Fantastic Four Opener

There's so much else I need to do but, well, Facebook happened and now I'm writing the beginning to a Fantastic Four script.

[We open on shot of a young man's hand putting ridiculously sugary cereal, milk and bread onto a large serving tray.]

Voice from the other room: Johnny! It's about to start! This was your dumb idea, so get your butt in here!

[Pan up to Johnny Storm's face. He's grinning from ear to ear. Turn to over shoulder shot, showing Sue sitting on a couch in front of a giant TV. To her right is a giant figure made of orange stone, sitting in a massive-sized recliner that looks like it's seen better days.]

Johnny: One second, sis! You're the one who's suddenly too cool for Choco-Frosted Sugar Bombs.

Sue: Remember, I like it lightly toasted (Johnny's finger catches fire and he quickly colours the bread) and no powers, it makes the bread taste funny.

[Johnny picks up the tray and carries it into the other room.]

Johnny: Of course.

[Places the tray on the table. Ben, the rock man, reaches over and picks up a giant-sized bowl of cereal with an equally large spoon.]

Ben: I think this is a good idea, kid. Not often people get to see old Ben Grimm on the screen without screamin'.

Sue [reaches out and touches his arm with no small amount of kind affection]: Oh, Ben, the people LOVE you.

[Ben grumbles]

Johnny (shouting into an adjacent room): Hey, Reed, you coming in?

[Just Reed's head appears in the room.]

Reed: Yes. Just a moment.

[There is an explosion in the lab.]

Reed: Maybe a minute.

[His head disappears. No one moves. Everyone eats their breakfast as we hear the sound of fire extinguisher, a hint of smoke curls in the bottom of the shot.]

Sue: Need any help, Reed?

Reed [distant]: Ow ow ow, no, I've almost got it - [explosion] oh, dear.

Ben: Keep it down, stretch!

[Now at a view over the couch, we can see on the screen an anime style screen that reads, "The FantFastic Four.]

Sue: Oh, no, they went with that name.

Johnny (mockingly fricative): Fanfastic four. So stupid. Tested well with kids, I guess.

[On the screen, the characters are introduced. Ben appears as the thing and decks a robot.]

TV Ben: It's clobberin' time!

Ben: What? That's ... that ain't how I talk!

[Sue and Johnny snicker]

Ben: Aw, shaddup, you both get to look thing and purty.

[Johnny throws a pillow at Ben as Sue's phone rings. She answers.]

Sue: Hello, this is - oh, I see.

[She changes the channel to a news channel where The Wizard, The Trapster, Sandman and Medusa are holding hostages in Central Park. The camera shakes.]

The Wizard: You will bring 40 million dollars to Central Park at once, or I will activate the antigravity discs I've attached all of the city! Manhattan will truly have a "sky"line. [pauses] [licks lips]

Trapster (off-screen): I told you - don't try to make "sky"line happen.

The Wizard: Shut up you f-

[Sue shuts off the TV]

Sue: Sorry, boys, your cereal's getting soggy. The city needs us. (another look into the lab) Reed?

[Reed enters the room, a small cellphone in his hand.]

Reed: Here - Fantasticar's waiting for us.

Ben (muttering): Stupid name.

[The heroes run for the large bay windows to outside and leap through them - they shimmer, like a hologram, as they do so.]