FADE IN FROM MATRIX CODE:
A HELICOPTER flies over the Megacity.
SFX: Helicopter rotors
CUT TO:
int. helicopter. day.
THE GENERAL, within it, holding a headset up to his ear.
SOLDIER (Filtered)
Sentinel swarm detected on forward radar, Sir. ETA at our base, three hours.
general (INTO MIC)
Right on time. Wait until they close within two kilometers, then launch the Seekers. I’m on my way.
DISSOLVE TO:
ext – a barren landscape in the real. day.
A SWARM OF SENTINELS speeds over the bleak terrain.
NOTE: Machine Sentinels fly SCREEN RIGHT to SCREEN LEFT.
In the distance, the GENERAL’S REDOUBT LOOMS.
Suddenly, in the intervening terrain, Concealed MISSILE BATTERIES rise out of ground rubble. Their MISSILES home in on the Sentinel cloud, DETONATING WITH DEVASTATING EFFECT.
As the surviving Machine Sentinels fly out of the smoke, they are confronted by the GENERAL’S OWN SENTINELS, who cut them down with Zion-style LIGHTNING GUNS
int -- a Megacity hideout. Six commandos. One, on a headset, has received news of the victory. He’s turned to the others, who wait expectantly.
commando
We got every one. The Base wasn’t even hit.
The FISTS of the commandos shoot into the air together.
MUSIC: HEAVY CHORD
Commandos (together)
YEAHHHHH!!!
FADE OUT TO MATRIX CODE
MUSIC: Urgent battle music.
ext. the real. barren landscape. day.
Coming from the same screen direction as last Cinematic (right to left), MANY MORE Machine Sentinels ATTACK the General’s base.
They are met by the General’s Sentinels bearing LIGHTNING GUNS.
A MELEE ensues. QUICK, CHAOTIC CUTS and WHITE FLASHES.
SFX: Electrical surges, clattering, explosions
general (v.o.)
Too many. Just too many.
Machine Sentinels get through and TEAR APART THE REDOUBT.
GENERAL (V.0.)
Retreat! Get to a terminal, everyone! Back to the Matrix!
A VIDEO SCREEN, showing the destruction of the redoubt from a distance. A METAL BUG skitters across one corner of the screen.
SFX: muted explosions, servomotor sound when bug skitters.
CUT BACK:
A SILHOUETTED HUMAN FIGURE watches the scene on the screen. This is the [EDIT - omit spoiler], though he is not identified here. For all we know, it could be Neo. The room is polished metal, and a couple of other Machine creatures are there.
int. computer center in the matrix. Day.
The General, then other commandos, materialize near a retro-tech computer array amid a crowd of Commandos. AGENTS attack. He escapes.
SFX: Crowd noise. Shots. Shouts.
Agents attacking! Return fire!
commando2
Clear the area! Now!
commando3 (shot)
Uhhhhh!
NOTE: Please record other shouts, grunts, and hisses and deeply layer them to create audio chaos.
int. sewer. day.
THE GENERAL moves through a shaft of sunlight from a storm drain.
SFX: Running water, splashes.
The general disappears around a corner.
FADE TO MATRIX CODE
int. tunnel.
A HOVERCRAFT speeds along the labyrinthine, rubbled tunnel.
SFX: Electrical crackling of repulsors.
int. hovercraft
A CYPHERITE PILOT works the controls. She’s tense.
PILOT
Guidance, please. This is all new.
the floating, white "holographic" control space seen in The Matrix Reloaded.
Flight controller
We think you’re right near it. A cavern with a shaft in the bottom.
int. cavern
Cavern walls bristle with cannons. In the center is the entrance to a shaft GOING STRAIGHT DOWN, ringed with EMP GENERATORS.
PILOT (V.O.)
God! EMPs everywhere! More than you said!
Flight controller (v.0.)
Stay calm. Cancel all systems. A dead drop, like we planned.
INT. HOVERCRAFT
The crew panics, all speaking at once.
crew1/2/3/4 (overlapping)
This is suicide! Get out, get out! Abort! Ohsweetjesus! Gun it!
int. CAVERN
The Hovercraft pulls up and over, back the way it came. A HUGE BARGE is coming the other way. The hovercraft SWERVES.
Tell Cryptos...tell Cryptos we confirmed it! It’s there!
SFX: Electrical crackling of repulsors. BASS HUM from barge.
CLOSE ON AN EMP GENERATOR ON THE CAVERN WALL
It ACTIVATES A PULSE which SPREADS RAPIDLY.
SFX: Electronic Whu-ump (loud)
the hovercraft
Is ENGULFED by the EMP wave. It goes dead. It crashes. It unleashes a fireball.
SFX: Electric crackle cut off by Electronic Whu-ump, explosion.
THE ARCHITECT in his monitoring room, watching an AGENT reporting into his earpiece. The Architect switches off the monitor, scowls, and switches on another, of AGENT GRAY.
ARCHITECT
Agent Gray.
AGENT GRAY
Yes, sir?
Zion has broken the truce. No further awakenings are to be allowed.
Gray hesitates a moment, then replies.
Yes, sir.
The Architect switches off the monitor.
int. matrix. a clean office space.
Two Agents watch a computer terminal.
AGENT ONE
The virus is running.
Ext. Zion in the Real.
SENTINELS engulf a HOVERCRAFT attempting to depart from old Zion, rip through the base's MALFUNCTIONING DOCK DOORS, sweep past nonfunctional GUN TURRETS, and easily finish off some APUs and FOOT SOLDIERS.
SFX: Sentinel zip-clacks, electrical crackling, gunshots, metallic scrapes and screams, soldier screams.
SOLDIERS
YAAAAAAHHH!!!
THE SENTINELS turn to destroying the loaded cargo containers filling the dock area.
EXT. MACHINE CITY. TWILIGHT.
Neo confronts Deus Ex Machina, a flashback to The Matrix Revolutions, only seen from the side and slightly below, some distance away. A HAND passes quickly across the screen, and the scene freezes.
INT.[EDIT - omit spoilers] DWELLING
A ROBOTIC BUG crawls across it--what we were seeing was [EDIT - omit spoilers] and someone paused the video feed. WE PULL BACK to show a little of the room.
[EDIT - omit spoilers] (WHISPERS)
Most interesting.
int. merovingian’s chateau. day.
PERSEPHONE is reading to herself from SELECTED POEMS of SARA TEASDALE.
NOTE: This dialogue is already recorded.
persephone
O lips full of lust and of laughter, Curled snakes that are fed from my breast/Bite hard, lest remembrance come after/And press with new lips where you pressed.
For my heart too springs up at the pressure/Mine eyelids too moisten and burn; /Ah, feed me and fill me with pleasure...
The MEROVINGIAN enters. Persephone is embarrassed.
merovingian
What are you doing?
Nothing.
More of your obsession?
Persephone SLAMS THE BOOK CLOSED, then angrily walks out.
SFX: Book slam; clicking high heels; door slam.
ext. matrix megacity street. Night.
An Oligarch (HALLIBURN, though we don’t yet know that), A GLOWING WHITE BEING RADIATING POWER, materializes in the Matrix. If people MISTAKE HIM FOR NEO it can’t really be helped.
MUSIC: Fanfare
SFX: LOW BASS HUM
As he strides down a street, frightened Bluepills flee before him.
bluepills (overlapping)
Yaaaaah! Run! Who is it? What is it? Oh my god! Look! (etc.)
Agents arrive and attempt to head him off.
AGENT
Do not resist. You are required --
The figure waves his hand, and the Agents FALL TO THE GROUND, convulsing.
SFX: High piercing tone
AGENTS
Uhhh! Ugglh! (Overlapping)
He steps over them and continues down the street, looking for "[EDIT - omit spoiler]" The piercing tone fades as he moves away.
ext. matrix rooftop. day.
The Oligarch HALLIBURN materializes on the edge of a windswept skyscraper rooftop where the SIMULACRUM OF MORPHEUS stands.
SFX: Wind, then BASS HUM as he materializes. He scans the simulacrum, and snorts at his ponderous utterances.
NOTE: Morpheus dialogue already recorded.
morpheus
Do you believe in fate, my friend?
Halliburn
Psuph!
THE ARCHITECT appears nearby, and the Oligarch wheels on him.
SFX: Warping sound as Architect materializes.
A program cobbled together from memories of a man? Pathetic!
architect
Yes, the feeble effort of an amateur. Not at all like you.
*CENSORED* you. If I thought that was a joke, I’d have you deleted! Where’s the one I want?
As we explained, we do not ...
Bah!
The Oligarch leaps away. The Morpheus simulacrum, which observed the exchange between them, turns to the Architect.
Morpheus simulacrum
There is a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path.
The Architect purses his lips and cocks an eyebrow.
ext. Matrix slums. Night.
The Oligarch HALLIBURN, a glowing white figure, looks over his shoulder as Oligarch CARLYNE, of a similar appearance but a thinner body type, materializes in the Matrix. Nobody else is around.
SFX: Halliburn’s BASS HUM is joined by a DIFFERENT BASS HUM.
halliburn
You! What are you doing here?
carlyne
You looked as though you were having such fun. I thought I’d join you.
Mind your own *CENSORED* business!
Carlyne
Oh, I am.
Carlyne PUNCHES Halliburn though several buildings. Halliburn flies out of the rubble and tackles Carlyne through another building.
SFX: Crashes of bricks, snapping wood, tinkling glass, hissing dust and grit falling.
DUST BILLOWS.
SFX: Thuds and grunts.
halliburn and carlyne
(Grunts and oofs from landed punches)
The dust clears. The two figures are atop a rubble heap, warily in ready fighting stances.
Haven’t found what you’re after, eh?
A matter of time. I know about [EDIT - omit spoiler].
It seems we’re in a competition, then.
Carlyne PUNCHES Halliburn into another building. Looking up from the wreckage, Halliburn looks at the resultant hole and Carlyne beyond.
SFX: More crashing.
This is a distraction. Enough.
He DEMATERIALIZES.
SFX: His BASS HUM cuts off.
Carlyne crosses his arms in satisfaction, then dematerializes himself
An AGENT is revealed, a witness to the scene. He puts his finger to his earpiece.
agent
Reporting...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Outlines (some edits for spoilers--hah)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*saves*
Thank you very much!!
Very very cool idea, Rare. Excellent how we are seeing further into MxO's creation and development processes!
Probably not standard practice for an MMO but then we're hardly standard MMO players D:
That's a good thing, by the way :P I think >_>
What's really interesting is the fact details on the mystery men in the real are edited while Halborn and Carylne are openly revealed as Oligarchs in the later cinematic outlines, implying they may not in fact be one in the same. An assumed connection.
Yes I noticed this too plus, unless the first silhouetted figure in 7.3 (Described in the outline as: For all we know, it could be Neo) is a different person to the figure in 8.2 who was watching Neo's encounter with the Deus Ex, I don't think it is Neo at all due to the second person saying 'Most Interesting'.... Unless there was something in the stream other then that of Neo and Deus Ex that was of interest.
Another thing is in the 8.2 outline says... 'What we were seeing was (omitted) and someone paused the video feed'. The fact that it says 'someone' indicates that the omission may not be the identity of the person but a description of something else. Thing is, I can't think of what might have been being described as we know it's a video feed and we know that 'someone' paused it.
/shrug
t.>*: Why was Halliburn's name changed? Too something? It sounds familiar..
ZippyTheSquirrel wrote:t.>*: Why was Halliburn's name changed? Too something? It sounds familiar..Man, that emoticon looks like Satiate. Awesome.I changed the name from Paul's original because I wasn't comfortable having it sound so much like a certain notorious real-life company.
