Teaser
Scene 1 EXT. Establishing shot of the White House. - Day.
CUT TO:
Scene 2 INT. Main Lobby of the White House - Day.
We hear voices as the shot opens into the main foyer. Starting with a shot of the floor we see legs rushing past in every direction. This is a busy place. As we pan up we see people rushing around and dozens of new teams frantically trying to set up their equipment.
STAFFER1 V.O: I don't know either. He only announced it thirty minutes ago.
STAFFER2: V.O: But a press conference in the lobby -
STAFFER3: V.O: We'd be better on the lawn…
STAFFER2 V.O.: Shoulda given it on the Hill.
The camera comes to rest on a news REPORTER, we peak over the shoulder of the CAMERAMAN as the REPORTER delivers the live time-filler.
REPORTER: Still no word from the Press Secretary as to exactly what it is that President wishes to announce here today. The Cabinet session will begin in just one hour but it seems that the President is making the unusual step of announcing something to the world before speaking to his cabinet about it. Sources inside the Cabinet indicate that only the Vice President has been informed.
The camera moves away from the REPORTER as we hear the report continue. We pan over to a large doorway through which secret service agents are moving.
REPORTER V.O.: (Cont) This is being taken as just the latest in a series of snubs by the Oval Office which has seen the President increasingly show contempt not only for his Cabinet but also Congress. Political analysts continue to speculate that there has been no counter by leading members of either party because of the President's unprecedented popularity. Latest approval figures indicate… hang on.
Through the door CHLOE, in her late thirties, comes striding confidently and purposefully. She steps up to the podium bearing the seal of the President.
REPORTER V.O.: (Cont) Just a moment, we now have the White House Press Secretary, Chloe Sullivan.
CHLOE: Ladies and Gentlemen of the press. Viewers at home, we're glad you could be here for this historic announcement. Without any further delay: the President of the United States of America.
Through the doorway, shadowed by two secret service agents walks the President of the United States. Despite being in his early forties he is instantly recognisable as LEX LUTHOR:
LEX: Ladies and Gentlemen. My fellow Americans. I choose to make this announcement not behind a desk in the Oval Office, read from some teleprompter, but here, among you and from the heart. We have great news.
(beat)
Peace. Peace, unexpected but welcome. Peace with Pokolistan, Now, we are finally free from the fear of terror from without we can turn our attention on the menace within. The metahuman enemy that corrupts us from within.
Thanks to the help of Pokolistan's president Zod, we have the means now to bring down this ring of terrorists and their extra-terrestrial leader who flaunts our laws, our society and endangers our lives with his egotistic attempts to play vigilante hero.
(beat)
There's nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide. Wanted: Dead or alive
(beat)
Superman is finished.
FADE TO:
MAIN CREDITS
END OF TEASER.
Scene 1 EXT. Establishing shot of the White House. - Day.
CUT TO:
Scene 2 INT. Main Lobby of the White House - Day.
We hear voices as the shot opens into the main foyer. Starting with a shot of the floor we see legs rushing past in every direction. This is a busy place. As we pan up we see people rushing around and dozens of new teams frantically trying to set up their equipment.
STAFFER1 V.O: I don't know either. He only announced it thirty minutes ago.
STAFFER2: V.O: But a press conference in the lobby -
STAFFER3: V.O: We'd be better on the lawn…
STAFFER2 V.O.: Shoulda given it on the Hill.
The camera comes to rest on a news REPORTER, we peak over the shoulder of the CAMERAMAN as the REPORTER delivers the live time-filler.
REPORTER: Still no word from the Press Secretary as to exactly what it is that President wishes to announce here today. The Cabinet session will begin in just one hour but it seems that the President is making the unusual step of announcing something to the world before speaking to his cabinet about it. Sources inside the Cabinet indicate that only the Vice President has been informed.
The camera moves away from the REPORTER as we hear the report continue. We pan over to a large doorway through which secret service agents are moving.
REPORTER V.O.: (Cont) This is being taken as just the latest in a series of snubs by the Oval Office which has seen the President increasingly show contempt not only for his Cabinet but also Congress. Political analysts continue to speculate that there has been no counter by leading members of either party because of the President's unprecedented popularity. Latest approval figures indicate… hang on.
Through the door CHLOE, in her late thirties, comes striding confidently and purposefully. She steps up to the podium bearing the seal of the President.
REPORTER V.O.: (Cont) Just a moment, we now have the White House Press Secretary, Chloe Sullivan.
CHLOE: Ladies and Gentlemen of the press. Viewers at home, we're glad you could be here for this historic announcement. Without any further delay: the President of the United States of America.
Through the doorway, shadowed by two secret service agents walks the President of the United States. Despite being in his early forties he is instantly recognisable as LEX LUTHOR:
LEX: Ladies and Gentlemen. My fellow Americans. I choose to make this announcement not behind a desk in the Oval Office, read from some teleprompter, but here, among you and from the heart. We have great news.
(beat)
Peace. Peace, unexpected but welcome. Peace with Pokolistan, Now, we are finally free from the fear of terror from without we can turn our attention on the menace within. The metahuman enemy that corrupts us from within.
Thanks to the help of Pokolistan's president Zod, we have the means now to bring down this ring of terrorists and their extra-terrestrial leader who flaunts our laws, our society and endangers our lives with his egotistic attempts to play vigilante hero.
(beat)
There's nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide. Wanted: Dead or alive
(beat)
Superman is finished.
FADE TO:
MAIN CREDITS
END OF TEASER.