SEQ. 250 - THE CEREMONY INT. GLOBE ROOM - NIGHT Sandys biplane circles the massive chamber, leaving trails of Dreamsand. NORTH (O.S.) Cookies? Eggnog, anyone? BUNNYMUND (O.S.) Oh, this better be good, North. Guardians Screening Script 9/6/12 Avid 9. TOOTH (O.S.) (to her fairies) Montreal, sector six: ten premolars, eight incisors and twelve canines. Steer clear of the wild goose migration. NORTH Sandy, thank you for coming. Sandy descends from the plane and floats to the ground. He joins North, Bunny and Tooth as they walk through the Globe Room. Sand glyphs appear above Sandys head communicating that he is busy and has a lot of work to do. NORTH (TO SANDY) I know, I know, but I obviously wouldnt have called you all here unless it was serious. North, Bunny, Tooth and Sandy reach the center of the room. Tooth does her best to shush her mini-fairies. NORTH (CONTD) The Boogie Man was here - at the Pole. North points to the globe. The other Guardians turn to look. TOOTH (SHOCKED) Pitch? Pitch Black? Here?! NORTH Yes! There was black sand covering the globe. BUNNYMUND (CONFUSED) What, what...what do you mean black sand? NORTH And then a shadow! BUNNYMUND Hold on, hold on, I thought you said you saw Pitch. NORTH Well, ah, not exactly... Guardians Screening Script 9/6/12 Avid 10. BUNNYMUND Not exactly? Can you believe this guy? Bunny turns to Sandy, who shrugs while forming a Dreamsand question mark above his head. BUNNYMUND Yeah, you said it, Sandy. Bunny goes back to painting one of his Easter eggs. NORTH Look, he is up to something very bad. I feel it, in my belly. BUNNYMUND (his eyes narrow) Hang on, hang on, you mean to say, you summoned me here THREE DAYS BEFORE EASTER - because of your belly? Mate, if I did this to you three days before Christmas-- TOOTH (to her fairies) Argentina. Priority alert! A batch of bicuspids in Buenos Aires. NORTH Please. Bunny. Easter is not Christmas. BUNNYMUND Here we go... North grabs Bunnys painted egg, casually juggling it in his hand as he walks off. Meanwhile Sandy, who is being served eggnog by a yeti, suddenly notices something high above. BUNNYMUND (O.S.) (LAUGHS) North, I, I dont have time for this. Ive still got two million eggs to finish up. The moon rises into view, high up in the ceiling; its rays of light begin to shine brightly through as they cascade down the walls of the globe room. NORTH (O.S.) No matter how much you paint, is still egg! Guardians Screening Script 9/6/12 Avid 11. Sandy points to the moon unsuccessfully to get the others attention. BUNNYMUND Look, mate, Im dealing with perishables. Right. Youve got all year to prepare. TOOTH (to her fairies) Pittsburg, boy eight, two molars. Saltwater taffy. Sandy puts his fingers in his mouth to whistle, a silent musical note forming above his head. NORTH (TO BUNNY) Why are rabbits always so nervous. BUNNYMUND And why are you always such a blowhard! TOOTH (O.S.) (to her fairies) Ontario, sector nine: five canines, two molars, and fourteen incisors. Is that all in one house? Sandy waves a sand flag above his head, pointing and jumping up and down as the moonlight continues to fill the room. NORTH (turning his attention) Tooth! Cant you see were trying to argue. TOOTH Sorry, not all of us get to work one night a year. Am I right, Sandy? Sandy tries to signal with a golden arrow, pointing toward the ceiling, but to no avail as the others continue their bickering. Sandy thinks Tooth has noticed for a split second, but then - TOOTH (to her fairies) San Diego, sector two! Five incisors, a bicuspid and a really loose molar on stand-by. Guardians Screening Script 9/6/12 Avid 12. BUNNYMUND (MOCKING) Come on, mate, Pitch went out with the dark ages. We made sure of that - remember? NORTH (O.S.) I know it was him. We have serious situation! BUNNYMUND (O.S.) Well, Ive got a serious situation with some eggs. TOOTH (O.S.) Hey, I hate to interrupt the, We work so hard once a year club but could we concentrate on the matter-- Sandy cant take it anymore, grabs an elf by his hat, and vigorously shakes its bell. The other Guardians are finally silenced and all turn to look at Sandy, who points up, a sand crescent moon forming above his head. The dizzy elf staggers away. Finally the others turn to see the shaft of moonlight as it concentrates on the circle between them. NORTH Aah! Man in Moon! Sandy, why didnt you say something? Sandy gives him a deadpan stare, Dreamsand smoke shoots out his ears. NORTH (to Man in Moon) Its been a long time old friend! What is big news? Everyone looks to the center of the intense spot of moonlight, the light ebbs away, leaving a dark spot -- -- which resolves into the shadowed silhouette of PITCH. The Guardians look on, stunned. BUNNYMUND It is Pitch. North pats his belly and gives Bunny a look. NORTH (back up to the moon) Manny...what must we do? Guardians Screening Script 9/6/12 Avid 13. In answer, the shadow of Pitch disappears and the circle of moonlight intensifies and SHRINKS, concentrating further illuminating an ORNATE SYMBOL on the floor, at the center of their circle. The symbol rises out of the ground revealing a large gem at the head of a pillar. TOOTH Ah, guys, you know what this means? The moons light suddenly refracts through the gem casting light all over the chamber. NORTH (AWED) Hes choosing a new Guardian. BUNNYMUND What?! Why? NORTH Must be big deal! Manny thinks we need help! BUNNYMUND (ANNOYED) Since when do we need help?! TOOTH I wonder who its gonna be? A Dreamsand Four-Leaf clover forms above Sandys head. TOOTH (CONTD) Maybe the Leprechaun? BUNNYMUND Please not the groundhog, please not the groundhog. Then A BRIGHT FLASH, a rush of WIND - and a FIGURE resolves over the central pillar: slight, hooded, bearing a familiar hooked STAFF. NORTH Jack Frost. The Mini-Teeth all sigh and swoon as the Guardians stand there, stunned. BUNNYMUND Ah, I take it back! The Groundhogs fine! Guardians Screening Script 9/6/12 Avid 14. TOOTH (caught admiring Jack) Well, ah, as long he helps to ah...to protect the children, right? BUNNYMUND Jack Frost!? He doesnt care about children! All he does is freeze water pipes and mess with my egg hunts. Right? Hes an irresponsible, selfish... NORTH Guardian. This stops Bunnymund in his tracks. BUNNYMUND Jack Frost is many things, but he is not a Guardian. As we turn toward the face of the hooded figure. DISSOLVE TO: SEQ. 600 - SNOWBALL FIGHT EXT. ST. PETERSBURG - NIGHT A hooded figure with a familiar looking staff rests atop a Post Office box on the opposite end of the street. The man touches the staff to the ground, sending a streak of frost across the street. A RUSSIAN BOY approaches a water fountain, turns the handle and moves in for a sip. But as he does, the water freezes magically, and the boys tongue is stuck to the frozen water. His friends cant help but laugh. RUSSIAN BOY (tongue stuck to frozen ICE) Aahhhhh...! A mail man walks across the street and a PATCH OF ICE magically appears under his feet. He scrambles, and BOOM! - lands on his butt. Just behind the man, we see the TRAIL OF FROST climb up the side of a building. We stay on the frost as it moves up along a rain pipe, and through the windows we see... Guardians Screening Script 9/6/12 Avid 15. A boy try to feed his gold fish, but a layer of ice suddenly forms along the water surface and prevents the fish from reaching its food. We move along the side of the building... A writer in his study sits next to stacks of papers. The window suddenly swings open and a gust of wind sends the pages flying out the window. We move along the building, across clothes lines and power lines as they freeze. We continue to move up, and finally discover the culprit. Jack Frost makes his way atop a cathedral spire and takes in the view; the full moon bathes the city in moonlight. JACK (AMUSED) Ah, now that, that was fun. (BEAT) Hey wind... Jack chuckles as he calls the wind. The trees begin to sway and leaves fly into the air. Jack grabs hold of the spire, smiling as the wind blows past. JACK Take me home! Jack lets go and the wind carries him into the air and through the clouds. Night turns to day as Jack flies from one horizon to the other. JACK Woooooohoooooooooo! EXT. BURGESS - DAY Jack falls through the clouds, smiling, toward the town of Burgess. JACK SNOOOOOWWWW DAAAAYYYYYY!!! Jack continues on down and zooms through the streets. Pedestrians clench their jackets and reach for their hats as gusts of wind, snow, and streaks of frost are left in Jacks wake. EXT. FROZEN POND Jack flies in, and with the wind behind him skates across an all too familiar pond. As the wind zips across the pond it knocks a BOOK out of the hands of a little boy walking alone, this is JAMIE. Guardians Screening Script 9/6/12 Avid 16. JAMIE Whoa, whoa. Jamie goes to pick up the book and we get a glimpse of the cover - THEYRE OUT THERE! - MYSTERIES, MYTHICAL CREATURES AND THE UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA. Jack flies into frame and lands beside Jamie. JACK Huh, that looks interesting. Good book? Suddenly twins CLAUDE and CALEB, come barreling past them, rough-housing and laughing as they slam each other into drifts (all the boys are 8). CLAUDE AND CALEB Alright! Yeah! Waahoo! Snooow daaaay!!! Jack calls after the boys... JACK Youre welcome! JAMIE (goes running after them) Hey guys, wait up! Are you guys coming to the egg hunt Sunday? CALEB Yeah, free candy! CLAUDE I hope we can find the eggs with all this snow! Caleb stuffs a handful of snow down his brothers Jacket EXT. JAMIES BACKYARD - DAY The kids arrive at the fence of Jamies house. Jamie opens up a secret plank, and heads into his yard. Claude and Caleb are still messing with each other. Meanwhile, Jack walks unseen along the top of the fence. CALEB (WALLA) Stop! CLAUDE (WALLA) No, you stop! Guardians Screening Script 9/6/12 Avid 17. JAMIE Whoa, it says here that they found Big Foot hair samples and DNA, in Michigan. Thats like, super close! CLAUDE Here we go again. Jamie arrives at his front gate, sled in hand while SOPHIE (Jamies 2-year-old sister in fairy wings) sits down on their Greyhound as it lies in the yard. JAMIE You saw the video too Claude, hes out there! CALEB Thats what you said about aliens. CLAUDE And the Easter Bunny. JAMIE (grabs his sled) Wow, the Easter Bunny is real! JACK Oh hes real alright. Real annoying, real grumpy, and really full of himself. Jack hops off the fence and walks amongst the kids, peering over their shoulders as they play in the yard. CLAUDE (LAUGHING) Come on, you guys believe anything. SOPHIE (GIGGLES) EASTER BUNNY! HOP-HOP-HOP! (FALLS OVER) Ow! Sophie begins to cry. JAMIE Mom! Sophie fell again! JAMIES MOM comes outside. Caleb, alongside his brother, stands at the front gate and calls out to Jamie. Guardians Screening Script 9/6/12 Avid 18. JAMIES MOM You okay, Soph? CLAUDE Are we sledding or what? JAMIES MOM Jamie, hat? We dont want Jack Frost nipping at your nose. Jamies mom plunks the hat on his head, tweaks his nose. JAMIE Whos Jack Frost? JAMIES MOM No one, honey. Its just an expression. JACK (smile drops - offended) Hey. Jack jumps down from the fence as the boys head off. JACK (MIFFED) Whos Jack Frost? Jack reaches down and grabs a hand full of snow from off the ground. With his palm open, Jack uses his magic to form the perfect snowball. He then puckers his lips, and blows onto it with his icy breath. The snowball turns a light shade of blue. Theres something going on here. EXT. SNOWY HILL WHOOSH! - the snowball goes flying through the air and - BOOF! - the snowball hits Jamie smack in the back of the head. Jamie looks up, peeved, and turns. Then we watch as his face changes...a mischievous sparkle comes into his eyes. A big smile. Make no mistake, something magical has just happened. JAMIE (LAUGHING) Okay, who threw that? Jack flies in and lands amongst the group of kids. Guardians Screening Script 9/6/12 Avid 19. JACK Well, wasnt bigfoot kiddo. Jamie scans the horizon for the culprit. His eyes land on a couple kids making snow barricades. MONTY (oddball with big glasses) with his back turned suddenly gets a snowball to the back of the head, knocking him face first into the ground. MONTY Ow! PIPPA (brainy, pigtails, pink hat) steps forward and - BOOF! A magical snowball from Jack hits her, knocking her back. Pippas face changes - a mischievous sparkle. PIPPA Jamie Bennett! No fair! JAMIE (LAUGHS) You struck first! CLAUDE Oh! Suddenly we see Caleb struck in the side of the head with one of Jacks snowballs; Claude cant help but laugh. JACK Free for all! And just like that we find ourselves in a take-no-prisoners snowball fight, the kids pummeling each other mercilessly. JACK Alright, who needs ammo? Jack supplies the kids with more snowballs. The kids are loving this. JACK (WALLA) Look at that. The mayhem continues as Jamie, using his sled as a shield, is knocked backward into a snowman, crushing it underneath him. A snowball flies overhead and hits CUPCAKE, a tough third grader as wide as she is tall, in the back of the head. Dread sets in amongst the other kids, Cupcake squints - gunslinger eyes. Guardians Screening Script 9/6/12 Avid 20. CUPCAKE Grrrrrrrrrrrr... PIPPA Crud, I hit Cupcake. MONTY She hit Cupcake. CLAUDE You hit Cupcake? Jamie is flat on his back, terrified. He looks up to see Cupcake standing over him. Then, BOOF! Jack hits Cupcake with a magical snowball. The kids gasp in horror. CLAUDE Oh! CALEB Did you throw that? MONTY No. PIPPA Wasnt me. A moment, and then Cupcake starts laughing as Jacks magic takes hold. Cupcake chases the kids down the hill, holding the head of her snowman in her hands. Jack, all the while, runs along side taking pleasure in the excitement. JAMIE (WALLA) Hey, come on. Stop! CLAUDE (WALLA) You cant catch me. JACK Ooh, little slippery! Jack jumps ahead, blasting a sheet of ice behind him. The kids fall to the ground, except for Jamie, who lands on his sled, and slides head first down the sheet of ice into town. JAMIE Whooaaooah!!! Guardians Screening Script 9/6/12 Avid 21. KIDS (WALLA) Whoaaa. Jamie, watch out! Stop! JAMIE (WALLA) Aha, whoa! KIDS (WALLA) Jamie! Turn, turn! Thats the street! What are you doing? Stop! Theres traffic! Jamie suddenly shoots out between the trees and careens past a set of parked cars. Jacks path of ice covers the street. As Jamie turns, his speed only escalates, sending him directly into traffic. Jamie barely misses a moving truck, spinning it out of control, sending furniture out the back, and causing a four car pile up. JAMIE Whoa! JACK Whoa, dont worry kid, I gotcha. Jamie looks back, then quickly ahead as terror comes into his eyes. Jack cant help but smile. JACK Hold on. Its gonna be alright. JAMIE Ahhhh. No, no, no, no... JACK Keep up with me kid! Take a left. Jamie rockets through a pedestrian intersection, narrowly missing those in the crosswalk. DOG WALKER (O.S.) Hey, slow down! JAMIE Whoa, no, no, no, no... Jack flies over to the far side of the street, sending the streak of ice and Jamie up onto the sidewalk. Guardians Screening Script 9/6/12 Avid 22. JACK Yeah! PEDESTRIAN #1 (O.S.) Is that Jamie Bennett? JAMIE Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa... PEDESTRIAN #2 (O.S.) Hey! Watch it! JACK There you go! JAMIE No! No! PEDESTRIAN #3 (O.S.) Look at that dude! Jamie flies off the sidewalk and back into the middle of the street, almost knocking over a postman. As Jack flies by Jamies side he sees the look of excitement come into Jamies face. Jack smiles, knowing hes responsible. Jack sees an oncoming snowplow and quickly jumps ahead, carried by the wind, to divert the ice trail. JACK Whoa. Jamies sled suddenly turns, narrowly missing the oncoming truck and barrels toward Jacks newly formed ice ramp... JAMIE AAAAHHHHHHHH! Jamie closes his eyes as the ramp launches Jamie over the street, high into the air, and toward the statue of Thaddeus Burgess, colonial settler - 1680. Jamies friends stand in awe, mouths wide open, as he sails through the air. Jamie opens his eyes and the look of fear suddenly turns to joy. Jack looks on smiling. Jamie lands safely in a large mound of snow. Jack jumps onto the Statue of Thaddeus Burgess. PIPPA (O.S.) Oh my gosh! JACK Yeah! Guardians Screening Script 9/6/12 Avid 23. Jamies friends all come running to Jamies aide, scared. But Jamie gets up. KIDS (WALLA) Wow, that looks serious! Jamie! Jamie, are you alright? Is he okay? JAMIE Whoaaa! Did you guys see that? It was amazing! I slid - I did a jump and I slid under a car-ERF!! A sofa from the moving van suddenly knocks Jamie down... JACK Whoops. KIDS (CRINGING) Ooooh! Theres a moment of silence as the kids wait to see if Jamie is okay. Then, Jamie rises up from behind the sofa grinning, a new gap in his smile. He holds up a tooth. JAMIE Cool! A Tooth! KIDS (WALLA) Dude, that means cash! Tooth Fairy cash! I love the Tooth Fairy! JACK (his fun cut short) Oh, no... KIDS (WALLA) Thats totally awesome. You lucky bug! Lucky! JACK No! JAMIE I gotta put this under my pillow! KIDS (WALLA) I wish I lost my tooth. Guardians Screening Script 9/6/12 Avid 24. JACK Ah, wait a minute! Come on, hold on, hold on! What about all that fun we just had? That wasnt the Tooth Fairy, that was me! KIDS (WALLA) I lost two teeth in one day once - remember that?! What are you gonna spend your money on? What are you gonna buy? How much do you think shes going to leave? As Jack looks down from the statue his frustration grows. Storm clouds overhead rumble and darken. Flurries of snow begin to intensify. KIDS (WALLA) Lets go...Im cooold! My ears are freezing. I cant feel my toes. Ah, its hot cocoa time. Jack jumps down from the statue, trying to engage the kids. But its too late, the kids take off. Jack blocks Jamies way as the boy comes running at him. JACK Whats a guy gotta do to get a little attention around here! WHOOOSH! Jamie runs through Jack, as if he where a ghost. Jack is left momentarily shaken, then... CUPCAKE (walla; mocking her FRIENDS) Oh, Im cold, Im cold, Im co- old. KIDS (O.S.) (WALLA) Somebody take a picture. Hey, stop! That was really awesome. Theyre gone. Jack is alone again. His temper subsides. He whips up a little wind and disappears.
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 09:51:28 +0000
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