' TROPIC THUNDER
by
Etan Cohen, Ben Stiller, Justin Theroux
" Current Revisions by
. Ben Stiller
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9-5-2006 Red Hour
RevisionsON THE MOVIE SCREEN
BLACK. The movie has not started yet. After the last real
trailer plays in the theater, we see THE UNIVERSAL LOGO.
The globe stops rotating, and STARTS TO BROWN AND CRACK.
VOLCANOES ERUPT ON IT...
ACTION TRAILER ANNOUNCER
In a world where only one man made a
difference. a0 pene
AND WE ZOOM ALL THE WAY IN TO...
A POST APOCALYPTIC FIERY TUNDRA... AND ONE MAN. . .who a
walks across it, looking cool, shirtless, pumped, with
Shades on, holding a BABY in one arm and a FLAMETHROWER
in the other...this is international superstar CHRIS
MICHAEL SPEEDMAN... there is a GIANT explosion behind
him... he doesn’t even flinch...
ACTION TRAILER ANNOUNCER
The one man who made a difference...is
about to make a difference... Again.
BLACK... then Speedman, again shirtless, is on an ICEBERG
and an AVALANCHE is thundering behind him. This time he
has a SET OF TWINS AND A FLAMETHROWER.
ACTION TRAILER ANNOUNCER
Chris Michael Speedman...1S Deke
Cogan
A TITLE BURNS ACROSS THE SCREEN...
ACTION TRAILER ANNOUNCER
SCORCKER 3: GLOBAL MELTDOWN
TITLE FLIES AWAY FOLLOWED BY: SUMMER 2008
BLACK, then...
The NEW LINE LOGO over the stately POMP AND
CIRCUMSTANCE...
COMEDY TRAILER ANNOUNCER
This summer, the halls of academia are
about to get a lesson in.
INT. BOARDING SCHOOL
TRACK ACROSS a bunch of CUTE TEN YEAR OLD SCHOOLBOYS
sitting at a dining hall table until we get to ...JEFF
PORTNOY, 35, GROSS OUT COMEDY STAR.Tropic Thunder
He has red hair, cut in a page-boy style and is dressed
in a school boy’uniform which is way too small.
COMEDY TRAILER ANNOUNCER
Comedy! From America’s favorite fat
ubh:..fat KID...
guy.
HE RIPS A GIANT FART. THE MUSIC NEEDLE SCRATCHES TO
“LOUIE LOUIE”... .
An ANGRY HEADMASTER SCOWLS. THE BOYS CRACK UP.
COMEDY TRAILER ANNOUNCER
Jeff Portnoy is having.
PORTNOY
(YELLING ON THE TABLE)
DOODY FOR DINNER!!!
A GIANT FOOD FIGHT ENSUES AS THE TITLE “DOODY FOR
DINNER” FLIES ON...
COMEDY TRAILER ANNOUNCER
This summer, lunch is on him!
A PLATE OF SPAGHETTI IS DUMPED ON HIS HEAD.
BLACK
The FOX SEARCHLIGHT LOGO comes up. AN EXTREMELY BEAUTIFUL
JAMES HORNER TYPE+SCORE PLAYS... 1
BXT. A BEAUTIFUL 400 YEAR OLD IRISH VICARAGE
It is an Oscar winning shot at dawn of a brooding
handsome priest in a monk’s robe walking towards the
church. This is KIRK LAZARUS, who has the intensity of a
Daniel Day Lewis and the seriousness of a Sean Penn...
OSCAR WINNING MOVIE
TRAILER ANNOUNCER
In a time where to be different was to be
condemned...and to ke condemned was to
die.
INT. CHURCH
Lazarus is lighting the rosary candles... he glances over
at ‘another YOUNG PRIEST, who gives him a smoldering
Jock...Lazarus turns away, tortured.