THE FINAL SIN - FINAL DRAFT
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“THE FINAL SIN”
By
Noah Carolan
2
FADE IN:
EXT. SPACE
A planet is being bombarded by white and gold ships. Heading the pack is a command ship of the SEVEN VIRTUES, the HEAVENSENT.
HEAVENSENT (OVER TANNOY, REPEATED)
REPENT OR DIE. REPENT OR DIE.
EXT. BATTLEFIELD, DUSK.
A battle in a destroyed city. Two groups of soldiers attack each other; the Virtues’ drones versus the Sins’ mutants. Behind the mutants, stands a tall structure, topped with a spherical room with multiple openings; the War Room.
INT. WAR ROOM, DUSK
A war room table stands in the middle of the room, with seven seats surrounding it. Five of the SEVEN DEADLY SINS are seated, bored. At one of the openings, GLUTTONY looks out onto the battlefield, unimpressed. PRIDE, a small metal man, paces on top of the table, moving pieces of the model around.
PRIDE
Well, consider me humbled. I can’t come up with a good enough strategy.
He turns.
PRIDE (CONT)
This war will be over by next sundown.
GLUTTONY (O.S.)
It doesn’t have to be.
All the Sins turn and look. Gluttony observes a scuffle between two soldiers.
EXT. BATTLEFIELD
A drone knocks down a mutant and picks it up by the neck.
INT. WAR ROOM
GLUTTONY
We ripped moons out of the sky as kids. What if we just took the power from those days…
Gluttony reaches his hand out. A portal opens.
EXT. BATTLEFIELD
The drone disappears into a similar looking portal, and lands in front of the mutant seconds later, broken.
GLUTTONY (O.S.)
… And used them to win the war like that?
INT. WAR ROOM
Gluttony turns to face the others.
GLUTTONY
Victory in an hour. Millennia old war over. We’d be feared across the galaxy, we can take anything we want-
PRIDE (INTERRUPTING)
No.
Gluttony locks eyes with Pride, hands on his hips.
PRIDE (CONT)
There’s a major risk of being caught in the crossfire, and I’m too important to die!
The others glare at him. He shifts his eyes to them.
PRIDE (CONT)
Oh, and they’re here too. We evacuate tomorrow!
Gluttony clenches his fist in rage.
GLUTTONY
So you’re leaving?
LUST sits a little straighter, and clears her throat.
LUST
Pride has a point. You’re suggesting a suicide mission.
Pride points to her, desperate for validation.
GLUTTONY
I can’t believe it. Instead of fighting…
PRIDE
Gluttony.
GLUTTONY (CONT)
… You’re taking the easy way out?
PRIDE (VOICE RAISED)
Gluttony, that’s enough!
GLUTTONY (CONT, SHOUTING)
YOU’RE NOT SINS, YOU’RE COWARDS!!
PRIDE (SHOUTING)
ENOUGH!!
Pride slams his foot down, causing a model ship to fall and break. He points towards the door.
PRIDE
Leave. Now.
Gluttony’s expression turns to shock, then frustration. He paces out of the room, sneakily opening a portal beneath Pride’s foot, causing him to trip.
INT. BARRACKS, NIGHT
Mutant troops are being sent out into the battlefield. Once all the troops leave, Gluttony emerges from behind a box. He stands up straight, shakes down his arms and takes a deep breath. He runs out.
EXT. BATTLEFIELD, NIGHT
Gluttony weaves his way through the crowd of his side’s troops, until he’s close to the Virtues. He starts to shoot out portals from his hands towards drones and small shuttlecraft. The drones fall in and crash in various places, while parts of shuttles explode as they collide with each other.
A command ship takes aim at soldiers to Gluttony’s left firing a laser. Gluttony desperately opens a large portal at the last second, sending the laser back to the ship, destroying it in a green explosion.
INT. WAR ROOM, MORNING.
Pride and the other Sins burst through the door, all wearing angry expressions. Gluttony sits in a spinny chair on the opposite side of the room, facing away from them.
PRIDE
You have some explaining to do!
Gluttony spins around to face them. He has a look of satisfaction, and a slimy smile on his face.
GLUTTONY
Yes, Pride?
PRIDE
I KNOW you were out on that battlefield last night! What if you’d died? We’d be the SIX Deadly Sins?
Gluttony rises from his chair.
GLUTTONY
So what? At least I would’ve gone out fighting for what we were ALL meant to believe in than like a coward!
PRIDE
Well your belief may well have torn this planet apart!
Pride points out an opening. They all look. A large rift pulses in the middle of the battlefield.
PRIDE (CONT)
I don’t know how you-
GLUTTONY (INTERRUPTING)
By tapping into those old powers! What we did then, time has only strengthened that! And that rift…
He gestures towards the rift.
GLUTTONY (CONT)
… Is direct proof! If you’d all join me and do what I did-
PRIDE (INTERRUPTING)
No! We’ve been through this. It’s time to let this…
The door suddenly slams shut, locks clicking into place.
PRIDE (CONT)
… Go.
GLUTTONY
You’re not leaving. You’re staying with me.
Gluttony stretches his arms out, palms facing the Sins. They all step back. A small wormhole forms from his hands, aimed at ENVY. In an instant, she is sucked into the wormhole.
Green rings travel up Gluttony’s arms as he closes the wormhole. His stance is also a little taller. He takes a sharp breath in, then slowly breathes out. The others look horrified.
He points his arms out again. The wormhole begins to form again.
GLUTTONY
I want MORE.
EXT. WAR ROOM TOWER
The wormhole bursts open, with deafening bass-heavy sound and about 25ft radius. The room’s ceiling and outer-facing wall are destroyed from the impact.
INT. WAR ROOM
Gluttony starts to transform and mutate, his hands gone, now resembling wormholes themselves. All the other Sins, except Pride, are gone. Pride stands his ground as long as he can, but within seconds, he vanishes into the vortex.
EXT. WAR ROOM TOWER
The vortex finally collapses, and a giant figure falls from the tower, creating a cloud of dust around it. As the dust settles, a creature rises. It stands at 50ft tall, with deformed features and mutations; THE BLACK HOLE is born. The Black Hole raises what used to be its hands, now just openings of wormholes. It recoils a little in horror.
BLACK HOLE (LAYERED VOICE)
Seven Sins… one body…
The Black Hole stares into the distance, seeing the Virtues’ ships. It looks for a few seconds, then bellows out a vile, high pitched screech. Silent seconds pass after the screech.
BLACK HOLE
Want… MORE…
The Black Hole repeats this phrase as it moves, but then stops for a beat, bellows again, and carries on moving, silently.
FADE OUT:
THE END
“THE FINAL SIN”
By
Noah Carolan
2
FADE IN:
EXT. SPACE
A planet is being bombarded by white and gold ships. Heading the pack is a command ship of the SEVEN VIRTUES, the HEAVENSENT.
HEAVENSENT (OVER TANNOY, REPEATED)
REPENT OR DIE. REPENT OR DIE.
EXT. BATTLEFIELD, DUSK.
A battle in a destroyed city. Two groups of soldiers attack each other; the Virtues’ drones versus the Sins’ mutants. Behind the mutants, stands a tall structure, topped with a spherical room with multiple openings; the War Room.
INT. WAR ROOM, DUSK
A war room table stands in the middle of the room, with seven seats surrounding it. Five of the SEVEN DEADLY SINS are seated, bored. At one of the openings, GLUTTONY looks out onto the battlefield, unimpressed. PRIDE, a small metal man, paces on top of the table, moving pieces of the model around.
PRIDE
Well, consider me humbled. I can’t come up with a good enough strategy.
He turns.
PRIDE (CONT)
This war will be over by next sundown.
GLUTTONY (O.S.)
It doesn’t have to be.
All the Sins turn and look. Gluttony observes a scuffle between two soldiers.
EXT. BATTLEFIELD
A drone knocks down a mutant and picks it up by the neck.
INT. WAR ROOM
GLUTTONY
We ripped moons out of the sky as kids. What if we just took the power from those days…
Gluttony reaches his hand out. A portal opens.
EXT. BATTLEFIELD
The drone disappears into a similar looking portal, and lands in front of the mutant seconds later, broken.
GLUTTONY (O.S.)
… And used them to win the war like that?
INT. WAR ROOM
Gluttony turns to face the others.
GLUTTONY
Victory in an hour. Millennia old war over. We’d be feared across the galaxy, we can take anything we want-
PRIDE (INTERRUPTING)
No.
Gluttony locks eyes with Pride, hands on his hips.
PRIDE (CONT)
There’s a major risk of being caught in the crossfire, and I’m too important to die!
The others glare at him. He shifts his eyes to them.
PRIDE (CONT)
Oh, and they’re here too. We evacuate tomorrow!
Gluttony clenches his fist in rage.
GLUTTONY
So you’re leaving?
LUST sits a little straighter, and clears her throat.
LUST
Pride has a point. You’re suggesting a suicide mission.
Pride points to her, desperate for validation.
GLUTTONY
I can’t believe it. Instead of fighting…
PRIDE
Gluttony.
GLUTTONY (CONT)
… You’re taking the easy way out?
PRIDE (VOICE RAISED)
Gluttony, that’s enough!
GLUTTONY (CONT, SHOUTING)
YOU’RE NOT SINS, YOU’RE COWARDS!!
PRIDE (SHOUTING)
ENOUGH!!
Pride slams his foot down, causing a model ship to fall and break. He points towards the door.
PRIDE
Leave. Now.
Gluttony’s expression turns to shock, then frustration. He paces out of the room, sneakily opening a portal beneath Pride’s foot, causing him to trip.
INT. BARRACKS, NIGHT
Mutant troops are being sent out into the battlefield. Once all the troops leave, Gluttony emerges from behind a box. He stands up straight, shakes down his arms and takes a deep breath. He runs out.
EXT. BATTLEFIELD, NIGHT
Gluttony weaves his way through the crowd of his side’s troops, until he’s close to the Virtues. He starts to shoot out portals from his hands towards drones and small shuttlecraft. The drones fall in and crash in various places, while parts of shuttles explode as they collide with each other.
A command ship takes aim at soldiers to Gluttony’s left firing a laser. Gluttony desperately opens a large portal at the last second, sending the laser back to the ship, destroying it in a green explosion.
INT. WAR ROOM, MORNING.
Pride and the other Sins burst through the door, all wearing angry expressions. Gluttony sits in a spinny chair on the opposite side of the room, facing away from them.
PRIDE
You have some explaining to do!
Gluttony spins around to face them. He has a look of satisfaction, and a slimy smile on his face.
GLUTTONY
Yes, Pride?
PRIDE
I KNOW you were out on that battlefield last night! What if you’d died? We’d be the SIX Deadly Sins?
Gluttony rises from his chair.
GLUTTONY
So what? At least I would’ve gone out fighting for what we were ALL meant to believe in than like a coward!
PRIDE
Well your belief may well have torn this planet apart!
Pride points out an opening. They all look. A large rift pulses in the middle of the battlefield.
PRIDE (CONT)
I don’t know how you-
GLUTTONY (INTERRUPTING)
By tapping into those old powers! What we did then, time has only strengthened that! And that rift…
He gestures towards the rift.
GLUTTONY (CONT)
… Is direct proof! If you’d all join me and do what I did-
PRIDE (INTERRUPTING)
No! We’ve been through this. It’s time to let this…
The door suddenly slams shut, locks clicking into place.
PRIDE (CONT)
… Go.
GLUTTONY
You’re not leaving. You’re staying with me.
Gluttony stretches his arms out, palms facing the Sins. They all step back. A small wormhole forms from his hands, aimed at ENVY. In an instant, she is sucked into the wormhole.
Green rings travel up Gluttony’s arms as he closes the wormhole. His stance is also a little taller. He takes a sharp breath in, then slowly breathes out. The others look horrified.
He points his arms out again. The wormhole begins to form again.
GLUTTONY
I want MORE.
EXT. WAR ROOM TOWER
The wormhole bursts open, with deafening bass-heavy sound and about 25ft radius. The room’s ceiling and outer-facing wall are destroyed from the impact.
INT. WAR ROOM
Gluttony starts to transform and mutate, his hands gone, now resembling wormholes themselves. All the other Sins, except Pride, are gone. Pride stands his ground as long as he can, but within seconds, he vanishes into the vortex.
EXT. WAR ROOM TOWER
The vortex finally collapses, and a giant figure falls from the tower, creating a cloud of dust around it. As the dust settles, a creature rises. It stands at 50ft tall, with deformed features and mutations; THE BLACK HOLE is born. The Black Hole raises what used to be its hands, now just openings of wormholes. It recoils a little in horror.
BLACK HOLE (LAYERED VOICE)
Seven Sins… one body…
The Black Hole stares into the distance, seeing the Virtues’ ships. It looks for a few seconds, then bellows out a vile, high pitched screech. Silent seconds pass after the screech.
BLACK HOLE
Want… MORE…
The Black Hole repeats this phrase as it moves, but then stops for a beat, bellows again, and carries on moving, silently.
FADE OUT:
THE END
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