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- Subject: DOCTOR WHO MOVIE SCRIPT - Part 1
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- Date: 21 Nov 92 19:07:50 GMT
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- D O C T O R W H O
-
- -THE MOVIE-
-
-
-
-
- Screenplay
- by
- Johnny Byrne
-
-
- From an original story by
- Peter Litten & George Dugdale
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- EXT. LONDON STREETS NIGHT
-
- A primative street-lamp casting a lurid glow as it hits the fog, misting a mean
- street somewhere in the East End of London.
-
- A horse-drawn dray rattles past, the DRIVER muffled against the clinging
- dampness of the night. Very faint sounds of pub music heard over
-
- SUPERIMPOSE
-
- London, Planet Earth, 1932
-
- A NARROW STREET
- down which TWO BOBBIES patrol, both alert for trouble in this vice-ridden area
- of London.
-
- NEW ANGLE
- On an alleyway where Jack covertly watches the entrance to the rough public
- house from which the music is coming. He's tall, waers a top hat and long
- black cloak which belong to the earlier Victorian period, and clutches a
- surgical bag. 45 years ago he preyed on this East End district of London
- under the name of Jack The Ripper.
-
- JACK'S
- tightly-drawn almost bloodless mask of a face is curiously ageless, with
- insane, glittering eyes and lips that ooze saliva.
-
- JACK SEE'S
- The pub door burst open and a DRUNKEN MAN and WOMAN stagger out. They lurch
- off into the night, laughing hilariously.
-
- NEW ANGLE
-
- A PROSTITUTE emerges out of the mist. She's well wrapped against the night in
- a long, flowing coat and wears an outrageously flamboyant hat. We don't see
- her face as she looks around, perhaps searching for trade. She moves on.
-
- ANOTHER ANGLE
- The PROSTITUTE draws near the pub. We still don't see her face as she pauses,
- listening to the riotous sounds from inside.
-
- JACK
- tenses as he waits to see whether or not she'll go inside. But his luck is in
- for the PROSTITUTE carries on. He glides out into the night after her.
-
- ANOTHER NARROW STREET
- through which the PROSTITUTE is amking her way. She hears a sound behind,
- pauses briefly and moves on, JACK flits through the shadows after her. He
- rounds acorner and freezes to a halt.
-
- THE PROSTITUTE
- stands a little way along, illuminated by the sickly glare of a nearby
- streetlamp as she touches up her makeup with the help of a bag mirror. She has
- her back to him.
-
- JACK
- moves noiselessly up to her, a vicious looking scaple flashing in the glare of
- the streetlight.
-
- JACK
- grabs hold of the PROSTITUTE's shoulders and pulls her around to face him. As
- sheturns, her elaborate wig and hat come wholly away and
-
- WE SEE
- that the PROSTITUTE is in fact a man in drag - the one man in the Universe Jack
- least wants to see.
-
- JACK
- (recoiling)
- The Doctor!
-
- THE DOCTOR
- - a maverick Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey, the home of a super
- intelligent elite who olike to think they have sole monopoly on time travel.
- He's a fit, striking looking man, keen-eyed, sharp witted, deceptively subtle.
-
- THE DOCTOR
- (smiles)
- Hello, Weazll. Only you're not Weazll
- anymore. It's Jack The Ripper. Yes,
- a real ladykiller!
-
- JACK
- (hissing whisper)
- How did you find me, Time Lord?
-
- THE DOCTOR
- Killers always return to the scene of
- the crime. But the fun's over now
- Jack - time to correct your design
- error.
-
- JACK
- Others have tried before, Doctor.
-
- THE DOCTOR
- Face it, Jack. A homicidal plasmoid
- with power to change form and
- terrorize women - frankly not
- acceptable.
-
- JACK
- hisses. His elongated barbed tongue shockingly strikes for THE DOCTOR's face.
- At the same time, he swings, trying to eviscerate THE DOCTOR.
-
- THE DOCTOR
- nimbly steps back and smashes his handbag into JACK's face. Reaching into the
- bag, he takes out a small torch-like instrument and switches it on.
-
- A beam hits JACK who looses a horrible alien scream. His body is wracked with
- violent internal convultions. He bubbles and rapidly melts away in a cloud of
- green smoke - the screaming, smoking head the lat to vanish. Silence.
- THE DOCTOR moves forward to gingerly inspect the smoking slime.
-
- THE PLASMOID WEAZLL
- shockingly erupts from the smoking pile of clothing. A plasmoid Weazll is an
- alien animal being no larger than a small pumpkin - most of it all teeth and
- mouth. Its graping jaws shriek at THE DOCTOR with homicidal rage.
-
- THE DOCTOR
- sighs and hits another switch on the torch. The beam changes colour. The
- shrieking WEAZLL expands like an inflated ballon and explodes.
-
- THE DOCTOR
- Pop goes the Weazll.
-
- THE DOCTOR puts away his torch and then hears the sounds of police whistles
- and running feet. He backs off and runs, but wearing high-heels makes running
- difficult.
-
- HOLDING
- TWO BOBBIES run into view. They pause, look at JACK's slimed clothing, blow
- their whistles fiercely and run on.
-
- ANOTHER ANGLE
-
- THE DOCTOR
- runs down the alley when a heel breaks. He hobbles on, bobbing up and down
- from the loss of the heel and arrives at a
-
- A SMALL SQUARE
- THE DOCTOR pauses. His eyes search for his Tardis - the ships the Time Lords
- of Gallifrey use to travel through time and space. He sees the dim shape of a
- first issue walk-in police box and smiles.
-
- Time ships like the Tardis have a chameleon circuit that allows them to take on
- any shape a Time Lord considers necessary - in this instance a walk-in police
- box that blends into the local scene.
-
- THE DOCTOR rushes towards it and jerks open the door.
-
- THE DOCTOR
- reacts strongly. This isn't his Tardis, but the genuine article - a real
- police box. And inside it, speaking into the primitive phone is an all too
- real Bobbie.
-
- BOBBIE lunges at him, but the door is slammed in his face.
-
- THE DOCTOR
- runs and sees his own Tardis on the other side of the square - a phone box
- identicle to the one behind him. He heads towards it, the TWO BOBBIE's and
- the BOBBIE from the other box in pursuit.
-
- He reaches the Tardis ahead of them and darts in the door to safety.
-
- INT. TARDIS - MAIN AREA
-
- Inside the Tardis, we're immediately aware of the contrast between the small
- exterior size and the relatively enormous space inside.
-
- THE DOCTOR rushes to the central console. He places his hand on a glass dome.
- Pulsed lasers light inside the dome scans his hand. As it does
-
- A TIME ROTOR
- rises into view above the control console. He hears the BOBBIES banging at the
- door outside. He puts his hand on the dome again. The moment he does, we hear
- the distinctive roaring sound of the Time Rotor powering up.
-
- EXT. SMALL SQUARE- LONDON NIGHT
-
- The BOBBIES react to the roaring sound of the Time Rotor. As it powers up,
- the Tardis' Police Box form shimmersm beginning to revert back to it's original
- futuristic shape - but only a tantalizing glimpse of what that shape could be.
-
- INT. THE TARDIS - MAIN AREA
-
- The powering up reaches it crucial stage when suddenly a systems unit under
- the console, sparks and explodes.
-
- EXT. SMALL SQUARE NIGHT
-
- The BOBBIES see the altering shape of the Tardis distort and revert back to the
- form a Police Box - the Tardis' chameleon circuit has blown and until it's
- repaired, it's stuck with the outward shape of the police box.
-
- The astonished BOBBIES see the Tardis utterly disappear.
-
- SLAM INTO
-
- OPENING TITLES AND THEME MUSIC SPFX
-
- The Tardis whirling gracefully through space.
-
- INT. THE TARDIS - MAIN AREA
-
- THE DOCTOR, still made-up and wearing some of the clothes of his prostitute
- disguise, urgently works on the chameleon circuit. A chime and the dusty
- holovid - a transparent communications dome - fills with an indistinct three
- dimensional image of CORA's head.
-
- CORA (HOLOVID)
- Doctor...?
-
- THE DOCTOR moves to brush/blow the dust off the holovid's surface.
-
- THE DOCTOR
- Hello, Cora.
-
- CORA is a smart and very beautiful Gallifreyian Communications expert. She
- reacts at the sight of his made up face.
-
- CORA
- Your face!
-
- THE DOCTOR
- Do you like it?
-
- CORA
- It's bizarre!
-
- THE DOCTOR
- Really? My friend Jack found it
- irresistible.
-
- CORA
- And what's happened to the Tardis?
- It's stuck in that ridiculous police
- box shape again.
-
- THE DOCTOR
- Vacuum field tripped. Destabilized
- the ionic drive projector and caused
- an irreversable download of the
- memorised atomic structure. In
- short...
-
- CORA
- You mean the Chameleon circuit's
- bust...
-
- THE DOCTOR
- Got it in one.
-
- INT. GALLIFREY - ACADEMY - WORKSHOP DAY
-
- The workshop is cluttered with weird and wonderful gadgetry, some very old and
- oranate, some very high tech - most undergoing research, repair or servicing.
-
- CORA talks to THE DOCTOR who's on Holovid.
-
- CORA
- Again! Anyway, you've had an urgent
- message from Planet Demos...
-
- THE DOCTOR (HOLOVID)
- (keenly)
- Gonjii?
-
- CORA
- Yes. Doesn't he run a brothel or
- something there?
-
- THE DOCTOR (HOLOVID)
- He should be so lucky!
-
- CORA
- Well, he's found what you're looking
- for - whatever that means!
-
- THE DOCTOR (HOLOVID)
- Well done, Gonjii! Thanks Cora. I'll
- be in touch...
-
- THE DOCTOR powering up the time rotor.
-
- CORA
- Good luck... Oh, did you have a good
- time in London?
-
- THE DOCTOR (HOLOVID)
- Ripping.
-
- The Tardis vanishes.
-
-
- EXT. DEMOS EVENING
-
- A violent electrical storm rages in the sick, blood-red skies of Demos. A
- sprawling vista of decay streches out as far as the eye can see. It's the
- remains of a once ancient city reduced to rubble by a past, planet wide
- catastrophe.
-
- SUPERIMPOSE -
-
- Raqetz, Planet Demos, 98349.01
-
- Faint light shimmers from tented shanty towns amongst the ruins. Raqetz is now
- a shattered, lawless wheeler-dealer city. It's people arethe DWELLERS,
- pathetic survivors of the catastrophe - their world now exploited by opportun-
- istic aliens on the make.
-
-
- EXT. RAQETZ - ALLEYWAYS DAY
-
- A warren of sinister alleyways in the heart of the tumbledown old city. Rain
- hammers noisily on the overhead, makeshift tenting beneath which destitute
- DWELLERS sit huddled around glowing braziers.
-
- ANOTHER ANGLE
- On a sideshoot alleywayy. The roaring sound of a time rotor builds and the
- Tardis appears - still in it's old English police box form.
-
- THE DOCTOR
- comes out and walks off swiftly. He's now in normal costume - long billowing
- coat and wide-brimmed hat.
-
- ANOTHER ALLEYWAY
- teems with shrouded DWELLERS. Here, under awning, villainous TRADERS sell food
- and goods off makeshift barrows and trestles.
-
- THE DOCTOR
- forcing his way through the thronging DWELLERS, hears shouts and cries from
- behind. He pauses and looks back.
-
- HE SEE'S
- four BODYGUARDS armed with clubs, violently clearing a passage. Behind them a
- vast sedan chair is being carried byy eight, groaning PORTERS.
-
- BODYGUARDS
- (shouting)
- Make way, make way for Her
- Sublime Radiance. Mother Cajage!
-
- THE SEDAN CHAIR
- sways erratically from the colossal bulk of it's occupant - MOTHER CAJAGE, a
- hugely obese alien female. Her mountainous rolls of wobbing flesh are stuffed
- into acres of jeweled silks.
-
- As the sedan moves along she tosses occasional coins into the masses causing
- frantic DWELLERS to scrabble fiercely amongst themselves. As she rumbles with
- laughter at their desperate efforts she suddenly sees THE DOCTOR and her good
- humour instanly vanishes. Her eyes bulge, her body trembles violently and
- rivers of thick, oily perspiration pour down her body.
-
- She dips into a pannier at her side and grabs several handfuls of large stones
- which she hurls with painful accuracy at the exhasted PORTERS drivng them on to
- greater effort.
-
- THE DOCTOR
- moves on to pause by a footstall where people eat small, living crunch-worms.
- The FOODSELLER, like all DWELLERS, is aneamic and sunken-eyed. He's shelling
- something large and disgusting.
-
- THE DOCTOR
- Place of Profit...?
-
- FOODSELLER
- Third alleyway on the right, friend...
- A portion of fresh crunch-worms to
- help you on your way?
-
- THE DOCTOR
- Thanks...but no thanks.
- (to a feeding customer)
- Have a nice crunch.
-
- The CUSTOMER belches, discharging a cloud of bilious green gas into the THE
- DOCTOR's face. He recoils and hastily moves on.
-
-
- EXT. THE PLACE OF PROFIT DAY
-
- The gaudy, Vegas-like, entrance to Raqetz' premier night-spot - a tacky
- structure knocked together from the most decorative elements of the ruined
- city. A line of sedan chairs are parked outside. From inside we hear the
- babble of voices, including the NYMPHID's who's sexily vocalizing the Demosian
- cover version of 'Falling In Love Again', all the rage just now in this
- isolated part of the Galaxy.
-
- INT. THE PLACE OF PROFIT DAY
-
- The Place Of Profit teems with DWELLERS. Their interest is centred on several
- high-spending, richly costumed ALIENS who gamble, make deals, drink and enjoy -
- all with frantic energy. The layout is multi-leveled with bizarre gambling
- games played on each one.
-
- THE NYMPHID
- lounges, seductively inside and iron cage which travels about on an overhead
- track. She sings "Falling In Love Again'. Her shouldering 8 octave vocal
- range shatters glass in the higher registers and causes the walls to judder in
- the lower.
-
- THE NYMPHID is beautiful, a green-skinned Marlene Dietrich, dressed in a
- flimsy, translucent outfit. Every so often, her cage pauses in front of a
- GROUP where she lingers, seductively vocalizing.
-
- GONJII
- sits alone on a raised, observation chair. He's sipping a drink, eyes alert
- and watchful. He's tough, down-at-heel, ex-mercenary soilder. Once he
- commanded a Gallifreyian Time Battalion. Right now he's the resident bouncer.
-
- Round his wrist he wears a circular band studded with tiny daggers. In use
- this revolves like a mini gatling. Across his back is a scabbared power
- assisted sabre.
-
- His hand absently strokes the head of his small, companion pet, POG, a furry,
- marsupial creature with huge, disproportionate feet. POG's got a cute, whisker
- framed face, but it can turn vicious.
-
- POG
- closely watches a long-nosed DROMODYXX - a wealthy alien race notorious for
- their sly, thieving ways. He follows the route of the DROMODYXX's outragously
- long proboscis at is sneaks down to vanish under the table.
-
- A moment later its reappears on the other side, POG watching as the tip inches
- towards a pile of gaming chips. POG growls, and jumps down out of sight.
-
- THE DROMODYXX'S
- eyes craftily swivel to check that he's unobserved, then begins to vacuum the
- gaming chips up into his trunk. Suddenly, he wails.
-
- POG
- under the table, has sunk his wicked fangs into the thieving nose of the
- DROMODYXX.
-
- GONJII
- jumps down from his chair. He head for the wailing DROMODYXX, but it scoops up
- it's nose, shakes off POG and scuttles off. GONJII grins, watching POG chase
- it off the premises.
-
- ANOTHER ANGLE
-
- THE NYMPHID glides to pause in front of a gorgeously attired drunken KAGUT.
- These are barrel shaped, oversexed Aliens with long prehensile arms and hands
- studded with suction pads.
-
- The KAGUT, overcome with lust for THE NYMPHID, yells and leaps, trying to get
- into her cage. On contact, his suction pads stick to the electrified bars. He
- howls, repeated shocks racking his body.
-
- THE NYMPHID sings on obliviously.
-
- GONJII strides forward, the clustering DWELLERS making haste to get out of his
- way. He draws his sabre and swings. The flat side of the blade thumps into
- the KAGUT's solar plexus. A 'whoosh' as the air is driven from the KAGUT's
- lungs. He collapses in a heap on the floor to gasps of on lookers.
-
-
- EXT. THE PLACE OF PROFIT EVENING
-
- THE DOCTOR approches the entrance when the doors suddenly burst open and he
- sees
-
- GONJII
- strong-arming the DRUNKEN KAGUT off the premises. The KAGUT's drunken hooting
- rings out, his prehensile arms suction clinging to both sides of the door.
-
- GONJII
- (roaring)
- Drunken Kugut bum!! Out and...
-
- Heaves furiously trying to dislodge the KAGUT. THE DOCTOR grins watching
- GONJII plant a foot in the back of the clinging KAGUT and strain until with a
- 'pop' the KAGUT's suctioned grip suddenly gives. He howls and catapults away
- to land in a pool of mud.
-
- GONJII (CONTD)
- ...stay out!
-
- He turns and goes back inside.
-
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- INT. THE PLACE OF PROFIT EVENING
-
- GOMJII
- pauses inside the door, his eyes challenging his customers. The door opens
- behind him. Thinking it's the KAGUT, he whirls about drawing his sabre and
- freezes.
-
- THE DOCTOR is standing smiling at him.
-
- THE DOCTOR
- (smiling)
- A fine way to welcome an old friend!
-
- GONJII
- The Time Lord!
-
- THE DOCTOR
- Hello, Gonjii.
-
- They grip arms warmly. These two are very old friends.
-
- GONJII
- You're late. Almost gave up on you.
-
- THE DOCTOR
- Better late than never.
-
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- EXT. RAQETZ - ALLEYWAY EVENING
-
- GONJII and THE DOCTOR moving swiftly along the alley.
-
- THE DOCTOR
- You saw it?
-
- GONJII
- Doctor, it's a time rotor. Okay?
-
- THE DOCTOR
- Who's got it?
-
- GONJII
- Mother Cajage.
-
- THE DOCTOR
- Yes, I thought she was pleased to see
- me.
-
- They moved on out of sight.
-
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- EXT. RAQETZ - MOTHER CAJAGE'S AUCTION LOT NIGHT
-
- A swelling volume of sound as we PAN over an area filled to overflowing with
- second-hand space junk of all description. Among it we see discarded Cybermen,
- trashed Daleks, a truncated K9, and other of the TV Doctor Who metallic
- characters and artifacts.
-
- NEW ANGLE
- An ancient auction ring similar to a bull-pit theater. Galleries overlooking
- it teem with DWELLERS.
-
- In the pit, a muscular PORTER turns on a plinth displaying a massive space
- drive unit as a FEQAL AUCTIONEER sings its praises.
-
- THE FEQAL
- has a shrivelled body with two saturnine heads. His four arms describe
- graceful arcs as he enthuses in alien tongue. Both heads speak at once with a
- slightly delayed echo, the voices clipped, cultured, a fawning - high-pitched
- Goebbels whine.
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- The bidding starts.
-
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- TO BE CONTINUED ...
-