The Umbrella Academy: Trade 1 Apocalypse Suite Based on the Comic Book Series by Gabriel Ba and Gerard Way
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Based on the Comic Book Series by Gabriel Ba and Gerard Way Screenplay by Austin Maggs OVER BLACK “Introduction” FADE IN: INT. ARENA, WRESTLING RING – NIGHT Several angry and excited fans cheer on opposite opponents. The “face” wrestler is a muscular man, built like the hulk. This is TUSSLIN’ TOM. The “heel” wrestler is not human. The crowd boos the heel. A seven-foot-long tentacle swings across the ring and smacks Tom out of the ring. The audience chants, “Let’s go Tom!” The REFEREE isn’t counting Tom, in favor of him. The heel opponent is revealed to be a large alien squid with razor-sharp teeth and tentacles with a glue-type substance covering the tentacles. This is RIGEL. The referee picking favorites outrages Rigel. One of Rigel’s tentacles forcefully wraps itself around the referee. He screams in panic. Rigel brings the referee closer and bites down over the top of his body. Blood sprays, covering the ring mat with puddles of blood. Blood sprinkles mildly onto audience members in the front row. Tom smirks at the monster. He is covered in the referee’s blood. TOM: You think that’s supposed to scare me!? Tom digs his arms deep in the apron under the ring. He pulls out a steel chair with barbed wire wrapped tightly over it. Rigel’s tentacles try to smack Tom but tom impales the wired chair into the tentacle. The tentacle is stuck onto the chair as Tom ties it in between the ring ropes. Rigel screams in monstrous pain. Tom them draws a baseball bat from under the ring as Rigel continues to try to free is restrained tentacle. Tom reenters the ring and takes a forceful swing to Rigel’s head, followed by another. Rigel squirms in pain. Green blood is splattering from Rigel’s skull onto Tom. The crowd grows wilder with more chants. Rigel appears to be bloodied and half dead. Tom drops the bat and taunts to the crowd, gaining more cheers. He steps onto the turnbuckle of the ring and delivers a big frog-splash finisher. A second REFEREE enters and counts to three. Rigel doesn’t answer the count and Tom wins. He celebrates his victory with the crowd and his handed a championship belt. Tom’s entrance theme, “I’m your Boogieman” by Rob Zombie plays loudly throughout the arena. ANNOUNCER: Here is your winner… TUSSLIN’ TOM! The screen PAUSES, focusing on a picture of Tom holding the belt around his shoulder. A narrator with a smooth, older, and mildly creepy voice (similar to Malcolm McDowell’s) begins to speak. NARRATOR: It was the same year Tusslin’ Tom Gurney knocked out the space squid Rigel from Rigel X9. It happened at 9:38 PM. It came from a frog splash dive. And in that moment, without warning, and in an occurrence of complete coincidence- INT. SUBWAY TRAIN (MOVING) – NIGHT CLOSE IN – a crying newborn covered in slime and blood lays helpless on the floor of the train. NARRATOR: (Cont’d)
Forty-three extraordinary children were born. PULL OUT – the passengers appear to either not notice or not care. NARRATOR: (Cont’d)
To mostly single women, who had shown no signs of pregnancy, in seemingly random locations around the world. An old Einstein look-alike, SIR REGINALD HARGREEVES AKA THE MONOCLE, picks up the baby and wraps a blanket around it. The baby’s cries quiet down. The man smiles and talks to the baby. MONOCLE: You’re an extraordinary child. Yes you are! The baby looks at Monocle and recognizes him as a father. NARRATOR: (Cont’d)
This man here is Sir Reginald Hargreeves, a.k.a. The Monocle. A world-renowned scientist and wealthy entrepreneur. EXT. EGYPT – DAY The sun is beautiful but produces hot heat over several hard workers. EXT. EGYPT, PIT – DAY Monocle is shown defeating an opponent in a friendly round of fencing. A tall body-builder-type bodyguard, ABHIJAT watches in the corner while sipping on a glass of water. NARRATOR: (Cont’d)
Inventor of the Televator, the Levitator, the Mobile Communicator, and Clever Crisp Cereal, Reginald Hargreeves was also an Olympic gold medallist and recipient of the Nobel Prize for his cerebral advancement of the chimpanzee. INT. HOME, MONOCLE’S BATHROOM – NIGHT White walls with a green tiled floor. A wide mirror is placed in the main wall, covering the entire space above the sink. Monocle approaches his sink. He digs his fingers into the skin under his chin. The mask of what appears to be Monocle’s face is sat over a stack of magazines on the septic tank of the toilet. NARRATOR: (Cont’d)
No one knew their beloved scientist was a space alien. EXT. AIRSTRIP – DUSK The sun sets over a private and deserted airstrip. A lit space vessel waits in the middle as the entrance platform slides down. Monocle and Abhijat run up the platform in a hurry. The platform closes. The vessel takes off. NARRATOR: (Cont’d)
For reasons unknown, Sir Reginald ser out with his bodyguard Abhijat aboard his private vessel, The Minerva… rumored to be powered by the remains of King Amen-Kharej IV. Using methods undisclosed, he sought to track down and adopt as many of the children as he could. INT. HOSPITAL, NEWBORN CARE CENTER Various shots of seven white glass cribs. Each contains a newborn with a mask covering their eyes. Two infants are pale, one is bald, one has white hair, and the other three appear to be normal looking (other than the mask). NARRATOR: (Cont’d)
He only found seven of them- INT. PRESS CONFERENCE – DAY Dozens of news anxiously curious reporters surround a very calm Monocle. Pictures are being constantly taken of him. From Monocle’s back view, the crowd of reporters grows bigger and bigger with more questions. Monocle sits there, appearing determined. NARRATOR: (Cont’d)
Wiping their identities and concealing the children from the world, Sir Reginald held a press conference in Stockholm in which journalist Cosimo De’Lostromo from Milan asked, “Why have you adopted these seven children?” EXT. SIDEWALK – DAY Rain is pouring over several heavily coated civilians, surrounding the windows of an electronics store. They watch Monocle’s press conference. MONOCLE: (From television sets) To save the world, of course!
To which they asked- EXT. NEWSPAPER STAND – DAY A stack of issues of The City Paper is tossed in front of the stand. CLOSE IN on paper headline. The headline reads, “FROM WHAT?” EXT. MONOCLE MANSION, STAIRWELL - DAY Monocle walks down the steps, exiting his mansion. Abhijat and seven bodyguards in black with strollers follow Monocle. Camera flashes are coming from all angles. NARRATOR: (Cont’d)
They received no answer. It was the last time Sir Reginald and the children were seen. Until- OVER BLACK Chapter One: “The Day the Eiffel Tower Went Berserk” EXT. PARIS, CITY VIEW – DAY A beautiful view on a sunny morning. EXT. PARIS, CONCESSION STAND – DAY Under the Eiffel Tower, A concession stand OWNER is organizing souvenirs for sale. He posts a large red umbrella over the top of it. CRASH! A quickly seen figure crashes onto the concession stand, breaking it in half. The owner is puzzled and shocked. He approaches his totaled stand. A bloodied and broken corpse lies over it. EXT. PARIS, CONCESSION STAND – LATER The owner is explaining what happened to a scrawny POLICEMAN. OFFICER: Just flew out of the sky? STAND OWNER: (Outraged) Yes!
You don’t think he jumped? STAND OWNER: No, he was pushed. OFFICER: That’s ridiculous. A force is heard landing hard onto the concrete behind both men. They turn around and find it is another broken body. Another body crashes onto the concrete in front of both men. A puddle of blood explodes out of the back of the body’s head. Several more bodies appear falling, breaking, and exploding blood out of their skulls. People on the surface begin to flee in panic. OFFICER: (To Stand owner) Get out of here!
(On radio) Send backup! We need more men and medics!
(O.S.)
Officer? The officer turns around and finds five CHILDREN with eye masks and dressed in black private school uniforms- THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY. The boy speaking has white hair and is the leader of the group. This is 0.01 AKA SPACEBOY (LUTER HARGREEVES). SPACEBOY: Can we be of assistance? OFFICER: (Confused) Who the hell are you?
Your Eiffel Tower has gone insane and needs to be stopped at all costs. OFFICER: (Confused) What? (Annoyed) It is you children who are insane! SPACEBOY: (Pointing to girl in his group) Allow me to introduce my subordinate, Number Three! The children float off the ground. 0.03 AKA THE RUMOR (ALLISON HARGREEVES) begins to speak. RUMOR: Attention, citizens of Paris! I heard a rumor that the Musee D’orsay is giving away many of its finest paintings and they’re also serving crepes. The rest of the panicked citizens, including the police, forget about the chaos at the Eiffel Tower and run the opposite direction for the art gallery. SPACEBOY: (Sighs)
Now we’ll have to recover those paintings! 0.02 AKA THE KRAKEN (DIEGO HARGREEVES) points up above. KRAKEN: (Pointing at Eiffel Tower) Number one!
(Commanding the Academy) Spread out and attack!
(In a down voice) Dad, I mean Mr. Monocle, Sir? Why can’t I play with the others?
There is just nothing special about you, Number Seven. SEVEN: (Pouts)
Oh! (Argues)
Where’s Number Five? I don’t see him down there! MONOCLE: He’s in the future, I presume. No doubt, run away from home. I can’t be sure, nor bothered. Why don’t you go play your violin? Vanya leaves and begins to unhappily play her violin. INT. EIFFEL TOWER – DAY The children fly as fast as they can to the top on the inside of the tower. 0.04 AKA THE SÉANCE (KLAUS HARGREEVES) begins to think. KRAKEN: (To Séance)(Sighs) What are you doing?
Don’t let go! I’m trying to contact a dead engineer from the spirit world! He can tell us to stop it. KRAKEN: (Bitterly) Save your breath, we’re all gonna die!
Why don’t you shut up? EXT. EIFFEL TOWER – DAY BOOM! Part of the tower explodes furiously. The explosion sends the children flying. The dismantled part of the tower collisions to the sidewalk. Horror, Séance, Rumor, and Kraken follow Spaceboy. SPACEBOY: To the control tower! I got a hunch. INT. CONTROL TOWER – DAY An older android with a gruesome zombie appearance, GUSTAVE EIFFEL, appears to be controlling the tower. CRASH! The Umbrella Academy kids forcefully crash through the wall. SPACEBOY: Just as I expected… Gustave Eiffel! GUSTAVE: (In French) Mutant infants!
(Shocked) You’re alive after all these years?
(Sarcastically) Not for long!
(Attempting to stop Kraken) NO!
(Yells)
Everyone out now! EXT. GROUND – DAY The Umbrella Academy exits the tower in a hurry. The Eiffel Tower launches from the ground like a rocket. The kids appear shocked. RUMOR: (Confused) Why is it taking off?
Because it’s not a monument, children! KIDS: (At same time)(In shock) Dad!
Don’t call me “Dad.” And while you lost the Eiffel Tower, you saved Paris. And you know what that means! EXT. PARADE – DAY French civilians are appreciative and chanting the Umbrella Academy for saving their city. The kids are given ice cream cones while Monocle is given a key to the city as a reward. Monocle notices Spaceboy appears melancholic. MONOCLE: What’s wrong, Number One? SPACEBOY: Mr. Monocle, Sir, I want to go into space when I grow up. MONOCLE: (Supportively) And so you shall, Number One. So you shall.
(V.O.)
Come in Number One! You have a call. SPACEBOY: Tell them I’m busy! ANNHILATION CONTROL: (V.O.) It’s Dr. Pogo on the phone. SPACEBOY: Keep him on the line! Spaceboy launches his jet boots off the moon. He flies into his- INT. SHIP, OFFICE – DARK The walls are covered with newspaper articles and framed magazine covers. One of the framed articles reads, “Mars Mission Failure: Spaceboy critically injured. Hargreeves performs experimental surgery to save his life.” The picture shows Spaceboy in a guerilla-sized body with the same sized space suit. Spaceboy enters. He picks up his phone. SPACEBOY: Pogo! Any good news from Earth? Is that it…? Negative Pogo… you know I can’t leave my post. A threat may finally- (Unpleasantly surprised) What? Oh. I see. I’m on my way. INT. SPACE CAPSULE A one-seater, Spaceboy steps inside and activates the launch program. EXT. MOON – DARK The capsule launches and takes off at fast speed from the surface. EXT. THE CITY – NIGHT The City is peaceful at night. Eerie-but-nice silence. INT. SEVEN’S APARTMENT, BEDROOM – NIGHT A messy bedroom with books scattered everywhere. A copy of “Extraordinary: My Life as Number 7” lies next to the phone on the nightstand. RING! RING! The phone rings. Seven stands up out of bed. She is tall and beautiful with a short haircut. He is only wearing a white tank top and a thong. SEVEN: (Answering the phone)(Half awake) Hello?
I suppose I didn’t expect you to be broken up. You wrote a lot of nasty things about your family in your book. SEVEN: (Fully awake) What do you want?
I’m conducting a suite, the first of its kind. It appears my chair for first violin has been rendered vacant. I’d like you to audition. SEVEN: (Looking through window blinds) Now why would I do that?
(V.O.)
CLICK! The line disconnects. INT. ACADEMY MANSION, HALLWAY – NIGHT An isolated but luxurious hallway with several family portraits and art pieces hung on the walls. Spaceboy runs through the hall anxiously and bursts through the doors of the- INT. ACADEMY MANSION, POGO’S OFFICE – NIGHT SPACEBOY: (Anxiously) Dr. Pogo, is it true? A talking chimpanzee sits behind the desk, dressed in a suit. This is POGO. There is a ten-year-old boy, who is a member of the Umbrella Academy next to him. The boy is 0.05 AKA THE BOY. POGO: Yes. Sir Reginald Hargreeves is dead. BOY: And something worse is coming! INT. ACADEMY MANSION, SPACEBOY’S ROOM – NIGHT
(O.S.)
Wake up, Spaceboy! Spaceboy wakes up slowly. SPACEBOY: (Yawns)
What time is it? POGO: (Sipping on a cup of coffee) Eight A.M.! Your sister has arrived.
The Rumor? POGO: Allison, yes. She’s been standing beneath Ben’s statue for thirty minutes. You should go down and help her with her bags. She looks nervous… EXT. ACADEMY MANSION, COURTYARD – DAY Leaves blow around Rumor. She is now tall, slender, and beautiful but narcissistic. She stands in the middle of the yard, staring at a tall statue referred to as Ben’s Statue. Spaceboy approaches Rumor from the front door. RUMOR: It wasn’t your fault, you know? I know everyone blames you for what happened to Ben. None of us knows what really happened that day. SPACEBOY: I wasn’t sure you’d come, Rumor. RUMOR: Still using code names? You’re even still wearing the mask. (Pause) I missed you, too… Where’s Mom? SPACEBOY: She’ll be here. Where’s Patrick? That’s his name, right? RUMOR: He filed for divorce eight months ago. He got the house and custody of Claire… How’s the moon? Any sign of a genocidal alien threat? SPACEBOY: (Surprised) You have a daughter?
Things change, Luther! VOICE: (O.S.)
You know what I love about funerals? Spaceboy and Rumor look up. They see a tall pale man dressed in all black hovering above them- Séance. SÉANCE: (Cont’d)
Everything I own is black. RUMOR: (Sarcastically) But some things never do…
Séance.
SÉANCE: I hope you’ve got a fresh pot on. I look like Death, but I gather that’s an appropriate occasion. Séance enters the doors. RUMOR: (To Spaceboy) It’s nice to see you, Space.
Assessment! Translocation successful! Though it appears our presence has gone unnoticed. T ROBOT: Announcement! Citizens of the city. Irregularity 8767678 AKA The Umbrella Academy has a high chance of reformation in two hours, twenty-two minutes, and eleven seconds. J ROBOT: Interruption! We seek instant retribution! This area of recreation will serve as a suitable theatre fir eradication due to its high probability of civilian fatality! All robots agree. C ROBOT: Observation! A disturbing lack of concern! The robots go berserk. Their arms extend from their bodies and they set every carnival attendant in site into flames. People are screaming from the massive pain of being burned alive. OVER BLACK Chapter Two: “We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals” BOY: (V.O.)
Dad always warned me not to go too far into the future. EXT. THE CITY (FUTURE) – DAY The skies are red. Buildings are in flames or destroyed into pieces. A newspaper with the heading, “IT’S A PERFECT DAY” floats across the screen through ashes and passed dozens of skeletons and burned corpses. BOY: (V.O.)(Cont’d) Because he told me not to go back. And even though I hated him, and I tried to prove him wrong-
I knew I shouldn’t have run away from home. The Boy continues to explore the streets. He finds destroyed cars and the dead body of Pogo. BOY: (V.O.)(Cont’d) Because what I found wasn’t just a place where I could hide. What I found was the end of the world.
(Shouting out loud) Hello? (V.O.)(Cont’d) It took me a few days before I figured out I was the last boy alive. But once I did- EXT. THE CITY (FUTURE) – LATER Various shots of The Boy running around with a long sword, decapitating statues and large stuffed animals. BOY:
(V.O.)(Cont’d) I was ecstatic. I was free. There was no one to tell you what to do. No one to make you feel small. No one to make you wear a mask. Of course it eventually occurred to me- The Boy crouches at a corner and sheds a few tears. BOY: (To himself) This is bad. (V.O.)(Cont’d) As I was filled with guilt, I began to think.
(V.O.)(Cont’d) A search through the library led me to a book written by one of us. She was called Number Seven when I knew her.
(V.O.)(Cont’d) I saw how bad things had gotten… How everything had gone wrong. How Number Six had died. How we had failed.
(V.O.)(Cont’d) Dad said it was impossible to travel back in time. He said it couldn’t be done. I spent the next fifty years trying to prove him wrong. As usual, it seemed he wasn’t.
(V.O.)(Cont’d) I gave up. Accepting my fate as a ghost among the ruins. And in that moment, just as all hope seemed lost-
(V.O.)(Cont’d) I was going home. I could start again.
(V.O.)(Cont’d) I’d be right back where I started, ten years old, the day before the Eiffel Tower went berserk. The day before I ran away from home.
(Cont’d)
But something went wrong. Something pulled me out of the time stream much too soon. SPACEBOY: Hargreeves’s death! BOY: Possibly but he was dead by the time I arrived. A masked man in a striped skull jumpsuit, Kraken, interferes with the talk. He fiddles with a knife while talking. KRAKEN: Coroner estimates the time of death at 7:02 P.M., but the security cameras on the estate mysteriously stopped recording at 6:44 P.M. How convenient. Lucky for you, I broke into The City morgue and ran an autopsy. Natural causes, apparently. BOY: Number Two, I presume. RUMOR: Diego. How lovely to see you. You know I heard a rumor- KRAKEN: (Cutting off Rumor) Don’t try your witchcraft bullshit on me, sister! While you were busy playing house, I was picking bullets out of my shoulder and throwing nut jobs in the clink.
Stand down, Kraken! Kraken gets in Spaceboy’s face. KRAKEN: Still giving the orders, Monkey-Boy? Last I checked your- POGO: (Cutting off Kraken)(O.S.) Stop right there, Kraken!
You two stop acting like Homo sapiens so we can bury your father! EXT. ACADEMY MANSION, BACKYARD – DAY Spaceboy, Kraken, Rumor, Séance, Pogo, and Abhijat stand over a black coffin. It is an awkward funeral since The Academy kids are all dressed in costume and no one is saying anything in tribute of Monocle. A pale woman dressed in all black appears from the shadows of a tree. MOM. MOM: He wasn’t the best father, and an even worse husband. But if he was guilty of anything, it was caring for the world so much that he sacrificed his personal relationships. Unfortunately, he never asked us how we felt about that. MOM: But that doesn’t make his death in vain. Kraken is annoyed. He approaches Mom from behind and extends his arms, ready to grab for Mom’s coat. RUMOR: (Attempting to warn Mom) Mom!
(Getting in Kraken’s face) I’m warning you, Kraken-
(Sarcastically interrupting Spaceboy) Or what? You going to beat your chest? Everything is a goddamn lie, Cowboy! Hargreeves left us with nothing but a fucking mausoleum full of questions, and a fucking piece of plastic for a mother. Her tears aren’t even real!
(Crying)
But these are! KRAKEN: Then it’s too bad Yanya isn’t here. She could play her violin. EXT. ICARUS THEATRE – DAY The walls are held together with wood and nails. “For Rent” is read on the sign. The E in the caption is crooked. Seven enters the doors with a violin case in her right hand. INT. ICARUS THEATRE, STAGE – DAY The audience section is dark and abandoned. SEVEN: Hello? Is anyone there? Bright lights flash onto Seven. She holds her hand over her face as a shield. SEVEN: What the hell is this? Unseen VOICES are heard. VOICE #1: (Shouts)
Play something! VOICE #2: (Shouts)
Anything! SEVEN: (Hesitates) I haven’t played in like twelve years.
(Shouts)
Play! Seven sets down her case and pulls out her violin. She begins to play. The music is beautiful with an even flow. All goes well until a chord on the violin snaps. Hundreds of claps and cheers are heard for Seven. She looks up and finds several audience members dressed in tuxedos, black dresses, and eye-masks. A man sits in the front row by himself. He has a tuxedo with a white bow tie and a black cape. He is also bald and has stitches over his lips. This is THE CONDUCTER. CONDUCTOR: Lacking finesse but adequate. SEVEN: Um… thanks! CONDUCTOR: Can I interest you in destroying the world? SEVEN: (Confused) What? Who are you?
(On stage) We are the Orchestra Yerdammten. The finest musicians in the entire world. But a very unique collection of madmen and murderesses, too. Hearts and deeds as black as the very instruments we play. I am the Conductor and I’ve written a new piece called “The Apocalypse Suite.” It’s my life’s work. Two parts Faust, three parts La Boheme, a dash of Messiah, and a bit of my own Canada. The exact combination, if played in the right key, will destroy the world. It’s just missing one thing: you.
What?
Could your father have been wrong about you after all? Could you really be capable of something great?
Find yourself another violin and don’t follow me! One of Conductor’s henchmen is about to follow Seven. CONDUCTOR: (Blocks Henchmen’s way) Let her go! We should expect her back very soon.
(Sighs)
You’re extremely sensitive! Kraken pulls out a knife. He is about to throw. Rumor runs and takes the knife out of Kraken’s hand. Spaceboy slows down and stops. RUMOR: That’s enough! I see you two haven’t changed a bit. The Boy appears. BOY: (With an annoyed tone) Maybe I haven’t made myself clear that the world was destroyed just three days after Hargreeves’s death. Time is running out.
The carnival is on fire! Spaceboy looks ahead. SPACEBOY: The Terminauts! BOY: What?
Dr. Terminal’s farewell “gift.” He built and programmed the Terminauts to activate should we ever reform. Which means Vanya must be somewhere in the city.
(Looks Spaceboy’s way) Space!
(Looking Kraken’s way) Kraken?
(To Séance) Aren’t you going?
Apparently yes! Séance follows the other Academy members. OVER BLACK Chapter Three: “Dr. Terminal’s Answer” EXT. CARNIVAL – NIGHT Spaceboy, Kraken, Rumor, and Séance arrive in front of the carnival. They find it is in flames. Fearful screams are heard. SPACEBOY: We have to go in there and destroy the Terminauts! Apparently they think we’re a team again. (To Séance and Kraken) You two help me fight them off! (To Rumor) Rumor, get the children out of here! Rumor is frozen in fear as she watches the fires grow. SPACEBOY: Rumor!
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