LAST SON - part one: introduction

In which a boy wishes upon a star and a certain ship arrives to an Earth farm...

1.  EXT. NIGHT. METROPOLIS.

We see the night sky, then we begin to pan down until we find a bright and big city and as we get closer we see an old building with a huge globe at the rooftop and with a sign we can partially read, it says “...ily Planet”.

As we continue our way down on the city, we get into darker alleys, we hear gunshots and police sirens, all this while setting our sight on the back of a certain old apartment building, we are seeing the fire escape ladder and we can see a boy sitting there.

The BOY (13 years old, skinny, green eyes, red hair) sits there with a void expression in his eyes, he`s looking up to the sky.

We can hear fighting noises coming from inside his home, there seems to be a fight and we get to hear noises like dishes being broken and such.

The BOY gets distracted by the noise for a moment, but he tries to focus back into watching the sky.

We see his eyes centered on the view.

Then we see his face light up and then we see something bright and fast cross over the sky, something like a shooting star but even brighter.

The BOY has an expression of surprise as he sees the “shooting star” cross over the sky.

Then the voice of an angry man coming from inside brings him back to reality. 
                            ANGRY MAN

Now where the Hell is that boy now??? ...

The boy looks back to the door into his home, he looks angry, almost hateful. The silhouette figure of a big man walks to the door and yells at the BOY.

                                                                   ANGRY MAN

Hey, kid! What the heck you doin`out here!!!  Go get me some beer and this time try not to spill any or you know what you got coming at youse!...

The BOY puts  his right hand on his left shoulder, like guarding it, and we can see some signs of scars there.

The ANGRY MAN enters the house while talking out loud to some one else.

                                                                    ANGRY MAN

And you! Stop that crying, ain´t nobody here who cares about those crocodile tears of yours, you old hag!

The BOY looks back to the sky, the shooting star is almost getting lost in the distance.

The boy looks at it with wishing eyes.

  

              ANGRY MAN

        (coming from inside)

Lex!!!...go get my freaking` beer now or I swear I´ll drag you there myself!

The BOY enters his home, we see the building getting lost into the distance as we look up to the shooting star and focus on it.

2.  EXT. NIGHT. THE SKY

We follow the shooting star across the sky while getting closer to it. As we get closer we start to realize it´s not a star, it´s a small space ship. Getting closer we see there´s a small window in it.

3.  INT. NIGHT. INSIDE THE SHIP

We are seeing the night sky passing by very fast from inside the ship. A little baby arm caresses the window.

4. EXT. NIGHT. THE SKY

The ship keeps crossing the sky, and just before it begins to descend we notice a small piece of it detaching itself from the ship, it lights its own engine and goes flying on another direction.

The ship begins descending and we start noticing a big piece of land, then the ship goes all over what seems to be a small farm and we see it crash land near there, shaking the earth all around and leaving quite a trail after it.

The house in the farms lights up and we see a couple going out with lanterns, running towards the ship.

We can hear a baby crying at the distance.

Fade-out to black.

Intro credits roll in with John Williams soundtrack on the back.

Superman: Birthright- artist: Lenil Francis Yu - Writer: Mark Waid - Published by DC COMICS