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They Came from Above the Sea
Script for my Film II project
EXT. SCHOOL CAMPUS - DAY
A young female student is walking to her car after class.
She enters the parking garage and goes up to the roof. As
she takes out her keys to get in she feels something
creeping up behind her. She turns around and sees a hot air
balloon with a shark in the basket. She screams and the
scene goes to the title card: 'THEY CAME FROM ABOVE THE SEA'
(in colour).
INT. COL.'S OFFICE - DAY
A military colonel is talking to a lady reporter.
COLONEL
I'm sorry, miss, there's nothing I
can tell you.
REPORTER
But there've been eight
disappearances. At every single
scene there was salt water and at
more than one there was a broken
shark's tooth. Every lead has led
me to you and there's NOTHING you
can tell me?
COLONEL
I'm sorry, any information we have
is classified.
A military officer enters the room.
OFFICER
Sir, Doctor Graves is here.
COLONEL
Good, send him in.
REPORTER
Doctor Graves? Isn't he the one who
developed the cure for the motaba
virus?
COLONEL
(monotonously, as if repeating
it for the dozenth time)
Yes, and Munchausen syndrome, and
flesh-eating rickets, and milk leg-
OFFICER
(cutting the colonel off)
And he helped us defeat those
damned Mole People.
REPORTER
Well, if you need him then
something BIG must be going on.
CUT TO
INT. WAITING ROOM - SAME TIME
Doctor Graves is sitting reading the latest science magazine
and chewing on the tip of his glasses. Elsewhere in the
waiting room, a child sitting next to his mother is hitting
a stuffed shark against his chair's arm rests and staring at
Doctor Graves. Suddenly, the child throws the shark at
Graves. Graves sees it out of the corner of his eye and
shrieks in a very girly manner and dives for cover. The
secretary comes to help him up.
SECRETARY
Are you alright?
GRAVES
It's nothing. I just
have...(dramatic pause)
avioselachophobia.
SECRETARY
What? What's that?
GRAVES
Fear of flying sharks. Fortunately,
sharks can't fly, so it never
really comes up. Except...that one
time...
Graves stares off into the distance for a moment as if
remembering a horrible childhood memory.
SECRETARY
Well, they're ready for you.
CUT TO
INT. COL.'S OFFICE - DAY
Graves walks into the office.
GRAVES
Ok, colonel, I'm here. What's the
issue this time? Giant aomebas?
Prehistoric Mollusks? Is it those
damned Mole People again?
COLONEL
I'm afraid it's worse...sharks in
hot air balloons. They can fly,
doctor.
GRAVES
My god...
Graves dramatically removes his glasses.
COLONEL
From what we can tell, they were
formed roughly on September the
10th of this year, and-
Graves puts his glasses back on.
GRAVES
Did you say September 10th?
COLONEL
Yes...
GRAVES
My god...
He dramatically re-removes his glasses
GRAVES
The Large Hadron Collider!
COLONEL
The what?
GRAVES
Under the Franco-swiss border, they
built the world's largest and
highest-energy particle accelerator
complex. They meant to recreate the
big bang. The energy released must
have merged these sharks with the
big Balloon Race that took place
that exact same day!
COLONEL
My god...
GRAVES
Exactly. We have to stop them.
But...I'm afraid I can't be of much
use. I have a pretty bad case of
avioselachophobia.
COLONEL
You're afraid of flying sharks? How
did that happen?
GRAVES
It happened a long time ago...I was
visiting my father in the hamptons,
he was a helecopter pilot...
COLONEL
And a shark ate him in the
helecopter?
GRAVES
No, no. I took a plane, the
inflight movie was Jaws: The
Revenge.
COLONEL
You poor bastard.
GRAVES
I mean, I suppose I could evaporate
the water in the baskets and
suffocate them. But I'd have to get
close to them, but if I get too
close, I'll freeze up. And the
device is too complicated to show
someone else. If only...
COLONEL
If only what?
GRAVES
If only there was a way for us to
neutralize the sharks in some way
while I used the device...
Graves stands up dramatically.
GRAVES
I've got it!
COLONEL
What, man? Out with it!
GRAVES
What is the number one enemy of the
shark in the animal kingdom?
COLONEL
Bigger sharks?
GRAVES
Dolphins! Dolphins have been known
to torpedo sharks to save humans in
the ocean!
COLONEL
But how will we get the dolphins
into the air? A cannon would just
blow up the dolphin.
GRAVES
Jet packs! I have a lot of them
left over from when I defeated the
Selenites during that stupid trip
to the moon.
COLONEL
Brillaint! Let's go!
REPORTER
I'm coming with you! You forgot to
send me out before you started
talking!
Graves and the colonel stare at the reporter for a second
blankly.
CUT TO
EXT. A FIELD
Graves, the reporter, and the colonel are in the field, the
colonel on a walkie talkie.
GRAVES
The dolphins are in position!
COLONEL
Alright, LAUNCH THE DOLPHINS!
A cavalcade of dolphins in jet packs ram into the sharks in
the hot air balloons.
GRAVES
Alright, now to use the device!
Doctor Graves pushes a button on a large, complicated
looking remote control. The sharks explode in the sky.
COLONEL
Wow. Didn't think they'd just blow
up like that from the water
evaporating.
GRAVES
Yeah, I added dynamite.
COLONEL
That's why you're the best, doctor.
FADE TO BLACK: THE END
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