Agent Immortal - "Wot. Go back to when he was still a continent !?"
Dr Zhivago - "No ... not us ... " A smile.
...
Immortal - Smiles, "You mad bastard. It's the one God-damn thing we ever agreed on when no one else would."
Dr Zhivago - "There is no paradox, nemesis."
Immortal - As they look out the window, " 'Nemesis' ... " He takes the sign off Zhivago's back. "We'll prove it to them all."
Zhivago - "Our paper will finally be published. And everything it's based on, I know to be true. My many selves ... what ... happened to them by the way ?"
Immortal - "Oh ... well ... you know ... they ... well they ate something."
Zhivago - "All of them ?"
Immortal - "Or maybe I turned them into butterflies to amuse children and then struck them with lightning but these are paltry ... details ... it is nothing in our moment of greatness !"
Zhivago - "True."
...
Dr Zhivago - "No ... not us ... " A smile.
...
Immortal - Smiles, "You mad bastard. It's the one God-damn thing we ever agreed on when no one else would."
Dr Zhivago - "There is no paradox, nemesis."
Immortal - As they look out the window, " 'Nemesis' ... " He takes the sign off Zhivago's back. "We'll prove it to them all."
Zhivago - "Our paper will finally be published. And everything it's based on, I know to be true. My many selves ... what ... happened to them by the way ?"
Immortal - "Oh ... well ... you know ... they ... well they ate something."
Zhivago - "All of them ?"
Immortal - "Or maybe I turned them into butterflies to amuse children and then struck them with lightning but these are paltry ... details ... it is nothing in our moment of greatness !"
Zhivago - "True."
...
Zhivago - "Still an evil plan though. When you really think about it."
Immortal - "Oh yes yes. Yes it is. He-he-he."
Immortal - "Oh yes yes. Yes it is. He-he-he."
...
Zhivago - "It will certainly kill us both you know."
Immortal - "Oh yes yes. It definitely will."
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Space actor - Walks into her dark trailer with a glance to the shadow, a flop on the bed. So what do we do now ?"
Actor - Walks from the shadows and turns on the light, sees her in her black hair and dark eyes. "Nice. They were all dirty. And not just dirty but up in something more. They all had some special angle into the same network."
Space - "The one you fight."
Actor - "Won't have to for long, like this."
Space - "We fight to win."
...
Actor - "Chule."
Space - "Chule. The light please."
He turns out the light and leaves.
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Space Lady watches from the alien craft as it passes Soldier Story on his way to the generator ahead, where guards prepare.
The ship takes the first of their fire.
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Immortal - In the center of an apparent device intended to amplify transmission. "Time to go Tom. Please see to making sure that puppy gets to safety and you take care too. If you should happen to meet the devil along the way, just tell him Solomon says hello."
Zhivago - Working the equipment as it powers up loud, "Excellent last words, nemesis !"
Immortal - "Thank you nemesis." The electricity begins to flow up the amplifier.
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Space Lady - As the port's angle fades on the Story, "No." She gets up and runs for the exit, pops the door and leaps into the crossfire.
Soldier - Sadness in his eyes, "No ... "
Space - Smiles with the madness in hers, "Yes. To the mission." She draws.
...
Soldier - "To the mission."
Actor - "To the mission."
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Zhivago - "To where it all began."
Immortal - With a grin, "Seven years ago."
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Co-star loads.
Alien - "Um. Hi. I felt stupid on the ship."
Soldier - Looks at the alien ship, ports packed with aliens of all kinds looking back ... a smile. Then a laugh. "Well God Bless 'em if they've got your guts." He tosses the rifle to and draws his pistol. "Now let's go kill the rest."
Immortal - "Oh yes yes. It definitely will."
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Space actor - Walks into her dark trailer with a glance to the shadow, a flop on the bed. So what do we do now ?"
Actor - Walks from the shadows and turns on the light, sees her in her black hair and dark eyes. "Nice. They were all dirty. And not just dirty but up in something more. They all had some special angle into the same network."
Space - "The one you fight."
Actor - "Won't have to for long, like this."
Space - "We fight to win."
...
Actor - "Chule."
Space - "Chule. The light please."
He turns out the light and leaves.
________
Space Lady watches from the alien craft as it passes Soldier Story on his way to the generator ahead, where guards prepare.
The ship takes the first of their fire.
________
Immortal - In the center of an apparent device intended to amplify transmission. "Time to go Tom. Please see to making sure that puppy gets to safety and you take care too. If you should happen to meet the devil along the way, just tell him Solomon says hello."
Zhivago - Working the equipment as it powers up loud, "Excellent last words, nemesis !"
Immortal - "Thank you nemesis." The electricity begins to flow up the amplifier.
________
Space Lady - As the port's angle fades on the Story, "No." She gets up and runs for the exit, pops the door and leaps into the crossfire.
Soldier - Sadness in his eyes, "No ... "
Space - Smiles with the madness in hers, "Yes. To the mission." She draws.
...
Soldier - "To the mission."
Actor - "To the mission."
________
Zhivago - "To where it all began."
Immortal - With a grin, "Seven years ago."
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Co-star loads.
Alien - "Um. Hi. I felt stupid on the ship."
Soldier - Looks at the alien ship, ports packed with aliens of all kinds looking back ... a smile. Then a laugh. "Well God Bless 'em if they've got your guts." He tosses the rifle to and draws his pistol. "Now let's go kill the rest."
They open fire on the guards, redirecting the fire from the ship to them as Soldier Story loads and starts telling the stories, more and more until they play over each other as they appear in droves along with, each whispering more stories as they too open fire.
~ While in the lab they drive the transmitter to overload, Immortal begins a roar while Zhivago is shocked or burned running every control, still doing it.
Did you know ghosts have infinite ammo ?
Basically
psychic projectiles with the same effect, then as they near, the team's
fire is directed to the generator, joined by Soldier's grenade.
~ The lab sends a pulse into the sky before blowing, a distance away Tom drops Dog Soldier as he falls to pieces, dead.
~ The lab sends a pulse into the sky before blowing, a distance away Tom drops Dog Soldier as he falls to pieces, dead.
The
generator blows, taking the team with and making a hole in the external
structure, sucking out the alien craft just before the outer layer
adjusts a shell building to close the hole.
The pulse strikes and Orson Welles is gone.
The pulse strikes and Orson Welles is gone.
(for credits)
As the alien ship drifts for Earth landing, aliens with their children wide eyed at the city approaching.
Over the sea, city distant, then past the Statue of Liberty (used to mean something).
Traveling between buildings, the crowds gathering before the military, too late. It lands in a circle of observers, press arriving, police dealing, the bay door opens at the end of the song.
(mid-credits)
Alien kid - Play action figures with a human kid, "He was called Soldier Story. He summoned soldiers from the dead by telling their stories !"
Human kid - "That's cool !"
He stands over them as they play, arms crossed with a smile before returning to the plains, taking Space Lady's hands before gone.
He stands over them as they play, arms crossed with a smile before returning to the plains, taking Space Lady's hands before gone.
Actor - Interviewed today in a modern setting during the opening, Newshuman looks exactly
the same in new clothes. "It was an era you can never go back to. Everyone tries to recreate it, but you can't !
"You can not recreate what it was like to see Battle Beyond the Stars in the theater for the first time in 1980. Because in 1980, no one had ever seen anything like that before.
"Now we've all see it. Every form. Every permutation. So now ... we wait for the next Battle Beyond the Stars. We wait for the next new thing."
"You can not recreate what it was like to see Battle Beyond the Stars in the theater for the first time in 1980. Because in 1980, no one had ever seen anything like that before.
"Now we've all see it. Every form. Every permutation. So now ... we wait for the next Battle Beyond the Stars. We wait for the next new thing."
...
Co-star - Looks at him. "You know that movie sucked ass right ?"
He shoots her a look, the main music picks up to their fucking at home, family photo with kids popping in more.
1:00 ~ (with the hard orchestral) The Orson Welles bellyflop ports in over the Earth seven years before without noticing any difference at all, or perhaps just not caring, it's all the same outcome for him.
The children growing up, awards and playgrounds with security and drunken nannies on scooters. A boy looks at a girl in class, she looks back. They run through a field holding hands as the portrait grows.
2:06 ~ (orchestral) Orson Welles contemplates the universe as the the satellites crash across his chest and the missiles start hitting uselessly, flames spawn on atmospheric entry.
2:41 ~ (with the guitar) jagged flashes of the Praetorian characters ending in their final forms.
During the soft interlude ~
Co-star - "Oh God no. No regrets." She looks at the actor and smiles, "But he's right. Since then we're all either trying to go back or just Waiting for Godot." (the nihilist play whose film adaptation stared Burgess Meredith who was also the Adam West Penguin.
Though best known of course as Golobulus).
Actor - "But whatever it is I guarantee you. We will be there."
3:23 ~ Citizen Welles' final entry into the musical finale, the clouds pulling to his gravity as he closes in before crashing into the continent, shattering it like ice over water. The Earth caves into pieces around him as he's engulfed in the fire within.
Actor - After the song and the boom ... "So. You know. That's just the way it is."
Actor - "But whatever it is I guarantee you. We will be there."
3:23 ~ Citizen Welles' final entry into the musical finale, the clouds pulling to his gravity as he closes in before crashing into the continent, shattering it like ice over water. The Earth caves into pieces around him as he's engulfed in the fire within.
Actor - After the song and the boom ... "So. You know. That's just the way it is."
~ the end ~