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Vampirella #1
Nowheresville
Part One of Three

Script by Mark Millar
6th February 2001: FINAL DRAFT



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Page One
1/ Full page image, taking the logo, title and credits into account. This is almost like a second cover, but provides one of two full-page Vampi pictures which book-end the issue. The first should be a shot of Vampirella in the dark coming towards us. Feel free to play around with the layout and actual design however you please. All I want is to suggest that Vampi is the one who’s afraid of the dark here.

CAPTION : There’s a lot of good reasons to be afraid of the dark.
DESIGN : Title and credits


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Page Two
1/ Cut to a bar in the middle of nowhere a little after midnight. This town looks like every scum-filled, white trash place we’ve ever seen in a Harry Dean Stanton movie. This is an exterior shot of the bar at closing time. The bar itself is called ‘Big Bob’s Bar’ and the Big Bob in question is the deceased former owner whom, we should imagine, was a real local character. His son and his wife run the place now.

CAPTION : Somewhere:
INSIDE : Drink up now, buddy. Bar’s closed.

2/ Bar interior. Big, white trash owner is cleaning the glasses and shouting over to a scuzzy, skinny, little customer who’s been sitting drinking all night by himself. The little redneck should look like trouble and he just stares into space, ignoring the owner as he continues drinking his beer. The owner’s fat wife watches nervously.

BARMAN : I said it’s time to make tracks, big fella. Some of us unlucky
enough to have kids to get up for school in the morning.
REDNECK : Go hump your fat wife, asshole.

3/ The owner’s wife looks worried, telling the big owner she doesn’t want any trouble, but the big guy looks ready to kick some serious ass.

WIFE : You want me to call the cops?
BARMAN : For this redneck piece of trash? You gotta be pulling my chain, honey.

4/ The owner stands behind the little guy and starts yelling, thumbing back towards a picture on the wall of the original Big Bob. This picture has a cheesy, almost divine quality with little lights around the frame which suggests that the guy idolized his dear, old Dad. The little redneck just ignores him, mumbling a sinister threat under his breath as he continues his beer.

BARMAN : I’ve been itching to throw this little runt out on his skinny ass
since he set foot in my Daddy’s bar, God rest his soul.
REDNECK : Your Daddy’s giving hand-jobs in Hell now, man, and if you
so much as TOUCH my jacket you’re gonna join him.

5/ The owner ignores the warning and grabs hold of the little guy’s jacket. If he isn’t going to walk out of the bar, the owner plans to physically throw him.

BARMAN : You get off on having your face rearranged?


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Page Three
1/ Dramatic shot as the little redneck just cracks the owner with the back of his hand and sends him hurtling towards us. Wife stands in the background and watches in awe.

REDNECK : You deaf?
BARMAN : Unff!

2/ Impact shot as the owner crashes into all the glasses behind the bar in a bloody, tangled mess. How could this little creep have such superhuman strength?

WIFE (off-panel) : Son of a bitch!

3/ Cut back to the wife, behind the bar, as she holds a rifle in her hands and cocks the gun. She can't believe what’s happening here.

SOUND F/X : CHIK CHAK!
WIFE : That’s my husband, you animal!

4/ Wife fires a bullet through the little redneck’s shoulder, but he doesn’t even react. He’s just sitting back down and drinking his beer again with his back to her.

SOUND F/X : P-CHOW!

5/ Cut back to the wife for a slightly closer picture as she looks even angrier, cocking her gun once again as she gets ready to fire off another shot.

SOUND F/X : CHIK CHAK!
WIFE : Get out of our bar, you stinking, ugly, trailer trash, dog-screwing scum-bag!

6/ Reaction shot as this bullet takes a chunk out of the guy’s head at the back, but he still doesn’t even flinch.

SOUND F/X : P-CHOW!


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Page Four
1/ Shot of the little redneck sitting at his table as he suddenly reacts, noticing the bullet-hole which has gone right through his shoulder and the jacket he was so worried about. Suddenly, the little guy is really pissed off.

REDNECK : Jesus H. Christ, woman! This jacket was originally worn by
Cameron Mitchell in The High Chaparral and probably cost
more than your little flea-pit business makes in a year.
REDNECK : The second I finish this beer I’m gonna come over there and
teach you a lesson in customer service.

2/ The wife drops the gun and backs off with a very nervous expression. She’s unsteady on her feet as she stumbles backwards towards the door, unable to find the words.

WIFE : Holy S#!T! It’s the Goddamn Terminator…

3/ Close shot as the little redneck puts down an empty bottle of beer on the table. We should see quite clearly that he’s done with his beer now.

REDNECK : Finished!

4/ Fast cut to the door as the wife continues to back off, only to find the little redneck standing behind her. He moved at something close to super-speed here and has a little smirk on his face as he blocks off the door.

WIFE : Yaaaggh!

5/ Redneck starts to get rough, holding the wife by the hair and pulling her head back to expose her plump, white neck. His grin on the previous panel turns nasty here and she looks helpless and terrified.

REDNECK : Guess you are too, huh?


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Page Five

1/ Cut to two little kids creeping downstairs in their bath-robes. There’s a little boy around seven here and a little girl around five and both look more confused than scared at the screaming sound from the bar. These are the kids of the couple who own the place and they have one of those apartments above the bar. Hall lights are off.

WIFE (off-panel) : AAAAAAHHHH!!!

2/ Kids continue to follow the sounds, opening the door which leads into the bar, A chink of light comes through as the kids peek through the door to investigate.

WIFE (off-panel) : AAAAH, NOOOO!

3/ Big panel. Shot from the kids’ POV as the little redneck lies across the big, fat mother and sucks every last drop of blood out of her neck on the floor of the bar. She’s lying here twitching and we can see the mess of the place from the struggle earlier. Their Dad is lying over in a corner, dead and bleeding. As far as we can tell the vampire has no idea that the kids are here. He’s got his back to us as he feeds.

NO DIALOGUE

4/ Reaction shot from the kids as they freeze with fear, one of them turning around to the other and putting his finger to his lips. The older brother is trying to tell his little sister to be quiet. It’s the scariest thing they’ve ever seen, but they don’t make a sound.

NO DIALOGUE

5/ Cut back to the redneck in close-up as he looks up, his mouth and chin covered in blood as he looks around towards us with a grin which shows his horrible vampire fangs. He knows the kids are there and WE know he knows, but the poor kids aren’t going to find out until it’s much too late.

REDNECK : Hey there.


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Page Six

1/ Cut to noon next day and an exterior shot of the bar as the dead kids are carried outside by the local emergency crews. We can see their pale, little faces here (eyes closed) and the look of genuine sorrow on the faces of the locals as they watch this miserable sight, hats off as a sign of respect and pressed against their chests.

RADIO BALLOON : …where all four were found brutally-murdered—
RADIO BALLOON : --their terrible demise matching the same grisly M.O. as the
OTHER Satanic slayings which have gripped this God-fearing
state these last two months.

2/ Cut to a diner some miles away. Interior shot where we can see this broadcast on a television set which many of the staff and diners are watching. Everyone looks pretty shocked and outraged by what they’re seeing on the television screen.

CAPTION : Somewhere Else:
RADIO BALLOON : A Caucasian male in his early twenties, who describes himself
as a NIGHT-WALKER, was arrested on the spot after being
found slumped over the BODIES of his tragic victims--
RADIO BALLOON : --UNCONSCIOUS and apparently DRUNK.

3/ Close on the TV set again as we get a tough, but distraught policeman giving us details of what happened. This is a head and shoulders shot of the big, stern man and you might want to include him in the first panel somewhere. He’s also the same cop we see later in the issue when the two girls come to free Michigan from prison.

RADIO BALLOON : Yes, MICHIGAN PIKE is in custody at the moment and I can
confirm we’re following leads that the son of a bitch belongs
to a much wider vampire-obsessed CULT.
RADIO BALLOON : I mean, eight families in as many WEEKS means he was either
doin’ some SERIOUS OVER-TIME or he AIN’T been
workin’ alone, right?

4/ Reaction shot from staff and customers standing or sitting near the television set. They’re scared, disgusted and completely opposed to the idea of even admitting to themselves that vampires might exist. Their faces suggest they could get violent. Two fat diners eating at the bar on stools are the main focus here.

DINER ONE : Man, what is it about these dicks with too much BLACK in
their wardrobe wishing they was re-animated corpses?
DINER TWO : You ask me, they’re just a buncha weed-smoking faggots
who discovered Anne Rice when the rest of us found our
John-Thomases.


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Page Seven

1/ Big, money-shot of Vampirella. This is a full-length picture of her eating a raw steak next to the two diners and looking pretty serious as she checks out the off-panel TV set. She looks very mysterious and sexy here and in full costume, but she really needs that cute, little red leather jacket which Ed McGuinness used to draw her in. The leotard would just look too daft if she was dining in a restaurant. Giving her a jacket and maybe even a little back-pack would suggest that she’s passing through this town during her investigations.


VAMPIRELLA : Don’t bet the farm on it, cowboy.

2/ Reaction shots from the two diners as they snigger to each other.

DINER ONE : What? You reckon this loony-tune was genuine VAMPIRI?
A nocturnal carnivore with a passion for HUMAN BLOOD?
DINER TWO : Hell, you’re as crazy as HE is, little lady.

3/ Small, insert panel. Close on Vampi dropping some change into a TIPS jar.

SOUND F/X : Ka-CHINK!

4/ Cool shot of Vampi exiting the restaurant and glancing back over her shoulder towards the guys.

VAMPIRELLA : Let’s just say it pays to keep an OPEN MIND, handsome.


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Page Eight

1/ Cut to a wide, exterior shot of the restaurant in this sparse, open area. See Vampi as a little figure in the distance walking towards us. She’s reaching into her jacket for her sun-glasses, but she’s almost too small for us to notice here. Important note; these are all wide-screen panels of equal size. It’s important you stick to the Bryan Hitch-style page layout here because it’s the only way this is going to work.

NO DIALOGUE

2/ Wide-screen panel as we switch from colour to black and white and zoom-in on Vampi as she puts her sun-glasses on. The effect here is to give the impression that Vampirella is being photographed, but she’s unaware it’s happening.

BIG SOUND F/X : CLICK

3/ Cut to another wide, black and white shot of a sexy Vampi hitch-hiking as a truck appears in the distance.

BIG SOUND F/X : CLICK

4/ A final black and white, wide-screen image as we get a close interior shot of the truck’s cabin and see Vampi looking grateful as she climbs aboard. Big trucker looks pleased to see her too.

BIG SOUND F/X : CLICK


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Page Nine

1/ Cut to an establishing shot of an official FBI-style building out of town.

CAPTION : An Official Building:

2/ Cut to interior and we see one of the two Men In Black-Dudes from the second issue. This is Agent Mulligan and he’s sitting back and checking out a file with an impressed expression on his face.

DUDE ONE : Well, I gotta say the hooters are the best I’ve seen since I last
banged O’Hare’s skanky, old MOM, but do we have any
intelligence on who this chick actually IS yet?

3/ Pull back and see both Agents Mulligan and O’Hare slacking around this semi-lit, atmospheric office. There’s an older federal type who’s obviously their boss in this cramped, little place too and they’re all poring over hundreds of pictures of Vampirella. They’re investigating the murders, but Vampi has become a major part of this and they’re all going over her file. Agent Mulligan laughs as Agent O’Hare swipes the file from him.

ELDER AGENT : According to her file, she travels under the rather improbable
name of VAMPIRELLA, Agent Mulligan.
ELDER AGENT : Her background is a tad vague; speculation ranging from an
alien succubus who hails from the planet DRAKULON to the
eldest daughter of the QUEEN OF HELL.

4/ Closer as Agent O’Hare notices an inconsistency, which the older Agent rationalizes for him.

DUDE TWO : How come this blood-sucker’s jiggling her mamas in
DAYLIGHT, dude? She wearing Factor TWO HUNDRED
SUN-BLOCK or what?
ELDER AGENT : As far as we can ascertain, Vampirella is unaffected by the
usual restraints placed on the rest of the VAMPIRE SPECIES,
Agent O’Hare.


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Page Ten

1/ Older Agent continues going over the picture and O’Hare looks disappointed.

ELDER AGENT : In other words, she can get a tan, take a bath in holy water and
use as much garlic in her linguini as the recipe requires.
DUDE ONE : Great.

2/ Closer on the worried-looking O’Hare.

DUDE ONE : Like it wasn’t bad enough when we thought we were up
against ORDINARY mid-west nosferatu.
DUDE ONE : How the Hell are we supposed to fight a semi-indestructible
vampire bitch with hypnotic goddamn BREASTS, man?

3/ Closer on Older Agent.

ELDER AGENT : Oh, Vampirella doesn’t have anything to do with that little
scum-bag the POLICE are holding for us, gentlemen.
ELDER AGENT : She’s a vampire with a CONSCIENCE. One of the GOOD
GUYS, according to our profilers. The only reason she’s in the
area is to stomp these monsters into the DIRT.

4/ Reaction shot from Agent Mulligan.

DUDE TWO : You reckon she knows that these murders are just
the tip of the ICEBERG, sir? That we’re on the verge
of cracking the biggest secret in the vampire SUB-CULTURE?

5/ Pull back and see the Older Agent checking out a wall covered in pictures of Vampirella. This has obviously been a pretty big case.

ELDER AGENT : UNLIKELY, Agent O’Hare.
ELDER AGENT : As far as Vampirella is concerned, this is probably just another little LOCALIZED PROBLEM she wants wrapped up before any more people get HURT.



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