Godzilla: Legacy (working title)

Act One -
Scene One -
FADE IN TO EXT. Japanese Fishing Trawler "OSAKA PRIDE". NIGHT PRIDE is sailing while a massive typhoon batters it with rain, wind, and sea water.
The waves aren't extremely massive, but are large enough to keep the crew inside the ship.
Text fades in; "OSAKA PRIDE" "200 miles off of Tokyo Bay" "3:15 AM E.S.T."

CUT TO INT. "OSAKA PRIDE". NIGHT MYUKI, a Japanese female, is steering the ship while two men and another woman play cards behind her. MAN 1 tosses his cards down in anger.

MAN 1:
(In Japanese w/ subtitles.)
That is the fifteenth time you've won. You have to be cheating.

MAN 2:
(In Japanese. Subtitled. Casually collecting tokens.)
I'm just a very lucky man, that's all! Anyway, you won a few games, so what if I win one or two of them?

WOMAN:
(Japanese. Subtitled.)
I haven't won any! Do you hear me complaining?

MAN 1:
Well, you weren't cheated, were you?

The argument settles as another game begins. MYUKI smirks and shakes her head. Suddenly,
her eyes get wide.

MYUKI:
(Japanese. Subtitled.)
MONSTER!

She lets go of the wheel and falls to the floor. The card players glance at the window.
They scream.

CUT TO Windshield of the "OSAKA PRIDE". Through it, we can see three rows of sharp spines. They are glowing a bluish color as they near the vessel.

CUT TO Extreme Close-Up on the poker players' shocked and terrified expressions. They all run down to the stairs to the main deck, leaving the camera behind.

CUT TO EXT. "OSAKA PRIDE" main deck. NIGHT.
The rain is still pounding the boat heavily. Terrified crew members are jumping off of the boat to escape, while others simply stare at their imminent doom.

Then, GODZILLA rises from the ocean in front of the boat. He is silent except for the sound of the water splashing against him and some slight growling. He stares down the ship as the remaining crew screams in terror.

We zoom in slowly to GODZILLA's eye, where we see a reflection of the boat. GODZILLA makes an inhaling growl. He opens his mouth. He roars.

The crew members cover their ears as the roar is sounding. The windows of the ship crack and shatter, spilling glass everywhere on deck.

When the roar is finished, GODZILLA plows his hand into the front of the ship, causing sparks to fly and the metal to squeal. Some unlucky crew members happened to be on the part of the ship that was hit.

GODZILLA drags the chunck of ship into the ocean. The unlucky crew members scream as they fall. GODZILLA raises his hand into the air to strike the ship again. This time, he hits the side of the ship.

Shrapnel flies off, hitting various crew members. The OSAKA PRIDE now has two gaping holes,
from which sparks shoot out and ignite leaking gas. Fires start, increasing the death toll.

GODZILLA's spines begin to glow again. They stand out almost beautifully against the black background of storm clouds. He opens his mouth, where a bluish glow has started from the back of his throat.

MYUKI makes a mad dash to the side of the boat that wasn't hit. She jumps into the ocean.
When she surfaces, she grabs on to a floating piece of metal and slowly glides away,
looking back at the ship.

A stream of blue-colored radioactive energy shoots from GODZILLA's mouth and hits the PRIDE dead center. The beam is shot for a mere three seconds, but when the shooting is done, the PRIDE explodes in fire.

When the fire calms, GODZILLA dissapears into the water. The spines fade from their glow as the King of the Monsters sinks down into the water.

FADE OUT