Heavy Metal

HEAVY METAL - by Dan Goldberg & Len Blum THE HEAVY METAL MOVIE - Final Draft - SCREENPLAY BY Dan Goldberg and Len Blum July 18, 1980 FADE UP ON A WHEATFIELD A beautiful field of wheat glistens in the morning sun. As the camera skims overtop, titles start to roll.Ahead of us an odd-looking service van comes into view, sputtering along a dirt road.Getting closer, we can see the driver, a thin, bookish man with a neat mustache.This is AUSTIN GRIMALDI. The truck pulls up to a strange Victorian house in the middle of the wheatfield.The house has several futuristic radar devices on the roof that rotate constantly. AUSTIN gets out, opens the van's rear doors, and pulls out two large metal boxes. CUT TO THE ATTIC WINDOW The curtains part ever so slightly, and a pair of eyes peer down. CUT BACK TO THE VAN AUSTIN shuts the van's rear doors, and carries the two metal boxes into the house.The titles stop rolling as we; CUT TO INSIDE THE HOUSE AUSTIN is reading a schematic diagram as he sits in front of the exposed chassis of a complicated futuristic electronic contraption, twice his size.There are strange tools all over the floor. Putting down the diagram, he opens one of the metal cases and takes out a sophisticated-looking glass sphere with electronic receptacles mounted in the sides. He places this sphere in a space in the middle of the contraption, clamps it down, and plugs some wires into the globe's receptacles. Then he opens the second box.Inside is a glowing green ball.