Screenplay ~~- ED REX

Ed Rex's Army Battles His Dad Laius's Rebels

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Ed Rex jumps down off of the fort wall.
He runs toward his chariot.
Trojan & Spartan strap war-horses to the chariot.
{ THUNDER CLAPS! }
Ed Rex drives his chariot behind Captain Romanux's chariot.
Out of the fort gates they charge.

They storm up the river road toward the waterfall.


THEN, OUTSIDE AT THE WATERFALL IN THE DAYTIME:

WHOOSH! Captain Romanux and Ed Rex charge their chariots toward the falls.
They plunge their horses into the river.
The horses struggle to pull the chariots over the wide pool.
Ed Rex looks down to see his wheels stick in the gravelly river.
Across the river, Ed Rex spots the rebel horde amassing between him and the village.
Ed Rex, stranded in his chariot in the middle of the rushing river, peers into his spyglass:


THEN, OUTSIDE AT THE BATTLEFIELD IN THE DAYTIME:

The camouflaged rebels, led by Laius, fan out toward Ed Rex's chariot.

Ed Rex, through his spyglass, sees Liege on the bluff laughing at the water-stranded Greeks:
Below Liege, on the field, Ioh struggles to pull Laius back from rushing to battle.
Crying, Ioh grabs Laius' leather clothing.
A piece of leather RIPS off in Ioh's hand.

IOH
NO! Stay!

Laius turns to kiss Ioh.
It's the passionate ...KISS ... of a lifetime...
Laius rips away from Ioh.
Laius rushes off to lead his rebel army.
Laius commands his rebel soldiers.
The rebels shoot boulders out of the catapult toward the Greeks.

A stone smacks Spartan's chariot in the river beside Ed Rex.
Stones from the catapult hit Greek soldiers crossing the river.
The Greek soldiers fall dead right and left around Ed Rex.
Ed Rex watches Trojan & Spartan wash down the river.

LAIUS
(To Captain Romanux)
You took my manhood! You killed my baby son! Die you Greek pig!

Sorora and SunFlower (both 17 years old) shoot arrows at the Greeks.
They run down to throw rocks at the soldiers emerging from the river.

Ed Rex whips his chariot horses.
They surge.
Their harnesses snap.
Ed Rex and his horses nearly drown...

Finally, with great pain, Ed Rex crosses the water.
His eyes bloom in shock:

The rebel invaders stream in a dust cloud toward him.

Ed Rex charges his chariot toward them.
His diamond-headed sword cuts down rebel warriors right, left.

Ed Rex sees Tiresias standing on a buff overlooking the battle.
Teardrops flow down Tiresias' cheek.
An arrow screams past Tiresias' head.
Tiresias stands strong. He doesn't even flinch.

Laius, now deep in battle among the rebels, far in front of Ed Rex, shouts orders to the rebels.
They load stones into the catapult.
Ed Rex draws an arrow from his quiver.

ED REX
(shouts)
Arrows!

Ed Rex's Greek soldiers, led by RamRock, draw arrows.
They all pull back their bows.
Their arrows FLY.

Ed Rex rushes on toward Laius.
Ed Rex's chariot parts fighters like the red sea.

Laius RUSHES Ed Rex.
Laius pulls out a double-whip, flicks it. { WHOOSH! }

{ BAM BAM! } The whip SMASHES into Ed Rex's face, knocks him delirious.

Ed Rex grabs his diamond-headed sword...
...he CHUNKS it at Laius ....
... the sword flies...
...the sword PIERCES Laius in the shoulder above his heart, underneath his armor.

Sorora stretches her arms toward her Dad (Laius).

SORORA
(murderous, sad)
Abba!

Ed Rex sees SunFlower race toward Laius.
Ahead of Ed Rex, Ioh chunks a spear.
Ioh's spear hits Captain Romanux's lead horse in the neck.

Ed Rex sees RamRock fire an arrow.

It soars to slice the side of SunFlower's neck!
SunFlower falls.
SunFlower rolls down the mountainside.
She BANGS her head against a boulder, unconscious.

RamRock sprints up the rocks toward Sorora.
Sorora grabs the sword of a dead soldier.
RamRock swings his sword at Sorora, cutting off a rebel's head on the same stroke.
RamRock's sword races at Sorora's neck.
She blocks the sword.
RamRock pins Sorora against a rock.

Below them, SunFlower, bleeding, dizzy, swooning, grips her neck.

RamRock pushes his sword blade against Sorora's neck...

SunFlower stalks up behind RamRock.

She smacks RamRock on the back of the neck with a rock.
RamRock goes down.

Sorora leaps down, stabs RamRock.
Sorora, bleeding from the neck, falls.
SunFlower faints, falls...

Ed Rex and his Greek Soldiers CHEER.

Laius rips the sword out of this chest... falls to his knees.

Captain Romanux's chariot in front of Ed Rex FLIPS over.

The rebel catapult FIRES.

Ed Rex sees the rock catapult like a cannonball toward him.
Ed Rex ducks down to evade the "cannonball".

Ed Rex's chariot runs over Captain Romanux in his crashed chariot.

So Ed Rex FLIES ... high ... into ... the ... air.
{ THUNK! }
The huge rock SLAMS Ed Rex square in the chest.



So Ed Rex FLIES backward.
The rock sinks into his torso as he flies.
Ed Rex lands hard on the ground.
His spyglass (hanging on his belt) shatters on the ground beside him.

He passes out seeing his army defeated by the rebel horde...

...He turns his head to see the rebels storm toward his faraway fort...

...Fire shoots smoke from the Greek fort to the sky.

Ed Rex looks up to see singing supernatural Furies drag the dead fighters' screaming souls to the torments of damnation.
[The Furies sing the epic song: THE MAN WITH THE BLOOD-RED HANDS].

Ed Rex's bloody hands fall to the grass.