I've been wanting to re-write our beloved movie for a little while now. I'm gunna give it a try. Opening scene below.
[OPENING SCENE-NIGHT FERRIS WHEEL-CONEY]
CLEON
It’s on and we goin’. Cyrus sent an emissary down from the Bronx this morning. Now, he don’t want anyone packed and don’t want anyone bustin’ any heads. I gave him my word that the Warriors would uphold the city-wide truce. Now everyone says that Cyrus is the shi**. I say we go have a look for ourselves.
The Warriors board the train to the Bronx.
The next shots are intercut with the various gangs making their way to the meeting, with various conversations of the Warriors under the board walk before they left to board the train.
SWAN
I don’t know man. We ain’t ever even been to the Bronx before.
CLEON
No sweat Swan, it's cool, this conclave is going to be a hot ticket. Every gang in the five bouroughs are going to be there. It’s all-city.
SWAN
I don’t like it!
COCHISE
We’re going in there with crap, nothing.
SNOW
We’ll be like everyone else, nine guys, no weapons.
CLEON
You got the stuff?
Rembrant takes off his backpack and holds up a can of spray paint.
CLEON (CONT’D)
I want you to hit everything. Make your mark. I want everyone to know the Warriors were there.
AJAX
Maybe we’ll get to bust a few heads along the way.
CLEON
You just a soider. You do that and keep ya mouth shut.
AJAX
Yea, yea!
COWBOY
You never know what could hit us from here to the Bronx. We wearin’ our colors, how we gunna hide?
VERMIN
Who wants to hide?
SWAN
When we get to the park, you stick close by, ok?
REMBRANDT
You don’t have to worry ‘bout that, I don’t feel like gettin’ japped!
AJAX
One thing we might get out of this Cyrus’s little party, layin’ some pipe. I wouldn’t mind gettin’ a little sumtin’ sumtin’.
VERMIN
You got a one track mind don’t you?
AJAX
What’s the mtter? You going faggot on me?
COWBOY
What you know ‘bout Cyrus?
COCHISE
Magic, a whole lot of magic.
COWBOY
What you know bout Cyrus?
REMBRANDT
They say he’s the one and only.
COWBOY
What you know ‘bout Cyrus?
AJAX
Pff!
COCHISE
When you’re the prez of the biggest f***in’ gang in the city, you don’t have to take no sh**.
AJAX
Ahh f*** him!
SWAN
I’ll tell you this, I bet nobody’s gunna even be at this thing.
The WARRIORS (modern type re-write)
The WARRIORS (modern type re-write)
Last edited by LIER ONE on Wed Nov 11, 2009 9:11 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: The WARRIORS (modern type re-write)
Interesting idea. What it this exactly? Are you just going to be writing it as though it were taking place nowadays, or you going to fiddle around with the plot a little?
Whichever one it is, I look forward to seeing it and how you execute it. Good luck, I'll be reading.
Whichever one it is, I look forward to seeing it and how you execute it. Good luck, I'll be reading.
Re: The WARRIORS (modern type re-write)
I'm just going to fool with the original movie. Make the dialogue a little more modern. Maybe add some new plot points. Add some things from the book. I'll have the conclave scene done tomorrow.
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Re: The WARRIORS (modern type re-write)
Can you work Cryus' daughter, Miley, into it, somehow?
*****CI CONCLAVE '09*****
---Apache----Fox------Snow---Cleon---Vermin----Swan-----------4nik8...WHO?!?
---Apache----Fox------Snow---Cleon---Vermin----Swan-----------4nik8...WHO?!?
Re: The WARRIORS (modern type re-write)
EXT.
Entrance to the park. The WARRIORS stop right before entering the park.
CLEON
I want everyone to stay close by. Anything goes down, you stick together. I’ll give you the marching orders and whether or not to break this truce. You don’t do nothin’ to make any problems at this conclave. You got that?
VERMIN
No prob war-chief.
CLEON
You got that Ajax?
AJAX
Why you gotta always look to me?
SWAN
Cause your the biggest hot head in this clique.
AJAX
You can make your move whenever.
CLEON
I told you, you just soider and keep ya moth shut.
AJAX
Sure thing war-chief.
CLEON
Rembrandt hit the wall.
The WARRIORS walk in to the park and fade in to the darkness. Rembrandt takes a can of red spraypaint and paints a large W on the wall marking the spot. He runs after the rest of the gang.
EXT
Large playground. There are various gangs taking a place around a , multi-level jungle gym. The RIFFS (Cyrus’s gang) is running security. They are leading each gang to their space as Cyrus has placed them where he wants. The WARRIORS are led to the second level, right next to the DESTROYERS. Swan shows his distaste for their spot. He bumps in to the RIFFS usher as he walks back past him. The RIFF turns but Cleon steps infront of them both. The RIFF exits. We see the view from various WARRIORS looking around at the other gangs. It looks to be over 100 different gangs here.
CYRUS
Can you count brothers? I say the future is ours. If you can count!
CROWD MEMBER 1
Go on Cyrus!
CROWD MEMBER 2
Yea, yea we with you!
CROWD MEMBER 1
Go ahead bro!
Cyrus clibs to the top of the jungle gym and takes a seat balancing on the top.
CYRUS
Now look what we have here before us. We’ve got the WARRIORS right next to the DESTROYERS. We got the SARACENS next to the JONES STREET BOYS. We’ve even got the MOONRUNNERS right near the VAN CORTLAND RANGERS and no one is wastin’ no one. And that homies...is a miricle...and miricles is what this conclave is all about!
Some of the crowd cheers. Others shout various forms of agreement.
CYRUS (CONT’D)
You are standing with nine delegates from a hundred gangs and there are thousands more. That’s over twenty thousand hardcore members. Forty thousand counting affilites and twenty thou more unorganized, but ready to fight. Over sixty thousand soilders homies! Now there ain’t but fourty thousand pigs in this whole town. Now can you dig it?
Small groups cheer.
CYRUS (CONT’D)
I said can you dig it?
The crowd gets louder. Cyrus stands.
CYRUS (CONT’D)
Can you dig it?
The crowd goes nuts. Cyrus sits and the crowd get quiet.
CYRUS (CONT’D)
Now this is why I brought you all here. One gang can run this city. We would run this whole sh**, nothing would move without us allowin’ it to happen. We would tax the crime syndicates, control the police because we got the streets suckers. Now can you dig it?
The crowd cheers as the police start to enter the park.
Entrance to the park. The WARRIORS stop right before entering the park.
CLEON
I want everyone to stay close by. Anything goes down, you stick together. I’ll give you the marching orders and whether or not to break this truce. You don’t do nothin’ to make any problems at this conclave. You got that?
VERMIN
No prob war-chief.
CLEON
You got that Ajax?
AJAX
Why you gotta always look to me?
SWAN
Cause your the biggest hot head in this clique.
AJAX
You can make your move whenever.
CLEON
I told you, you just soider and keep ya moth shut.
AJAX
Sure thing war-chief.
CLEON
Rembrandt hit the wall.
The WARRIORS walk in to the park and fade in to the darkness. Rembrandt takes a can of red spraypaint and paints a large W on the wall marking the spot. He runs after the rest of the gang.
EXT
Large playground. There are various gangs taking a place around a , multi-level jungle gym. The RIFFS (Cyrus’s gang) is running security. They are leading each gang to their space as Cyrus has placed them where he wants. The WARRIORS are led to the second level, right next to the DESTROYERS. Swan shows his distaste for their spot. He bumps in to the RIFFS usher as he walks back past him. The RIFF turns but Cleon steps infront of them both. The RIFF exits. We see the view from various WARRIORS looking around at the other gangs. It looks to be over 100 different gangs here.
CYRUS
Can you count brothers? I say the future is ours. If you can count!
CROWD MEMBER 1
Go on Cyrus!
CROWD MEMBER 2
Yea, yea we with you!
CROWD MEMBER 1
Go ahead bro!
Cyrus clibs to the top of the jungle gym and takes a seat balancing on the top.
CYRUS
Now look what we have here before us. We’ve got the WARRIORS right next to the DESTROYERS. We got the SARACENS next to the JONES STREET BOYS. We’ve even got the MOONRUNNERS right near the VAN CORTLAND RANGERS and no one is wastin’ no one. And that homies...is a miricle...and miricles is what this conclave is all about!
Some of the crowd cheers. Others shout various forms of agreement.
CYRUS (CONT’D)
You are standing with nine delegates from a hundred gangs and there are thousands more. That’s over twenty thousand hardcore members. Forty thousand counting affilites and twenty thou more unorganized, but ready to fight. Over sixty thousand soilders homies! Now there ain’t but fourty thousand pigs in this whole town. Now can you dig it?
Small groups cheer.
CYRUS (CONT’D)
I said can you dig it?
The crowd gets louder. Cyrus stands.
CYRUS (CONT’D)
Can you dig it?
The crowd goes nuts. Cyrus sits and the crowd get quiet.
CYRUS (CONT’D)
Now this is why I brought you all here. One gang can run this city. We would run this whole sh**, nothing would move without us allowin’ it to happen. We would tax the crime syndicates, control the police because we got the streets suckers. Now can you dig it?
The crowd cheers as the police start to enter the park.
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Cyrus stands and the crowd cheers as the police start to enter the park. Cyrus sits and the crowd gets quiet.
CYRUS (CONT’D)
The problem in the past is the man turning us against one another. Now I don’t care what they say. They make us all think we’re different so we rumble surrogated They break us in to Black gangs, White gangs, Latino gangs and other where they can’t organize us by color. But the Youth Board or at Rikers, they bust our heads and group us together. They treat us as if we are from the same mother, so THAT makes us brothers. In the past, we have been unable to see the truth, because we have been fighting for ten square feet of ground. A couple of blocks. Our turf, our little piece of turf. That turf, this city, is our’s by right, because it our turf. All we have to do brothers, is keep up the city-wide truce. We take over ONE borough at a time. Secure our territory. Secure our turf. Cause it is all our turf.
The crowd starts to cheer as Cyrus stands. Fox tries to get a better view and moves away from the gang. Police cars stop at the entrance to the playground. Cyrus is looking at all the gangs surrounding him. Taking it all in. Fox gets a space to see a gun being passed from gang member to gang member in the row in front of him. It stops at the leader of the ROGUES Luther. Luther takes aim and shoots Cyrus. The crowd stops, shocked. They begin to scatter, this is not what was to happen. Luther with a huge devious smile turns to find Fox staring at him. He takes aim. A police spotlight is shined in to his face before he can fire. He lowers his gun. Fox begins to try to run back to the gang. Back where the rest of the gang they are frozen waiting for Cleon to give the word.
CLEON
Run, the other way, against the crowd. Swan lead them to the highway. Keep ya asses down. Down!
Cleon jumps down a level and makes his way to the jungle gym. Cleon pushes members of other gangs out of the way. The WARRIORS take off in the other direction. Cyrus is carried off the jungle gym and laid on the floor. Cleon makes his way to see the man he respected.
RIFF1
Watch out man.
RIFF2
What’s up wit that? There was a truce. The wasn’t to be no guns.
Rembrandt lagging behind is separated from the others. As he begins to panic, he is grabbed by Fox. They take off in the same direction as the others.
FOX
Come on move it!
REMBRANDT
Where is Cleon? He went in your direction to look for you?
FOX
I think he is up there.
REMBRANDT
Are you sure?
FOX
No, move it!!
Back at Cyrus he is bleeding pretty bad. The rest of The RIFFS are trying to stop the bleeding. Cleon is standing over them, paying his respects. Luther begins to go crazy.
LUTHER
There he is!! That’s him! That’s The WARRIOR. He shot Cyrus. I saw him.
Some of the RIFFS get up from kneeling.
CLEON
Hey f**cker, you’re crazy. I didn;t do sh**t.
LUTHER
We saw him!. We saw him shoot him!
Luther grabs another ROUGE by the neck.
SCULLY
Yea that’s him!
LUTHER
He’s the one, he’s the one!. They did it! The WARRIORS did it! The WARRIORS did it!
Luther jumps down the level to make it look like he is going after Luther. Cleon being a better fighter, he elbows him in the face. Both the ROUGES and RIFFS converge on CLEON. There are more RIFFS and the push and punch the members of ROGUES. If anyone will get the person responsible for killing their leader, it will be them. They begin to surrond Cleon and hit him spinning him around three or four time and landing a hit with each spin. When he is on the ground, they begin to stomp his head on the pavement.
CLEON
It wasn’t uhh....
A final blow lands on Cleon head.
CYRUS (CONT’D)
The problem in the past is the man turning us against one another. Now I don’t care what they say. They make us all think we’re different so we rumble surrogated They break us in to Black gangs, White gangs, Latino gangs and other where they can’t organize us by color. But the Youth Board or at Rikers, they bust our heads and group us together. They treat us as if we are from the same mother, so THAT makes us brothers. In the past, we have been unable to see the truth, because we have been fighting for ten square feet of ground. A couple of blocks. Our turf, our little piece of turf. That turf, this city, is our’s by right, because it our turf. All we have to do brothers, is keep up the city-wide truce. We take over ONE borough at a time. Secure our territory. Secure our turf. Cause it is all our turf.
The crowd starts to cheer as Cyrus stands. Fox tries to get a better view and moves away from the gang. Police cars stop at the entrance to the playground. Cyrus is looking at all the gangs surrounding him. Taking it all in. Fox gets a space to see a gun being passed from gang member to gang member in the row in front of him. It stops at the leader of the ROGUES Luther. Luther takes aim and shoots Cyrus. The crowd stops, shocked. They begin to scatter, this is not what was to happen. Luther with a huge devious smile turns to find Fox staring at him. He takes aim. A police spotlight is shined in to his face before he can fire. He lowers his gun. Fox begins to try to run back to the gang. Back where the rest of the gang they are frozen waiting for Cleon to give the word.
CLEON
Run, the other way, against the crowd. Swan lead them to the highway. Keep ya asses down. Down!
Cleon jumps down a level and makes his way to the jungle gym. Cleon pushes members of other gangs out of the way. The WARRIORS take off in the other direction. Cyrus is carried off the jungle gym and laid on the floor. Cleon makes his way to see the man he respected.
RIFF1
Watch out man.
RIFF2
What’s up wit that? There was a truce. The wasn’t to be no guns.
Rembrandt lagging behind is separated from the others. As he begins to panic, he is grabbed by Fox. They take off in the same direction as the others.
FOX
Come on move it!
REMBRANDT
Where is Cleon? He went in your direction to look for you?
FOX
I think he is up there.
REMBRANDT
Are you sure?
FOX
No, move it!!
Back at Cyrus he is bleeding pretty bad. The rest of The RIFFS are trying to stop the bleeding. Cleon is standing over them, paying his respects. Luther begins to go crazy.
LUTHER
There he is!! That’s him! That’s The WARRIOR. He shot Cyrus. I saw him.
Some of the RIFFS get up from kneeling.
CLEON
Hey f**cker, you’re crazy. I didn;t do sh**t.
LUTHER
We saw him!. We saw him shoot him!
Luther grabs another ROUGE by the neck.
SCULLY
Yea that’s him!
LUTHER
He’s the one, he’s the one!. They did it! The WARRIORS did it! The WARRIORS did it!
Luther jumps down the level to make it look like he is going after Luther. Cleon being a better fighter, he elbows him in the face. Both the ROUGES and RIFFS converge on CLEON. There are more RIFFS and the push and punch the members of ROGUES. If anyone will get the person responsible for killing their leader, it will be them. They begin to surrond Cleon and hit him spinning him around three or four time and landing a hit with each spin. When he is on the ground, they begin to stomp his head on the pavement.
CLEON
It wasn’t uhh....
A final blow lands on Cleon head.
"It's on and we're going!"
Re: The WARRIORS (modern type re-write)
What does everyone think so far? I am going to start to encompass more of the book in to the script now. I would like some feedback though.
"It's on and we're going!"
Re: The WARRIORS (modern type re-write)
Yes, I'd say it's been pretty good so far. There's not much difference from the story yet, but I'm sure as we get further and further into the story and meet the gangs it'll start becoming quite interesting.
Good work, please continue.
Good work, please continue.
Re: The WARRIORS (modern type re-write)
I will be changing things around, but my biggest problem with remakes etc. is that they never stick close to the original. I'm trying to stay as close as possible. Gunna add some from the book and other ideas I've had.
"It's on and we're going!"