Wyrd Chapter 2 Script – Djinn In A Bottle

For the visually impaired, and or people who are curious as to what my comic scripts look like… here you go. The process is quite simple.

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PAGE 1

PANEL 1 – splash panel

CAPTION: “September 30th, 2000.”

A young and beautiful Persian princess is standing, screaming at a glowing screen in front of her. Treat it like a TV screen but it’s not attached to anything, it’s magic. It glows just like a TV screen. She is inside a glass bottle. She was born human but is now a djinn and has been a prisoner for 1,400 years.

SCHEHERZADE: *screaming*

CAPTION: “The walls of the bottle rang with the mournful screams of a woman who had seen far, far too much.”

SCHEHEREZADE: “Five more minutes! Five more minutes and I could have saved them!”

PANEL 2

CAPTION: “Like many in the world she had watched as a father and son were killed on the Gaza strip. The two were caught in the crossfire between liberators and colonizers. They stood little chance of survival.”

SCHEHEREZADE: *screaming*

CAPTION: “But what she saw was no television.”

PANEL 3

CAPTION: “What her captor had cursed her with was far worse. He was more than cruel. His evil was full of deep cutting methods.”

SCHEHEREZADE: “Five more… five more…”

CAPTION: “A never ending vision of the world outside the bottle. It was tuned to misery in the fertile valley.”

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PAGE 2

PANEL 1

Scheherezade is on her knees, hands on the floor crying.

CAPTION: “A prisoner of Shahryar the terrible, she had spent centuries trapped in the glass.”

SCHEHEREZADE: “W… why…”

PANEL 2

Close up of Scheherezade

CAPTION: “He made sure that every one hundred years she would gain enough power to grant her own wish.”

PANEL 3

Close up of the last grain of sand falling in an hourglass.

SCHEHEREZADE: “Why does it have to be like this?”

PANEL 4

Extreme close up of her eyes tearing up.

CAPTION: “Because he knew she would never use the power to free herself.”

PANEL 5 – wide

A silhouette of Scheherezade against a background of the constellations

SCHEHEREZADE: “My… my wish…”

CAPTION: “But poor word choices…”

PAGE 3

PANEL 1 – wide

Camera view downward, Scheherezade’s eyes are closed tearfully, she has her hands clasped together wishing and begging desperately.

SCHEHEREZADE: “I wish…. they threaten us with extinction. Please. I beg of you anyone help us!”

PANEL 2 – splash

The room fills with the affects of magic power.

CAPTION: “…have consequences”

Note: somewhere between here and the middle of next page most of the wall fades to a foggy white background. People will walk up to her like the walls of her bottle don’t exist in this sequence. Whatever you’ve given her for furniture should remain. The fog doesn’t prevent you from detailing costumes, but their full faces remain hidden. Only until the last page do Irene’s eyes show. Anytime anyone else’s eyes show in anyway, they should be covered by deep dark shadows.

PAGE 4

PANEL 1

Scheherezade snaps to attention, tears still rolling down her face as her wish is answered by a voice.

ALI BABA : “Anyone?”

PANEL 2

Through the fog, feet of multiple people are stepping. Shadowy, silhouettes no need for details.

ALI BABA : “I am everyone.”

PANEL 3

Multiple silhouettes of ancient Persian men and women.

THIEF: “I am your brother.”

THIEF: “I am a lawman.”

THIEF: “I am your mother.”

PANEL 4

Multiple silhouettes of ancient Persian men and women.

THIEF: “I am your neighbor.”

THIEF: “I am your lover.”

THIEF: “I am a baker.”

PANEL 5 wide

Close up of Ali Baba’s face. Leading left from him are other people that are foggy. Everyone stays foggy, this isn’t a big reveal of exactly who they are. They are his people, the assassins of

Ali Baba is actually this guy:

[edited to stop a major plot giveaway]

PAGE 5

PANEL 1 – wide

The great adventurer Sinbad steps forward defiantly. His giant roc companion Sultana is behind him.

SINBAD: “We too have answered the call! This will be our greatest adventure!”

PANEL 2 – wide

The West African raider queen Iansã steps forward. Besides her companion who is a Cape water buffalo companion named Ogun.

IANSÃ: “Your love for your people moves me. Princess, I offer you my spear and my cavalry.”

SCHEHEREZADE: “You…”

PANEL 3 – wide

Indian royal, successful naval commander Captain nemo adjusts his glasses. Besides him are shadowy men in 19th century naval uniforms.

NEMO: “You will need an armada. You would be exposed without proper naval power.”

PAGE 6

PANEL 1

A golden eagle soaring above the group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_eagle

SCHEHEREZADE: “Y-You’re not even from our lands!”

COYOTE: “No princess, we are not! But your prayers are strong! They were even heard by Coyote! It has brought him to tears! It is by his request I have come!”

COYOTE: “From here on, I bear the name Coyote. I will fly about this battlefield with the power of Usen behind me.”

PANEL 2

Coyote smiling as the eagle lands on his shoulder.

COYOTE: “I represent the fighting strength of the 500 nations. I will teach your people our spirit of resistance!”

PANEL 3

Clockmaker Zacharius, he’s on the ground on all fours in the middle of everyone. He looks terrified, and the contents of his pockets are everywhere.

CLOCKMAKER ZACHARIUS: “What… how did I get here…”

SCHEHEREZADE: “But you… you…”

Page 7

PANEL 1 1/3 of the page

Close up of the boots of Irene Adler, Kitty Winter and others advancing.

SCHEREZADE: “Y-You’re all villains and rogues!”

They are both Victorian women.

IRENE : “And what if we are?”

IRENE: “Evil triumphs when good men do nothing…”

PANEL 2 2/3 of the page

Close up of Irene holding a fan covering her face. Her half shut eye lids glimmering with mischief.. Behind her is Kitty Winter. and a crew of miscellaneous Victorians of worker class.

IRENE: “Well then. We’re not good men, are we now?”

CAPTION: NEXT: FLIGHT OF THE ALBATROSS