My Fantastic Four script

This is a script I wrote of the Fantastic Four based on just the
trailer before the movie came out in the Summer of 2005. Just my way of
practicing writing in general, specifically screen writing.

"Fantastic Four"

Screenplay by

Folarin Osibodu

(Four astronauts become superheroes after being
contaminated
while in
outer space -- Dr. Reed Richard gets elastic limbs,
Ben Grimm turns to rock,
Sue Storm becomes invisible and Johnny Storm becomes
the Human Torch)

A beautiful and well designed, little
futuristic space craft fly’s past the
camera
in space. The 5 astronauts have been
sent to do some repairs in a space station.

They get to the beautifully designed station.
Everyone gets in. It lowers them like
the whole room is an elevator while the
underneath opens like a material sheath.

Suddenly disaster happens. One of the
astronauts is working on a radiation
device on the outside. A wrong switch
is pushed which triggers a huge cloud
of cosmic storm. 

JOHNNY STORM

Ben, get out of there!

BEN GRIMM

What?

JOHNNY STORM

I said get out there. There’s a problem, the radiation tank is leaking.
I think it’s about to explode. Get out of there now!

BEN GRIMM

Oh my God!

JOHNNY STORM

He’s not gonna make it!

Ben jumps out towards the main deck, floating in space with his space suit
still connected to the oxygen tank in that zone. It is too late. Everyone is
wiped with the radiation in the cosmic storm.

The radiation effects are like the effects from Final Fantasy when a person’s
soul is being taken away from him/her. Except in this case, it looks like a
huge flame sweeping through each of the astronauts taking out their
“bio-physical soul”. 

Everyone blacks out. They all pass out on the floor. After about 5 minutes,
they wake up, feeling ok and then since the device is now destroyed, they
head back to earth. 

Headquarters demands that they take a physical at NASA Care (the hospital).  

BEN DISCOVERS

That night, while Ben Grimm sleeps, he is wrinkling on his bed. His face
begins to hurt badly. His legs and arms hurt like crazy! It feels like
muscle pull multiplied by 100. Very quickly, his whole body hurts too.
Then his body begins to turn to rock, one big square of block after another.
After a few blocks form all this while screaming, he wakes up. The camera is his POV. 

He breaths a heavy sigh of relief and decides to go and get a drink.
He feels quite fatter than before. 

Ben Grimm

(Feeling very heavy) Men, Sue was right. I really should lose some of this weight.

He opens a door and his shadow is cast on the wall as “The Thing”.
The camera only shows his shadow.

Because Ben was the only one that was directly hit by the cosmic storm,
his change into an orange-colored rocky exterior is irreversible.

(Write scene for when Johnny Storm 1st discovered his power)

DINER SCENE WITH SUE STORM AND DR. REED RICHARD

SUE STORM

Look at me.

DR. REED RICHARD

I can’t.

Reed really can not see her even though she is sitting directly opposite him.

SUE STORM

What? What do you mean?

DR. REED RICHARD

Where are your hands?

Sue accidentally knocks over a bottle on the table. This makes Dr. Reed “stretch”
out his hand to catch it before it hits the ground.

HOSPITAL SCENE WITH JOHNNY STORM

JOHNNY STORM

Hi, I’m here to see the doctor, I have a high fever.

RECEPTIONIST

The doctor will be right with you. You can wait in that room right there.

JOHNNY STORM

Thank you.

A beautiful middle aged female doctor walks in.

Camera classically focuses on her feet while she enters the room. In slow motion,
moving up her legs until it gets to her face. Camera then cuts in to Johnny
ogling at her.

DOCTOR

I assume you are Johnny storm?

JOHNNY STORM

You assume correctly doctor.

DOCTOR

Okay, let’s see what the problem is Johnny. I’m just going to find out your
temperature.

JOHNNY STORM

You can find out anything you want from my body doctor.

DOCTOR

(Smiles sarcastically)

She pulls out a thermometer.

DOCTOR

Say ahh.

JOHNNY STORM

Ahh

She puts it in his mouth while she checks the computer screen for his temperature.
The reading scrolls up to 209oF.

DOCTOR

Oh, you’re hot!

JOHNNY STORM

Why thank you! So are you.