Unproduced Movie Scripts

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Fred Drekker, September 1994

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The movie takes place in 1964.

An ex-SS Nazi scientist, Von Duffel, oversees security for a secret base deep in a Southeast Asian jungle, where kidnapped scientists work on a secret project. He keeps a pteranodon, Turu, as his personal security, in addition to gun-toting guards with floating platforms. One of the scientists tries to escape, and Turu swoops down and kills him.

In Hong Kong, Race Bannon gets into a running gunfight with several Triad members over a piece of microfilm he's obtained from a spy. When all seems lost, Jezebel Jade arrives in her car and helps him escape, before turning a gun on him to take the microfilm for herself. After she leaves, Jennings Corven (a handler for Intelligence One) arrives, assigning Race to guard duty for Dr. Benton Quest at his Palm Key compound. Race meets Dr. Quest and is shown the Quest Jet by Jonny; Benton meanwhile meets with Corven, who reports that a mysterious, metallic sphere has appeared in the Amazon river basin. The US military retrieves the sphere, which is housed for study in a large warehouse at the Quest compound.

Jonny breaks into the warehouse at night out of curiosity, only to discover that the sphere has deployed legs and uncovered a central red eye sensor, and is now moving as though a robotic spider. The army futilely tries to stop it, until Race douses it with gasoline and sets it aflame, which allows a military jet to fire upon it with a heat-seeking missile. Dr. Quest deduces that Zin created this robot spy. Dr. Zin meanwhile receives blueprints transmitted by the robot spy, depicting a secret project that Dr. Quest was working on in that warehouse before abruptly ceasing upon the accidental death of his wife. Dr. Zin instructs Von Duffel to kill Dr. Quest, who has meanwhile deduced that Von Duffel was a former Nazi who was recently processed by Bombay customs. Dr. Quest also surmises that Zin and Von Duffel are looking for the wreck of a German U-boat that Von Duffel previously ordered on a secretive mission during World War II, and journeys to its crash site to recover it in a miniature submersible.

The recovery effort is sabotaged by Von Duffel, who dynamites the wreck while Dr. Quest and Race are inside. Jonny is able to take emergency measures from the control submersible to raise them and the wreck, saving their lives. Dr. Zin meanwhile realizes that the blueprints detail a "Specula" device, which can somehow nullify atomic bombs. Enraged that the blueprints omit a critical detail, he murders his engineers and resolves to have Dr. Quest finish the design for him. The Quest team meanwhile deduces the location of Zin's lair. While traveling through India en route to the coast, the Quest team meet Hadji, a street performer who steals Race's money. They track him down and force him to return the cash. An assassin later tries to stab Race, but is downed by Jade, who is watching over the Quest team with a sniper rifle.

The Quests track Dr. Zin's lair to an island near Sumatra, and rendezvous with a US military liaison there, Chip Balloo. Dr. Quest explains that Specula was a code name for a beam of uranium hexafluoride, which, when applied to uranium stockpiles, would render them non-radioactive and prevent fission in combative applications. Rachel, his wife, originated the idea; Dr. Zin killed her in an attempt to steal it. A tiger enters camp and attacks Race, who swings the butt of a shotgun and hits it on the nose; Jade shoots it afterwards to save Race's life again. Chip Balloo then turns on the team, but Hadji kills him with throwing knives. Race and Dr. Quest set out for Dr. Zin's lair, but Turu attacks them; Race brings it down with two bazooka shots, but both he and Dr. Quest are incapacitated and captured. Jonny, hearing the explosions and fearing the worst, walks on foot to the lair, discovering the wreckage of Turu (who is revealed to have been a robot).

Jonny sneaks into the lair and discovers that it's an old monastery, converted into a missile silo; a "V-10 Rocket" is being readied for armament with a nuclear warhead, revealed to have been made via the contents of the microfilm from Hong Kong that Jade sold to her unknown buyers. Dr. Zin meanwhile reveals to Dr. Quest (who's tied up and being interrogated) that his plan is to manufacture his own nuclear weapons while disabling the rest of the world's stockpiles, as revenge for his adolescent love perishing in the Nagasaki bombing. Outside, Jade approaches with a detachment of US special forces, prompting Zin's guards to sound the alarm. Race, interrogated by Von Duffel, uses the alarm as a diversion and knocks Von Duffel into an aquatic chamber housing Dr. Zin's man-eating kraken. Dr. Zin erstwhile reveals that he's captured Jonny Quest; Dr. Quest pleads with him, saying that the missing component was a red herring, and that the Specula can otherwise be assembled from the existing blueprints without it.

The special forces attack Zin's base; Dr. Quest sets a trap for Zin that causes a room full of pure oxygen to explode when he flicks the light switch. Dr. Zin is badly burned and near death, but manages to flip an override switch that launches the V-10 rocket towards Washington D.C. Jonny proposes that they take the Quest jet and catch up to the rocket to disarm it, as to the Quest team's wonderment, the Specula device had been assembled and finished by Zin's technicians. They board the jet and set out, only for Dr. Zin to reveal himself as a stowaway; he shoots Race in the shoulder and accidentally shoots a hole in the fuselage, depressurizing the plane. Dr. Quest overpowers him and jettisons him into the atmosphere. With Race incapacitated, Jonny takes the controls while Dr. Quest successfully neutralizes the warhead with the Specula device. The Quest team return to Palm Key, where Race kisses Jade, Hadji has been made a member of the family, and Dr. Quest plays Frisbee with Jonny, having repaired his emotional wounds from the loss of his wife years before.

One of the actors who applied for the position of Jonny has uploaded his screen test:

Dan Mazeau, April 3, 2008

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An apparently alien craft crash lands in the north; the US government sends Agent Corvin (female in this iteration), who calls for Dr. Quest. Dr. Quest is meanwhile demonstrating a new non-lethal ray machine that destroys inorganic matter, but leaves bystanders unharmed (the Geodide Ray). Halfway across the world, Race Bannon alerts the government to an arms deal for two Soviet warheads in the Ukraine; he subdues the buyers' militia, but fails to apprehend their leader, Korchek (a super-terrorist thought to have been dead for ten years), who escapes with one of the warheads—though absent any fissionable material. Corvin recalls Race and assigns him to be Dr. Quest's bodyguard. Race arrives to Palm Key, base of operations for the subterranean Quest Laboratories, and faces his first challenge as Jonny tries to escape to Miami on a jetski to party. Race corrals Jonny back home, observing his rebellious streak after having been shuttered the last three years following Dr. Quest's wife's death at the hands of three armed invaders (Judith, in this iteration).

The craft, taken to Quest Laboratories, suddenly activates while being investigated and deploys spider robots which hack into the lab's computers. A group of frogmen simultaneously attack and kidnap Dr. Quest; a lone survivor captured by Race ingests a corrosive inhaler that removes his fingerprints and instantly kills him. At Intelligence One, Corvin matches this inhaler to one used by a team that blew up an ancient Hindu statue in India, and sends a team to investigate; Race, passed over for assignment on the mission, forces his way onto their plane and convinces them he was properly assigned. Jonny meanwhile stows away in the cargo hold. In an unknown location, Dr. Quest is woken in a cell by Jeremiah Surd, who alludes to an unfinished lab project. Back in India, Race and Jonny eavesdrop on the I-1 team, who are told that the old statue had an artifact inside it, taken by the terrorists. The guards, revealed to be part of the terrorist group, assassinate the museum curator and entire I-1 team while Jonny and Race escape on an auto-rickshaw.

Their escape lands them near a Hindu temple, where they meet Hadji, who'd just finished praying for a purpose in life. Hadji accompanies them and notes that the missing piece inside the statue was a bow, the Brahmastra. Race, desperate for help, takes the gang to an oil rig off the coast of Hong Kong and enlists the services of Jezebel Jade. They go to a remote island for an undisclosed purpose, where they're captured by natives and thrown in a pit with a passage leading to a mine. Hadji awakens magic powers of levitation after reading a Sanskrit inscription. As the four explore the mine, they discover an old archaeological dig site depicting the Brahmastra and a mushroom cloud. Hadji explains that in myth, the Brahmastra was used only once, resulting in a nuclear detonation greater than the sum of all existing nuclear weapons put together. They stay hidden as Korchek arrives and places all four artifacts in the hand of a golden statue. While he's distracted, Jonny steals the Brahmastra and replaces it with a hologram from his watch. They're immediately discovered, and set out through the mine tunnels on a hovercraft.

Despite escaping the mine, they're captured by Korchek on the surface. Jade appears to traitorously surrender the rest of the team to Korchek, who takes them to his lair, a converted Hindu monastery elsewhere on the island. Surd is there, revealing that he needs Dr. Quest to decrypt the code to using the Geodide Ray, which can blast away fossilized, inorganic matter from the Brahmastra to allow its use again. He reveals that years ago, he and Dr. Quest discovered the legend of the device and sought to use its power as an energy source. Dr. Quest grew doubtful that the project would ever safely succeed; Surd departed the project and hired Korchev to steal the Geodide prototype years ago, inadvertently causing the death of Jonny's mother. Surd is able to activate the ray in the present day, revealing that the Brahmastra is an organic weapon; Korchek aims to harvest some of the cells and replicate them inside of warheads, growing rich from countries purchasing these weapons. They test-fire a small sample of the Brahmastra, which burns several of the technicians to ash effortlessly. Korchev then kills Surd and his assistants, and begins loading a culture of the cells inside a nuclear warhead to demonstrate its power on the world stage.

As Dr. Quest predicted, the Brahmastra's power can't be controlled; it begins a slow-moving chain reaction that envelops the base in destructive light. The team flee, as Surd, still clinging to life, sacrifices himself to keep the emergency door open for them. Dr. Quest proposes they take Surd's prototype jet to escape the base. Korchek fights his way aboard, but Race is able to stab and jettison him after the jet takes off. Korchek's last action is to activate the ICBM, which has somehow survived the annihilation and is preprogrammed to detonate over Miami. The Quest team chase the ICBM while Dr. Quest uses one of the robot spiders onboard to fashion a computerized weapon that can lock on to the missile. With fifteen seconds until detonation, Race (through Hadji's meditative help) successfully destroys the missile, and the team returns to Palm Key with Hadji granted a place to live with the family.

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