Hi Guys, here's something i've been working on. Not a full script of anything but primarily my thoughts and characterizations on the cast, tone of movie, and what i'd like to see for certain scenes. Please let me know what you think.
Scenes:
The movie begins in Smallville Kansas. Some sporting event is just finishing up. We get our first look at Clark Kent and Lana Lang. They are both in their freshmen or sophomore year in high school. Clark is a star athlete, excelling in the classroom and on the field. The interaction we see is brief but establishes that these two are close, best friends, much more akin to Clark’s relationship with Chloe rather than Lana, from smallville the tv show. There may even be a budding romance between the two, but it hasn’t come to fruition b/c they both think it might jeopardize their friendship (although neither one knows what the other is thinking). Lana asks Clark why he’s recently begun wearing glasses. He says he’s been having headaches from eye strain recently and thinks the glasses will help. [Here we’re establishing why clark kent would be wearing glasses, also that his powers have been growing gradually up to this point and haven’t fully emerged yet.]
Clark hears an ear-piercing sound, lana asks what’s wrong, he’s like, “what is that? Can you hear that”. Lana has no idea what he’s talking about. Then the sound goes away and clark feels fine. He dismisses it and heads for home.
Pulling up to the farm in his dad’s pickup truck, clark hears the piercing sound again. He realizes it’s coming from the barn. Slowly making his way to the barn he notices that the cellar in the barn is open, the underground location of the ship that brought him to earth. “Dad is that you?” he asks as he cautiously approaches. A medium built man stands over the ship as it glows as the sounds continue emanating from it. The man turns around to acknowledge Clark. His eyes glow a greenish color. We begin seeing things from his perspective. It looks like a display screen of some sort and after cycling through trying to identity what clark is, it matches his dna signature as a potential kryptonian (30%). “What are you doing in here?” clark demands.
The scenes switches to inside the Kent home. Jonathan and Martha are preparing for dinner. You see them as a real family, good character stuff here. They’re talking about Clark, their life, maybe doubts or concerns they have. They are startled by the sound of a loud crash outside and are horrored to see Johnathan’s truck in flames, even more shocked as they watch Clark emerge from the ruble.
Clark tells them to run as the robot leaps out of the barn and lands on the remains of the truck, then lunges at Clark. Martha screams. Just as the robot has Clark pinned and is about to initiate a probe of some sort, a shotgun blasts it back. Jonathan tells Clark to stay down and keeps firing at the robot. After taking a few direct shots to the head and chest the robot identifies Jonathan as a threat that must be terminated. As it prepares to leap toward Jonathan, Clark grabs it and punches it several times, showing an increase in strength and further damaging the robot. Clark hears the robot’s reading of “60% Kryptonian”, it startles him enough to hesitate in his assault. The robot knocks him a good 30 feet away landing in the cornfield, and turns to resume its attack on Jonathan. The handle of the shot gun shatters as it hits the robot’s head. Unhindered by Jonathans’ attack the robot prepares to kill him with its razor sharp talons.
Everything slows down as we begin seeing the situation from Clark perspective. He’s starting to pick himself up in the cornfield but can see the danger his father is in. He starts to run as fast as he can and just before impact with the robot he takes flight for the first time, with the robot in tow.
The robot struggles to break Clark’s grip and even slashes him with is talons, which have no effect on Clark. From its viewport the reading rapidly increases from 60% to 70%, 80%, 90% then as Clark’s eyes begin to glow with his anger, the reading displays %100 Kryptonian as it is incinerated by Clark’s heat vision.
(The idea is that Clark’s body has been super-charging for years as a teenager but nothing has triggered his abilities to “ignite” until now they have been running in a “passive” mode thus the peak human performance. If he was an adult when he landed his body would have displayed abilities much sooner, although perhaps in a weaker state b/c of absorbing less sunlight)
Clark remains hovering with the lifeless robot in his arms until he hears Martha scream “JOHNATHAN!!!” Clark turns to look back at the farm with shock. We see a full frame of his face wearing a worried expression. He wakes up in the present, visibly startled by the dream/memory from his past.
Plot Synopsis:
We begin with a ten to twelve min scene re-establishing the status quo. It shows clark as a teenager in smallivlle Kansas. We have a brief glimpse into his relationship with lana and his popularity. It is established that while clark is aware of his unusual arrival he has yet to display any real abilities other than being in peak human shape without much effort. He is a gifted and talented athlete at this point. Everything changes for Clark when he gets home that evening.
He discovers someone in the barn examining and activating his ship. After a brief confrontation it is revealed that the visitor isn’t human but some form of Artificial Intelligence using a hologram as a cloaking device to appear human (underneath the display the robot looks like a mix between the braniac bots from the comic and robots from the movie I-Robt.) Clark has a brief but intense battle with the robot. His various powers begin to display themselves all at once turning the tide of the battle in clark’s favor. During the fight he displays feats of strength and durability unknown to him until now. He uses heat vision and towards the end of the battle superspeed and flight, in a very chaotic manner (it’s obvious he doesn’t know what he’s doing but the control comes more naturally as he continues).
At some point his parents get involved, his father Jonathan using his shotgun on the robot. During this time he exerts himself more than he should. To end the battle (after perhaps being tossed a great distance) clark runs as fast as possible to save his parents from the robot. Right before impacting with the robot clark takes flight for the first time. As clark flies off, Jonathan collapses. In the air clark battles the robot until he unleashes his heat vision at point blank range incinerating the robot’s opic nerves and causing it to stop functioning. Just as clark defeats the robot he hears the scream of his mother “Jonathan!!!!” He wakes up suddenly. The entire first act is a dream sequence in which he remembers the first time his powers really flared up.
It is revealed that the past events took place when clark was around 16 years old. After the death of his father and the emergence of his powers he became more removed from the social scene, he quits all of the varsity teams (most people including his buddy Pete Ross believe its b/c of Jonathan’s death and clark’s increased responsibilities around the farm). While he was a freshmen (or sophmore in high school; the first scene in the movie) he had an all-star record from the JV team and was already a starter on the varsity level for several sports. Clark became heavily involved in journalism, being keenly interested in uncovering the truth about his origin, the world around him, and his mysterious attacker, clark also develops a love for writing. Even though he can’t always talk to other people about his experiences or feelings, his journal gives him a new since of freedom. During his final few years in high school clark spends an increasing amount of time studying astronomy and has a keen mind for science. He also tries to continue to develop and learn control over his abilities. He has on occasion used his abilities in a discreet way to help others, whether it was a fire, natural disaster or accident. This is a Clark Kent very different from the smallville tv show version, he doesn’t hate being different or his abilities, he’s fascinated by them, he loves flying and trying new things, his only regret is that his father never got to see him do any of these things. His dad always said he was special, he thinks, he didn’t know how right he was. After graduation clark left smallville behind and has been traveling the world, trying to find his place in it. He has been studying journalism abroad and reporting for various papers around the world as a freelance journalist. His true motivation however is to discover the truth about his heritage, where did he come from? Who sent him here? What was that mysterious robot that he battled at the barn? Why hadn’t his ship activated until then and never again afterward?
[After his father’s funeral he tries to dispose of the robot’s body and he re-examines his ship. Some sort of artifact had been removed from the ship by the robot and clark now possesses it, even though he has no idea what it is. Perhaps the markings on the artifact matched those of some discovered elsewhere in the world and that’s what sparked clark’s globetrotting. ]
