So is Pontius Pilate going to be out there in his football pads ? Will Judas Iscariot be driving the gyrocopter ?
And where will the Roman soldier be with the steel boomerang ?
Set in the future, Jesus comes back to a post-apocolypse Australia.
BLACK AND WHITE ACADEMY FORMAT
la. THE WASTELAND. DAY.
Flurries of dust and sand swirl around us as we move
through an eerie, barren land. The only sound is the
howl of a rising wind.
Ahead something looms out of the storm. As we approach
we see that it is the rusting remains of a massive oil pump, set in the form of a crucifix.
The wind drops to be replaced by the voice of a very
old man. This Is the Narrator:
NARRATOR v/o
The vision dims and all that
remains are mememories.
They take me back - back to
the place where the black
pump sucked guzzolene from
the earth...
DISSOLVE.
lb. ANOTHER PART OF THE WASTELAND. DAY.
Out of the dust storm emerges the ancient wreck of
a prime mover and fuel tanker. It is partly
charred, its wheels and sides studded with metal
crossbow bolts.
NARRATOR v/o
And I remember the terrible
battle we fought - the day
we left that place forever...
DISSOLVE.
1c. A HILLTOP IN THE WASTELAND. DAY.
A warrior, dressed in leather and steel, stands on
a hill crest. This is JESUS. Behind him is a strange
road vehicle: two engines and a seat mounted on a
chassis.
NARRATOR v/o
But, most of all, I remember
the courage of a stranger, a
soul warrior called Jesus.
To understand who he was you
must go back to the last days
of the old world ...
FADE TO BLACK.
7. THE MARAUDERS CATCH UP - HIGHWAY. DAY.
A light flashes on Jesus's dashboard, an alarm whoops.
Jesus looks down at the fuel gauge: close to empty.
He curses and performs a miracle, creating a newly-filled
gas tank.
The black-on-black slows anyways...
The DOG whimpers, crawls off its chair and under Jesus's
seat.
Judas overhauls Jesus on the passenger side, He raises his
forearm, aiming his gauntlet-style crossbow at Jesus's
head.
Jesus barely has time to glimpse the road racer drawing
alongside the driver's door.
The passenger - a BERSERKER - wields a brutal,
gas-powered 'gun': the heads of six metal arrows
protrude from a big barrel. This weapon is the
"Porta-pak".
Jesus hits the brakes.
The road racer and the bike surge past the black car...
just as the porta-pak fires.
Two arrows thud into the black car, three go astray
and one hits Judas in the arm.
Jesus throws the black car in behind the road racer ...
Judas, fighting to control the bike, leaves the road...
Jesus changes down and hits the supercharger...
The black car leaps forward, ramming into the back of
the road racer, bullying it along.
Wheels and metal screaming, the two cars approach an
intersection littered with furniture and other debris.
A road rig lies abandoned on the roadside.
Jesus eases back for a moment then flattens the
accelerator...
The black car slams into the back of the road racer...
hurling it forward, just as the dune buggy regains the
highway...