C H A R L E Y  I S  K I D N A P P E D

SCREENPLAY: The scenes of this story are published live as part of the development process, with a sequence derived from, but not limited to the copyright scripts. The final order for the proposed screenplay may be the subject of additional drafts to suit movie going taste, streaming, etc., and scriptwriting festivals.

<<<<<< UNESCO

WEST OF MANAUS, THE AMAZON, BRAZIL

INT. AMAZONIAN RIVER – DUSK
River mist clings to the trees. The ELIZABETH SWANN lies anchored nearby.

EXT. JUNGLE PERIMETER – CONTINUOUS
CHARLEY TEMPLE (mid-30s, athletic, fearless) slips quietly through thick brush, crouching low. Her survival knife glints.

She spots a cluster of low-slung buildings, swallowed by foliage.

CHARLEY (murmuring) 
Found you.

She ducks swiftly.

EXT. COMPLEX WALL – MINUTES LATER
She crawls the final distance, inspecting several doors. Locked.

She scans the windows. One loose. Rotten frame. She wedges it open with her knife—CREAK. Stops. Listens.

Jungle ambience swells: insects, birdsong, rustling leaves.

She climbs through—arms first—legs scrambling awkwardly. THUMP. She hits the floor.

CHARLEY (groaning) 
Gotta work on that entrance...

INT. ARCHIVE ROOM – MOMENTS LATER
Charley switches on a penlight. Filing cabinets loom.

She jimmy-opens one with a hairpin. Parchment inside. Coded documents.

She sniffs. Mildew. Humidity. Silence.

She moves to the next room. Hinges groan. Floorboards creak.

CHARLEY (softly) 
Jeez...

She fingers her comms device, hesitates. Not yet.

Suddenly—an infrared trip triggers. Silent. Unseen.

INT. SECURITY TRAILER – SAME TIME
Three ARMED GUARDS watch a modified smartphone interface. CHARLEY’S position appears—L5.

The SHORT GUARD signals his men.

SHORT GUARD (Portuguese, subtitled) Corridor five. Quietly.

They ready M24E6s. One checks his Glock.

INT. LABORATORY CORRIDOR – NIGHT
Charley approaches door L4. It’s locked. She peers in—3-lever mortise.

She unrolls a velvet pouch. Her first time picking a lock.

CLUNK. She smiles, proud.

She steps into a white corridor. Penlight on.

Surveillance cams blink. She moves swiftly.

INT. LABORATORY L4 – MINUTES LATER
The door creaks open—almost silent.

Charley gasps. Glass cabinets. Faded Nazi insignias. Medical machinery like Jurassic World.

She tiptoes deeper, transfixed.

She reaches for the next handle.

On the other side—SHORT GUARD stands poised. Glock ready.

Charley cracks the door. Penlight on. A shadow. The smell of sweat.

WHACK! She drops. He catches her halfway. Her head bleeds.

INT. LABORATORY L5 – LATER
Bright lights. Charley blinks. Her wrists cuffed to an operating table.

Inside sealed cabinets: mesh replicas of human anatomy. Futuristic. Terrifying.

Two GUARDS enter—speaking Portuguese.

SHORT GUARD (broken English) 
What’s a pretty lady doing here... like this?

CHARLEY 
An iced tea... and ibuprofen... would be great.

Tall Guard hands over a syringe. Milky white fluid.

SHORT GUARD 
You tell us everything... or you fade away... quietly.

CHARLEY (smirking) 
Spoils the suspense, doesn’t it?

She distracts—leans forward. Legs shift provocatively. She beams.

Tall Guard watches—curious. Short Guard—unamused.

CHARLEY 
Come on... you boys don’t get to play?

Silence. But they linger.

INT. SWANN – NIGHT
JOHN STORM and DAN HAWK study maps. Concern mounting.

JOHN 
Charley should’ve pinged. She’s too quiet.

DAN 
We're fifteen hundred out. We go in silent?

JOHN nods.

INT. LABORATORY L5 – MOMENTS LATER
Tall Guard rummages through Charley’s jacket. Finds her press ID.

He hands it to SHORT GUARD—who dials a secure number.

SHORT GUARD (into phone) 
Herr Kolreuter... it’s Perez. We’ve captured someone. Media. Name: Charley Temple.

KLAUS VON KOLREUTER (V.O., cold German) 
She’s linked to John Storm.

Bind her. Use her. He’ll come. We’ll finish them both.

Charley hears. Her eyes narrow.

FADE TO BLACK

EXT. COMPLEX WALL – NIGHT
JOHN and DAN creep along the wall, heads low, breath heavy from the jungle trek.

They reach a doorway.

JOHN (whispers) 
Let’s kick it.

DAN (grabs his arm) 
Hold up.

Dan tries the handle. It opens smoothly. They exchange a look—almost laugh.

From inside: CHARLEY’S voice—furious. Men’s grunts. She’s fighting.

INT. CORRIDOR – CONTINUOUS
John and Dan move swiftly toward the sound.

From a side door—CLICK. A GUN aimed at John’s head.

THIRD GUARD 
John Storm, I presume.

He beckons them inside.

INT. LABORATORY L5 – NIGHT
A sterile lab. Surgical lighting over CHARLEY, bound to a table. Two GUARDS loom nearby.

LAB BOSS (to John) 
We were just talking about you.

CHARLEY 
Geez guys... little help?

DAN scans the lab. Eyes wide—tech marvels everywhere.

JOHN (gestures) 
Charley, I'd shake, but... busy?

Charley smirks.

WHACK. THIRD GUARD strikes John on the neck.

LAB BOSS 
I enjoy irony too... Is your ship nearby?

DAN 
One mile south. Not sure it’ll help you.

LAB BOSS 
Let me be the judge.

He signals: one guard to cover John, one to check the dock.

INT. LAB L5 & CORRIDOR – SIMULTANEOUS
DAN rugby-tackles the departing guard. Chaos erupts.

JOHN dives for the one near CHARLEY.

In the corridor—Dan trades blows. Gut punch. Jaw hit. The guard barely flinches.

In the lab—BANG. Overhead light shatters. Darkness.

John tasers the guard—but gets struck with a loaded syringe. Once. Twice. Third time—INJECTED.

He zaps again. Guard collapses.

Alarms BLARE.

INT. LAB L5 – MOMENTS LATER
John helps Dan—held in a headlock. Taser to the ribs. Guard drops.

JOHN 
Untie Charley.

DAN 
You do that. I’m grabbing gear—DNA samples!

CHARLEY 
Yes, John—free me. Dan, grab everything.

John struggles, woozy.

JOHN 
Hurry... get all the DNA you can.

EXT. DOCKSIDE – SAME TIME
Two THUGS find the ELIZABETH SWANN. Approach cautiously.

INT. LAB L5 – CONTINUOUS
Dan fills boxes. Charley joins, stuffing documents, manuals—DNA goldmine.

They spot a strange watch and headset in a glass case.

DAN (smashes) 
No go...

CHARLEY 
Human enhancement tech. Smash harder!

Dan overheats. Glass holds.

Charley grabs a light stand—BANG BANG BANG. Finally, cabinet collapses.

DAN 
Got it!

CHARLEY 
You’ve no idea...

JOHN 
We leave. Now.

Guards stir. John zaps them again.

CHARLEY 
John... that's brutal.

JOHN 
Non-lethal. Just lights out.

Charley nods. She understands.

EXT. COMPLEX – NIGHT
The trio escape, hauling boxes of tech.

JOHN hits the FIRE ALARM. Sprinklers activate. Instant confusion.

They move fast. John fades, weak.

EXT. DOCKSIDE – NIGHT
Two LOCALS passed out. JACK MASON and BLACK-OPS CREW investigate.

MERLIN and PENDRAGON have neutralized intruders.

JOHN 
Jack... you made it.

DAN 
Could’ve used you earlier.

CHARLEY 
We were nearly toast...

DAN 
I’ll drink to that.

John collapses.

CHARLEY 
John!

She rushes to him.

JOHN 
Jack... secure the area. Interrogate survivors.

JACK 
You went early...

JOHN 
Four coffins. My fault.

CHARLEY 
Mine too... always impatient.

JACK signals his team. They vanish into jungle.

INT. SWANN – MINUTES LATER
HAL greets them onboard.

JOHN 
These guys?

HAL 
Trespassers. Merlin warned them first.

JOHN 
Shocking. Warp speed, Mr Sulu.

John collapses. Dan and Charley carry him to the cabin.

EXT. AMAZON RIVER – NIGHT
The ELIZABETH SWANN glides silently, green lights aglow. Captain NEMO on autonomous helm.

INT. REAR CABIN – NIGHT
John sleeps, deeply. Rhythmic. At peace.

Dan and Charley share a meal. Reflect.

CHARLEY 
First time kidnapped.

DAN 
First kill-or-be-killed.

HAL 
monitors John's vitals. Quietly vigilant.

SARCOPHAGUS OPENING >>>>>>

THE BATTLE OF ACTIUM - Queen Cleopatra retreats leaving Mark Antony to lose against Octavian and seek a new deal with Rome.

CURSE - Cleopatra pleas gods of Duat, Osiris, Anubis, Ra & Thoth, when stars align once more, Isis, "Mother of All, weave my essence anew."

TANZANIA - THE STORM BREAKS - Fanatical DNA collector, John Storm, finds Homo erectus skull, Olduvia Gorge, in Tanzanian dig site.

WRATH OF THE GODS - 365BC destruction of Thonis and Alexandria, Anubis and Isis watch on in horror as Cleopatra is submerged.

ENIGMA - The birth of computers at Bletchley Park under Alan Turing, and his visits from Anubis and Isis, who see the potential in his ideas.

SYDNEY WILL READING - John's uncle Douglas vanished, declared dead, the adventurer inherits keys and a note from George Franks.

ANGEL OF DEATH - Anubis and Isis occupy Josef Mengele's and Adolf Hitler's subconscious as spirits steering their legacies.

INNER CIRCLE OF SIX - Joseph Mengele's Fourth Reich plans an escape to Brazil to develop Nazi-funded human research laboratories.

NELSON BAY - John visits the coordinates George gave him, to discover the Elizabeth Swann, ARK and Hal, AI computer.

BRAZIL BOUND - Doctor Death bargains for funding and logistics of relocation to Amazon South American base via Argentina.

NEW WORLD ORDER - A former Neo-Nazi plan to regenerate Aryan supremacy, develops into a cause for good.

REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE - Having reached the end of his PhD, William and Jane Bates have epiphanies, Will should follow his dream.

ROADBLOCK - Nobody would fund his R&D, William and Jane Bates are blanked by DARPA, computer and software houses.

THE AFTERLIFE - Cleopatra's tomb lay lost for centuries submerged and out of sight with little change of discovery.

QUANTUM LEAP - Jane and Will find backers, then US military and computer processor chip makers cyber attack, hack and bug them.

WASHING MACHINE - Inventor Franco Francisco comes up with the Incubus, artificial uterus concept while repairing his household appliance.

EXIT STRATEGY - Realising they will always be a target from industrial and military espionage, Jane & Will devise a cunning plan.

CYBERCORE GENETICA - Nano computer technology is purchased at an auction by a semi religious sect, New World Order.

INCUBUS - Roberta Ferrara secures the expertise of Franco Francisco for knights of the New World Order: Neuwelt Rittertum.

SPLICE - Klaus and Eva von Kolreuter find a way to live forever using cloning technology; Genonimo Investments, Geneva.

TREMORS - Cleopatra's feels vibrations after a shift in the tectonic plates triggered a tremor off the coast of Alexandria.

PANAMANIAN RUNNING MAN - The secret is out, an enhanced human is spotted running at unbelievable speeds.

THE ARK - NeuWelt Rittertum headhunt John Storm seeking access to his genetic DNA map of life on earth, but they fail to reach agreement.

MARJORIE BOYLE - Sam Hollis tracks down sexy backpacker, Majorie Boyle, to Brighton Point in Trinidad, beautiful Caribbean Island.

THE AMAZON - Charley agrees to meet John & Dan at Manaus, but is a little too inquisitive.

OPERATION LEVIATHAN - New World Knights, Klaus and Franco go to Plan 'B' to track and steal the Elizabeth Swann & The Ark DNA database.

TOMB RAIDERS - Safiya Sabuka and Musa Bomani dive among sifting sands to discover precious artifacts and golden treasures.

OPERATION ALEXANDRIA - Neo-Nazi occultists recover Cleopatra's sarcophagus from underwater tomb near Palace.

SALVAGE RIGHTS - Entering Cleopatra's mausoleum, locating sarcophagus and raising with air bags to the surface, Safiya Sabuka tomb raider.

COASTGUARD PATROL - Safiya and Musa surface off Alexandria to a waiting customs vessel, they pretend to be sports divers fooling the officials.

UNESCO - Catholic Church fear grave desecration heritage theft, asks agencies for help. Interpol issue Red Notice.

KIDNAP - Charley is taken prisoner but John rescues her, in the process becoming injected with a serum.

SARCOPHAGUS OPENING - The wooden inner casket is opened revealing Cleopatra's mummy, golden crown and death mask, perfectly preserved.

AWAKENING - In the afterlife, the DNA extracted from Cleopatra's mummy triggers a divine stirring with Anubis and Isis comforting the Nile Queen.

REPLICANT - The Society reproduce Cleopatra using Francisco's RepliVator™, uploading synapse sequence and implanted memories.

BRAIN CONDITIONING - Klaus and Franco upload digitally recreated memories in historical order to trigger correct learned synapse firing sequence

REBORN - The former Queen of Egypt speaks for the first time to her creators, proving that her brain is working, the implants succeeded.

FULL STEAM AHEAD - Storm speeds to Thonis, then uses the Swann's AI sensors and the Ark database to find tomb has been plundered.

PROPOSAL - Baron von Richhofen's gambit, a union of Royal ancient and Aryan blood, for strength and intellect, a powerful heir as her successor

RITUAL SACRIFICE - The Baron prepares Cleopatra for ceremonial impregnation, but Anubis and Isis know the man with a solar boat cometh.

MANAUS TO ALEXANDRIA - A hydrogen powered race across the Atlantic Ocean in nine days, John Storm guided by Anubis and Isis.

SANCTUM INTERRUPTUS - John finds secret Nazi hideout near Alexandria, disturbs ritual - rescues Cleopatra, arresting conspirators.

THE CHOSEN ONE - The reincarnated Cleopatra falls for her rescuer. John comes under her spell, despite her being a replicant.

MOVIES, WHAT ARE THEY - Reincarnated Nile Queen asks John and Dan to explain films, they show her 20th C. Fox 1963 Elizabeth Taylor biopic.

MUMMY DNA - Dan and Hal discover DNA from the Egyptian Pharaoh's teeth and run the Ark to confirm a match, modern Frankenstein

JOHN'S BLOODLINE - Dan and Hal trace trace John's noble lineage back to the iconic figures of Ancient Egypt & Roman General Mark Antony

DÉJÀ VU - Dan and Hal reveal John's family tree as being related to Roman General Mark Antony via Julia and Queen Drusilla of Mauretania.

MEDICAL EXAMINATION - Jack Mason talks John and Cleopatra into agreeing to a check up at Port Royal, Jamaica, working for NSA and CIA

GEORGE WARNS OF TORTURE - Franks radios Swann to tell John & Dan that New World Knights are being tortured at Guantánamo Bay, you're next.

JESUS CHRIST - Cleopatra asks about this man. John, Dan & Hal explain he is an ancient religious preacher from Galilee, son of Yahweh, Hebrew god.

BIOCORE BRAIN IMPLANT - Dan and Cleopatra drill John's skull, occipital bone implanting biological chip to interface with CyberCore Genetica.

DARPA, NSA & CIA - National security and military intelligence chiefs Iras Charmian and Dr Stefan Raengst, plot to remove all human obstacles.

MILITARY INTERVENTION - The military detain Cleopatra to appease stakeholders, despite media & medical protests. Storm distraught.

BATTLE ARMOUR - Thanks to some unexplained divine intervention, Dan Hawk talks John Storm into wearing a bullet proof suit.

GUANTÁNAMO BAY - History repeats itself, US military kidnap Cleopatra, John forced to rescue puts Elizabeth Swann at risk.

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - Commander John Storm, in Navy SEAL mode, attacks the Cuban torture camp at Guantánamo Bay, in stealth mode, black op.

MISSILE LOCK - USA military try to hack into Hal, anticipating a strike, as the DOD launch Tomahawks, John hacks into NORAD, and redirects them.

PRESIDENT LINCOLN TRUMAN - Hails the Swann to find out why John is shooting missiles at Guantánamo Bay, Storm sets the record straight. FINALE

  CHARLEY TEMPLE IS KIDNAPPED BY GUARDS OF NEW WORLD ORDER LABORATORIES IN MANAUS, AMAZON RIVER - THE ADVENTURES OF JOHN STORM: CLEOPATRA & THE MUMMY REBORN OF THE AFTERLIFE

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