Clockwork Angels: Comic Script Read Free Page B

3, the landscape is vast, sparkling under the starlight. Owen waits by the tree.
    CAPTION
    The world makes me feel so small … but I can’t stop thinking big.
    PANEL 5
    Small panel (will be repeated several times). In Owen’s hand, he opens his pocketwatch to show the time is midnight.
    CAPTION
    Midnight … It’s time.
    PANEL 6
    Small panel (will be repeated several times), close on Owen’s face, grinning, hopeful
    PANEL 7
    Small panel, Owen’s pocketwatch now reads 12:14
    PANEL 8
    Small panel, Owen’s face, troubled.
    PANEL 9
    Small panel, pocketwatch, now 12:35
    PANEL 10
    Owen’s face, frowning, deeply disappointed
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    PANEL 1
    Owen sits under the tree, sulking, knees drawn up against his chest.
    PANEL 2
    With more vehemence than is absolutely necessary, he hurls his apple core out into the night.
    SFX
    Runs along edge of Panel 2 and into Panel 3 , growing larger, louder
    clang Clang Clang CLANG
    PANEL 3
    On the hill, Owen looks down to see the brightening blue line of the coldfire rail (like a luminous single rail-track winding through the valley below), and a “long train of flares under piercing stars” as the steamliner approaches. This is a caravan of freight cars, zeppelin balloons, passenger gondolas. See full descriptions in the novel; it would also be a good idea to watch the Clockwork Angels tour animation for “Caravan,” which has some images of these steamliners (though we can be even more spectacular). Note, we’ll get the full jaw-dropping image of the steamliner on the next page.
    PANEL 4
    Close-up of Owen’s eyes lighting up with joy and wonder.
    CAPTION
    The night steamliner …
    CAPTION
    Of course, right on schedule!
    PANEL 5
    Owen starts running down the hill, hauling ass, holding his sack which bounces behind him. He’s going so fast that any second now he could go flying face-first.
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    PANEL 1
    Small panel, Owen reaches the track (which has a faint blue glow), stands on the siding and just stares in absolute wonder, like Dorothy facing the Wizard of Oz for the first time.
    PANEL 2
    Mostly full page, the jaw-dropper of the fantastical steamliner as it arrives, just passing him, a combination gypsy caravan, locomotive, steampunk freight-train. See book for description and some of Hugh Syme’s illustrations, as well as “Caravan” animation from tour. Owen looks very small in relation to it.
    PANEL 3
    Another small reaction panel, close-up of Owen showing awe. [We can do without this panel, if Nick thinks it’s more effective just to have the two shots.]
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    PANEL 1
    Big panel, as the steamliner thunders past (try to imply the exciting, swift passage, wind blowing Owen’s hair, his clothes), Owen looks down the line of the oncoming train and sees a man leaning out of one of the approaching cars (equivalent to a boxcar on a freight train), extending his hand. It’s a small figure, but coming fast as the steamliner rolls along.
    STRANGER
    Come on, kid!
    PANEL 2
    Closer in, we see the stranger now, holding onto the edge of an open boxcar door, leaning out into the night. What he’s doing looks dangerous, but the man doesn’t show any concern. (See the book for the full description of the man; this is the Anarchist.) He shouts at Owen.
    STRANGER
    Take my hand!
    PANEL 3
    Owen looks shocked, intimidated, balking. Caption should be on one side of the panel, Stranger’s dialog on the other.
    CAPTION
    This could be my only chance to see the world …
    CAPTION
    Going where I want —
    STRANGER
    You know you want to!
    PANEL 4
    Owen reaches out his hand, and the Stranger reaches down to grasp it; close-up on the two hands—copy the Hugh Syme illustration in the novel and CD booklet. Make sure we see the alchemy symbol on the Anarchist’s hand.
    CAPTION
    Instead of where I should …
    PANEL 5
    Outside view. The stranger grabs Owen’s hand and yanks him off his feet, dramatic, violent, pulls him into the open car.
    CAPTION
    On my way at last …
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    PANEL