The Flash! said:
Dude, right on. There should be one, he's a damn good character. I mean they choose stuff like "Mort the Dead Teenager" over better things like MM!! Anyway, I have no problem with what you have so far. Please post, cause I'd love to read it Threshold.
Cool, here's what I have so far of the film:
-Starts off in black and white, grainyesque, film. The pre-credits sequence would involve Roswell, NM and Area 51. A general would become aware of the presence of an alien due to the fact that his young daughter has become a friend and confidant of the creature. A massive and classically filmed chase (one that harkens back to The French Connection or The Great Escape) ensues which involves the alien, a young Martian astronaut named J'onn J'onzz, fleeing from his pursuers and trying to get to his ship. The young girl helps him escape and he goes back to Mars.
-J'onn was on a research expedition to Earth. His mission was to detect what life was present on the planet and what sort of threat or promise that it held within its nature. J'onn said that he encountered two different types of humans. His superior asks him (via telepathy, which is how the martians most frequently communicate) what the difference between these two types are. J'onn says there are the humans that "want power" and there are the humans that "want love". These two types, while visually and physically indentitcal, couldn't be more different in their inner spirit. In their purposes. The ones that want love are there to find love and to give it out as well. The ones who want power are there to steal that love and hurt it without ever even having to raise a fist. Humans aren't physically superior creatures to the Martians, but their words and their ideas make them a species that is not to be underestimated, or in the case of the ones that 'love', underappreciated.
-J'onn, after his report, is allowed to return to his family. He has a wife and a young daughter, the wife is pregant with twin boys. J'onn, we learn, isn't a scientist at all. The only reason he was sent was because his uncle, who is his superior, detected his keen sense of detail and memory retrieval. There is no cliche father hates the son-in-law story here, because first of all the time we spend on Mars in this early section of the story is short and concise. It displays many emotions and never feels like it is rushed or certain ideas and motifs unexplored, it is still only the beginning to the story. It's purpose is to get the audience to feel something for J'onn and to understand and recognize the passionate connection he has for spending time with his family and living amongst his people. He was alone and vulnerable on Earth, on Mars he is living the ideal life of any person. Martians have no two types about them, all Martians are here to love, that is where the connection to the good people on Earth is established.
-We then jump ahead many many years (like half a century or more) into the future where we see the Martians again. We reconnect with J'onn who doesn't look very much different. Martians, you see, age very differently than humans. They live extremely long lives and even when they are in what would be their level of "middle-aged", the signs of such acientness are hard to immediatley detect. J'onn has his wife still, as well as his daughter (who is married with a child of her own, a young girl) and two sons, who are scientists working for their mothers' father. The life hasn't changed much, the only difference in J'onn that we can see is an absense of the relief that he felt when being back among his people for the first time. The sense we get from him now is that those memories of Earth, while still exsisting in his mind, are not as memorable as the many events and encounters he's experienced since those early days.
-We cut to the surface (for mars has only three surface colonies, the rest of the colonies are underground and are accesible by a series of expansive tunnels) where we see a spacecraft from Earth land. Far above it in space we see what looks to be an advanced version of an Earth spaceshuttle. Four men exit the craft and begin doing the whole Neil Armstrong/Moon thing. Then one of them plants the flag down and hears a metallic clank. He dusts off where the clank originated and finds a large doorway. About the size of the spacecraft. He gets the guys together to try and open it, but it doesn't work... to heavy. They then bring down supplies from the shuttle and manage to open it. It turns out that it isn't a doorway at all, but the cover for a console. The press a button that seems to standout and the real doors, which are much larger and far more majestic, open and the astronauts move into the series of Martian tunnels. They discover that the tunnels are over-oxygenated, so they can take off their helmets and suits, but need to breath with regulators that help maintain an appropriate level of oxygen intake, otherwise they'd pass out after several minutes from extreme exposure to oxygen. The astronauts move through the tunnels, leaving their suits in the vehicle that they rided into the tunnel section with.
-The astronauts finally come into contact with the Martians and they begin to have contact with them. They summon J'onn to help with communicating with the humans. They discover that the astronauts are apart of the first mission to Mars, J'onn asks if their government sanctioned the voyage and first contact. The humans are very surprised that not only can the Martian communicate flawlessly with the humans verbally, but he understands the innerworkings of their governments. They ask him how he knows about the governements and stuff like that, they ask if the Martians have been watching Earth. J'onn said he went there once, that thanks to certain inhuman abilities he posseses, he could infiltrate the more highly guarded rooms or most purposely secure meetings. He knew about the birth of a space program about thirty years before it's initial announced genesis. They ask if he knows about NASA and J'onn sheepishly asks if that is what they are calling it these days. He comments that National Aeronautics and Space Administration was a mouthful and even though he'd recomend far "simpler" names for the program, at the time they were intent on using the full name.
-Suddenly a martian beside J'onn begins to fall ill. He begins to vomit as only a martian can, which is not to be shown on screen or mentioned with any sort of specifics in the script, it is that brand of horrible alien weirdness that would only sicken and disturb the humans watching the movie or reading the script or novelization of the project. The humans look at each other in shock and then the sick martian begins to change his shape and physicality. This scares the humans and they take out their weapons and shoot the martian, in the belief that he is a prominant threat to their well being. J'onn is shocked by this turn of events, for he had, within his own mind, secretly labeled these humans as the ones who are in search of love. He doesn't understand that the humans were threatened, because they never really have a chance to reconnect and communicate the problem with them. The humans run back through the tunnels, radioing for the ship to send Hal Jordan (the pilot of the smaller spacecraft) to come down and get them immediatley. They get their spacegear back on and head to the craft, which is simultaneaously landing as they are jumping inside of it. J'onn follows them to the surface and they escape leaving J'onn with a sense of betrayal, that his trust was abused and misplaced. There is internal guilt, but as a martian who has come to terms with any demons he could possibly have and made peace with the being that he ultimatley is, he doesn't have a lot of need for guilt. They used to be a somewhat utopian society. Their pefection has now been compromised.
I'm not to sure on this idea, even if this film will do well. Thanks, Bats.
