The Man of Steel Part Three

ACT 1 SCENE 8

A MANOR INT.

Fifteen or so people sit around a large, well furnished room. The man talking is
standing in front of them all, he appears to be the leader. They are all holding
a drink.

CULT LEADER
saviour, Superma-

Superman crashes threw the door

SUPERMAN
No!

The cultists are surprised and a lot of them drop they're drinks and jump back.

SUPERMAN
I will not allow any more misguided people throwing their lives away in my name.

CULT LEADER
Throwing our lives away? Misguided? Superman, don't you realize? You need for us to
do this.

Superman recognizes this man as the cult leader, and adresses him specifically.

SUPERMAN
I never asked for this. I don't want your worship. I am a man. I am mortal.

CULT LEADER(with a crazed look)
How humble. Superman, you are far from mortal. Our ceremony yesterday cemented
your immortality.

SUPERMAN
You're wrong. This is wrong. I feel pain, just like you do.

CULT LEADER(with a shit-eating grin)
Now, we both know that's not true.

Superman has run out of things to say. He just stares sternly at the leader,
who now adresses his people.

CULT LEADER
The saviour obviously does not accept our sacrifice today. But don't fret children,
our brothers completed their task at the bank.

Superman ignores them and walks out the manor, with his head down. He's realizes he
hasn't felt pain since he was a teenager, when bullets could bruise him. Now he was
made of steel. And he felt like a machine. So he decides to conduct an experiment.
He flies off back into space.

ACT 1 SCENE 9

THE SUN SURFACE

Superman is at the surface of the sun, naked. Struggling not to get too sucked into
the sun. he holds his hand out to touch the surface. Solar flares are exploding all
him. The sun is roaring with power. Superman looks at his hand. It's undamaged. He
closes his eyes, takes a deep breath, and flies straight into the sun.

Inside the sun, Supermans body twists and convulges.He isn't in pain, but he doesn't
know what to do wtih himself. His body is absorbing unreal amounts of energy. Like
an overcharged battery. He yells. Theres a booming noise as he expels himself out of
the sun and hundreds of thousands of miles away.

He yells again and shoots the rest of the energy he absorbed out of his eyes. Like
a focused nuclear blast, it explodes across the stars. Superman breaths heavily.

He thinks about what just happened. He flew into the sun, and survived. Not only
did he survive, but it made him stronger. He can't comprehend it. Was he a God?

ACT 1 SCENE 10.

LOIS LANES BEDROOM.

Lois wakes up to Superman sitting at the edge of the bed. He is still naked and
obviously not well.

LOIS
Kal! What happened?

Superman doesnt look at her.

SUPERMAN
I flew. Into the sun.

LOIS
Why would you do something like that?

SUPERMAN
I flew into the sun, and I survived.

a few moments of silence.

SUPERMAN
Lois, what am I?

Lois crawls across the bed and holds him in her arms. Cradling him. He's the one
that needs saving right now.

LOIS
You're my hero Superman.

ACT 1 SCENE 11

The metal orb from the first scene enters the atmosphere.

METROPOLIS EXT. NIGHT

There's electricity in the air. The orb is having a terrible effect on Earth. Steet
lightbulbs burst. All the cars stop working. People are in the streets yelling
confused and threatened. People can now see the orb in the sky. Pandemonium.

LOIS LANES BEDROOM

Superman stands up and walks out the window. In a blur, he puts his costume back on

LOIS
Whats happening?

SUPERMAN
I have to go now.

LOIS
Well is there a story? Maybe I should come.

SUPERMAN
Lois. NOt this time. Please.

He flies out the window.

THE CULT MANOR

Some cult members sit around the leader.

CULT LEADER
Brothers. We were just in time. Doomsday has arrived.

METROPOLIS EXT. NIGHT

People are running through the streets, screaming. They think the worlds about to
end. They're rioting. The orb gets closer and closer to the city. It flies straight
through a skyscraper. The building starts to collapse. Debris falls. The orb is
getting close to the ground. Headed straight for a thick grouping of people. Just
in the nick of time, Superman flies at hyper speed into the way of the orb and
catches it. It pushes him back and he struggles to slow it down. As soon as
Superman holds it to a halt, He throws it with almighty strength out of the city,
Into the nearby thick forests.

Then superman flies to catch the falling debris and set it down. Where he sets it
down their are multiple injured people on the ground. He quickly carries them
individually to a hospital.

HOSPITAL

He carries one more person to the hospital. He sets her down on a gurney. She is
crying frantically. Superman looks at her and becomes sad and stern. He rushes out
of the hospital to save more lives.

LOIS LANES APT.

Lois is putting on her coat and is rushing out the door.

LOIS
He can't really think I'm sitting this one out.

ACT 1 SCENE 12

THE FORREST

The orb sits in a crater. The trees around it are on fire. A loud growl is heard.
The metallic surface of the orb begins to liquify. It starts out in ripples like a
pond that just got a stone thrown into it. Then, it's slowly pulled down by gravity
around an awkward shape. It slides and drips off it's cargo. It has characteristics
of mercury. After it has completely dispensed, it's cargo is revealed.

It's a giant green figure. In the fetal position on it's feet. It realizes it is
conscious, and stands up. It is 8 feet tall. It's "skin" is a dark, scaly green.
It has no eyes, or any other facial feature. Just a face shape. Like it is wearing
a mask.

The creature holds out it's hand, palm up. You can feel the power it has in its
body. It remains still until a small bird flies into it's palm. Suddenly, it crushes
the bird like a potato chip. It puts it's arm down at its side and drops the remains.

Doomsday is here.

He sees Metropolis in the distance and walks towards it.

Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen are in a helicopter flying towards the crater. They
haven't arrived yet. Jimmy is testing the camera equipment.

JIMMY
So what is it you think we'll see?

LOIS
A crater. What else would we see?

JIMMY
You know, Superman is an alien.

LOIS
Yes Jimmy I know. I wwas the one that wrote the damn story.

JIMMY
Yeah well, he's an alien, so maybe we'll find aliens.

LOIS
Maybe. Maybe we'll find a big rock.

The sun is rising in the background as the helicopter flies over the trees.
We look from above and behind the helicopter as it discovers the crater. Lois
adresses the pilot.

LOIS
There it is! Take us down low.

They get ready to do the newscast. Jimmy starts to film the crater and Lois begins
to give the story.

LOIS
We are at the location of the meteorite, surrounded by a-

JIMMY
theres no meteor.

LOIS
What?

JIMMY
Theres no meteor it's just a-

The helicopter is hit by something large. We stay inside the helicopter as it
starts to fly out of control and almost crashes, then suddenly stops, and is
put gently onto the ground. Lois falls out of the helicopter and is caught by
Superman.

SUPERMAN
I told you to stay home.

LOIS
Yeah well, I wouldn't be very good at my job if I did that now would I.

Superman puts her down.

SUPERMAN
The military is on it's way here. They'll take you all someplace safe. I have to go
get whatever just threw a tree at your helicopter. (speaking directly to Lois) Stay.
out. of. the. city.

And he's off.

Doomsday is running threw the forrest. He jumps for miles at a time. And eventually
lands on a bridge to metropolis. Superman flies in front of him. Doomsday and Superman
lock into eachothers sights. They stand about 20 feet apart. There is silence as they
watch eachother.

People are running out of their cars in the opposite direction of Doomsday. The bridge
is empty in seconds. Superman finally talks.

SUPERMAN
Who are you?!

no response.

SUPERMAN
Where did you come from? What is it that you want?

Doomsday lifts it's head for a moment, as if it was thinking. Then, he silently
shows Superman the blood on his hand from the bird.

SUPERMAN
If that's what you came here for, then I don't care where you came from, I'm
sending you back.