Martian Manhunter Fancast
This is my dream cast for my movie
Director – Ridley Scott
I think Ridley is really good at doing epic movies. He brings a class to them that no other director I know does, apart from the late great Stanley Kubrick.
I want this to be a darker, edgier, Richard Donner style, almost operatic in it´s scope movie, introducing Martian Manhunter, all the way from his childhood, to the eventual massacre of his people, and finally him saving the Earth from… (Well I guess that would be a spoiler now wouldn´t it)
But he´s definitely the man for the job.
Second Choice would be Duncan Jones
Again because he´s a director who could handle this material really well.
Martian Manhunter – Jónn Jónnz
Adewale Akinnuoye-agbaje
I´ve loved this guy all the way since Oz. What a magnificent performance he did as psycho Simon Adebisi. He has such range, such humor, such presence; he is very artful at creating complex portraits of a character, so much so, that he will find a way to get you to relate and sometimes even chuckle, at some of the most macabre activities of one of the most detestable characters ever put on screen. So why do I want him as the good guy?
I think this guy is a genuine heavy hitter, he has the looks, charisma, and acting chops to be a genuine movie star; I think he needs a role that will set him up for this and I think MMH fits. In his character in Lost, he demonstrated he can be bad ass, but also have a strong spiritual sensibility about him. This is what Manhunter must be. I think if you read part 3 of my story, when we meet the character, you will really see where I´m coming from with this choice.
K”hym MMH daughter
Shareeka Epps
There was 3 great things about Half Nelson, or, should I say 3 great performances. Ryan Gosling excellent, fully deserved nomination, Anthony Mackey´s very subtle performance as a drug dealer with a heart, and last but certainly not least, Shareeka Epps. She was brilliant, and deserved an Oscar nomination herself. That movie rested on her interaction with Gosling, and I have to say Gosling has never had such a good sparring partner to play off. She´s sweet, likeable and believable for a child actress. Talented way beyond her years. So that´s why I think she´d be perfect.
M”yrr”ah MMH´s Wife
Nicole Beharie
I haven´t seen much of her, but she was really good in a film I watched recently, called Shame. She´s beautiful, and man if I lost her in an intergelatic war, and could never get with her again, I´d be pretty pissed. ☺
M´ymm – MMH Mother
In my version the parents of Manhunter are pretty pivotal characters, so I need someone who can really pull of the emotional and intellectual depth they´ll need.
Kerry Washington
She´s really a Little gem of an actress. She´s a camelion on screen and can play just about anything you need her to.
See Last King Of Scotland for proof. You´ll think she´s an actually Ugandan woman for real. I was so surprised to find out she isn´t African.
Shasheen MMH´s father
This is a hard one. To be honest, of the parents, the most important role for me was the mother. I´m fed up of mother´s being taken for granted in superhero movies. In Batman Begins he only seems to have a relationship with his father, in the latest Spiderman, Uncle Ben´s Spidey´s real moral compass, Superman double teams it, with his adopted and birth parent being the true voice of his conscience, whatever happened to our poor old mothers. Actually gives me an idea for an editorial.
But anyway, MMH´s father will still be very important. So…
Don Cheadle
One of the most consistently brilliant actors of our age. Period. MMH´s father in my version, is a kind of thinker or philosopher, a kind of Galileo of the Martian world, which is stuck in medieval times.
Dr Saul Erdel – In the comics
A brilliant scientist obsessed with discovering intelligent alien life.
In the comics he uses an experimental teleportation device to MMH to earth. In my version, he´s a bit more modest, he heads a space mission to Mars.
Actors
I have 2 choices on this; at first I wanted a young guy, so I´ll go with my choice for that first.
Owen Wilson
To be honest I just like this guy. He has this kind of cheerful optimism about him, that I think would be required of a guy nuts enough to dedicate his life to finding extraterrestrial life in the Universe.
If Erdel was old like the comics, my favorite guy for the role, is this guy:
Mandy Patinkin
He´s been one of my favorite TV actors for a while. He was the best thing about Criminal Minds, a show I would have never got into, had it not been for him. He is deep, contemplative and can play tragedy so well. He has a quiet wisdom, and, for a show that - sorry to say - is quite sensationalist, he gave it a touch of class, that it is sorely lacking now. He´s also great in The Princess Diary, The Larry Sanders Show and Chicago Hope.
Dr Amanda Waller in the comics
Nicknamed "the Wall", she is a former congressional aide and government agent often placed in charge of theSuicide Squad, a semi-secret government-run group of former supervillains working in return for amnesty. She later served as Secretary of Metahuman Affairs under President Lex Luthor, before being arrested in the wake of Luthor's public fall from grace. Waller was recently reassigned to the leadership of Checkmate as White Queen, but has been forced to resign because of her involvement in Operation Salvation Run.
One of DC´s great anti-heroines, and a bad ass in her own right. I think she should be the center piece that builds up a joint Justice league world.
I´m going to be consistent, and choose the same person I chose for my Wonder Woman Fancast. She´s a great actress, and if she can pull off a middleclass accent, she could do some truly spectacular things with the character.
Mo´Nique
Her performance in Precious is a revelation. Who would have thought, this comedian was such a thesp? Well she is; get over it, and, lets start giving her the roles she deserves.
Dr. Kanji Lee
A secondary character I made up for the story. Erdel´s main colleague at SETI.
C:S LEE
Funny guy in Dexter. Small role, but he´d be great for it.
President James Reagan
In my alternate world, which is much like our one, Ronald Reagan´s son, is the current president of The United States. The apple doesn´t fall far from the tree either; he´s a slimy, charming, spineless, ruthless, militaristic, scumbag. Kind of a bit of a take on Bush Jr as well, but even I couldn´t imagine someone that megalomaniac. ;) Sorry pro republican´s.
Jeffery Dean Morgan
He was juicy wicked as the rightwing nut job, The Comedian, in Watchmen. Apart from Rorschach, he was by far the best thing about Watchmen. Great actor, and I could totally see him pull the role off.
Ma'alefa'ak
Is the name of a DC Comics supervillain. Regarded as the archenemy of the Martian Manhunter, he is responsible for the near-extinction of the Green Martian species.
In my story his origin is slightly changed. But he´s a badass. Twin brother of MMH.
Michael k. Williams
I´m a big fan of his work in The Wire. He has the acting chops to do it. Actaully Maálfaák is my favorite character in this story, and I hope everyone gets why. Michael would be excellent as this character in any version of the story.
Protex
In my version he is supreme leader of The Imperium. An advanced alien species.
Small role; no spoilers, but put it this way, he´s not a nice guy.
Jarred Harris
A brilliant British actor, who can do just about anything. He´s kind of like Gary Oldman in a way, in the sense he literally transforms for any role. (I know really I should say figuratively). Much of the film is going to rely on CGI characters, and CGI only Works, when there´s a really good performance behind it. This is the guy for that.
The High Priest Venga Sal
This is another character I made up for the sake of the story. A cruel, vicious, dictator on MMH´s home world. Supreme leader of MMH´s quadrant on the planet Maáleca´Andra, which is run as a Theocrasy.
Oliver Platt
I think he would be a great fit, for a vain, decedent and ruthless dictator, whose lost touch, almost driven mad, due to having so much power.
To´Zar
One of High Priest Venga Sal´s advisors. My own creation and a small role. He´s a slavish, yet equally sadistic advisor of our dictator.
Steve Buscemi
One of the best actors I know, that kind of looks like an alien. No offence Buscemi, you´re still a fantastic character actor.
Zen´ta´rham
An original creation by myself. In this he plays an advisor and brother to the High Priest, who is charmed by young MMH, and becomes a second father figure to him. Also the father of MMH´s wife.
Erik King
I like this guy alot, from Dexter and Oz. He´s a very good character actor and I´d like to see him in more. I would have picked him for Manhunter, but I think he´ll be better served in this role.
Cameos
Dr Ivo
Professor Ivo is a criminal mastermind and a scientific genius. He is responsible for the creation of the androids Amazo and the Tomorrow Woman. He was also able to create an immortality serum.
He´s a great DC character and an important villain to the Justice League. He has a nice cameo in my film idea, which will set him up for future JL movie. Oh, if only I were the wrriter. ☺
Jackie Earle Haley
An amazing character actor, he´d be great for the role.
General Wade Eiling
Another important character to Justice league. And just a really great character in general.
Geof Pierson
Such a talented guy. If you need someone to come in and kick someones pretty little ass, and tell it as it is, you can´t do any better than the Pierson.
See Changeling to see what I mean. True scene stealer. I´d love to hear my lines from this guys lips.
Bruce Wayne
We all know who he is. The Caped Crusader; Gotham Night; World´s Greatest Detective; Yo, check it! I don´t care if he doesn´t have any super powers, I still think he´ll hand any wannabe hero his ass, including that Big Blue Boy Scout, if he thinks he´s hard enough; guys love him, chicks dig his car; he´s the one, the only Batman. Hey! dudes The Franchise, and, he has a cameo in my fanfic.
Michael Fassbender
I´m not one to usually go with the crowd, but I think he´s the guy for the job. You need a really good actor after Bale, he did such a good job, and you´ve had the superb Keaton before. The role needs someone with that level of intensity; I honestly can´t think of a better choice. Just to finish this rant, I also thought of him before I saw that he was such a hot pick for the role.
See Shame or ofcourse Xmen First Class for proof.
Dr. Harley Quinnzel
The 1994 graphic novel Mad Love recounts the character's origin. Told in the style and continuity of Batman: The Animated Series and written and drawn by Dini and Timm, the comic book describes Harleen Quinzel as an Arkham Asylum psychiatrist who falls for the Joker and becomes his accomplice and on-off sidekick/lover.
I want to start off by saying this right off the bat, before I give my choice; my first choice is Cate Blanchet, but I haven´t chosen her for two reasons. My last choice was fairly unoriginal, and, although I think she would do a great job as Th Psychiatrist part of Harley, there maybe others who would do the Harley part better. But really I think she´d smash both parts out of the park, I´m choosing this next person just for the sake of throwing something up a bit interesting.
Sarah Silverman
Why? She kind of looks and sounds like Harley, and I´m sures he could play a psychiatrist. She´s funny, and, I´d like to see her try and be really dark and villainous.
So there it is. My cast. Enjoy part 2 of Martian Manhunter.
Part Two Of Our Epic Voyage Through The Galaxy
Tag: 2 years later, March 2016:
(All shot in photo real)
We see the second ship land on Mars.
Image Of Astronauts in the ship. “Mission Control, landing successful. I repeat, landing successful.”
Mission Control From Shuttle Speakers: “Copy That, Over”
Two Astronauts look out in astonishment at the landscape before them. Just in front of the shuttle, we see the Martian desert, not far a head is the French Flag, lodged into the Soil.
They speak to each other. “We made it. I can´t believe it, we made it.”
They finally leave the shuttle in Space Buggies. As they get out, drive through the desert, they see another shuttle with a French Flag on it, not too far, beside it are some Astronauts, setting up some kind of station, meanwhile others are collecting soil samples.
The American Astronauts stop by the French. They say something to each other.
We skip some time ahead. A full operations center has been built. The various Astronauts work together. In the center of the The Operations Site is a small radar transponder. Various robotic Machines, can be seen, being sent off on scouting missions toward the mountain.
We see from the POV of one little robotic scout (which we will call master Scout) as it travels toward the mountain. The master scout is using radar to track the signal coming from the Mountain. As the robot gets to the edge of the Mountain, from its back shoots out another slave scout. This Slave Scout is sprung upwards very high so it is airborne gliding.
We switch to the slave scouts point of view. It glides from the sky, Slowly descending into the rocky Martian mountains. It seems to be navigating itself, to where the signal is strongest.
Suddenly it glides down to a spot in the Mountain, where the Mountain seems to have been impacted by something. It lands on top of the crash site and the signal is now incredibly strong. The slave scout in turn starts giving off a signal.
We now see activity on the front of the slave scout. A lens protrudes out of the front of the slave scout, which keeps oscillating in and out to focus on the spot it has landed. It spins round as well, slowly scanning the area. The signal gets louder. Suddenly we catch a flash of something protruding out of the sand; an angular, grey, metallic object, is protruding out of the sand, as if connected to something buried deep beneath the crash site.
Cut to:
In German Shuttle, two astronauts are in a large spacelab aboard the German shuttle, one is listening on a head set to radio signals, the other is eating: The Astronauts discuss in German, they are talking about trivial things, while monitoring the scouts.”2 weeks and nothing.” Says one. Suddenly one of the astronauts jumps up. “I think I heard something.” The other one says. “Don´t worry, probably another false alarm.” “No, no, tune into slave scout 7. I´m hearing patterns. There´s definite patterns in this.”
The second Astronaut switches to slave scout 7. He hears the same thing. Immediately jumping up hitting his head.
The first astronaut, notices a transmission message from slave scout. Slave Scout “Images Now Loading”. First Astronaut. “The scout is sending us images. Alert the others, see if we can get a confirmation from the others .”
Cut to:
They make an announcement, that is received by the other teams. You see as astronauts, pick up on the announcement, stopping whatever activity they were previously engaged in.
Cut to:
Back to the German astronauts in the spacelab. First Astronaut “OK switch to visual.”
They have a look on a screen, they see the images that were being sent by the Slave Scout. Suddenly one of them sees something onscreen. “Did you see that? What was it?” They stop on the image, they zoom in. Finally they see the image of the metallic object protruding from the ground. First German Astronaut looks at the other and says with a look of astonishment “We´ve got to get up there.”
We fade out, with the image of the metal object protruding from the crash site.
Cut to,
Many Astronauts get out of their buggies which they have driven to near where the Mountain begins. We now get a montage, of how they scale the Mountain, using various high tech technologies to do so.
Finally a few land at the spot with the Slave Scout and see the mysterious metallic object. They then begin to start digging, so as to uncover what lays beneath the sand. To every ones surprise it seems to be connected to the wing of some space ship. There is confusion.
Another Montage shows how they dig the site using technology, and it slowly reveals an alien space ship buried beneath the sand.
We now have at least a quarter of the ship uncovered. It is highly advanced technology, and dwarfs the human shuttles in comparison.
One of the astronauts discovers an entrance. He enters the mysterious ship, using a flash light to navigate himself through. Inside is pristine, undamaged, and clearly very alien. Everything in the ship is strangely at odds with everything we´ve come to think of as what an alien space ship would be like. He looks around the machinery with wonder.
The others speak to him through their intercom system, asking if he´s got a visual. He answers back that he´s speechless. He enters one room and sees a 3d star map, he presses on one of the galaxies, and an alien program comes on, speaking in a strange alien language, it seems to be explaining the lay out of another star system.
Finally he enters another room, it is white and he is able to glide in it. He sees a unit gliding in the center of the room. He propels himself up. In the unit there is an icy substance, but you can make out through the substance a nonhuman figure. The astronaut can´t believe his eyes. He calls to speak to the team. “You guys have to get in here.” One answers “What the hells in there?” He replies “You´re not going believe this, they were right. I think, we´ve just made first contact.”
“What do you mean?”
“Well I´m pretty sure I´ve just found the pilot.”
The last shot of the scene is a picture of our astronaut, his face reflected off the Cryogenic Unit, his eyes wide with profound contemplation.
Cut to,
Tag: 1 year later
Inside a secret subterranean lab. We are in two rooms partitioned by a one sided mirror. The Cryogenic Unit, is in a brightly lit room, various machines are connected to it, which are obviously, checking through multimodal monitors that the creature in side the unit is still alive.
We see that that on the other side of the mirror are various scientists in a lab checking the vital statistics on computer systems, of the alien being.
Dr. Erdel and Amanda Waller enter the room. They start asking the scientists questions. The scientists, comment some strange activity has been happening over the last couple of days, they are detecting high levels of electro magnetic energy emanating from the room. They can´t explain it. He also seems to be rapped in a field of kinetic energy.
Dr. Erdel asks if they think they are ready to release him from stasis. Amanda objects, saying they don´t know enough about the creature yet; he might not survive the release, could end up in shock or he could be dangerous.
Dr. Erdel retorts, we´re not going to find out much more if he is kept in a state of suspended animation.
Another scientist, a slightly older gentlemen, approaches Erdel and Waller very excited, he claims that of all the technology found, the stasis unit isn´t actually that complicated to figure out. It´s still advanced nanorobotics, but it´s almost like it comes with the manual. Dr Erdel says he has infected the alien system with a nanotechnology virus, and, now his nonobots are literally translating every aspect of the technology into mathematic formulas. He claims who ever built the stasis unit wanted the occupant to be easily released. There is a button on it that will activate a release program which sets another medical physiological therapy program into motion automatically.
Amanda Waller, introduces Professor Ivo to Dr. Erdel as the leading thinker in nanotechnology (We find out more about him later).
Amanda has to leave. She says she is entertaining The President as well as many other dignitaries that evening. She invites Erdel; he says unfortunately he can´t come; he´s been studying 3d models of the aliens physiology, so as to determine his resistance to viruses and infections, Dr . Waller smiles, “You´ve got to get out of the office more; you know only 10% of this job is science. The most important part is politics. OK well send me a report on the Martians physiology, I was particularly interested in your report on the X Rays taken of his cranium.”
Amanda leaves. Dr. Ivo jumps in, asking Dr. Erdel about his findings, as Dr. Erdel leaves the room. “Fascinating. You´ve been studying the creatures brain structure. So what are your findings?”
“That´s actually classified.” Dr. Erdel says. “That´s clearance level 6 information.”
Dr. Erdel is about to enter the room with the Cryogenic Stasis Unit. He´s about to take out a card to open the door. When Dr. Ivo jumps in, using his card to open the door instead. A computer voice: “Cadmus, Clearance Level Six: Welcome Dr. Ivo.” Dr. Ivo smiles at Dr. Erdel, who immediately understands the implications of what he´s just heard.
Dr Erdel “OK, fine. Apart from the size of the cranium area, most of it is normal, as you notice the base of the head is actually much smaller. His face almost human looking.” By now they are standing over the stasis unit. You can now see a clear picture of the alien, through translucent liquid. He is green and his body is slender, with sharp angular features, his cranium is tapered, small antennas pop out of the top of the front part of his head, his face is fairly human looking, and kind.
Dr. Erdel continues: “The size of the tapered part of the cranium is approximately double that of the average human. From Forehead to his narrow occiput is 40 centermetres. The circumference of his skull therefore comes up to 98 centermetres. In the Xrays imaging, in a lot of ways his brain is similar to ours; from what I can see there´s brain stem, a slightly larger limbic system than ours, but still the individual parts concerning memory processing and management are no bigger than ours. Although he does have a large Amygdala. I think early on in their evolution there was a lot to fear. Probably highly emotional. Cerebellum, again, similar size. Now this is where it gets interesting, there cerebrum seems to have 4 hemispheres. Two at the front of the cranium and two at the back. Its hard to say what they do, with out performing Electroencephalography and Magnetoencephalography scans on them. But there cerebrum may have up to 30 trillion nerve cells alone. They´re quite remarkable.” (Something better)
Dr. Ivo, looks at the antenna connected to the forehead, he points “what about those? Are they connected to the brain?”
Dr. Erdel goes in for a closer look. Suddenly, the creatures eyes open, they glow red. The room begins to shake and the equipment goes flying into the ceiling. The one way mirror cracks. Dr. Erdel, seems to start having a seizure. Dr. Ivo in a state of shock sets off the alarms. We see a picture of the creature, whose eyes look frightened.
We then see into Dr. Erdels mind, as he screams on the floor.
Scattered images present themself to him: We see an images of a planet being destroyed by large spaceships.
Many who look like members of the aliens species, are packed into small rooms, with hardly space to breathe. They look scared.
We see corpses of his kind, stacked in large mass graves on another planet.
We see a picture of what appears to be a child alien.
Then everything stops. There is calm. The stuff in the room continues floating. Security bust in the door armed to the teeth.
They see the commotion and aim at the stasis unit. Dr Erdel: “ STOPPP!! Stop. It´s OK.” Dr. Ivo helps Erdel up. Erdel “I don´t know, but I think he´s scared.”
End Of Part 2
Cut to:
We now see Amanda in a party, celebrating the successful space mission. Many dignitaries, elite and top military are there. She´s talking to The President who is walking with her, drinking champagne. They talk about Chinese contracts, for the technology gained on the mission.
Amanda´s phone rings. She looks at it and politely excuses herself telling the President that she has to get the call. She walks into the hallway and picks up the phone.
You only hear her side of the conversation.
Amanda “This better be important I was talking to The President… What?! (Shocked) … when did this happen? … and what is his status now… OK, OK. I want a full medical check up and report on my table tomorrow afternoon… I don´t care what Dr. Erdel says, you tell him its an order … do it now… and I mean everything. Get that? Every thing from blood tests to psych eval.”
She gets off the phone stressed.
She enters an executive office room and locks it behind her; it´s her private quarters, she seems like the whole weight of the world is resting on her shoulders. There is a large open terrace, parrellel to the desk.
There are pictures of her family hung up on the wall. She looks at on with her and her children and smiles, they seem happy and care free, and for the first time you see a soft side to this woman of steel.
She goes over to get a stiff drink from the mini bar, with her back to the terrace balcony. A shadowy figure appears behind her. He steps out from the shadows, he´s wearing some kind of masked costume. He appears as a silhouette in the darkness of the night. She doesn´t even flinch as you realize that she knows someone behind her.
Amanda: “Hello, wasn´t expecting you here tonight. How did you get past security?”
She continues to calmly pour her drink. On the bar table there is a gun, the masked figure obviously can´t see it.
Amanda “You know what; doesn´t really matter. So… why you here?”
Shadowed figure “I tuned into your radio signal months ago. I know its not from this planet.” In a raspy voice.
Amanda “Quite the imagination you´ve got there.”
SF “Oh really? … Cause whatever you´ve got down there in the desert is emitting high levels of electromagnetic radiation. Your not covering your tracks well.”
Amanda: “What can I say? The labs canteen microwave is on the fritz.”
You see the mouth of the masked figure. He smiles.
Amanda: “You know, Cadmus could use good men like you.”
She takes a sip of the drink, puts it down and edges for the gun.
SF: “Cadmus could use good men full stop.”
Amanda: “I´m serious. Aren´t you fedup of this mysterious vigilante shtick. Jumping around Gotham roof tops, after psychopaths, dressed as a flying rodent.”
SF: “I don´t know this shtick gets me more action than I´ve ever had. Pulling all kinds a bad girls these days. They all have attitude problems, but on the flip side, their the kinky types, into whips, leather cat suits, skimpy green leotards.”
Amanda smiles retorting: “It’s the car right?! Chicks dig the car?”
SF: “Actually these days, they prefer the jet.” Smirking. As he says this we see her edging ever closer toward the gun.
SF Con´t: “…I´m watching you… when all this mess blows up in your face, I´ll be there to cleanup, and protect the people from you.”
Amanda spins round with the gun in hand, aiming for the figure. But he´s disappeared.
After a minute of looking around methodically (you can see her training by the way she searches the room) She goes back to the bar contemplates. Pours another stiff one, and drinks it down.
Amanda: “Still can´t figure out how he does that.”
She composes herself, then leaves the room. As she enters the hall to the Great Room, where the main body of the party is, a female excitable younger British colleague comes up to her. She says that she´s found the man, they´ve been looking for. “Oh he´s fascinating. You simply must meet him.”
She then finds the man, a well groomed bachelor in his twenties: The British lady introduces them: “Amanda Waller, meet, Bruce Wayne CEO of Wayne Enterprises.” Now the soft spoken Wayne shakes Wallers hand. Bruce: “Pleasure to meet you. You really are the hero of the day, overseeing this mission to Mars.” Amanda replies, “To be honest the real heroes are the brilliant scientists behind our team. They´ve been superb. I really wish you could have meet Professor Saul Erdel, but he´s not feeling well today… By the way this mission owes no small debt to Wayne Enterprises. We couldn´t have done this without your funding.”
Wayne: “Well, for all humanity has suffered for us stuffy, socially detached one per-centers, I feel my family owe them at least this much.”
Picture Fades cut to:
Later on that night. We are in the home of Dr. Saul Erdel. He is in the hallway with his wife, who complains that he´s late and how little she´s seen him. He explains that things got hairy at the office and he had to have a full medical check up. Worried she asks if he´s ok. He says that he´s fine. She asks him to say goodnight to Neils, their son. (They called him Neils Galileo Erdel: relevant later)
He goes and sees his son. Half asleep his son calls out for his dad as soon as he enters the room. He is about six years old. The son is unhappy because Dr. Erdel missed his play. They talk a while, and the son is upset, but then Dr. Erdel, begins tickling him to make him laugh. His son finally gives in, and Erdel promises he´ll try never ever to miss anything important to his Son again. He kisses him goodnight, “goodnight champ.” Then leaves the room.
Cut to
Erdel´s wife and he are sleeping in bed. Suddenly we see Erdel is distressed.
Erdels Dream –
Erdel is transported into an alien world. We see this as if he is observing the life of the alien in stasis.
We are in the home of the alien. He is in a room of a medieval looking house. There are two other aliens with him, one who is a child, the other seems to be his wife. The small alien runs up to him, and jumps in our aliens arms. He embraces her warmly. The three then take a walk to the balcony, and we see from there point of view the landscape of an idyllic ancient kingdom. They look to the sky and two bright suns light the heavens, so clearly that you can even make out other planets in the distance.
The wife warmly embraces her husband looking at the pleasant scene.
Then out of nowhere, the sky suddenly turns black. The color of death. The two suns are now hidden, and the alien family become alarmed.
Suddenly a large grey metallic space ship pierces the sky. And in an instant, you see in the distance a purple spherical flame engulf another part of the alien world, then disappear in a flash.
Back to Erdel in Bed with his wife: His wife is woken as Erdel begins to wildly tremble. She tries to comfort him.
Back to Erdel´s dream:
We skip to a whole long queue of beaten and dishevelled green aliens being herded, by demonic pale translucent aliens, into what appears to be death camps.
Skips
You see the Aliens wife and an alien child in a death chamber. She puts her hand on a small window in the metal door separating her from whatever is on the other side. Then inside the room flames rise… She is literally being burnt alive.
The last image is of the alien in Cadmus labs in the Cryogenic chamber. An image of his eyes filled with raw pain. Cut to full view of the room: All the equipment flies into the air smashing in the walls, in all different directions.
Dream ends
Erdel wakes up in a cold sweat, screaming “Noooo!!!”
Erdel´s wife “Saul baby, whats going on?”
Erdel “Oh, nothing baby, just get back to bed now. It´s OK. Sorry, just had a bit of a nightmare that’s all.”
Erdel´s wife. “Can I get you something? Some water?”
Erdel´s “Sure baby, sure some water would be good.”
She gets up to get him water, leaving the room.
Erdel immediately makes a phone call. “Amanda… Yeah, it´s me. I´m OK… There´s been another disturbance in the lab?!…smashed?! … all of it?... Look, I think I know whats going on … we need him out of stasis now and we need a psychiatrist… Yes that’s what I said, a specialist in post-traumatic stress disorder… I´ll brief you in the office first thing in the morning.”
Cut to conference room. Dr. Erdel is in front of a lectern, behind him is a white board, with an image of the aliens cranial structure projected on it. The room is split one side with an international panel of scientists and on the other American military personnel. Amanda sits on the side with the military, next to a stern looking gentlemen, in Generals attire. He looks skeptical and ready for a fight.
Erdel: “ I´ve brought you all here today, to explain why releasing our alien visitor from stasis has now become an urgent matter of National Security.”
A scientist: “You want to release the Martian! why?”
Erdel: “First of all I don´t believe our visitor is a Martian.”
Gen Wade Eiling, the angry General sitting next to Amanda, interrupts: “What the hell are you talking about? We found him on Mars didn´t we? What evidence do you have to support, he´s from somewhere else?”
Erdel: “I´ve been having dreams, well actually nightmares.”
Eiling: “Did you say dreams? Dreams? What kind of hack scientist are you?”
Erdel: “General Eiling, if you´ll let me explain. I believe our visitor has some kind of extrasensory gifts.”
Eiling slumps back in indignant disbelief.
Erdel points to the Cerebrum portion of the aliens brain: “As you can see in nearly all parts of his brain, there is similarity to the human brain. However, there is one important difference. Where as the human brain is split into two hemispheres, their brain seems to have four. Two on either side of, another two inner central hemispheres. On the Cerebrum section of the two outer hemispheres, everything is normal, seeming to regulate the same higher functions of the brain as human brains; perception, reasoning, memory, complex emotion. However these two inner hemispheres of the cerebrum, which arose in a more primitive stage of their evolution, seem to regulate some kind of extrasensory abilities. The levels of electromagnetic activity around this area is fascinating.”
Eiling: “What has this got to do with your dreams?”
Erdel “Our thoughts, express themselves as electromagnetic fields. If somehow his mind can manipulate those fields, or interpret them, he could literally see into our minds, our feelings, our moods. Its probably become so second nature to his species they don´t even think about it.”
Eiling “If this thing is psychic, as far as I´m concerned it makes him even more of a threat.”
Erdel: “I think he´s made an unconscious psychic link with me. We are sharing dreams. And, if any of what I see has some basis in fact, I´m deeply concerned. ”
Eiling: “OK, so what have you seen.”
Erdel: “His world, wiped out, it was an extermination General. A highly advanced alien civilization, came to his world, murdering, enslaving, torturing, his people, without conscience, without remorse, without pity. They slaughtered men, women, children, killed his whole family. And by the looks of it, he escaped, by steeling one of their ships. Coming here. That means General, who ever did this to his world, they can get here too. We have to wake him and find out everything he knows about these aliens.”
Eiling: “And how do you know, what your seeing isn´t, in fact him reminiscing about the good old days, during his tour in “Venus” when he committed genocide over a whole civilization?” (Said sarcastically)
Erdel: “Because I´m psychcically connected to him. I can bet my professional career on the fact he isn´t responsible for it.”
Amanda: “And are you willing to bet the world on that too?”
Erdel: “If what I´ve seen of his mind is true, which I believe it is, I think we´d be betting against the world if we don´t wake him.”
Eilings eyes roll over with cynicism.
Erdel: “Look whatever it is in there is in a great deal of pain. He has witnessed the death of everything he loves. He has somehow reached out to me, and I´m feeling what he´s feeling. The symptoms I have are the same as the soldier returning from the Vietnam war.”
Eiling: “I don´t think it´s the little green man, I think its you whose cracked up doc. I think the pressure of the jobs getting to you.”
A young attractive blonde in a lab jacket gets up, making her way to the front. She says: “I think I can help my esteemed colleague explain this matter.”
Eiling: “Oh God, Professor Harleen Quinzel, yet another quack with an agenda.”
Erdel: “Yes this is Professor Harleen Quinzel, Professor of neurology and mental disorders.”
Harleen: “I´m also the leading expert in neurology, studying neurological factors that contribute to psychopathologies and specifically Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Professor Erdel has briefed me extensively on the matter, and it is clear, however much it may be difficult to comprehend, that our visitor clearly has abilities, that have allowed him to fuse his subconscious mind with Professor Erdel´s.
Harleen Cont´: “The symptoms I have observed in Saul´s behavior, and those that his wife has reported to me, are hallmark signs of coping with a trauma. Hyper vigilance, jumpiness, difficulty sleeping, loss of libido, flashbacks, nightmares; this kind of behavior does not surface over night, and there is nothing in Saul´s biography to explain this sudden shift of mood …. Added to that, the fact that Professor Erdel has reported to me sudden sensations of irrational paranoia, that this slumbering aliens tormentors, are somewhere close, they feel almost omnipresent. It is clear that whether these monsters are Saul´s demons, or in fact the aliens, the true sufferer of this trauma, is the victim. Those are symptoms suffered by the abused, not the abuser.”
Eiling: ” Let me ask you something Professor Quinnel, isn´t it true that you think every ones the victim? Every ones abused? Isn´t that why you testify under oath, that those crazed maniacs in Gotham, responsible for some of the most sadistic crimes of the century, are really the victims of abusive childhoods. You even testified that that psychopath, animal who killed 19 people, snuffed out six cops, actually suffered from multiple personality disorder, due to early childhood sexual abuse at the hands of his father. So really he was the victim, and not truly responsible for his actions. The clown was literally laughing all the way out of court.”
Harleen cooly replies.
“I don´t see how my work in Arkum has anything to do with this current affair.”
Eiling: “You´re not objective, and the science you pursue is a pseudoscience. Which is why you had that animal put away in your little asylum, rather than the electric chair, where he belongs.”
Amanda: “OK that´s enough General. We´ve heard your proposal and we´ll take it under advisement. Lets all get out, get some fresh air and lunch.”
Picture fades
Cut to,
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Erdel walks into Amanda´s office. He´s very agitated. She gets off the phone just as he enters.
Amanda: “Saul, sit down.” He sits.
Amanda Con´t.: “The committee didn´t agree, they thought it was to dangerous, with all the powers he´s displayed.”
Erdel immediately gets fired up, ready to defend his position with all the power at his disposal.
Erdel. “God dammit. God dammit. It was General Eiling wasn´t it? He just can´t see it can he, the ignorant son of a ….”
Amanda: “Watch your tongue Professor. That man´s served this nation proudly, and he´s made more sacrifices for this country than you´ll ever imagine… Anyway, as I was saying, the committee, didn´t agree to your proposal… So, I went to the President.”
She pauses
“He has vito powers over the defense committee. I explained your position, and your impeccable record on this mission, and he´s agrees wholeheartedly with your concerns. He says you can release the Martian, under maximum security and with the supervision of the secret services.”
Erdel: “You did that. I thought…”
Amanda: “I love my country, and if that thing knows anything at all that can harm it, then, we need to know… And, also, I respect your instincts professor… You´ll be running the team, along with Professor. Ivo. We´d prefer if you don´t bring that Coo Coo bird Harleen Quinnzel anywhere near this facility again…”
Erdel looks stunned.
Amanda: “Is that understood Professor?” He nods, in agreement. Amanda Con´t: “Well that will be all then.”
She immediately starts reading a folder on her desk, before Erdel´s even left. Erdel gets up and leaves her office. He closes the door, but then immediately pops his head through again.
Erdel “By the way mam…” She looks up serious.
Erdel con´t “He´s not a Martian.” She smirks looking back at her file.
Amanda: “Get out of here, you clown.”
End Of part 3