Rudolph the Red Lantern - R.A. Wonsowski

Splash page -

Foreground, RUDOLPH, surrounded by a red aura, spewing blood from his mouth and suited in black, a red domino mask about his eyes, and his glowing nose bearing the sigil of the Red Lanterns:
 
He is flying toward us, screaming his own version of the Red Lantern oath (below)

Background: On a snowy, starry night, high above the world, Green Lantern GUY GARDNER has used his ring to rescue SANTA CLAUS, and another energy beam has caught his sleigh and its giant, overflowing bag of toys sticking out the back.  SANTA is relieved, but worried, as his other reindeer are nowhere in sight.  GUY with a fiercely determined look on his face, has also manifested an emerald-energy cookbook titled "101 Holiday Recipes for Venison" and barbecue tools.

SANTA:  No, Guy!  Don't!  You just made the NICE list this year!

GUY:  Sorry, Mr. Claus, but there's no other way!

RUDOLPH:  Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen!
                      Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen!

            Together by my hellish hate,

            I'll burn you all--That is your fate!

CAPTION:  They laughed at him.  They called him names.  They wouldn't let him play any reindeer games...

CAPTION:  Now, they're going to pay...

TITLE:  Green Lantern in:  Rudolph's ChristMASSACRE!!!
SUBTITLE:  (or, Won't You Guide My SLAY Tonight?)

Rudolph – Won’t You Find My Sleigh Tonight – Shaun Richens.

PAGE ONE – 5 PANELS.

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1. EXT. Early evening. Dusk is setting in. A few stars twinkle in the darkening sky. A snowy scene in Lapland. The snow still falls, a forest is on the horizon. Dead centre in the foreground is a large log cabin. Smoke rises from its chimney and light can be seen from all the windows. A huge flashing neon sign above the building reads CLUB SUGAR ELF.

         CAPTION:

         Christmas eve 2012.

2. INT. Club Sugar Elf. We are inside a bar. It’s rustic and looks like the bar from Cheers. Christmas lights and decorations hang up everywhere, an open log fire burns bright in the fireplace. A big old jukebox plays in the other corner. A small Christmas elf by the name of CANDYCANE stands on a barstool behind the bar cleaning a pint glass with a red and green kitchen towel. CANDYCANE is about three foot tall, he wears a large green pointy hat, curly elf shoes and a white apron over his red Christmas jumper. His cheeks are rosy red. This is his bar. Sat on the customer side of the bar is the anthropomorphic RUDOLPH. He sits nursing his milk from a whisky glass. He wears a nice grey suit with a red tie matching his bright nose.

         CANDYCANE:

         You guna sit here all night Big Red?

         RUDOLPH:

         Don’t call me that, no one’s called me that in years.

         CANDYCANE:

         You at least want another drink?

         RUDOLPH 1:

         Give me milk.

         (Linked)

         RUDOLPH 2:

         Straight.

3. Repeat of panel 2. However now CANDYCANE is pouring RUDOLPH another drink.

         VOICE: (Off panel)

         Hold that drink Candycane.

4. Shot from behind the bar. RUDOLPH and CANDYCANE both have their backs to us as they look towards the entrance to THE SUGAR ELF to see who just spoke. Standing in front of the door, having just come in is the anthropomorphic VIXEN. She wears a knee length well fitting black dress, tights and black high heels, her lips as bright red as RUDOLPH’s nose. She has a thick fake fur coat on.

         RUDOLPH:

         What do you want Vixen?

         (Linked)

         RUDOLPH 2:

         You not out with Dasher tonight?

         VIXEN 1:

         This isn’t about us tonight Big Red.

         (Linked)

         VIXEN 2:

         It’s about Old Nick.

5. Insert panel into the bottom right of 4. Close up on the sad face of VIXEN.

         VIXEN 1:

         He’s missing Rudolph.

         (Linked)

         VIXEN 2:

         He’s gone.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer – SUPER-RUDOLPH – MK Stangeland Jr.

(7 Panels)

Panel 1: Scene is the frozen wastes. RUDOLPH stands on a icy cliff looking out over the horizon. A Holographicesque image of an older reindeer’s portrait is stretches high across the sky, a la SUPERMAN’s dad.

NARRATION BOX: And then, as Rudolph stood along among the frozen wastes, he had a vision!

Panel 2: The older reindeer fills the panel as it sits in the sky.

NARRATION BOX: And then the vision spoke to him! It said…

REINDEER: RUDOLPH! Rudolph, my son!

Panel 3: The elder reindeer overlooks RUDOLPH as he speaks.

REINDEER (1): You wondered what your purpose was.

REINDEER (2): I tell you it is this: To be a beacon of light to this world!

Panel 4: Close up on RUDOLPH, now with a heroic look of determination on his face.

REINDEER: (Off-panel) And to SAVE CHRISTMAS!

Panel 5: The panel is largely dark, but the light from RUDOLPH’s nose makes it bright enough to see that RUDOLPH is punching SAURON (of the LORD OF THE RINGS variety) in the face as SANTA, ELVES, and other REINDEER cheer him on off to the side.

NARRATION BOX: So Super-Rudolph flew back to the North Pole and saved Christmas from the Dark Lord Sauron!

Panel 6: This panel cuts to the actual scene as we see who’s telling the story – It’s PINKIE PIE (MLP:FIM), and she’s telling the story to APPLEBLOOM, SWEETIE BELL, and SCOOTALOO.

PINKIE PIE: And that’s why we decorate with strings of light every year!

Panel 7: APPLEBLOOM, SWEETIE BELL, and SCOOTALOO sit in front of PINKIE PIE, and all three of them have a ‘WTF?’ look on their face while having not the slightest idea WHAT it is they just heard.

(END PAGE)

Rudolph- Beacons -Dan Hill

Page One

1.1
OPEN on a tight shot of a REINDEER looking at us, its head tilted slightly. Snowflakes fall around it like confetti.

CAPTION

In the beginning it was just about the money. An assignment.

CAPTION

A story to fill a colouring book.

1.2
ZOOM OUT to show that the reindeer is in an enclosure. We’re in Chicago Zoo in the winter of 1938. Snow continues to fall from the cloudless, pale blue sky.

A man with his back to us holds the hand of his four year old daughter in front of the enclosure. They are both wrapped up in winter clothes.

This is ROBERT L. MAY and his daughter, BARBARA.

CAPTION

Enter Robert L. May, native of Chicago.

1.3
CUT TO a CLOSE UP on Robert, facing us, as he crouches down at his daughter’s side pointing towards us/the reindeer. She smiles gleefully.

CAPTION

Loving father.

1.4
CUT TO a CLOSE UP on Robert’s hands. Both of them are holding the frail and pale looking hand of his wife (off panel) as she lies in bed.

CAPTION

And devoted husband.

CAPTION

Even during times of hardship.

1.5
CUT TO a shot of Robert, looking up at him at an angle. He’s sitting at a desk, a typewriter in front of him, a piece of paper curling slightly towards us from its top.

CAPTION

Slowly the story became something more. Something he needed to finish.

CAPTION

It became a reminder.

1.6
Wide panel: CUT TO Robert sitting on the edge of Barbara’s bed. He reads to her from the same sheet of paper that was in the typewriter from the last panel.

CAPTION

A reminder that even when the storm comes and hope seems lost we each have our beacons.

1.7
Wide panel: TIGHT SHOT on Barbara as she beams back at her father.

CAPTION

We can all make it through the dark.

Rudolph - Reindeer Games - Grant McLaughlin

1 - Nighttime in the North Pole during Rudolph's youth.  Rudolph is hiding behind an embankment in the snow.  He looks super happy, a great big smile on his face.

RUDOLPH (quietly): I can't believe they finally let me join in!

2 - Switch angles to the other side of Rudolph's hiding spot.  Pull the camera back a bit to get a good sense of the setting.  A red glow emerges from the embakment Rudolph is behind, making it incredibly obvious where he's hiding.  A reindeer is walking in the foreground, just emerging from the right hand side of the panel.

RUDOLPH (quietly, from behind embankment): This is going to be the perfect hiding spot!

3 - Same scene.  A whole bunch of other reindeer Rudolph's age are now walking by the foreground.  They're trying to keep quiet, mischevious looks on their faces.  Many quiet sniggers are surpressed as the group sneaks by.  One reindeer lags behind the rest, looking over towards Rudolph's location.

RUDOLPH (quietly, from behind embankment): They'll never find me here!

4 - Reverse angle on the laggin reindeer.  She looks sad / remorseful as she walks on.

NO COPY

5 - Repeat the shot from panels 2 and 3.  The reindeer in the foreground are long gone.  The night has grown even darker.  Rudolph's glow remains.

NO COPY