American Werewolf In Paris

"AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN PARIS" by Anthony Waller, Tim Burns & Tom Stern Based on characters created by John Landis BLACKNESS. Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon (Brain Damage)" plays as WHITE TITLES appear over black. As the song crescendos at the first chorus, SUNLIGHT flares over the lunar horizon and a crescent sliver of THE MOON is illuminated - huge, filling the screen from top to bottom. We're in space, circling around from the dark side until a HUGE FULL MOON fills the screen with whiteness - TITLES continue as we pull back from the moon, into the earth's atmosphere, through CLOUDS, until we reveal PARIS AT NIGHT We come to rest on an ancient, vaguely wolf-like GARGOYLE high atop a gothic cathedral in the Latin Quarter - a maze of narrow, twisting streets - desolate at this late hour. Clouds move over the moon. End TITLES. The song fades. A THUNDER CRACK. Rain drops spatter on the church's metal roof. Water trickles out of the gargoyle's mouth. We follow the STREAM OF WATER down to street level where it falls onto A YOUNG COUPLE wobbling down the street, sharing a bottle of wine. They open an umbrella and stand underneath it, smooching and giggling. We follow the STREAM OF WATER from their umbrella to the street, where it swirls into drain holes in the MANHOLE COVER that they're standing on. Suddenly... CLANG!! The manhole cover pushes up under their feet. He flinches - bites down on her lip, drawing blood. She yelps. CLANG!! The cover thrusts up again.