SPIDER-MAN: THE NEW AVENGER [EP. 1] By Gabriel Young Based on: Marvel Comics’ The Amazing Spider-Man Co-Created by Stan Lee THESPECTACULARSPIDER-MAN EXT. QUEENS, NY (SKY) - DAY We move along the many towers, skyscrapers, and homes in Queens, New York. We close in on the city’s busy streets... as SPIDER-MAN swings by. He ever so gracefully glides through the air... shooting one web out, after the other. Leaping on and off structures... performing acrobatic stunts that of the most professional gymanist the world has EVER SEEN. SPIDEY’s having fun and you can tell. He makes a HARD, PAINFUL cut across a building and rockets into... MIDTOWN AVE. An ALARM... INT. MIDTOWN HIGH SCHOOL - DAY RINGING! ON CEILING SPIDER-MAN rapidly crawls away from RHINO, who RIPS the school apart with each missed SWING. This is the ultimate version of RHINO. Exo-suit; mechanical. STUDENTS SCREAM. PANIC. CHAOS. ON FLOOR They LEAP off... Rhino stops in his tracks and STOMPS on the tiles creating a ripple effect on the floor, he CHARGES onward. Spider-Man FLIPS and lands on Rhino’s back, he fires a web from his left wrist, catches it with his right hand, and wraps the strand around Rhino’s neck, using it as a LOCK for his CHOKEHOLD... he PULLS, TUGS... Rhino loses his stance and purposely crashes backwards into a wall, PUMMELING Spidey. But the webhead maintains control, until Rhino repeats the action again, and again, and again... Spider-Man loses grip, Rhino extends his arm out, yanks Spidey off his back, and like a rag-doll, propels him through a locker and into a classroom. IN CLASSROOM (CONTINUED) CONTINUED: 2. Rhino RAMS through the wall, destroying it some more and producing a GARGANTUOUS HOLE. SPIDER-MAN There’s a door over there. By the way... A locker? Cliche. RHINO Come on, Spider! An ARTILLERY of all kinda weapons POP OUT of Rhino’s forearms. IN SLOW-MOTION: ROUNDS FLY. Spidey does a backbend and hovers just above the floor, hands in a surrender-like position, staying on his legs. He just misses the bullets, a stray bullet heads for his knee, but he lifts his leg in the nick of time and the speedy casing all but scrapes the sole of his boot. END SLOW MOTION: Spider-Man puts his foot down and quickly rises. He darts on - and right off - the edge of a desk... into the air, kicks Rhino in the chest, and backflips back onto the floor. Rhino staggers a bit. Spidey webs up a couple of light sticks and RIPS them off the ceiling. He smacks Rhino with one, it shatters. Then the other, and that one shatters too. Rhino SWINGS, Spidey DUCKS. Out of nowhere, Rhino begins sporadically shooting about the room, hoping a bullet hits the webhead. Spidey sideflips away... in mid-air, he clutches onto a nearby desk and comes down with it, using it to shield himself from the bullets. The sound of the bullets striking metal becomes deafening, as if someone were repeatedly and viciously hitting a gong. Rhino’s artillery overheats, Spider-Man throws the desk at Rhino, but he makes sure to draw two legs off of it in the process. Spidey begins karate-chopping and stick-fighting the fuck out of Rhino with the legs, looking like a friggin’ ninja as hasty hand-to-hand combat ensues... At one point, Spidey impales Rhino’s helmet with one of the legs. He uses the other to impale his chest. Now obviously, it doesn’t kill Rhino, but it does help in damaging interior hardware - or in other words, things that power Rhino’s suit. RHINO (removing the legs) Think that can stop me?! SPIDER-MAN Well, no. Rhino goes to SQUASH the bug, but Spider-Man catches his arm. They struggle to hold ground until Spidey is eventually able to shove Rhino away, the beast comes right back and swings, Spidey avoids it and answers with an elbow to (CONTINUED) CONTINUED: 3. Rhino’s face. Rhino recovers and lifts Spidey in the air by his neck and throws him down hard, twice, on either side of the floor. Rhino lifts him again and throws him against the ceiling, the momentum of the throw causes Spider-Man to streak across the ceiling, creating a GASH-LOOKING hole in the process. Just as the kinetic energy comes to a halt and Spidey is about to fall to the floor, he shoots a web at the ceiling and stays on, focused on Rhino. Rhino readies his arsenal and the weapons CHARGE up. TRRRRRR! - Spidey falls to the floor on his back, missing the bullets, Rhino goes to shoot at Spidey some more, but Spidey webs his arm away, making the bullets stray to the right side of the room. Spidey shoots a web on Rhino’s foot, trying to trip him over, but Rhino yanks on the strand and PULLS Spidey towards him, lifts the webhead up, and catapults him into the wall behind them, Spidey struggles his way off the floor and runs at Rhino, Rhino SWINGS... Spidey DUCKS just underneath the punch and quickly JABS at Rhino’s stomach... Rhino turns, pissed. They run at each other again, this time Rhino LAUNCHES Spidey to the very top of the wall with a SINGLE, ANGERED punch. Spidey falls hard, in pain. Rhino lifts him with 2 fingers, as if he were about to literally "squash him", he smirks, this is too easy for him and he knows it... RHINO Can’t stop the Rhino, Spi... Spider-Man suddenly WEBS his MOUTH SHUT! SPIDER-MAN (casually, not worried one bit) That’s what you’re calling yourself? For the love of God, get to the point... Rhino RIPS the webbing off his trap and ferociously throws Spidey through a window and out into the EXTERIOR SCHOOL HALLWAY... EXTERIOR HALLWAY, ON 2ND FLOOR Spider-Man goes over the railing and BARELY hangs on. After getting back to safety, he web-swings back into the classroom where Rhino awaits... IN CLASSROOM Spider-Man web-rushes in and mightily KICKS Rhino in the face. He crawls all over his robotic body like an annoying bug should - elusively... Rhino’s distraught, what the fuck is this? He swipes at his own body, attempting to flick the pest off of him. Spidey suddenly jumps off of Rhino and back onto the floor... (CONTINUED) CONTINUED: 4. SPIDER-MAN What’s the matter, big boy? Can’t keep up? Rhino goes to drop a fist. In a flash - THWIP! Spider-Man fires a web line, which sticks to a desk that he YANKS in front of Rhino, who’s metallic hand splits it in fucking half! Rhino readies his shoulder-mounted weapons. Spider-Man fires a web at the wall behind Rhino and uses the strand to slide himself through the brass ogre’s open legs. Rhino quickly turns, grabs Spidey by his foot and WHIPS him around vigorously, resembling that of WHIRRING CHOPPER BLADES, he eventually LOBS Spidey through a chalkboard... into another classroom. IN CLASSROOM CLANG, THWACK, CRACK!... as Spider-Man crashes through desks. Rhino rushes in and SHOOTS! Spidey web-swings outta the way of the onslaught of bullets, running in CIRCLES around the room on the walls avoiding the gun-fire! Spidey web-darts towards Rhino and... IN SLOW MOTION: PUNCHES HIM IN THE FACE... END SLOW MOTION: In a continuous, slick move, Spider-Man flips onto the floor, Rhino swings, Spidey catches his hand and exerts it away. Rhino staggers and somewhat loses his stance. Spidey’s knuckles connects viciously with Rhino’s face. Spidey LEAPS, SPINS, and KICKS Rhino in mid-air. That did it... Spider-Man swings again, but he misses his mark and Rhino grabs him by his arm and throws him onto a... STEEL/WOODEN, SINGLE-PEDESTAL TEACHER’S DESK As Rhino WELTS the shit out of Spider-Man... we SMASH CUT TO: EXT. MIDTOWN HIGH SCHOOL (CAMPUS) - DAY POLICE CRUISERS gather outside the school. STUDENTS scatter the campus and are attended by PARAMEDICS. A SWAT TEAM rushes into the school... 5. INT. MIDTOWN HIGH SCHOOL - CONTINUOUS UTTER DESTRUCTION. Dim lights FLICKER. The walls are TORN, doors are UNHINGED, papers FLY and FLUTTER about the halls, tiles are TATTERED... whatever happened here was CATASTROPHIC. The SWAT team race through the corridors with their BIG ASS GUNS in hand. They dart up staircases, run down beaten up halls, and turn corners... INT. MIDTOWN HIGH SCHOOL (CLASSROOM) - DAY Spider-Man and Rhino continue to duke it out... They jump at each other and BEARHUG in mid-air, the two whirl towards the wall and CRASH through it... into yet another classroom. IN CLASSROOM Spidey and Rhino ROLL right off the floor after a violent crash-landing... Rhino runs at Spidey and swings, Spider-Man dodges the punch by hopping onto a nearby desk, Rhino swings again and Spidey quickly hops onto another desk, Rhino continues to run towards him, again and again, patience out the window, swinging and missing as Spidey continues to hop from desk to desk. Rhino swings at a desk Spidey is PERCHED on and it collapses, Rhino SHOOTS - TDDRRRRR! Spidey web-flips the hell out of the way... INT. MIDTOWN HIGH SCHOOL (CORRIDORS) - DAY THE SWAT TEAM CONTINUOUSLY RACE DOWN THE CORRIDORS... When suddenly - CLANG, THWIP! And a FAINT ROAR... makes them halt in their tracks. SERGEANT extends his hand out in a fist, signaling his TROOPS to stay quiet. They slowly move through the corridors... focused, petrified, ready.