On Saturday I did some location tests and an audition for Panache using version 1.02 of the screenplay. This version still requires a lot of work and unfortunately when its copy & pasted from Word it loses some of its formatting.
Video captures of the footage is coming soon.
EXT. Yet To Be Determined ESTABLISHING SHOT – DUSK
EXT. ALLEYWAY – DUSK
MR. TROLLINS lurks in the shadows of the alley. He leans impatiently against a wall with his arms crossed, tapping his foot in annoyance and muttering obscenities under his breath.
He spots Gigh approaching and steps out of the shadows. GIGH comes to a halt and looks up startled.
GIGH
Mr Trollins!
MR. TROLLINS
I’ve been waiting for you boy! Do you have my money?
GIGH
No sir, I do not.
MR TROLLINS
(Furious)
This is the third you’ve failed to make payment.
GIGH
I know sir, but I got married recently.
MR TROLLINS
There are no excuses! Everybody knows what happens to clients who fail to pay me.
GIGH
I know sir, but if you’ll just give me a few more days…
MR TROLLINS
(Furious)
A few more days? I shall tolerate this insolence no longer! Clients who don’t repay must suffer the consequences!
GIGH
Please sir, Panache will be coming this way soon and…
MR TROLLINS
(Interrupts)
All the better if she sees!
Mr. Trollins lunges at GIGH shooting bolts of lightning from his hands. GIGH attempts to counter the attack with his own lightning but is overpowered and his body is enveloped with MR. TROLLINS lightning.
GIGH falls to the ground convulsing as the energy passes through his body. With a menacing facial expression MR. TROLLINGS continues to zap GIGH until wispy smoke wafts off his body.
PANACHE
(Frantic)
Gigh! What are you doing?
MR TROLLINS
(Manically)
Your husband has failed to repay me so he’s getting what he deserves.
PANACHE
(Frantic)
STOP!!! Stop hurting him.
MR TROLLINS ignores PANACHE and attacks GIGH with greater intensity. PANACHE attempts to get closer but MR. TROLLINS knocks her over a bolt of lightning then returns his full attention to GIGH. GIGH erupts into flames and within seconds is no more than a pile of ash and bones.
MR. TROLLINS withdraws his attach and laughs evilly. PANACHE buckles over in front of GIGHS remains with tears welling in her eyes.
MR. TROLLINS
Let it be known what happens to those who dare to avoid repayments!
MR. TROLLINGS storms off leaving a sobbing PANACHE to sift GIGH’s ashes between her fingers.
FADE OUT.
EXT. NIGHT SKY – EARLY NIGHT
The full moon begins to rise in the sky.
EXT. ABUELO’s ABODE - NIGHT
Establishing shot of Abuelo’s abode.
INT. ABUELO’s ABODE – NIGHT
ABUELO is reading a parchment when PANACHE bursts into the room.
PANACHE
(Distressed)
Abuelo, Gigh is dead! I need help!
ABUELO
Dead? How?
PANACHE
He failed to pay Trollings…
ABUELO
Did that scoundrel electrocute?
PANACHE nods. ABUELO begins foraging through the junk behind him and produces the shoot new tree which he passes to PANACHE.
ABUELO
Plant this shoot in the soil before the stone. Sprinkle Gigh’s ashes at its base and water them with a tear.
PANACHE
But what does this do?
ABUELO
You must hurry as this ritual must be preformed under the full moon.
ABUELO ushers the confused PANACHE to the door before she can respond.
PANACHE
How will this bring GIGH back?
ABUELO
You must have faith.
PANACHE leaves into the darkness.
FADE TO.
EXT. NIGHT SKY – NIGHT
The moon rises to its highest point in the sky.
EXT.
PANACHE kneels before GIGH’s remains. She scraps some of the ashes into a pouch, places it in her pocket and leaves.
A saddened PANACHE makes her way into the valley, carefully traversing down a slope with the shoot in both hands. Upon reaching the luscious valley floor the giant stone emerges from the darkness.
When she is metres away she pauses briefly and she brushes the tail of her jacket aside to reveal a trowel. She removes it and kneels to the ground. After digging a small hole she places the shoot inside of it and covers the hole over. She pats the soil down around the shoot with both hands then stands.
PANACHE retrieves the pouch from her pocket and begins sprinkling the ashes over the shoot. She leans forward, grimaces and sheds a single tear which trails over her cheek and drips onto the staff.
Suddenly the shoot begins to grow. Two more shoots emerge from the top of the original shoot and begin growing outwards in a “Y” formation. The original shoot becomes a shrub and the new shoots rapidly become branches which sprout leaves and sub-branches of their own.
The foliage continues to grow and beneath it traces of GIGH can be seen. The leaves fall away and the reincarnated GIGH opens his eyes and looks up. The overjoyed PANACHE hurries over and wraps her arms around him.
GIGH
(Dazed and confused)
Where am I?
PANACHE
Mr. Trollings executed you for failing to make your repayment!
GIGH
That bastard! Someone must put a stop to this. He can’t keep killing people.
PANACHE
I agree and I know how we can teach him a lesson…
The two walk arm in arm out of the valley.
FADE TO.
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