Batman's Darkest Night Script by xaqBazit, literature
Literature
Batman's Darkest Night Script
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Panels 1-3: A slow zoom back, revealing that the scene in the first panel is a section of Batman's supercomputer. The TV footage is of Batman fighting the Joker. Zoom back to see the rest of the screen is sectioned off like a grid, each square displaying a different news story.
Panel 1 - Don't even see the boarder of the frame. The viewer doesn't know that the events they see are filmed.
Caption: "Do we really need Batman anymore, now that there is virtually no crime left in Gotham city?"
Panel 2 - Starting to see other channels displayed around it on the computer screen.
Caption: "Will there ever be a reason for him to take up hi
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Panel 1 - Full shot of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson in the defendant chair of a courthouse.
Caption: Cook country courthouse, Chicago. June. 27th 1921.
Prosecutor: Repeat again for the court how much you and the others were promised by Mr. Gandil, to lose the 1919 World Series.
Jackson (clearing his throat): Ahem. One hundred thousand dollars.
Prosecutor: That kind of money could buy a person just about anything they wanted. Even a high-paid sports star like yourself, Mr. Jackson. Isn't that right?
Panel 2 - Medium shot of the prosecutor arrogantly walking back and forth, talking, with papers in one of his hands, which are folded
Two Stories: By Zach Bassett
Boom! The stage is lit by the pulsing multicolored glow of a fireworks display, we can hear them exploding in the near distance for the length of the play. The stage is covered in grass, resembling a field.
JARED:
(Getting closer) Hurry up, its starting.
JARED (40-something) walks out onto the stage, with a blanket rolled up under his arm and wheeling a grill behind him. JARED looks like your average all-American forty-something year-old dad. He is wearing sandals, shorts and a polo shirt.
DAVID:
You got to find a good spot, Dad.
DAVID (8) walks out onto the stage, following JARED, and awkwardly carin