Bonus Features
Behind the Scenes III
[The camera pans up to ARDETH BAY's weary face as he waits for the Army of Anubis to arise. He waits and he waits. The terror is almost upon them, the next apocalypse, the final showdown…Silence, all that is heard is…silence…]
STEPHEN SOMMERS: Alright! CUT!
[STEPHEN walks out in front of the camera, shouting in the direction that the scorpions are SUPPOSE to come from.]
STEPHEN SOMMERS: Where are my scorpions!? What is going on here!? They are suppose to some scurrying up in a shadow of death!
[ARNOLD VOSLOO walks up.]
STEPHEN SOMMERS: I take it you know what's going on…Alright…What is it!?
ARNOLD VOSLOO: Well, it's the scorpions…they've gone on strike…
STEPHEN SOMMERS: Of course! Don't tell me you're negotiating for them now as well!?
ARNOLD VOSLOO: Well, no…
STEPHEN SOMMERS: Well that's a relief!
[THE ROCK steps up.]
ARNOLD VOSLOO: He is!
[STEPHEN rolls his eyes and throws his script into the air.]
THE ROCK: My people have some demands!
STEPHEN SOMMERS: Wait a minute…Your… "people?"
THE ROCK: Yeah…You got a problem with that?
[THE ROCK towers over STEPHEN.]
STEPHEN SOMMERS: No, no, not at all!
THE ROCK: Good, cause I think you should hear me out!
[Leans in close and raises his eyebrow at STEPHEN. ARNOLD looks at it questioningly again; something looks even funnier about it than before…]
THE ROCK: My fellow scorpions and I-
[ARNOLD snickers.]
THE ROCK: What is so funny, Mummy Man!?
ARNOLD VOSLOO: You've- You've cut a strip of masking tape and strategically taped it to your forehead as an eyebrow!
THE ROCK: Hey! I am trying to make some negotiations here! My fellow people and I are already not so impressed with your colony of iridescent dung beetles!
ARNOLD VOSLOO: Oh, well did you ever inform "your people-"
THE ROCK: "The Scorpions!"
STEPHEN SOMMERS: "The Scorpions?"
THE ROCK: Yes, since they are my people, it is only fitting that they be given such a title!
ARNOLD VOSLOO: Yeah, well I doubt you ever informed "your people" of your little bit back there in the desert where you gnawed one of their heads off!
[THE ROCK glares at ARNOLD, but STEPHEN speaks up before he can say anything.]
STEPHEN SOMMERS: Enough! Just tell me what their "demands" are already! We are getting behind schedule as it is!
[THE ROCK sneers one last time at ARNOLD, but ARNOLD just rolls his eyes and rips the masking tapes off with one quick swipe and walks away in annoyance as THE ROCK screams in agony over his lost "eyebrow." He will have to find another way of applying his "trademark" now, since PATRICIA took back her eyeliner…but he remembers hearing something about ARNOLD having to use some for an upcoming scene, which makes him happier…He turns back to STEPHEN.]
THE ROCK: Their demands are simple…Higher pay!
STEPHEN SOMMERS: I just gave higher pay to the scarabs because of "The Scorpions!" This is ludicrous!
THE ROCK: Well, that's the problem…They seem to be having some sort of feudal dispute with the scarabs and so they refuse to work in any way until they are well paid and compensated for the loss that they endured due to the sacrifice that was made to the scarabs!
STEPHEN SOMMERS: Oh I don't believe this!
THE ROCK: Well you'd better! They are holding Oded and his entire army hostage just over those dunes!
[Points. ODED FEHR and his army are tied to stakes with marching scorpions carrying toothpicks with business cards upon them, declaring their strike with the words: Higher Pay for Ardeth Bay. STEPHEN is beside himself.]
STEPHEN SOMMERS: And just how much of a compensation, dare I ask?
THE ROCK: They wish for me, "The Rock, WWF's most glamorous star, to star in his own movie, called, "The Scorpion King!"
[STEPHEN stands aghast.]
STEPHEN SOMMERS: And how is your getting your own movie, going to help them exactly? I am not quite clear on this whole matter!
THE ROCK: Simple, they get the higher pay and as compensation for my helping them, they wish for me to have my own film with their name in the title. Easy trade!
STEPHEN SOMMERS: This is just sadistic! Alright…fine! Is there anything else?
THE ROCK: Yeah…
STEPHEN SOMMERS: And that would be?
THE ROCK: They require…
[Pauses and looks around suspiciously before daring to say it.]
THE ROCK: A shrubbery…and…a duck!
STEPHEN SOMMERS: WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO USE A- Nevermind! I don't want to know!
[STEPHEN walks off shaking his head and muttering to himself once again at yet another defeat.]
[The camera cuts and now we know the true story about how "The Rock" got his movie…]
Author's Note: I hope you enjoyed these last two. Let me know if you want more. I will do some with Evy and Rick and the other characters, this idea just came to me first! So please review and I hope I did not scar you mentally for life from my oddness and I hope that it does not suck too terribly! ~Jen
