TRAILER

Intro of city-Psa announcements about progression and safety as audio in background

Quick action sequences
-Blake using super ability
-Blake shooting behind desk
-Police shooting at Blake

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Blake and Clarence meeting

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Family photo with Blake in his super hero outfit

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Police sirens

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Clarence is shot- Slower pace

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Blood

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Clyde's gun is to Blake's head

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Blake looks into the city

Title: Night Shift

SCREENPLAY

Night Shift

INSIDE CLARENCES HIDEOUT

Minions are on the out skirts of the room and Blake is staring outside with the window open. Clarence walks up and stands next to him.

CLARENCE: We are almost there…. A couple more weeks and we can surface. Then we can take over this city and knock down that government tower and all of the officials. We are so close to finally be free. This city will be free of this Utopian society and connect with the rest of the world. So close….

BLAKE: We have come a long way.  I am glad you picked me up from the sidewalk and can now call you friend.

Clarence pats Blake on the back

CLARENCE: Come on; stop reminiscing, we have work to do. I got a call awhile back from the northern sector. Go and check it out.

BLAKE: Got it.

OUTSIDE MAYBE A DOCK OR SOMEWHERE WITH DRAMATIC LIGHTING

Everything is quiet and no one is around

BLAKE: Now where is everyone?

Blake opens a secret panel on a wall and walks inside

INSIDE HAS VEHICALS AND IS A SUPPLY CENTER

BLAKE: Something is not right.

CLYDE: Hold it right there!

Clyde comes from behind with a shaky gun

CLYDE: I s-s-saw you out t-t-there on my patrol. w-w-what are you up t-t-to?

BLAKE: Hey you look like a good guy; now let me go and I will be on my way.

CLYDE: T-t-t-that’s not going to happen.

BLAKE: And why not.

CLYDE: Because I saw them taking your buddies a-a-a-away. You are going to d-d-d-o something. You are a bad guy.

BLAKE: take them away… Alright we both know you are not going to shoot me so let me go and I will not hurt you… I am not as bad as you might think.

Gun shakes even more

CLYDE: I am not going t-t-t—to do that

Blake walks away

CLYDE: H-h-hey, hey wait!

BACK AT THE HIDEOUT THERE IS A WAR GOING ON BETWEEN THE MOB AND THE POLICE. BLAKE GOES THROUGH ANOTHER SECRET PASSAGE TO A SMALL ROOM WHERE CLARENCE IS BY HIMSELF

BLAKE: What is going on?

CLARENCE: It was a surprise attack. Two of our sectors are gone and…

CLYDE: I-I-I told you not to walk away Blake Thompson or Super Accuracy Man! I-I-I wanted to be like you and I became a police officer. But you are just a bad guy.

Clyde follows Blake through the secret door. Clyde shoots his gun. Blake activates his super power and shoots his gun. The bullets deflect each other. Blake becomes blind.

CLYDE: I know your weakness Super Accuracy Man! I loved you as a child! Get him Sir!

Clyde shoots again but Blake jumps in front of Clarence and gets hit. Blake hears a sound of a gun cocking behind him but it’s to late and Clarence is shot.

BLAKE: Dramatic NOOOOOOOOO

Blake shoots the other guy that got Clarence. Blake’s sight slowly comes back to see Clarence on the ground, dead. He crouches down and then hears another gun cocking and a cold metal pressed to his head that is shaking.

 CLYDE: I-I-I should kill you… But you are right-t-t-t. I am a good person and I can’t.

BLAKE: Sometimes you need to be good and kill. Everything is a balance. There has to be an equal amount of good and bad in the world otherwise it becomes like this, suppression and struggling. This city is not perfect and it will never be perfect. That’s what I learned. I destroyed that balance and I just wanted to return it… Go ahead and shoot me. Return this city to a complete utopia.

There is a pause and the gun is released from his head.

CLYDE: I am not doing this for you…. I am doing this for the city. Because without you guys I would be out of the job. I want to round up some more evildoers.

Clyde leaves and Blake is alone with Clarence’s body.

Pitch

This story is about a superhero that has no job, in a utopian world that he created and ends up homeless and working in an underground mob world to support his family. This is an allegory of life having to be balanced with good and evil or positive and negative emotions.

story

Act I

-       See Blake Thompson looking through the help wanted ads from a futuristic paper

-       Daughter comes in and tells Blake a help wanted ad at the store and Blake bonds with daughter

-       Mother is working to keep the house and food but struggling

-       Blake goes into store his daughter told him to go

-       Told “no” from store owner saying Blake is overqualified and other companies will go after him for hiring him and his super hero abilities. Shopkeeper says “thank you for taking out all of the crime in the country but I can’t help you. “

-       Blake comes out of the store and is stopped by a man named Clarence McShane.

Act II

-       Blake rejects Clarence and goes home to realize the family has been evicted

-       Family finds a spot on the street to sleep

-       As the family sleeps Blake leaves to find Clarence

-       Blake becomes the bodyguard the head underground boss, Clarence

-       First job Blake does not know what is happening except for protecting Clarence as he is transporting money to an airplane.

-       Police comes and Blake protects Clarence with his super power accuracy with the side effect of becoming temporarily blind from the police

-       Blake puts the money on the plane and realizes it is going to a different countries health resource center.

-       Blake corners Clarence and asks where and what he is doing with the money

-       Clarence says he is cheating the government and stealing money and giving it to people in need like his family in a different country

-       Clarence tells Blake his back story of his family got deported when the new government came into power

-       Blake stays up all night and goes to his families new apartment and sees his family sleeping

-       Blake decides to fully support the underground mob and secretly take down the government

Act III

Years Later

-       Police figure out who Blake is and his super power weakness. They exploit it and sets up Clarence and Blake into a sting operation

-       Blake and Clarence are tricked and while Blake is blind Clarence dies

-       Blake and the mob are completely devastated and unorganized

-       Nobody know what to do when police are capturing individuals

-       Police captures Blake’s daughter

-       Blake decides to take over Clarence’s role and become the new boss

-       Contemplates by himself that the superhero of no crime methodology does not work because there is no balance to the world. Because he destroyed the old balance he will create a new one

-       The end to a new beginning

-       THE END

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character guidlines

Here are some basic guidelines for the characters
Clarence
-Cane with a Scorpion on it
-little facial hair
-dark red hair
-maybe gloves and a pocket watch
-short and intimidating 
Blake
-Black hair-grey
-little bulky but worn out until the ending of the story
-taller then clarence
-beginning not intimidating but at the end he is
Police officer Clyde
-small 
-skinny
-normal looking
-nervous
-not out to kill people