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206 Animation Writing and Development

Jackie Chan Adventures

“QUEEN OF THE SHADOWKHAN”

(Script #206)

TEASER

EXT. MEDIEVAL CASTLE—SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE—NIGHT

An eerie-looking castle on a hill. Dark skies.

INT. ANCIENT LIBRARY—CASTLE—CONT.

REVEAL—The cavernous, gothic, shadowy interior of a VAST LIBRARY,

every wall lined with ANCIENT BOOKS. The room must be several stories

high. We hear a <SQUEAK>, and a LADDER “wheels” into FRAME in f.g.

ANGLE ON LADDER BASE—PAN UP, AND UP, AND UP, following the ladder,

slowly at first and then speeding up to a BLUR until we STOP on...

JACKIE, <WHEELING> himself along the wall at the TOP of the ladder

near the ceiling, as he searches the shelves—looking exhausted.

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JACKIE

<exhausted sigh> Finally.

Jackie stops the ladder and pulls a MYSTERIOUS BOOK from the shelves.

ECU ON THE BOOK—A very large UNEARTHLY TOME with a foreboding picture

of a DRAGON SKULL AND CROSSBONES on the cover (think: an ancient

Chinese version of the legendary Necronomicon).

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JACKIE (OS)

Uncle said this book could help put an end

to all of this “Demon Portal” business.

JACKIE—begins to put the ominous book in his BACKPACK...

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JACKIE (CONT)

I hope Uncle is right.

ON EMPTY SLOT—... where the book was; a black-cloaked BLUE SHAD-

OWKHAN HAND thrusts out of its darkness, <SHING!>...

... and grabs Jackie’s arm (the one shoving the book in the bag).
His eyes BUG.
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JACKIE
<bwaaa!>

The Shadowkhan hand tries to pull the book back, via Jackie’s arm

[it will retain its GRIP on Jackie’s arm until noted]. Jackie strug-

gles, then looks around in horrified surprise to see...