||
|
Tony?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Because you were naked.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Okay, I'll give you that.
|
||
|
|
||
|
They stand up. Banner adjusts his crotch.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
What are you doing? Stop doing
|
||
|
that!
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Tony wears his pants super tight!
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Why are you being so weird?
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
I don't know. Maybe the fact that I
|
||
|
was trapped for two years inside of
|
||
|
a monster made me a little weird.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Banner flashes green. Thor calms him down.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 84.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Hey. It's okay. You're good.
|
||
|
Calm down. Come on. Listen, we're
|
||
|
gonna go to Asgard and you're not
|
||
|
gonna have to think about the Hulk
|
||
|
ever again. All right?
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
All right.
|
||
|
|
||
|
WHAP! Banner gets nailed in the face with green paint.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Caught off guard, Thor and Banner are swept off into-
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
69A EXT. PARADE OF VICTORS - CONTINUOUS 69A
|
||
|
|
||
|
It's a massive street festival where revelers dance and cheer
|
||
|
while throwing powdered paint at each other... in celebration
|
||
|
of Hulk! Green EVERYWHERE!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Inside the parade it is total chaos. Thor searches for Banner
|
||
|
as he's PELTED with green powder. Pandemonium. In the crowd
|
||
|
Thor sees a pack of SCRAPPERS on the hunt for the reward.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor spots Banner. He surges forward, GRABS Banner, and
|
||
|
pulls him into another alley, but sees-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-Valkyrie is approaching from down the alley!
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
This is bad. Banner! Banner!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor pulls Banner back into the crowd. Thor briefly turns to
|
||
|
see that he is no longer holding Banner's - it's the arm of a
|
||
|
SMALL ALIEN who squeals in fright.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor sees Banner across the crowd.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor MUSCLES his way through the madness, knocking rowdy fans
|
||
|
aside. He reaches Banner and holds him protectively,
|
||
|
awkwardly trying to rub his shoulders.
|
||
|
|
||
|
One of the aliens Thor knocked aside turns out to be a
|
||
|
MASSIVE SCRAPPER. He rears up, turning on Thor and Banner.
|
||
|
|
||
|
WHAM! From out of nowhere, Valkyrie CLOCKS this Scrapper
|
||
|
with a brass knuckle right cross. The Scrapper DROPS.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor looks at Val while clutching Banner like a child.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Hi.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 85.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
Hi.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I was gonna do that.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
Yeah, well, I did it first.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
That's good. What are you doing
|
||
|
here?
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
What are you doing here? I thought
|
||
|
you were leaving.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I got sidetracked.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
What's with the...
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
It's my disguise.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
But I can see your face.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
(covers his face)
|
||
|
Not when I do this, you can't.
|
||
|
(then:)
|
||
|
Your hair looks nice. I like what
|
||
|
you did with it. Change it? Washed
|
||
|
it maybe?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Valkyrie just rolls her eyes, takes Thor by the arm.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
(to Thor:)
|
||
|
What are those things on her eyes?
|
||
|
Are those the people that she's
|
||
|
killed? She's so beautiful and
|
||
|
strong...
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
69B EXT. SAKAARIAN STREET - MOMENTS LATER 69B
|
||
|
|
||
|
Valkyrie escorts Thor and Banner through the street.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
Who is this guy?
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 86.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
He's a friend.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Who? Me? I'm Bruce.
|
||
|
|
||
|
As Val leads them into Sakaarian apartment building.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
I feel like I know you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
I feel like I know you too.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
A72 OMITTED A72
|
||
|
|
||
|
72 OMITTED 72
|
||
|
|
||
|
A73 INT. SAKAARIAN BUILDING - HALLWAY - CONTINUOUS A73
|
||
|
|
||
|
Continue down the hallway.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
Look, I've spent years in a haze
|
||
|
trying to forget my past. Sakaaar
|
||
|
seemed like the best place to drink
|
||
|
and forget and to die one day.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I was thinking that you drink too
|
||
|
much, and that probably was going
|
||
|
to kill you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
I don't plan to stop drinking, but
|
||
|
I don't want to forget. I can't
|
||
|
turn away anymore. So, if I'm
|
||
|
donna to die, well... it may as
|
||
|
well be driving my sword through
|
||
|
the heart of that murderous hag.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Good.
|
||
|
|
||
|
They arrive at a door. Before they enter:
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
Yeah. So I'm saying that I wanna
|
||
|
be on the team. Has it got a name?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Yeah, it's called the Revengers.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 87.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
Revengers?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Because I'm getting revenge.
|
||
|
You're getting revenge.
|
||
|
(to Banner:)
|
||
|
Do you want revenge?
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
I'm undecided.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Okay.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
Also, I've got a peace offering.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
73 INT. VALKYRIE'S APARTMENT - DAY 73
|
||
|
|
||
|
Valkyrie opens the front door, revealing-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-Loki! He is as restrained as anyone could be, sitting in
|
||
|
the middle of the apartment with a dozen chains around him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKIE
|
||
|
Surprise.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor TOSSES a bottle. It BOUNCES off of Loki's head.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
OW!
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Just had to be sure.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
Hello, Bruce.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
So, last time I saw you, you were
|
||
|
trying to kill everybody. Where
|
||
|
are you at these days?
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
It varies from moment to moment.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Val's apartment is a shithole. Bottles everywhere, blood-
|
||
|
spattered clothes in the corner, a knife in the wall, etc.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Banner gives Thor a look like "she might be crazy." Thor
|
||
|
responds with a "No, she's cool" gesture.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 88.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
Val lays something on the bed. Unwraps it to reveal AN OLD
|
||
|
ASGARDIAN SWORD. Thor's eyes go wide as she sharpens it.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Is that... a Dragonfang?
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
It is.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
My God. This is the famed sword of
|
||
|
the Valkyrie.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
Sakaar and Asgard are about as far
|
||
|
apart as any two known systems.
|
||
|
Our best bet is a wormhole just
|
||
|
outside the city limits.
|
||
|
|
||
|
A nice clean wormhole outside the city.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Refuel on Xandar and be back in
|
||
|
Asgard in around 18 months.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Nope. We're going through that one.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor points at the nightmare tornado wormhole over the ocean.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
The Devil's Anus?
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Wait, whose anus are we going
|
||
|
through?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
For the record, I didn't know it
|
||
|
was called that when I picked it.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
That looks like a collapsing
|
||
|
neutron star inside of an Einstein-
|
||
|
Rosen Bridge.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
We need another ship. That would
|
||
|
tear mine to pieces.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
She's right. We need one that can
|
||
|
withstand the geodetic strain from
|
||
|
the singularity.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 89.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
Banner gives Thor a quizzical look.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
And has an offline power steering
|
||
|
system that could also function
|
||
|
without the on-board computer.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
And we need one with cup holders,
|
||
|
because we're gonna die. So,
|
||
|
drinks!
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Do I know you? I feel like I know
|
||
|
you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
I feel like I know you, too. It's
|
||
|
weird.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
(to Banner:)
|
||
|
What do you say, doctor? Uncharted
|
||
|
metagalactic travel through a
|
||
|
volatile cosmic gateway. Talk about
|
||
|
an adventure.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor and Banner high five as Val stares at them blankly.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
We need a ship. Need a ship.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
There are one or two ships,
|
||
|
absolute top-of-the-line models--
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
I don't mean to impose, but the
|
||
|
Grandmaster has a great many ships.
|
||
|
I may eve have stolen the access
|
||
|
codes to his security system.
|
||
|
|
||
|
All eyes turn to Loki. Valkyrie throws her bottle at him. It
|
||
|
smashes above his head.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
And suddenly you're overcome with
|
||
|
an urge to do the right thing.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
Heavens, no. I've run out of favor
|
||
|
with the Grandmaster.
|
||
|
(MORE)
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 90.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI (CONT'D)
|
||
|
And in exchange for codes and
|
||
|
access to a ship I'm asking for
|
||
|
safe passage...through the anus.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
You're telling us you can get us
|
||
|
access into the garage without
|
||
|
setting off any alarms?
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
Yes, brother. I can.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Okay, can I just... A quick FYI, I
|
||
|
was just talking to him just a
|
||
|
couple minutes ago and he was
|
||
|
totally ready to kill any of us.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
He did try to kill me.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Yes, me too. On many, many
|
||
|
occasions. There was one time when
|
||
|
we were children, he transformed
|
||
|
himself into a snake, and he knows
|
||
|
that I love snakes. So, I went to
|
||
|
pick up the snake to admire it and
|
||
|
he transformed back into himself
|
||
|
and he was like, "Yeah, it's me!"
|
||
|
And he stabbed me. We were eight
|
||
|
at the time.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki suppresses a smile.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
If we're boosting a ship, we're
|
||
|
gonna need to draw some guards away
|
||
|
from the palace.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
Why not set the beast loose?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Shut up.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
You guys have a beast?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
No, there's no beast. He's just
|
||
|
being stupid. We're going to start
|
||
|
a revolution.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 91.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Revolution?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I'll explain later.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
Who's this guy again?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I'll explain later.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
74 OMITTED 74
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
75 INT. THE ARENA - GLADIATOR CELLS - MOMENTS LATER 75
|
||
|
|
||
|
Korg sits with his cell mates. He's talking to Miek.
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG
|
||
|
Is that some sort of protoplasm,
|
||
|
all the stuff that's coming out of
|
||
|
you? Or are they eggs? Looks like
|
||
|
eggs.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Suddenly his Obedience Disk POWERS DOWN. No longer glowing.
|
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|
As Korg stands up, Valkyrie appears at the door to his cell.
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|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
I'm looking for Korg.
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG
|
||
|
Who's asking? I know you're
|
||
|
asking. Is anyone else asking, or
|
||
|
is it just you?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Valkyrie tosses him a high-tech rifle.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
The Lord of Thunder sends his best.
|
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|
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|
KORG
|
||
|
My revolution has begun...
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76 INT. GRANDMASTER'S CHAMBERS - DAY 76
|
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|
|
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|
Grandmaster speaks with Topaz who now wears battle armor.
|
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|
|
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|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
Revolution? How did this happen?
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|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 92.
|
||
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||
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|
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|
TOPAZ
|
||
|
Don't know. But the Arena's
|
||
|
mainframe for the Obedience Disks
|
||
|
have been deactivated and the
|
||
|
slaves have armed themselves.
|
||
|
|
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|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
Oh! I don't like that word!
|
||
|
|
||
|
TOPAZ
|
||
|
Mainframe?
|
||
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|
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|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
No. Why would I not like
|
||
|
"mainframe?" No, the "S" word.
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||
|
|
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|
TOPAZ
|
||
|
Sorry, the "prisoners with jobs"
|
||
|
have armed themselves.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
Okay, that's better.
|
||
|
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|
CHA-CHNK! SOUNDS OF MACHINERY as the whole space starts
|
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|
moving. A different angle reveals that we are in-
|
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|
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|
A77 EXT. THE STATESMAN - CONTINUOUS A77
|
||
|
|
||
|
Grandmaster's chambers are actually the oversized cockpit of
|
||
|
a A HUGE RIOT CONTROL SHIP (The Statesman) that can dock
|
||
|
itself indefinitely within the palace!
|
||
|
|
||
|
The Statesman has DISLODGED from the palace and is now
|
||
|
flanked by six smaller Sakaarian peace-keeping ships, all
|
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|
headed towards the city where RIOTING can be heard.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
77 INT. GRANDMASTER'S PALACE - GROUND LEVEL - CONTINUOUS 77
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor waits as Loki enters codes to a door's security panel.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Hey, so listen, we should talk.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
I disagree. Open communication was
|
||
|
never our family's forte.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
You have no idea. I've had quite
|
||
|
the revelation since we spoke last.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The door opens, revealing a bunch of guards.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 93.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor and Loki heft up two Sakaarian guns.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Hello!
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
Hi!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor and Loki BLAST all the guards, moving to another door.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Odin brought us together, it's
|
||
|
almost poetic that his death should
|
||
|
split us apart. We might as well
|
||
|
be strangers now. "Two sons of the
|
||
|
crown" set adrift.
|
||
|
|
||
|
A guard tries to ambush Loki through the door. Thor TAKES
|
||
|
OUT the guard.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Thought you didn't want to talk
|
||
|
about it?
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
79 INT. GRANDMASTER'S PALACE - ELEVATOR - CONTINUOUS 79
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor and Loki are going up.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
Here's the thing. I'm probably
|
||
|
better off staying here on Sakaar.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
That's exactly what I was thinking.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
...Did you just agree with me?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
This place is perfect for you. It's
|
||
|
savage, chaotic, lawless. Brother,
|
||
|
you're going to do GREAT here.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
Do you truly think so little of me?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor pauses, considers his brother. Then:
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Loki, I thought the world of you.
|
||
|
I thought we were gonna fight side
|
||
|
by side forever. But, at the end of
|
||
|
the day, you're you, I'm me...
|
||
|
(MORE)
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 94.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
I don't know, maybe there's still
|
||
|
good in you, but let's be honest,
|
||
|
our paths diverged a long time ago.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki is wounded by Thor's willingness to discard him. Masks
|
||
|
his feelings with:
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
It's probably for the best that we
|
||
|
never see one another again.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Beat. Thor pats Loki affectionately on the shoulder.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hold on Loki. Did Thor just get through to him?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
That's what you always wanted.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Beat. Then:
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Hey, let's do "Get Help."
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
What?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
"Get Help."
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
No.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Come on, you love it.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
I hate it.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
It's great. IT works every time.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
It's humiliating.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Do you have a better plan?
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
No.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
We're doing it.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 95.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
We are not doing "Get Help."
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
80 OMITTED 80
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
82 INT. GRANDMASTER'S PRIVATE GARAGE - CONTINUOUS 82
|
||
|
|
||
|
Multi-tiered platforms with dozens of cool spaceships.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The elevator doors open. Thor supports Loki's weight with
|
||
|
Loki faking a fatal injury.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Get help! Please! My brother, he's
|
||
|
dying.
|
||
|
|
||
|
A small group of Sakaarian guards turn toward Thor and Loki.
|
||
|
One guard aims his gun at them.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Get help! Help him!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor picked up Loki and flings him at the guards, knocking
|
||
|
them down like bowling pins. Loki stands up and Thor steps
|
||
|
to Loki's side.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Classic.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
I still hate it. It's humiliating.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Not for me, it's not.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Which one's the ship she told us to
|
||
|
get?
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
(points)
|
||
|
The Commodore.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The COMMODORE starship. Brand new, solidly built, sleek.
|
||
|
|
||
|
As they walk towards it a DUPLICATE LOKI FORMS and LAGS
|
||
|
BEHIND. The Loki walking with Thor is an illusion.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Though I feel it won't make much of
|
||
|
a difference...
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 96.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
We follow the real Loki as he slinks away towards the
|
||
|
security system panel. He activates the panel and brings up a
|
||
|
screen that will set off all the alarms palace-wide!
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (O.S.)
|
||
|
Oh, Loki.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki turns to see Thor looking not at all surprised.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
I know I've betrayed you many times
|
||
|
before, but this time it's truly
|
||
|
nothing personal. The reward for
|
||
|
your capture will set me up nicely.
|
||
|
|
||
|
He triggers the alarm.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
82B INT. GRANDMASTER'S PRIVATE GARAGE - CONTINUOUS 82B
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Never one for sentiment, were you?
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
Easier to let it burn.
|
||
|
|
||
|
But then Loki sees Thor holding up a fob device. Loki
|
||
|
realizes that Thor affixed an Obedience Disk on him in that
|
||
|
heart-to-heart moment.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I agree.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BZZZT! Thor ZAPS Loki and HOLDS DOWN the button. Loki HITS
|
||
|
the ground, WRITHING in pain. Thor approaches. Pause.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Oh brother, you're becoming
|
||
|
predictable. I trust you, you
|
||
|
betray me. Round and round in
|
||
|
circles we go.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor continues to "think about it" for a beat while Loki
|
||
|
convulses in agony on the floor. Finally, Thor kneels down:
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
See, Loki, life is about, it's
|
||
|
about growth. It's about change.
|
||
|
But you seem to just wanna stay the
|
||
|
same. I guess what I'm trying to
|
||
|
say is that you'll always be the
|
||
|
God of Mischief, but you could be
|
||
|
more. I'll just put this over here
|
||
|
for you.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 97.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor places the fob on top of the security panel, so close
|
||
|
but so far from Loki's paralyzed reach.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Anyway, I got places to be so good
|
||
|
luck.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
82C INT. COMMODORE SHIP - MOMENTS LATER 82C
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor is seen in the cockpit.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
All right, I can figure this out.
|
||
|
It's just another spaceship.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
83 EXT. GRANDMASTER'S PALACE - MOMENTS LATER 83
|
||
|
|
||
|
The massive garage doors OPEN. This sets off BLARING ALARMS
|
||
|
to alert the palace of this unauthorized departure.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The Commodore ship LIFTS OFF from the garage. In the cockpit
|
||
|
Thor pushes forward on the throttle. The ship ZOOMS ahead.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER
|
||
|
Loyal Sakaarians, Lord of Thunder
|
||
|
has stolen my ship and my favorite
|
||
|
champion. Sakaarians, take to the
|
||
|
skies. Bring him down. Do not let
|
||
|
him leave this planet.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BELOW: Pilots hastily RUSH to their Palace Patrol ships so
|
||
|
as to pursue the Commodore.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The first two ships out of the garage SWOOP AROUND behind
|
||
|
Thor. The Patrol ships are LOCKING weapons on Thor when-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-BOOM-BOOM! They are both blown out of the sky by-
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
84 INT. WARSONG SHIP - SAME 84
|
||
|
|
||
|
Val is all focus, flying and FIRING. Banner sits shotgun.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Good shot!
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
85 EXT. SAKAAR - DAY 85
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor's ship and Val's ship now ZIP through the city in
|
||
|
tandem. On the horizon we can see-
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 98.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
-the Statesman, the enlarged Grandmaster, and his Riot
|
||
|
Control team raining down hell on the revolting prisoners.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
86 INT. COMMODORE SHIP - CONTINUOUS 86
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor in the pilot's seat. Val comes in over the radio.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE (V.O.)
|
||
|
Open the doors.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor looks over the console. FLIPS a switch.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
87 INT. WARSONG SHIP - CONTINUOUS 87
|
||
|
|
||
|
Valkyrie STEERS down, dropping altitude. Her whole ship
|
||
|
spins upside down, yet her cockpit is still right-side up.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
I hope that you're tougher than you
|
||
|
look.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Why?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Val MAXES OUT the throttle. The ship ACCELERATES. When
|
||
|
she's under Thor's ship, Val presses-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-THE EJECT BUTTON! Banner is LAUNCHED OUT OF THE SHIP!
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
88 INT. COMMODORE SHIP - CONTINUOUS 88
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor at the controls. We hear an incoming scream of
|
||
|
increasing volume. "aaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!"
|
||
|
|
||
|
THUNK! Banner is SHOT UP into the ship. ROUGH LANDING.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Banner casually lifts his arm up and gives a THUMBS UP.
|
||
|
|
||
|
CLUNK! CLUNK! CLUNK! CLUNK! The ship is being fired upon by
|
||
|
another pursuit vehicle. Banner joins Thor.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Shouldn't we be shooting back or
|
||
|
something?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Yes, we should.
|
||
|
(into the radio:)
|
||
|
Where are the guns on this ship?
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 99.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE (V.O.)
|
||
|
There aren't any. It's a leisure
|
||
|
vessel.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR / BANNER
|
||
|
WHAT?!
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
Grandmaster uses it for his good
|
||
|
times, orgies and stuff.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor and Banner look around. The CEILING has MIRRORS ON IT
|
||
|
and the floor is covered in a Sakaarian PERSIAN RUG.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Did she just say the Grandmaster
|
||
|
uses it for orgies?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Yeah. Don't touch anything.
|
||
|
|
||
|
CLUNK! CLUNK! CLUNK! More fire from behind.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
A89 INT. WARSONG SHIP - THE SAME A89
|
||
|
|
||
|
Val's ship is hit. She rotates the cockpit to face BACKWARDS
|
||
|
and opens fire, taking out the attacking chase-ship.
|
||
|
|
||
|
But now in Val's cockpit... Sparks. Smoke. Alarms.
|
||
|
|
||
|
In the distance Val clocks the Grandmaster's Riot Ship
|
||
|
raining terror down on the masses. A look of determination as
|
||
|
she pops the HATCH above - her ship is now a convertible.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
89 EXT. SAKAAR - CONTINUOUS 89
|
||
|
|
||
|
Meanwhile, Warsong ZOOMS out from under Thor's ship, still
|
||
|
ACCELERATING. Val has turned her ship into a missile, and
|
||
|
its trajectory is the Grandmaster's Riot Control Ship!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Grandmaster is still taunting his former captives below when-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-KA-BOOM! Warsong SLAMS into the Statesman, specifically the
|
||
|
Grandmaster's projection! Enlarged Grandmaster stumbles,
|
||
|
struggling to maintain his balance.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Warsong EXPLODES while the Statesman is knocked off kilter
|
||
|
and goes down for a hard landing in the market!
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 100.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
90 INT. COMMODORE SHIP - CONTINUOUS 90
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor and Banner witness the fiery explosion of Val's kamikaze
|
||
|
flight path!
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
No!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor experiences a brief instant of heartbreak/devastation...
|
||
|
|
||
|
...but then notices a spec coming out of the explosion.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THWACK! Val hits the ship's windshield and grabs hold!
|
||
|
Residual smoke wafting off of her.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
91 OMITTED 91
|
||
|
|
||
|
92 EXT. SAKAAR - THE WASTELANDS - CONTINUOUS 92
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor pilots the ship out of the city into the Wastelands as
|
||
|
six Sakaarian fighter ships race after them in formation.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The following dogfight will proceed across the Wastelands and
|
||
|
then out over the Sakaarian Ocean.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
93 INT. COMMODORE SHIP - CONTINUOUS 93
|
||
|
|
||
|
Val is still on the windshield. GUNFIRE! One of the
|
||
|
pursuing ships WINGS the Commodore, causing it to LURCH.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Get inside!
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
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|
In a minute!
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|
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|
Val pulls herself up and then RUNS DOWN THE ROOF OF THE SHIP!
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|
Thor and Banner follow the THUMPING of her footsteps.
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|
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|
94 EXT. COMMODORE SHIP - CONTINUOUS 94
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|
In full sprint, Val LEAPS OFF and-
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|
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|
-LANDS HARD on the lead Sakaarian ship! Val begins TEARING
|
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|
into the enemy ship with her bare hands!
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|
95 INT. COMMODORE SHIP - CONTINUOUS 95
|
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|
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|
Thor and Banner exchange a look. Pause.
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BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 101.
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|
THOR
|
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|
I should probably go and help.
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||
|
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|
Thor abruptly exits, leaving Banner at the ship's controls.
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|
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|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
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|
Here, take the wheel.
|
||
|
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|
BANNER
|
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|
No. I don't know how to fly one of
|
||
|
these.
|
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|
|
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|
THOR
|
||
|
You're a scientist. Use one of
|
||
|
your PhDs.
|
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|
|
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|
BANNER
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|
None of them are for flying alien
|
||
|
spaceships!
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|
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|
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|
96 EXT. THE SAKAARIAN OCEAN - CONTINUOUS 96
|
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|
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|
Thor LEAPS into the middle of this high-speed dogfight!
|
||
|
|
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|
These two superhuman Asgardians begin jumping between their
|
||
|
pursuer's ships, taking out guns, engines, and pilots with
|
||
|
their bare hands. It's spectacular and epic.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor RIPS out an engine block and uses it to crush a pilot.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Val DRAGS her blades down the entire underbelly of a ship
|
||
|
before BACKFLIPPING to another.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Back and forth they go, even passing each other mid-flight a
|
||
|
few times. One by one the Sakaarian ships GO DOWN.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
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|
A97 INT. COMMODORE SHIP - SAME A97
|
||
|
|
||
|
Banner is frantically STEERING the ship, doing his best to
|
||
|
dodge all the incoming fire. He peels away and is followed
|
||
|
by Topaz, who is in her own chase-ship.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Banner notices a button with a little explosion icon.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Okay, come on. There's gotta be a
|
||
|
gun on this thing. That looks like
|
||
|
a gun.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Banner PRESSES the button.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 102.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
The ship's lighting changes, like a disco effect. Weird dance
|
||
|
music BLASTS over the PA, followed by Grandmaster's voice.
|
||
|
|
||
|
GRANDMASTER (V.O.)
|
||
|
It's MY BIRTHDAY! It's MY BIRTHDAY!
|
||
|
It's MY BIRTHDAY.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Banner is so confused. Then we hear FIREWORKS.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
B97 EXT. THE SAKAARIAN OCEAN - CONTINUOUS B97
|
||
|
|
||
|
MASSIVE PLUMES of powder paint SHOOT OUT of the ship followed
|
||
|
by a huge colorful fireworks display. And then a
|
||
|
rainforest's worth of confetti is dumped from the hull!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Topaz is suddenly in the middle of a party smoke screen! She
|
||
|
tries to fly her way through all the fireworks and streamers,
|
||
|
but ultimately she hits a HARD CRASH LANDING in the ocean.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Yeah!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Meanwhile, Thor and Val land together on the one remaining
|
||
|
Sakaarian ship. Val leaks a smile to Thor.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor YANKS OFF the cockpit cover, Val TOSSES the pilot, and
|
||
|
together they PUSH FORWARD on the throttle.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The ship SPEEDS FORWARD. Just then Banner pulls the Commodore
|
||
|
back on the scene, hovering above them.
|
||
|
|
||
|
They LEAP UP towards the Commodore's open doors as the ship
|
||
|
CRASHES and EXPLODES behind them!
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
97B INT. COMMODORE SHIP - CONTINUOUS 97B
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor and Valkyrie join Banner in the cockpit.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
Guys, we're coming up on the
|
||
|
Devil's Anus!
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
97F INT. GRANDMASTER'S GARAGE - DAY 97F
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG and MIEK enter, leading a group of gladiator rebels.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Korg sees and then points to the SUPERCRUISER.
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG
|
||
|
There she is. Our ticket out of
|
||
|
here. Hey, what's this?
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 103.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
The OBEDIENCE DISK FOB on the ground. He picks it up.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Korg then notices LOKI, TWITCHING and CONVULSING on the
|
||
|
ground. He's barely made any progress towards the fob.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki locks eyes with Korg, a desperate and furious plea.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Korg looks at Loki, then at the fob, then back to Loki.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki gives Korg a maniacal, pleading look.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Korg gets it. He deactivates the obedience disk.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki stands, dusts himself off.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
Thank you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG
|
||
|
Hey man, we're about to jump on
|
||
|
that ginormous spaceship. You
|
||
|
wanna come?
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
You do seem like you're in
|
||
|
desperate need of leadership.
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG
|
||
|
Why thank you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
A98 OMITTED A98
|
||
|
|
||
|
B98 OMITTED B98
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
98 EXT. THE DEVIL'S ANUS WORMHOLE - CONTINUOUS 98
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
Here we go!
|
||
|
|
||
|
The Commodore ship is swallowed up by the towering nightmare
|
||
|
that is the Devil's Anus wormhole.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The ship's onboard computer SHORTS OUT. Darkness in the
|
||
|
cabin. All around them the hull CREAKS. Under strain.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The commodore heads toward the end of the wormhole. Debris
|
||
|
flies past the camera.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor, Val, and Banner all look like they are in extreme pain,
|
||
|
as there's great concern the ship could be torn apart.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 104.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
98A EXT. ASGARD - PLAZA - DAY 98A
|
||
|
|
||
|
SKURGE ADDRESSES A CROWD OF ASGARDIANS. HELA BEHIND HIM
|
||
|
leaning against FENRIS, her GIANT WOLF.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SKURGE
|
||
|
Asgardians, some misguided soul has
|
||
|
stolen the Bifrost sword. Tell us
|
||
|
where it is, or there will be
|
||
|
consequences. Bad ones.
|
||
|
|
||
|
We are now in the smoking ruins of Asgard. 100+ Asgardians
|
||
|
have been forced to line in a large piazza, all exhausted,
|
||
|
all scared. Patrolling the perimeter are Hela's Butchers.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SKURGE (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Well?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela points to an Asgardian woman off camera.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
You.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela's butchers approach the crowd and find the Asgardian
|
||
|
woman. Skurge closes his eyes and looks downward.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ASGARDIAN CITIZENS
|
||
|
No! Stop!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela's butchers pull the Asgardian woman to the steps. They
|
||
|
shove her and she falls tot he floor. The woman is on her
|
||
|
hands and knees as Skurge turns to her. She trembles as
|
||
|
Skurge holds his battle axe with both hands.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
Well? Executioner?
|
||
|
|
||
|
ASGARDIAN MAN
|
||
|
Wait! I know where the sword is.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
99 EXT. THE DEVIL'S ANUS WORMHOLE - DAY 99
|
||
|
|
||
|
The Commodore nears the end of the wormhole and is-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-SPIT OUT into the calmness of outer space.
|
||
|
|
||
|
100 OMITTED 100
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 105.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
101 INT. COMMODORE SHIP - CONTINUOUS 101
|
||
|
|
||
|
Banner, Thor, and Valkyrie are all unconscious. Banner wakes
|
||
|
up and looks outside, the stars reflected in the windshield.
|
||
|
Thor and Valkyrie wake up. Outside they see-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-THE REALM OF ASGARD, a flat city in the middle of an island
|
||
|
floating in space.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
(mixed emotions)
|
||
|
I never thought I'd be back here.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The ship descends into the clouds above Asgard.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
I thought it'd be nicer. I mean,
|
||
|
not that it's not nice. It's just,
|
||
|
it's on fire.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THE SHIP CLEARS THE CLOUDS TO REVEAL-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-ASGARD IN RUINS. A DEVASTATED GHOST TOWN. FIRES, WRECKED
|
||
|
BUILDINGS, DEAD SOLDIERS. IT LOOKS LIKE ALL HOPE IS LOST.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
Here, up here in the mountains.
|
||
|
|
||
|
A projected map on the console shows the mountain where the
|
||
|
stronghold is located. There is a red dot in the mountain,
|
||
|
indicating where the Asgardian citizens are.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Heat signatures. People clustered
|
||
|
together. Hela's coming for them.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Okay, drop me off at the palace and
|
||
|
I'll draw her away.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
And get yourself killed?
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
The people trapped down there are
|
||
|
all that matters. While I'm
|
||
|
dealing with Hela, I need you two
|
||
|
to help get everyone off Asgard.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
How the hell are we supposed to do
|
||
|
that?
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 106.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I have a man on the ground.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
101A INT. ASGARD/STRONGHOLD - DAY 101A
|
||
|
|
||
|
Heimdall looks to the Asgardian Citizens.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HEIMDALL
|
||
|
Asgard. She's here.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
109 EXT. PALACE - PLAZA - DAY 109
|
||
|
|
||
|
Valkyrie is helping Thor load a MASSIVE ASGARDIAN BLASTER
|
||
|
into the side of the Commodore.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Now the ship has guns.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
I'll take it from here.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor produces a bundle of FABRIC WITH GOLD AND WHITE PLATING.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I found this in the armory.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Val immediately recognizes its significance. She doesn't
|
||
|
want to be affected by this gesture, but can't help it.
|
||
|
|
||
|
They share a look as the Commodore lifts off into the air.
|
||
|
Before she's out of earshot, Val calls down:
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
"Your majesty." Don't die. You
|
||
|
know what I mean.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The Commodore flies away, leaving Thor on the balcony.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
109A INT. THRONE ROOM - CONTINUOUS 109A
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor's footsteps ECHO through the empty space. He sees the
|
||
|
items from the vault scattered beside the throne.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor sees a chunk of plaster from the dismantled fresco. He
|
||
|
picks it up and sees that this piece of fresco bears a
|
||
|
portion of his own face. Thor then looks up, off camera.
|
||
|
|
||
|
His eyes go wide. He looks up at the ceiling where his
|
||
|
painting used to be and finds the original which depicts Odin
|
||
|
and Hela conquering the nine realms, with Hela's butchers all
|
||
|
around them. Hela holds Mjolnir.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 107.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
106 OMITTED 106
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
107 EXT. ASGARD - MOUNTAIN RAVINE - DAY 107
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela, cowl & headdress on, stands with Skurge outside of the
|
||
|
mountain stronghold where Heimdall is hiding the refugees.
|
||
|
Hela raises her arms and FIRES LONG THIN BLACK LANCES, which
|
||
|
BURROW into crevices on the mountainside. From here, we TILT
|
||
|
UP, looking straight at the sky.
|
||
|
|
||
|
With the lances in place, Hela bears down. Summoning all her
|
||
|
focus and energy, she begins to VIBRATE this manifestation of
|
||
|
her powers, PUNCTURING crevices and splitting rock apart.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The whole mountain begins to RUMBLE.
|
||
|
|
||
|
108 OMITTED 108
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
110 EXT. ASGARD - MOUNTAIN STRONGHOLD - SAME 110
|
||
|
|
||
|
CRACK! Hela RIPS OPEN THE SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN!
|
||
|
|
||
|
There is an avalanche of rock and debris. The mountain
|
||
|
around the doors completely destroyed, the doors fall across
|
||
|
the ravine, creating a bridge for Hela and Skurge. Hela
|
||
|
waits patiently for the dust to settle and sees-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-an empty stronghold. No sign of Heimdall or the refugees.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
111 EXT. SECRET MOUNTAIN PATH - SAME 111
|
||
|
|
||
|
Heimdall leads the migration of refugees out the other side
|
||
|
of the mountain onto a secluded mountain path.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HEIMDALL
|
||
|
We must keep moving! Go to the
|
||
|
Bifrost!
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
112 INT. COMMODORE - DUSK 112
|
||
|
|
||
|
Banner flies the Commodore out across the city.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Val puts on her gloves, cuff on her forearm, boots, and
|
||
|
breastplate. She grabs her dragonfang sword and puts it at
|
||
|
her side. Val mans the Blaster, and we see that she's changed
|
||
|
into the CLASSIC WHITE & GOLD VALKYRIE ARMOR (Thor's gift).
|
||
|
Bad ass.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 108.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
113 EXT. MOUNTAIN STRONGHOLD - DUSK 113
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela is about to throttle Skurge when-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-A LOUD GONG SOUND. It's coming from far away, but the deep
|
||
|
note resonates across the land. GONG-GONG-GONG-GONG!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela looks to the Palace, her eyes narrowing with rage.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
114 INT. THRONE ROOM - CONTINUOUS 114
|
||
|
|
||
|
Find Thor on the throne holding GUNGNIR - THE KING'S SPEAR,
|
||
|
Odin's signature spear. SLAMMING the butt of it on the
|
||
|
ground. GONG...GONG...
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela steps into the throne room. Headdress & cowl off.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor stops the GONGING when he sees Hela.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Sister.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Smiling, Hela gradually crosses the huge space towards Thor.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
You're still alive.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I love what you've done with the
|
||
|
place. Redecorating, I see.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
It seems our father's solution to
|
||
|
every problem was to cover it up.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Or to cast it out.
|
||
|
(then:)
|
||
|
He told you you were worthy. He
|
||
|
said the same thing to me.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Angle on Hela in the frescos, fighting with Mjolnir.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
You see, you never knew him, not at
|
||
|
his best.
|
||
|
(nostalgic sigh)
|
||
|
Odin and I drowned entire
|
||
|
civilizations in blood and tears.
|
||
|
Where do you think all this gold
|
||
|
came from? And then one day he
|
||
|
decided to become a benevolent
|
||
|
king.
|
||
|
(MORE)
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 109.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA (CONT'D)
|
||
|
To foster peace, to protect life.
|
||
|
(with teeth)
|
||
|
To have you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I understand why you're angry. And
|
||
|
you are my sister, and technically
|
||
|
have a claim to the throne. And
|
||
|
believe me, I would love for
|
||
|
someone else to rule. But it can't
|
||
|
be you. You're just...the worst.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela puts on her headdress.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
Okay, get up. You're in my seat.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
(standing up)
|
||
|
You know, Father once told me that
|
||
|
a wise king never seeks out war.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
But must always be ready for it.
|
||
|
|
||
|
They CHARGE each other.
|
||
|
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115 EXT. RAINBOW BRIDGE - SAME 115
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Heimdall leads the refugees out onto the bridge.
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But then he stops. Sensing something.
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At the far end of the bridge is FENRIS! The massive war wolf
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is guarding the observatory!
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HEIMDALL
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Go back!
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The refugees turn to retreat. Fenris CHARGES!
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GUNFIRE FROM ABOVE!
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The Commodore swoops onto the scene, Valkyrie manning the
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blaster and FIRING on Fenris, who stops his charge.
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As the refugees retreat, they come to a stop because...
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...SKURGE IS LEADING AN ARMY OF BUTCHERS BEHIND THEM!
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Heimdall and the refugees are now trapped on the bridge
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between Fenris and Skurge!
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BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 110.
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116 INT. THRONE ROOM - CONTINUOUS 116
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Hela and Thor fight, Hela wielding twin black blades.
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They CLASH and Thor BLOCKS an attack with Gungnir. They are
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face to face, Hela glaring at Thor.
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HELA
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To be honest, I expected more.
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Hela DISARMS him, sending Gungnir CLATTERING across the room.
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Hela strikes out sending Thor FLYING hard into a wall.
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117 EXT. RAINBOW BRIDGE - SAME 117
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Hela's butchers stand behind Skurge.
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SKURGE
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Heimdall! The sword!
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|
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|
The Butcher army CHARGES
|
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|
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||
|
Val and Banner hold the remaining Butchers off with GUNFIRE.
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|
Heimdall is looking toward the palace, concern for Thor. But
|
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|
his attention soon goes back to protecting the mass of
|
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|
humanity behind him. He looks out to the Observatory
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|
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|
HEIMDALL
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|
We must cross now! To Bi-Frost!
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Heimdall leads the refugees out onto the bridge.
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118 INT. THRONE ROOM - CONTINUOUS 118
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|
Hela PINS thor against the wall.
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|
HELA
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|
Here's the difference between us.
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|
I'm Odin's firstborn, the rightful
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|
heir, the savior of Asgard.
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|
(beat)
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|
And you're nothing.
|
||
|
|
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|
Hela PROJECTS a large spiked lance, Thor barely rolls out of
|
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|
the way before it PUNCTURES the wall.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor HEADBUTTS Hela. It does nothing. Hela responds with her
|
||
|
own HEADBUTT. It does a lot.
|
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|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 111.
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|
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|
|
||
|
HELA (CONT'D)
|
||
|
So simple. Even a blind man could
|
||
|
see it.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela RAKES a black-clawed hand across Thor's face. In doing
|
||
|
so, she RIPS OUT ONE OF HIS EYES!
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Now you remind me of Dad.
|
||
|
|
||
|
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|
119 EXT. RAINBOW BRIDGE - SAME 119
|
||
|
|
||
|
Asgardians CLASH with Hela's Butchers.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Valkyrie keeps raining down fire on Fenris, but it is doing
|
||
|
no real damage. Just pissing the wolf off.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Fenris shakes off the bullets and resumes CHARGING.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Heimdall sees Fenris charging and steps out in front of the
|
||
|
refugees with his sword, preparing for the worst.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
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|
120 INT. COMMODORE SHIP - SAME 120
|
||
|
|
||
|
Valkyrie gives up shooting.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
This stupid dog won't die!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Banner looks down at the carnage below. Makes a decision.
|
||
|
|
||
|
He gets up and heads for the bay doors.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
Everything's going to be okay. I
|
||
|
got this. You want to know who I
|
||
|
am?
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
What the hell are you talking
|
||
|
about?
|
||
|
|
||
|
BANNER
|
||
|
You'll see.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Banner LEAPS out of the ship!
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 112.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
121 EXT. RAINBOW BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 121
|
||
|
|
||
|
Banner soars through the air. It's an awe-inspiring image as
|
||
|
we follow Banner's trajectory downwards. His face is
|
||
|
determined, arms churning, ready to Hulk out...
|
||
|
|
||
|
...except it doesn't happen. Worry washes over his face.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SPLAT! Banner FACEPLANTS on the bridge, seeming to break
|
||
|
every bone in his body. He looks dead.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Pause. Fenris SNIFFS him curiously. We notice one vein on
|
||
|
Banner's neck PUMPING GREEN. Then-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-Banner suddenly EXPLODES UP as THE INCREDIBLE HULK, UPPER-
|
||
|
CUTTING Fenris in the jaw! Hulk is now in a wrestling match
|
||
|
with a beast four times his size - the two of them go
|
||
|
TUMBLING into the water below.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
122 EXT. PALACE BALCONY - SAME 122
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela has Thor by the throat. She lifts him up to look over
|
||
|
the balcony's ledge.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
You see? No one's going anywhere.
|
||
|
(then:)
|
||
|
I'll get that sword even if I have
|
||
|
to kill every single one of them to
|
||
|
do it.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor looks down. Distraught. Heartsick.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
123 EXT. RAINBOW BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 123
|
||
|
|
||
|
Val pilots the Commodore towards the battle on the city side
|
||
|
of the bridge. Skurge's battlion of Butchers surge forward-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-BOOM! Val LANDS the Commodore on top of them, SKIDDING
|
||
|
across the bridge, CRUSHING the front line of the Butchers,
|
||
|
and KNOCKING Skurge aside. The impact triggers the party
|
||
|
function, setting off PARTY MUSIC and a FIREWORKS DISPLAY.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Val emerges from the ship in full battle mode. Behind her,
|
||
|
the Commodore FIREWORKS provide a spectacular HERO BACKDROP.
|
||
|
She draws DRAGONFANG and smiles as Butchers begin swarming
|
||
|
towards her. She is where she needs to be.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Meanwhile, the Asgardians huddle together, packed so tight
|
||
|
that some begin to fall off the side of the bridge, loved
|
||
|
ones grabbing them and pulling them back up. There's no hope.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 113.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
Heimdall FIGHTS off Butchers, but gets KNOCKED DOWN. Just as
|
||
|
it looks like he's about to take a killing blow-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-BAM! The Butcher is BLASTED.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Korg steps into frame, holding the blaster!
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG
|
||
|
Hey man. I'm Korg. This is Miek.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Miek steps into frame, waving.
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG (CONT'D)
|
||
|
We're going to jump on that
|
||
|
spaceship and get out of here.
|
||
|
Want to come?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Heimdall is beyond confused, but then... a LOUD NOISE. Hela
|
||
|
looks down to see-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-EMERGING FROM THE THICK LOW-HANGING FOG IS LOKI! Resplendent
|
||
|
in horns, arms spread wide, seeming to float towards the
|
||
|
bridge like a mythical angel of mercy.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
Your savior is here!
|
||
|
|
||
|
The fog dissipates around him, revealing that Loki's standing
|
||
|
on THE GRANDMASTER'S SUPERCRUISER! For reasons that will
|
||
|
become clear, we will henceforth call this ship THE ARK.
|
||
|
|
||
|
And Loki is not alone. He's brought along all the prisoners
|
||
|
from the Contest of Champions. Armed with gladiator weapons.
|
||
|
The Ark slows to a stop at the middle of bridge.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ABOVE: Even with Hela's hand on his throat, Thor can't help
|
||
|
but smile at the sight of Loki. Hela however sneers.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
That little shit.
|
||
|
|
||
|
BELOW: Loki and the Sakaarian gladiators JUMP OFF the Ark and
|
||
|
onto the bridge, joining the fight against Hela's forces.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
Did you miss me? Everybody on that
|
||
|
ship, now.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The Asgardian refugees begin POURING onto the ark. The only
|
||
|
way onto the Ark is a narrow plankway, so there is an
|
||
|
immediate bottleneck effect - thousands of frightened people
|
||
|
all pushing for a chance at salvation. It's mayhem.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki walks through the crowd to Heimdall.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 114.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
HEIMDALL
|
||
|
Welcome home. I saw you coming.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
Of course you did.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki joins Heimdall and the gladiators in fending off Hela's
|
||
|
encroaching minions.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
124 OMITTED 124
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
125 OMITTED 125
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
126 EXT. PALACE BALCONY - SAME 126
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela is perturbed, but not enraged. She turns her gaze back
|
||
|
to Thor for a final farewell.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
A valiant effort, but you never
|
||
|
stood a chance.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor looks up from his friends protecting his people as they
|
||
|
frenziedly board to Ark to-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-the twilight stars coming out over Asgard. There's a
|
||
|
glimmering of stardust in the sky.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA (CONT'D)
|
||
|
You see? I'm not a queen, or a
|
||
|
monster.
|
||
|
|
||
|
FLASH: PUSH IN ON ODIN AT THE CLIFFS.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA (CONT'D)
|
||
|
I'm the Goddess of Death.
|
||
|
|
||
|
FLASH: PUSH IN ON ODIN AT THE CLIFFS.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA (CONT'D)
|
||
|
What were you the God of again?
|
||
|
|
||
|
As Hela digs two blades into his chest, Thor SCREAMS...
|
||
|
|
||
|
And everything goes SILENT. SKY. We PAN DOWN to-
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 115.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
126A EXT. CLIFFS - DAY 126A
|
||
|
|
||
|
- where we find Thor (dressed and injured as he was on the
|
||
|
balcony), back in the sweeping fields where we met Hela for
|
||
|
the first time.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN (O.S.)
|
||
|
Even when you had two eyes you were
|
||
|
only seeing half the picture.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor turns to see his father, sitting where we last saw him.
|
||
|
Thor falls to his knees.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
She's too strong. Without my
|
||
|
hammer I cannot--
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN
|
||
|
Are you Thor, God of Hammers?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor looks up, meeting his gaze.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN (CONT'D)
|
||
|
That hammer helped you control your
|
||
|
power, focus it. But it was never
|
||
|
the source of your strength.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Odin stands, as does Thor.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
It's too late. She's already taken
|
||
|
Asgard.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN
|
||
|
Asgard is not a place. Never has
|
||
|
been.
|
||
|
(gestures around him)
|
||
|
This could be Asgard. It is
|
||
|
wherever our people stand. And
|
||
|
right now those people need you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Odin turns to go.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
I'm not as strong as you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
ODIN
|
||
|
No. You're stronger.
|
||
|
|
||
|
As Odin turns to leave, a SHADOW in the shape of HELA'S
|
||
|
HEADDRESS falls across him. He looks up and we are...
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 116.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
126B EXT. PALACE BALCONY - CONTINUOUS 126B
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor looks up to the sky.
|
||
|
|
||
|
She digs the blades deeper into Thor's chest. He groans in
|
||
|
pain. Everything DARKENS as BLACK CLOUDS gather overhead.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
Tell me brother, what were you the
|
||
|
God of again...?
|
||
|
|
||
|
CLOSE ON Thor's clenched fist, small arcs of electricity
|
||
|
forming.
|
||
|
|
||
|
-THE LOUDEST CRACK OF THUNDER YOU'VE EVER HEARD! In an
|
||
|
instant, Thor and Hela are ENGULFED in a bolt of lightning!!
|
||
|
|
||
|
KA-BOOM! Hela is BLASTED OUT of the lightning and sent
|
||
|
CRASHING into the streets of Asgard. Her costume is
|
||
|
tattered, the black extensions of her power hanging off her
|
||
|
body in some places. She appears to be unconscious!
|
||
|
|
||
|
All around Asgard, EVERYONE looks up at this massive strike.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
127 EXT. RAINBOW BRIDGE (OBSERVATORY SIDE) - CONTINUOUS 127
|
||
|
|
||
|
BOOM! Thor LANDS HARD on his feet. Muscles swollen, veins
|
||
|
pulsing with electricity. A living storm.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor DIVES INTO THE FRAY. He moves like a bolt of lightning,
|
||
|
SURGING through the army of Butchers in quick SLASHING JOLTS.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
128 EXT. RAINBOW BRIDGE (CITY SIDE) - SAME 128
|
||
|
|
||
|
Valkyrie CHARGES into the ocean of Butchers. Wielding
|
||
|
Dragonfang, backlit by the POPS of fireworks.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
129 EXT. RAINBOW BRIDGE (HERO SHOT) - CONTINUOUS 129
|
||
|
|
||
|
Moving across the entire epic battle.
|
||
|
|
||
|
On the city side, Valkyrie CUTS A SWATHE through the
|
||
|
relentless onslaught of Butchers. Heavy damage.
|
||
|
|
||
|
At the middle of the bridge, Heimdall helps load the fleeing
|
||
|
Asgardians onto the Ark.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Within the melee are Loki, Korg and the Sakaarians. Loki
|
||
|
SLASHES through Butchers wielding his two long daggers.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 117.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
In the water below, Hulk and Fenris WRESTLE in an colossal
|
||
|
clash of FISTS, CLAWS, and TEETH.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Beyond that, Thor is wielding electrified weapons and
|
||
|
BLASTING entire packs of Butchers off the bridge!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Lost in the chaos is Skurge, who sees the tides turning. He
|
||
|
throws down his axe and blends into the crowd.
|
||
|
|
||
|
130 OMITTED 130
|
||
|
|
||
|
131 OMITTED 131
|
||
|
|
||
|
132 EXT. ASGARD - WATER BELOW - CONTINUOUS 132
|
||
|
|
||
|
Fenris has Hulk in his mouth, underwater. Trying to drown
|
||
|
the green goliath!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Fenris' teeth PUNCTURE Hulk's skin. He BELLOWS, THRASHING.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk winds up and SLAMS Fenris in the snout!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Fenris snaps back, revealing that-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-THEY'VE REACHED THE REALM'S EDGE!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Fenris is knocked off, plummeting off of Asgard into space.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk grabs hold of the slippery rocks, desperately trying to
|
||
|
climb back as water pours down on him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
A133 OMITTED A133
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
133 EXT. THE ARK - SAME 133
|
||
|
|
||
|
Asgardians continue RUSHING onto the ship.
|
||
|
|
||
|
In the crowd we find Skurge! He's thrown a cloak over
|
||
|
himself and is sneaking in amongst the refugees.
|
||
|
|
||
|
134 OMITTED 134
|
||
|
|
||
|
135 OMITTED 135
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
136 OMITTED 136
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
137 OMITTED 137
|
||
|
|
||
|
138 OMITTED 138
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 118.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
139 OMITTED 139
|
||
|
|
||
|
A140 EXT. RAINBOW BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS A140
|
||
|
|
||
|
Our heroes have drastically thinned down the herd of
|
||
|
Butchers.
|
||
|
|
||
|
It's pandemonium. The Ark's engines are deafening, but you
|
||
|
can still hear the sound of terrified people SCREAMING.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor helps Loki to his feet.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
You're late.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
You're missing an eye.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Valkyrie finishes off a handful of enemies, but then notices
|
||
|
something. She WHISTLES to get the others' attention.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
This isn't over.
|
||
|
|
||
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All around the bridge, our heroes look to see-
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|
-Hela arriving at the far side of bridge. She is seething
|
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|
with power, a vision of death.
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|
Having just come out of this huge battle, they are all weary
|
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|
and nursing injuries. Loki and Val are hurting worse than
|
||
|
Thor.
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Hela walks towards them. Menacing and deliberate.
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|
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Thor, Loki, and Val step forward to protect the Asgardians.
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|
They huddle together.
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THOR
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|
I think we should disband the
|
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|
Revengers.
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LOKI
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Hit her with a lightning blast.
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|
THOR
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|
I just hit her with the biggest
|
||
|
lightning blast in the history of
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|
lightning. It did nothing.
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|
VALKYRIE
|
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We need to hold her off until
|
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everybody's on board.
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BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 119.
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Thor looks at the people boarding behind him.
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|
THOR
|
||
|
It won't end there. The longer
|
||
|
Hela's on Asgard the more powerful
|
||
|
she grows. She'll hunt us down.
|
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|
We need to stop her here and now.
|
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|
VALKYRIE
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|
What's our move?
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|
LOKI
|
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|
I'm not doing "Get help."
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|
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|
Thor sees Hela approaching. He sees the palace behind her. He
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|
comes to a realization.
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|
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|
THOR
|
||
|
Asgard's not a place, it's a
|
||
|
people.
|
||
|
(then)
|
||
|
This was never about stopping
|
||
|
Ragnarok...it was about causing
|
||
|
Ragnarok.
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|
(to Loki:)
|
||
|
Go to the vault. Surtur's crown.
|
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|
It's the only way.
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|
LOKI
|
||
|
(impressed)
|
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|
Bold move, brother. Even for me.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Loki runs off, leaving Thor and Val to deal with Hela.
|
||
|
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|
THOR
|
||
|
Shall we?
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
After you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor ATTACKS. They CLASH, kicking off this monumental
|
||
|
confrontation. Hela manifests pitch black weapons to attack
|
||
|
Thor, but Thor is conjuring powerful bolts of electricity
|
||
|
with the same speed and ferocity.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Just as Thor is surging with newfound lightning powers,
|
||
|
Hela's powers seem to be enhanced as well.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The battle is relentless and fast-paced. Thor is holding his
|
||
|
own against Hela. Maybe they can win this thing.
|
||
|
|
||
|
After several fearsome exchanges, Hela PUNCTURES his shoulder
|
||
|
and then DARTS past him with startling speed.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 120.
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||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
Undeterred, Thor RUSHES Hela again. Valkyrie joins in,
|
||
|
forcing Hela to fight them both.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
BB140 EXT. THE ARK - SAME BB140
|
||
|
|
||
|
While the Asgardians still scramble to get on board above-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-find the Commodore ship, swooping down below the bridge.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
BC140 INT. COMMODORE SHIP - CONTINUOUS BC140
|
||
|
|
||
|
Find Loki in the pilot's seat.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
This is madness.
|
||
|
|
||
|
The ship ACCELERATES towards the palace of Asgard.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
BD140 EXT. RAINBOW BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS BD140
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor continues FIGHTING Hela while Valkyrie BLOCKS Hela's
|
||
|
attempts to spear the Asgardians from afar.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela isn't landing any fatal blows, but she's carving Thor up
|
||
|
and making steady progress towards the Ark.
|
||
|
|
||
|
However, the Asgardian refugees finally make it aboard. An
|
||
|
injured Heimdall, Korg, and Miek are the last to get on.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor and Heimdall make eye contact. Thor calls out:
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
GO! GO NOW!
|
||
|
|
||
|
As the Ark's engines begin to POWER UP-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-Hela HARPOONS Thor. He goes down, grimacing in pain.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela begins to CONJURE AN ENORMOUS MANIFESTATION OF HER
|
||
|
POWERS, A GIANT BLACK SPIKE FROM THE BEDROCK OF ASGARD THAT
|
||
|
STABS THE ARK AND PREVENTS IT FROM LEAVING!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Butchers begin to scramble up onto the Ark!
|
||
|
|
||
|
B140 OMITTED B140
|
||
|
|
||
|
BE140 EXT. ARK - CONTINUOUS BE140
|
||
|
|
||
|
The refugees REACT IN TERROR as the Butchers begin CLIMBING
|
||
|
from the bridge to the Ark. In the frightened crowd we find-
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 121.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
-Skurge, still cloaked. He sees innocent Asgardians huddled
|
||
|
together, trying to protect their families. He's having a
|
||
|
crisis of conscience. An epiphany.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
C140 OMITTED C140
|
||
|
|
||
|
D140 OMITTED D140
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
E140 INT. ODIN'S VAULT - SAME E140
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI rushes in and picks up Surtur's skull.
|
||
|
|
||
|
As he walks towards the Eternal Flame, The Tesseract draws
|
||
|
his attention. Tempting him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
F140 EXT. THE ARK - CONTINUOUS F140
|
||
|
|
||
|
The first wave of Butchers arrives on board, heading straight
|
||
|
for a cowering family. Just as they're about to be killed--
|
||
|
|
||
|
POW! POW! POW! The Butchers fall dead.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Everyone turns to see SKURGE, now uncloaked, wielding his two
|
||
|
M-16s from Texas.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SKURGE
|
||
|
For Asgard.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Skurge runs forward, LEAPS off the Ark, and LANDS on the
|
||
|
bridge right where all the Butchers are coming to life.
|
||
|
BLASTING AWAY the Butchers before they can get aboard.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Behind Skurge, the Ark begins to LIFT OFF.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Skurge keeps FIRING and then-
|
||
|
|
||
|
SKURGE (CONT'D)
|
||
|
HELA!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela turns to see Skurge blasting his way through her
|
||
|
Butchers, trying to make his way to her.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Disappointed, Hela FIRES a blade through Skurge's heart.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Skurge has been killed...
|
||
|
|
||
|
...but the Ark now ASCENDS unfettered.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 122.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
140 INT. ODIN'S VAULT - SAME 140
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI places Surtur's skull in the Eternal Flame.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
With the Eternal Flame, you are
|
||
|
reborn.
|
||
|
|
||
|
As the fire CRACKLES, Surtur's skull begins to GROW.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
141 EXT. RAINBOW BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS 141
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela has Val in her clutches, but her focus is on the
|
||
|
aftermath of Skurge's last stand and the Ark's subsequent
|
||
|
escape. She's furious, about to unleash hell when-
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (O.S.)
|
||
|
HELA! Enough!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela turns to see Thor, having yanked out the harpoon...
|
||
|
|
||
|
...and it looks like he's laying down his sword!
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
You want Asgard? It's yours.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
Whatever game you're playing, it
|
||
|
won't work. You can't defeat me.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
No, but he can.
|
||
|
|
||
|
KA-BOOM! EXPLODING through the roof of the palace is SURTUR!
|
||
|
|
||
|
This is a different Surtur than the opening. He is slowly
|
||
|
but steadily GROWING in size, and he carries with him a
|
||
|
massive flaming sword, which GROWS as well.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Surtur's arrival literally SHAKES the bedrock of Asgard,
|
||
|
causing FISSURES to spiderweb all around him, and DISLODGING
|
||
|
some of the foundation on the bridge and around the palace.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela's eyes go wide. She wasn't expecting this.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HELA
|
||
|
No...NO!
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
A142 OMITTED A142
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 123.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
B142 EXT. RAINBOW BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS B142
|
||
|
|
||
|
In the background the Ark continues its ascent, now high up
|
||
|
above the city.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hela's attention is on Surtur as the palace COLLAPSES around
|
||
|
him. So she is unprepared for-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-SHLNK! Mustering up all her remaining strength, Val DRIVES
|
||
|
Dragonfang through Hela's chest, effectively PINNING her to
|
||
|
the bridge.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Refocused on Val, Hela goes to deliver a death blow when-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-Thor BOLTS forward! He PULLS Val from Hela's clutches.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor turns and FIRES LIGHTNING INTO DRAGONFANG, which
|
||
|
DISLODGES the section of the bridge that Hela is pinned to!
|
||
|
|
||
|
The ground beneath Hela BREAKS FREE and she goes FALLING down
|
||
|
into the expanding fissure in Asgard's bedrock.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Badly injured, Thor and Valkyrie look up to see-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-Surtur INCREASING in size, now towering over the palace.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SURTUR
|
||
|
Tremble before me Asgard, for I am
|
||
|
your reckoning!
|
||
|
|
||
|
Surtur swings his sword, destroying an entire city block.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR and VALKYRIE look up.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
The people are safe. That's all
|
||
|
that matters.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
We're fulfilling the prophecy.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
I hate this prophecy.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
So do I, but we have no choice.
|
||
|
|
||
|
In the background, Hulk hops up onto the bridge. Looks
|
||
|
around, zeroing in on Surtur.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SURTUR
|
||
|
Surtur destroys Asgard, he destroys
|
||
|
Hela so that our people can live.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 124.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk CHARGES behind them, still unseen by Thor and Val.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
We need to let him finish...
|
||
|
(finally sees Hulk)
|
||
|
No!
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK LEAPS UP AND LANDS ONTO SURTUR'S FACE and begins
|
||
|
POUNDING the fire giant with furious punches!
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Hulk no! Stop it you moron!!
|
||
|
|
||
|
It's not doing much damage, but the shock of it plus Hulk's
|
||
|
impact makes Surtur take a destructive step back.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk is trying to rip out one of Surtur's horns when Surtur
|
||
|
reaches up and GRABS HIM with a giant fiery hand.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Surtur HURLS Hulk away from him. Sends him CRASHING DOWN.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk stumbles to his feet, dazed and SMOKING. After gathering
|
||
|
his bearings, Hulk gets REALLY ANGRY and heads back towards
|
||
|
Surtur for round two, but-
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Hulk, just for once in your life,
|
||
|
don't smash!
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
But...big Monster.
|
||
|
|
||
|
VALKYRIE
|
||
|
Hulk! Let's go.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk stops. Looking between Surtur and Thor & Val. This is
|
||
|
a real Sophie's Choice for Hulk. On the one hand, he really
|
||
|
wants to kill that thing. On the other hand...
|
||
|
|
||
|
HULK
|
||
|
Friends.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk PICKS UP Thor and Valkyrie. He then squats down, and-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-LEAPS WITH ALL HIS MIGHT! The trio SHOOTS UP into the night
|
||
|
sky like a rocket blasting off. Their trajectory is heading
|
||
|
right at the Ark as it reaches the lower orbit of Asgard.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
142 EXT. ARK - PLATFORM - CONTINUOUS 142
|
||
|
|
||
|
Hulk lands gently, as though he were stepping out of bed. He
|
||
|
casually DROPS Thor and Val, both exhausted.
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 125.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
143 EXT. ASGARD - SAME 143
|
||
|
|
||
|
A bird's eye view shows TOTAL CARNAGE AND MADNESS on Asgard.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Surtur has grown to EXTINCTION LEVEL SCALE. SLASHING AWAY at
|
||
|
the landscape below, when suddenly-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-A MASSIVE BLACK SPIKE EXPLODES FROM THE WATER AND SLAMS INTO
|
||
|
SURTUR'S CHEST!
|
||
|
|
||
|
From beneath the water, Hela EXPLODES back onto the scene,
|
||
|
riding a huge spiked manifestation of her powers.
|
||
|
|
||
|
She's going for Surtur. ATTACKING with all her might.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Surtur winds up, holding his sword above his head.
|
||
|
|
||
|
SURTUR
|
||
|
I am Asgard's doom!!
|
||
|
|
||
|
True to his word, Surtur fulfills his destiny and-
|
||
|
|
||
|
-DRIVES HIS SWORD THROUGH HELA AND INTO THE HEART OF ASGARD!
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
144 INT. THE ARK - MAIN CABIN - SAME 144
|
||
|
|
||
|
Everyone watches as Surtur drives his sword through Asgard.
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG
|
||
|
The damage is not too bad. As long
|
||
|
as the foundations are strong, we
|
||
|
can rebuild this place. It will
|
||
|
become a haven for all people and
|
||
|
aliens of the universe...
|
||
|
|
||
|
When the fiery sword touches the crystalline base of Asgard
|
||
|
there is a VIOLENT DETONATION OF ENERGY!
|
||
|
|
||
|
A CATACLYSMIC EARTHQUAKE! The entire realm is SPLIT IN TWO!
|
||
|
|
||
|
In an instant, Thor's home is BLOWN TO PIECES.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Asgard is gone.
|
||
|
|
||
|
KORG (CONT'D)
|
||
|
Nope, those foundations are gone.
|
||
|
Sorry.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Stay on Thor as he processes the decisions he's made.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
What have I done?
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 126.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
Heimdall joins him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
HEIMDALL
|
||
|
You saved us from extinction.
|
||
|
Asgard is not a place, it's a
|
||
|
people.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
145 EXT. SPACE - INDETERMINATE TIME 145
|
||
|
|
||
|
The Ark cruises among the chaos that once was Asgard.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
146 INT. THE ARK - CAPTAIN'S QUARTERS 146
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor looks at his reflection in a mirror. His wounds are
|
||
|
bandaged, including his now missing eye. His armor is clean.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor takes a beat, as though trying to get used to the sight
|
||
|
of the man looking back at him.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI (O.S.)
|
||
|
It suits you.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor turns to reveal Loki standing by the door. A smile.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Perhaps you're not so bad after
|
||
|
all, brother.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
Maybe not.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR
|
||
|
Thank you, Loki.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor picks up a soap dish.
|
||
|
|
||
|
THOR (CONT'D)
|
||
|
And if you were here, I might even
|
||
|
give you a hug.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor THROWS the dish at Loki. Loki catches it.
|
||
|
|
||
|
LOKI
|
||
|
Do we have to hug now?
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor smiles.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
147 OMITTED 147
|
||
|
|
||
|
148 OMITTED 148
|
||
|
BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 127.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
A149 EXT. THE ARK - SPACE A149
|
||
|
|
||
|
The giant cruiseliner is gliding through space, the twinkling
|
||
|
of stars all around it.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
149 INT. THE ARK - MAIN DECK 149
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor steps out onto the main deck to see an assembly of both
|
||
|
Asgardian and Sakaarian refugees awaiting their King.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Thor looks over his people and begins to walk through the
|
||
|
crowd. His subjects part, allowing him through.
|
||
|
|
||
|
It is the antithesis of the opening coronation from the first
|
||
|
THOR movie. The people aren't cheering and lauding him, but
|
||
|
rather they are smiling. Humbly bowing. Grateful.
|
||
|
|
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And Thor isn't acting arrogant. Not trying to show off any
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swagger. He is stately. A contemplative and dignified king.
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At the end of the procession, Hulk, Loki, Valkyrie, and
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Heimdall stand next to the CAPTAIN'S CHAIR.
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VALKYRIE
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Your throne.
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Pause. Reluctant acceptance. Thor sits down.
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Flanking him on opposite sides are Valkyrie and Heimdall.
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Behind/towering above them is the Hulk. Loki joins them.
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HEIMDALL
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So, King of Asgard.
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Thor turns around to see THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE staring back,
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silently awaiting word from their new King. Now feeling the
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true weight of the crown, Thor takes a moment... and then:
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HEIMDALL (CONT'D)
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Where to?
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THOR
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I'm not sure. Any suggestions?
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Miek, what's your home planet?
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Angle on Korg, who is holding Miek (sans robot exoskeleton).
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KORG
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Oh, Miek's dead. I accidentally
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stepped on him on the bridge, I've
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just felt so guilty I've been
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carrying him around all day...
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BLUE DRAFT 05/20/16 128.
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Miek WRIGGLES to life. Korg lights up.
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KORG (CONT'D)
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Miek, you're alive! He's alive
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everyone! What was your question?
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Thor looks forward, taking charge of this one.
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THOR
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Earth it is.
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CUT TO BLACK.
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THE END.
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TAG INT. THE ARK - DAY TAG
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THOR and LOKI look out the window.
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LOKI
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Do you really think it's a good
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idea to go back to Earth?
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THOR
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Sure! They love me there.
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LOKI
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Let me rephrase: Do you really
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think it's a good idea to bring me
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back to Earth?
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Thor smiles, getting it. Pats Loki on the shoulder.
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THOR
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Probably not. But don't worry,
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brother...I've got a feeling that
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everything's going to work out.
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Then through the window, they see-
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-THE MASSIVE FORM OF SANCTUARY-2, THANOS' WARSHIP
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approaching.
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TAG1 EXT. THE ARK - SAME TAG1
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||
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A wider view allows us to see all of Sanctuary-2, dwarfing
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the Ark in size.
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END.
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