Opening Scene for a Potential X-Men Movie

Here’s an opening scene that I wrote for a potential X-Men movie. It’s dark for what Disney is probably going to do with the X-Men so there’s no way this would actually be made, it was just for fun, idk lol.

INT GOTHIC MANOR - ESSEX'S LAB - NIGHT (1862)

A storm rages outside a large gothic manor. Inside, a different storm brews. Candles cast dancing shadows across a cluttered, macabre laboratory. Nathaniel Essex, a gaunt silhouette, hunches over a microscope.

The door creaks open, a sliver of light from the hallway pierces the gloom. Essex cringes, recoiling like a creature of the night. His wife, Rebecca, stands in the doorway, her face filled with worry.

REBECCA ESSEX
Nathaniel, why are you not in bed?
It's the dead of night.

NATHANIEL ESSEX
(Voice is a low, rasping murmur)
The future waits for no one, dear.

REBECCA ESSEX
This room is frightening. Why must you spend so much time in here?

Essex doesn’t answer. His gaze is fixed on
the unseen specimen beneath his lens.

REBECCA ESSEX
We’ve only just lost our son. Please, Nathaniel, I need you to be present. Come to bed.

Essex slowly straightens, his silhouette becomes more defined, a chilling presence.

NATHANIEL ESSEX
I’ve dug him up.

Rebecca’s eyes widen. Her breath catches in her throat.

REBECCA ESSEX
Pardon?

NATHANIEL ESSEX
(Turning, his form still hidden, but the intent in his voice is more clear)
I’ve dug him up. He needed to be studied. Examined.

REBECCA ESSEX
(Beginning to spout tears)
Nathaniel, how could you do this? Do you not share the same grief that I do?

NATHANIEL ESSEX
Grief is but an obstacle that need not be prolonged. For science to persevere, our emotions must be kept in order.

REBECCA ESSEX
(Fully crying)
But our son… our poor little boy. This is wrong. What have you done?

NATHANIEL ESSEX
There is no right or wrong. There is progress. Morality hinders progress. We have a second due soon. There is no need to bring me this distraction.

Rebecca stares at him, the tears slow, horror dawning in her eyes.

REBECCA ESSEX
You have become an evil man. A sinister…

Her last words are cut short as she slams the door, her sobs echoing in the sudden silence.

A moment passes.

MYSTERIOUS VOICE (APOCALYPSE)
(Voice is powerful, assertive, but collected)
She does not think the way that we do, Essex.

Essex spins around, his posture alert, searching the shadows. Still a silhouette.

NATHANIEL ESSEX
Who speaks?

MYSTERIOUS VOICE (APOCALYPSE)
Someone who shares the same distaste for human life as you do, my friend. Someone that sees it for what it is… weak.

NATHANIEL ESSEX
I have no need for friends.

MYSTERIOUS VOICE (APOCALYPSE)
Your peers, they shun you. They laugh. But not because you are wrong. It is because they are afraid to do what is necessary. They are afraid that you will best them.

NATHANIEL ESSEX
(Voice is frustrated then saddens)
They are fools! Darwin sleeps in his bed while I stand here, working… working on something that could take lifetimes.

The mysterious voice seems to ripple through the very air, shifting, surrounding the entire room.

MYSTERIOUS VOICE (APOCALYPSE)
Lifetimes… lifetimes I can give you.

Essex stumbles, clutching his head. He screams, the sound of agony, as his body begins to convulse. He falls to his knees, shaking violently.

Still no sight of his face, but his hands are shown. His skin turning an unnatural, sickly white colour. His Fingernails become pointed.

The camera pulls back, revealing his silhouette once more. A pulsating, crimson diamond gem appears on his forehead, glowing with an ominous light.

FADE TO BLACK

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