Back to the Future Comic Script Sample

 

 

PAGE ONE (6 panels)

 

The following scene will be a remake of the final scene from Back to the Future Part 3:

 

Panel 1. An all black panel. Printed in the center of the panel are the words:

 

ŅSunday

October 27, 1985

1:21 PMÓ

 

Panel 2. Close on a picture, being held by Marty who is off-panel. It is of Marty and Doc, standing by the Old West clock, in their Old West apparel. Marty has just unwrapped some brown paper from the picture and is looking at it for the first time.

 

Panel 3. On Marty, in the Old West clothes he wore at the end of part 3. He smiles up at Doc, off-panel in his time train. Jennifer Parker stands next to Marty.

 

MARTY:

ItÕs great, Doc! Thanks!

 

JEN:

Doctor Brown?

 

Panel 4. Jen approaches Doc, who sits in the doorway of the time train, and she unfolds a piece of paper and shows it to him.

 

JEN:

I brought this note back from the future and now itÕs erased!

 

DOC:

Of course itÕs erased!

 

JEN:

But what does that mean?

 

Panel 5. Close on Doc, smiling warmly on the couple.

 

DOC:

It means that your future hasnÕt been written yet. No oneÕs has!

 

DOC:

Your future is whatever you make it. So make it a good one. Both of you!

 

Panel 6. Marty and Jen watch as Doc stands up and turns around back into the train, his family, Clara, Jules and Verne, stepping in before him.

 

MARTY:

We will, Doc!

 

DOC:

Stand back!


 

PAGE TWO (6 panels)

 

Panel 1. Long shot. Marty and Jen look up at the train as Doc sticks his head out a window and looks at them. The doors to the train have snapped shut.

 

MARTY:

Where you going now, Doc? Back to the future?

 

DOC:

Nope! Already been there!

 

Panel 2. Doc closes the window and the trainÕs wheelÕs fold under the train and it is propelled into the sky!

 

Panel 3.The following should be a series of panels. The train swings around so the back is facing the panel and an explosion from the rear thrusters is seen.

 

SFX:

WHOOSH!

 

Panel 4. In the distance, the train swings around to face the panel once more, having been thrust to the rear of the panel.

 

Panel 5. The time train now takes up nearly the entire panel as it barrels directly at the reader, discharges emanating from the locomotive to indicate temporal displacement.

 

SFX:

Woooo!

 

SFX:

BOOM!

 

Panel 6. Long shot as Marty and Jen look up at the sky, fire tracks apparent where the time train was formerly.

 

TITLES & CREDITS:

The Unwritten Laws Part I

Aaron Jenkins Š writer

TBD Š everything else