JJ8 The Movie: Penultimate Continuation

A dirty, MOONLIT bathroom--a blood stained CURTAIN. Music cue: A metronome. TICK-TOCK, TICK-TOCK. Slow pan over to some weird, bloody TOOLS: a hacksaw, garden shears, a hoe. Also, a PAINTBRUSH and PAINT. Pan over to the tub where GABI lies, his face wrapped in bandages.

OFF-CAMERA VOICE
The fire damage was intense!

GABI slowly pulls himself up.

OFF-CAMERA VOICE
And you see the tools I have to work with!

GABI
(Garbled through the BLOODY BANDAGES)
Mirror!

OFF-CAMERA VOICE
As an independent film producer, you didn't have health insurance [=social commentary], so after you survived the explosion of the car [some backstory] you had to come here to your old friend [tantalizing clue??] to put you back together!

GABI
MIRROR!

GABI is given an old stained mirror. He begins to unwrap the bandages from his face. The METRONOME ticks more quickly [suspense builds]. GABI holds up the MIRROR so it BLOCKS HIS FACE. HE can see his face, but the audience CAN'T.

GABI
My God...

The camera pans over to the OFF CAMERA VOICE. It is BEN LORR [Jack Black in a thin suit]. He is dressed in a bloody smock and yellow DISHWASHING GLOVES. FOR EFFECT, he wears a HAIR NET.

BEN
(Anticipating approval)
So?

GABI smashes the the MIRROR on the side of the tub. The audience finally sees his face: [visual reference:]













[make-up should be done by make-up artist and creature creator Rick Baker]

BEN whistles happily out of the bathroom.

He is SURPRISED to see JON ROSS standing naked in the LIVING ROOM.

BEN
Jon! My old roommate! What are you doing here?

JON
(Darkly)
I have come to kill... some time.

BEN
Great!

BEN strides over to a SIDEBAR.

BEN
Honey liqueur?

JON
(Ominously)
It will be your last... glass today?

BEN
No, probably not!

JON
(Coldly)
Then I will drink to your death... deathly dangerous habits, of bikeriding.

BEN
Sounds good!

BEN takes a long swallow of honey liqueur. The HONEY LIQUEUR is TANQUERAY BRAND HONEY LIQUEUR. [product placement]

BEN
So! Athas, Raju, Solomon, Ashley, Dave, Matt Burnette-Lemon are all dead! Luckily I saved Gabi's life! But isn't it strange all these people are dying! It's almost as if someone is pursuing a deadly vendetta against JJ8...

JON
(Weirdly)
And you will be next... on my list of people to kill... time with...

THAT WEIRD SHOT HAPPENS where THE BACKGROUND ZOOMS AWAY FROM BEN, BUT THE CAMERA ZOOMS IN [Like in Psycho?]. BEN IS REALIZING SOMETHING. He DROPS his GLASS of HONEY LIQUEUR. It SHATTERS, but it SHATTERS SILENTLY.

BEN
(Totally getting it)
But why, Jon?!?! You are a man of peace!

JON
Once upon a time, perhaps...

Now the CAMERA zooms into JON'S EYE. It zooms until there is NOWHERE ELSE TO ZOOM. It's as if it ZOOMS into his SOUL. This is the tightest zoom in the MOVIE. Then the SCREEN GETS WAVEY, so it is clear there is now a FLASHBACK happening.

We see a MONTAGE of JON'S MEMORIES:

Jeremy Mangion [Bill Paxton] crying softly in his room... Jon's cousin [John Turturro] being dubbed "Jimmy Israel"... Josh [Daniel Craig] making Jin [Jackie Chan] cry during a game of Madden...

ZOOM WAY BACK FROM INSIDE JON'S SOUL. He is TALKING TO BEN in the LIVING ROOM AGAIN, but now he is brandishing a RUSTY CHAINSAW.

JON
At first when I realized man's inhumanity to man, I thought I could cure it as a simple country doctor. But now I realize that it must be exterminated like the virus that it is.

JON slowly starts to approach with the RUSTY CHAINSAW. [Music cue: End of the Innocence by Don Henley.] [Also the sound of the chainsaw: rrrhrhrrhrh]

BEN leaps over and grabs a SAMURAI SWORD that is hanging ON THE WALL. MONSTER GABI then emerges from the bathroom, with a BLOODY CLEAVER. They all eye each other. The stage is set for A BIG FIGHT.