Flash Gordon Page #2

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PROF. GORDON:

It’s a message from my son, Flash. With the cancellation of the World Triathlon Tournaments in Italy, he’s catching the next transcontinental flight, hoping to be here with me and his mother before the end.

WHIPE TO:

EXT. ESTABLISHING SHOT – SOMEWHERE OVER WEST EUROPE

Dark STORM CLOUDS rumble and lightning FLASHES as a small CHALLENGER 601 jets through the turbulence.

TRAVELING SHOT – CHALLENGER JET

PANNING outside the jet, we see the CAPTAIN and CO-PILOT through the cockpit window piloting the plane. The camera TRAVELS along the side of the plane from the cockpit windows to the passenger windows where we see FLASH GORDON sitting pensively looking out his window. He is a twenty-one-year-old, blond youth. Athletic and handsome.

INT. CHALLENGER JET – PASSENGER CABIN

The cabin is filled with anxious passengers. FLASH sits in the middle of the passenger area. Across the aisle from him is DALE ARDEN, a twenty-year-old beauty with short, raven hair. She sits typing away on a laptop. He NOTICES her, checking her out. She completely ignores him as she works away.

FLASH notices the title of her work on her screen. It reads ‘EARTH DOOMED SAYS DR. HANS ZARKOV’.

He leans across the aisle and begins reading what she is writing. She turns the laptop away and scowls at him.

DALE:

Hey, buddy, personal space?

FLASH leans back into his seat, smiles coyly.

FLASH:

Sorry. It was that headline. I...

She turns the laptop screen back towards his view and glances at it.

DALE:

Oh, this? I’m writing on Dr. Zarkov. According to him, the meteor showers are apparently the beginning of the end.

A PASSENGER sitting in front of FLASH turns worriedly back to DALE. He is reading a newspaper with the headline, ‘WORLD COMING TO AN END. Strange new planet rushing towards Earth – only miracle can save us, says science’

PASSENGER:

Zarkov’s a lunatic, right? That planet’s just going to pass us by, right?

FLASH:

Well, let’s hope so.

DALE:

(She looks at Flash, points.)

Hey, I know you. I tried to get an interview with you during the last Olympics. Three gold medals. Triathlon. Fencing. Wresting. Made the headlines. Literal all-American everything. You’re Alex Gordon. Son of Professor Raymond Gordon, chief engineer over at NASA...

FLASH:

(smiles that winning smile)

My good friends call me Flash.

DALE:

(jokingly mocking. Smiles.)

Do they? Okay, “Flash”. What are you doing in Europe?

FLASH:

A postponed triathlon tournament in Naples. I know you, too. You’re Dale Arden. Columnist and correspondent for the New York Times. You’ve been writing all about Doctor Zarkov. Is that why you’re in Europe?

DALE:

Yep. The lead is he’s holding up in Austria near Salzburg. When we transfer, I’ll be getting off in Munich. Will you be continuing on?

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