I have been working on this on and off for almost a year. Before Sony took the easy way out. This is my take on a reboot and no Sony, Peter is NOT in high school.
Sensational Spider-man
Cast
• Peter Parker/Spider-man- Max Thierot
• Harry Osborn- Anton Yelchin
• Gwen Stacy- Katie Cassidy
• May Parker- Clois Leachman
• Ben Parker- Robert Redford
• Anna Watson- Susan Sarandon
• Captain George Stacy- Dennis Quaid
• J. Jonah Jameson- James Remar
• Joseph “Robbie” Robertson- Delroy Lindo
• Liz Allan- Kate Mara
• Flash Thompson- Richard Blake
• Norman Osborn- Hugo Weaving
• Alexsei Systevich/Rhino- Triple H
• Curtis Connors/Lizard- Gary Sinise
• Sergei Kravinoff/Kraven the Hunter- Gerard Butler
Opening Credits
Origin flashes throughout.
Scene One
The New York skyline is a wondrous thing to behold. It represents all that mankind has been able to accomplish. To build. Unfortunately, there was one man who wasn’t thinking about that today. His thoughts were on more destructive and profitable endeavors.
At the Bank of Manhattan, all was quiet. Or as the manager, a one Mr. Slous, would call it, boring. The most excitement that would happenwas if a movie star came in to deposit an amount larger than Slous’ yearly salary.
Oh what I would give for some action, thought the overwork and underpaid manager.
Slous didn’t know it yet, but he was about to get more action than a soldier saw in the Middle East. This action came in the form of a man.
To look at him, one would think he was a mountain. A large overcoat that resembled a small circus tent with an oversized fedora jammed onto his skull. The crowd parted as he walked down the sidewalk. By just looking at his build, you knew he someone to be feared. But if you look at his face, with his sloped eyebrows, square jaw, and beedy unfocused eyes, all you had to do was stay out of his way. He didn’t usually look for trouble.
But not today. He was tired of the people who criticized him. Made him out to be an English speaking neanderthal. He was only as dumb as he let on. Not to mention that he needed cash. And what better place to acquire money than at a bank?
He had to duck under the door to accomadate his massive height. He brushed past the overextended line of people waiting for a teller and approached the front desk. The teller, a young lady by the name of Jesse, looked up.
MAN: “I’d like ta make a withdraw’l.” (he had a slightly Brooklyn accent.)
JESSE: “I-I’m going to have to call the manager. O-One moment p-please.” (she stammered and shakily grabbed the phone on her desk.)
MAN: “Why not?” (the man gave her a smile that looked more like a grimace.)
A few minutes later, the balding Mr. Slous walked up to the grinning behemoth.
SLOUS: “May I be of assistance?” (Slous obviously didn’t realize how imposing this guy was.)
MAN: “Yes, you can ASSIST me. As I already told yer ‘cashier’ here, I’d like ta make a withdraw’l.” (as he said this, he started to lean over the desk, forcing his imposing stature onto the manager who started to realize that his new “customer” was seriously intimidating.)
SLOUS: “Okee-dokey. I’ll get onto it straight away but first I’m gonna have to know your name.” (Slous was starting to get itchy and wanting to get further away from him as each second passed.)
MAN: “The name…………………………………is RHINO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
And with that the man ripped off his overcoat to reveal a suit that looked comprised of both cybernetics and armor. He flung the hat off and a helmet unfolded and encased his head. The helmet had two really BIG rhino horns sprouting out of the top of his gigantic forehead.
The manager staggered back, intimidated by this image of raw power. He also began to regret his naïve thoughts of more action.
RHINO: “Now, don’t be no hero and hand over dat security card.” (Rhino held out his hand in anticipation.)
The manager didn’t want to be a hero……. He just didn’t want to lose his job.
SLOUS: “N-N-N-No way.” (he started to back away.)
RHINO: (shrugs.) “Your loss.”
And with that, he raised his mammoth arms and shattered the entire front desk. Slous tripped and fell against the wall as he tried to get away from this tower of terror. Rhino, on the other hand, acted as if he didn’t have a care in the world. He strutted towards the back wall as if he owned all.
RHINO: “Gotta love this town!!!!!”
Security guards’ tasers and small arms flashed against the Rhino’s armor. They were like gnats trying to dig through an elephant’s hide. Smashing through the walls like some unstoppable juggernaut until he caught sight of the vault. He leaned forward as if to inspect it.
RHINO: “HHHHHMMMMMMMMM. Nice vintage. Doublele reinforced titanium steel with two inches of shatterproof glass in between each layer. Hmph. Lets put it to the test shall we?”
Rhino reared back, lowered his head, and charged. The sound was as if two bullet trains carrying nuclear warheads collided. When the dust cleared, all Rhino could see was stacks of gold bars and shelves filled with cash.
RHINO: “And a Happy New Year to me!”
The Rhino thumped out of the bank with the confidence of a God. It was the sirens that toppled his mood. Not only were they annoying, they came with an even bigger annoyance: cops. When he finished the cops, Mr. Rhino was going to pay Mr. Slous a little visit.
Police cruisers surrounded the entrance to the bank and upon seeing the Rhino, a scrawny police officers in his mid-thirties stepped up with a megaphone.
COP #1: “Sir!!! Drop the money and whatever weapons you have and put your hands on your head!”
RHINO: “Awright, I’ll play. You like earthquakes?” (he dropped the bags.)
COP #1: “Okay mister, now drop to your knees!”
The Rhino offered the little cop a shrug and suddenly leapt in the air. He landed knees first and then slammed his fist into the ground. The effect was devastating. Asphalt was littered on the ground and water had started to spray from what appeared to be a newly fractured sewer line. All of the cops were thrown off their feet. The only ones still standing had managed to brace themselves against their cars. Megaphone in hand, the officer took a deep breath.
COP #1: “Open Fi-“
Suddenly, the mike was no longer in his hand.
VOICE: “I don’t think that’s a good idea Pally!”
The cop looked up and his jaw dropped.
COP #1: “Who the- What the heck are you?!!!”
This seemed to tickle the newcomer to no end.
VOICE: “Why I am your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-man!”
COP #2: “I thought he was an urban legend.”
SPIDER-MAN: “Urban yes. Legend? Not so much. Although I do like to consider myself the Sam Raimi of super heroes.”
Spider-man leapt off the bank wall right in front of Rhino who was just getting up.
SPIDER-MAN: “WOW!!!!!! Is that a horn n your head or are just happy to see me?”
RHINO: “You dare ta make fun of the Rhino?!!!!”
SPIDER-MAN: “Yeah, I dare. And by the way, congrats on the original ‘codename.’ Me? I woulda just gone with ‘The Horned One’ or ‘Robo-Horn.’”
Rhino lunged at the punt and garishly clad spider but he wasn’t there anymore.
RHINO: “What the-“
Something tapped on his helmet. Then suddenly, Spider-man’s mask was right up in Rhino’s face.
SPIDER-MAN: “Didja miss me?”
This angered the brute to no end most especially because the bug was hanging off of his own horn!!!!!!!
RHINO: “I’ll squash you like the insect you really are!!!!”
SPIDER-MAN: “Dude c’mon! You call that a comeback? How’s about ‘You so ugly that when you were born, the doc took a look at you and slapped BOTH your parents!’ Now that’s a comeback!”
Rhino then whipped his head all around trying to shake the sticky critter off.
SPIDER-MAN: “YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I always wanted to a rodeo! And now, I’m in the rodeo!!!”
Rhino, so blinded by his rage, was bucking and whipping his head all over the place. Anything to get Spider-man off and shut him up. Spidey though, had other ideas.
SPIDER-MAN: “A little to the left. No WAIT right! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnd right about………………………………………………….NOW!!!!!!!!!”
Spider-man leapt off with Rhino’s helmet just as he slammed head first into a wall that while not steel, knocked Rhino out. Spider-man landed next to the unconscious form of the would be bank robber and patted the ground.
SPIDER-MAN: “ONE…….TWO……….You’re out!!!!!! Pinned by a guy less than one fifth your size. Thank you! Thank you!” (taking little bows to the cops who were stunned into a stupor by the very fact that although bullets couldn’t take out Rhino. But this brightly dressed self proclaimed hero did.) “Oh and by the way…..” (Spidey leaned over to Rhino’s ear.) “It’s arachnid.”
Spider-man stuck around to make sure that the cops had Rhino properly packaged. When the cops drove off, Spidey pulled back a glove and looked at his watch. It read 2:09.
SPIDER-MAN: “AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
End Scene
Again, this project of mine has been on the ropes for quite some time. I am still kind of making it up as I go. Thank you to all of you CBMers who already made some great casting choices! Stay tuned next week for Scene 2!
Here is some of my earlier work in case you're interested-
MARVEL:
Secret War
The Initiative
Doctor Strange
DC:
Batman 3