"Nothing Ever Happens Here..." - RATED T+
Page 1
1/ Overhead view of a small town. No building over 4 stories tall. The town is surrounded by forest. There’s a road into the town and a road out of it. Then another road doing the same. The position of the roads, coupled with the town, form a circle with an X over it. There are no cars going in and out, the town isn’t busy.
It’s late afternoon. The sun is setting.
CAPTION: NIGHTINGALE, KANSAS
2/ The outside of a small neighborhood.
3/ A trail from the neighborhood to a forest around it.
Page 2
1/ Further into the forest, further down the trail. The trees are tall and all around.
2/ A large group of rocks next to a river, next to the trail.
3/ A jogger along the path, stopped and panting, holding bottled water in his hand.
4/ The jogger looking over his shoulder.
5/ The jogger has a look of absolute horror on his face.
Page 3
1/ Splash Page/ The jogger looking up as GHOST RIDER on his bike flies over him, dragging a large tree by his hand and by glowing red chains (glowing due to the heat of hellfire) that are coming out of the sleeve of his hand. The tree is visibly alive, no eyes, but a large mouth with disturbing fangs. The chains are burning into the tree’s body.
TREE MONSTER: GRARRRR!!
JOGGER: !!!
Page 4
1/ Ghost Rider tossing the Tree Monster away from him, toward a group of shrubs.
GHOST RIDER: HRGH!!
TREE MONSTER: HSSSS!!!
2/ The Tree Monster starts to stand up, using branches like vines to do so. Any marking left by the chains are gone.
TREE MONSTER: HSSSSS!!!
3/ Ghost Rider standing with one foot off his hellcycle, aiming his arm out and pointing.
GHOST RIDER: What ARE YOU?
4/ Ghost Rider’s arm, chains are visible, forming out from under his sleeves, and they’re glowing like before.
5/ Ghost Rider shouting as the molten chains shoot out again.
GHOST RIDER: WELL!?
Page 5
1/ The Tree Monster impaled through the front by multiple molten chains, which have straightened out, taught.
TREE MONSTER: SSSATAN IS NOTHING!
2/ Tree Monster’s mouth.
TREE MONSTER: SSSSSATAN IS NOTHING TO WHAT YOU’LL HAVE TO FACE
TREE MONSTER: SWALLOW YER F**KIN SOUL
TREE MONSTER: SSSATAN
TREE MONSTER: SATAN NOTHIN
3/ The Jogger behind Ghost Rider, looking up through some partially burnt brush.
TREE MONSTER: HSSS!!
4/ The Jogger as several vines from the Tree Monster impale him through the eyes and burst out the back of his skull in a bloody mess.
SFX: GSHH
GHOST RIDER: DAMMIT!!
Page 6
1/ Ghost Rider looking at the Tree Monster and glowing with a brighter glint of hellfire in his skull than before.
GHOST RIDER: ENOUGH’S ENOUGH!!
2/ Ghost Rider spewing fire out of his mouth and at the Tree Monster. Not just a trail, but a wall of flame.
SFX: FWOOOOSH
3/ The Tree Monster is entirely swallowed up by the flame.
TREE MONSTER: HSSSSSSSSS!!!!
4/ The Tree Monster breaking apart in the fire, into little chunks of bark.
Page 7
1/ Black panel.
CAPTION(Isaac): Holy sh*t.
2/ The outward end of black binoculars.
CAPTION(Isaac): An “Evil Dead” reject just got burned to bits by one of the most metal things I’ve ever seen in my entire life, and my neighbor’s brother just got f**king killed.
CAPTION(Isaac): What do I do? Do I—cops? No, running.
3/ Isaac Eberth, 18 year old brown haired brown eyed thin guy in outdoorsy clothes, running down the trail far away from Ghost Rider, but not far enough that you can’t see the flames.
CAPTION(Isaac): Run run run run run run run run!!!!!!
Page 8
1/ Ghost Rider standing over the charred remains, over a small brush fire that’s started thanks to his pyrotechnic stunt.
2/ Ghost Rider literally breathing in the flames, sucking them up into himself to prevent a forest fire.
3/ Ghost Rider looking up, his flesh starting to return, smoke escaping between human skin and bone.
4/ Johnny Blaze’s face, his hair is mostly grown back, still some patches of muscle tissue.
5/ Johnny Blaze, looking over at his regular motorcycle. He’s coughing up a bit of smoke, like he inhaled a cigarette wrong.
JOHNNY: HAK
JOHNNY: I hate doing that.
JOHNNY: Hrk…
Page 9
1/ Johnny sitting on his bike, looking over at the mangled jogger’s corpse.
JOHNNY: Cops’ll handle it.
2/ Johnny riding down the trail, toward town.
SFX: VRRR
3/ The inside of Isaac’s place, it’s a regular little cheap apartment. Isaac is inside, pacing and nervous.
CAPTION(Isaac): What if it saw me?
CAPTION(Isaac): Were those things working together, or—or--
4/ Isaac sitting down.
CAPTION(Isaac): Probably….probably nothing.
5/ Isaac opening a bottle of medication.
CAPTION(Isaac): Just a panic attack. Just a panic attack. Had ‘em since you were little, idiot.
CAPTION(Isaac): Just take the pill and take a nap and wake up fine. Sigh.
Page 10
1/ Splash Page/ The darkest, deepest part of the forest. There’s a large pond. The pond is glowing a neon green.
CAPTION(Isaac): Everyone in the town takes these. No one knows why, but we’ve played it off as part of our little culture. The nervous settlers, that’s what we called our ancestors. It’s not even weird.
CAPTION(Isaac): Outsiders make us nervous the most, though. Good thing is, they don’t stick around. They leave, or they end up missing.
CAPTION(Isaac): Used to think bad about it… but take a pill and get over it. That’s the plan.
CAPTION(Isaac): Need to sleep now.
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TO BE CONTINUED: Ghost Rider: Evil's Many Faces #1 - (Script)
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I DON'T OWN GHOST RIDER OR THE IDEA FOR THE TREE MONSTER ("EVIL DEAD")
I CREATED: ISAAC EBERTH
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