Script Edit Meeting 2

1: (Title Sequence) Black screen.
Image of mouse slides onto screen left, followed by the word “MOUSE” screen right. Pause. Pieces of armour come flying onto the screen, and attach themselves to the mouse, forming a complete suit. The word “KNIGHT” drops into screen, between the armoured mouse and the word “MOUSE”. (heavy power chord on electric guitar)
The armoured mouse leans over and swings his sword in a giant arc, cutting the screen in half.


2:EXT. MONTAGE
Cut to a fast paced montage of KNIGHTMOUSE being heroic. Leaping chasm, pulling sword out of stone/sand, swinging his sword, smashing a mouse trap to save a girl mouse, swinging on a rope off a ship onto dock, close up of him doing a complicated sword spin, pull back as he releases the sword, pan across as it arcs across the sun and embeds itself into a massive dragon.


3: INT. DAY, 1300’s Prussia, MOUSE’S PLACE.
Dissolve from silhouette shot of dragon to same image of dragon as a jigsaw puzzle. KnightMouse has just finished last piece of puzzle. He sits back and sighs. He gets bored and now needs something to do.


4: EXT. DAY, STREET.
Knightmouse is strolling down the cobbled street. The shadow of a large figure overhead flashes over him. He stops and looks up, startled, but doesn’t see what it was. He continues walking and suddenly a yellowed, curling poster falls on him. He reacts and pokes his sword through it and freaks out in a short and violent outburst. The pieces of paper then fall to ground and he reads the one that falls near him. Its emblazoned with the headline “KING WANTS RATS! YOUR HELP NEEDED.” That’s all Knightmouse needs to see. He grasps his sword and runs down the street. The King’s castle is seen in the background as he runs away.


5: EXT. DAY, outside the kings castle.
Knightmouse crosses through the gate.



6: INT. The kings court.
Knightmouse aims straight for the kings throne. There are many people milling around. Before he reaches the halfway mark, the king spots him and shouts out in german.

KING
Es gibt einen!
(Subtitles: There’s one!)

Knightmouse stops short, and looks around him. Every man in the room is wearing some form of rat-catching attire, with traps and bait slung over their shoulders or tied to their belts, and all are looking straight back at him. All the men are serious except for 2 men who are playing “Mouse Trap” board game. Knightmouse pauses.
The men stand around not knowing what to do.
The man closest to Knightmouse raises his foot, and stomps down.

Cut to credits.