I took the story back a bit a decided to see how I could fit my story into the typical 3 act structure. My logic is that if I can work the story into segments, I can then work in jokes around those segments, this has lead to the creation of a new story plan and storyboard. (New Script coming in my next post)
Story Plan & Storyboard
Beginning
- Intro Sequence
- (This sequence would be a parody of classic superhero intros, like 60's Spider-Man or Roger Ramjet. This of course requires a theme song which the visuals would match. Aside the issue of having to write a song, my plans for this sequence is to have the titular character performing various heroic feats, however as the intro progresses the feats become more and more ridiculous)
- Epic Man looking over the city
- The narrator introduces the audience to Epic Man
- An explosion is seen and heard by the bank
- Epic Man thinks on his next course of action and flies toward the building
Inciting Incident
- Robert Banks and his crew arrive at the bank through a hole they made
- Banks begins monologuing; mid monologue he throws out a stick of dynamite
- One of the henchmen catches the dynamite, then throws it to one of the other henchmen (This starts a running joke of the henchmen pretty much playing hot potato with the dynamite)
- The dynamite finally explodes in the hands of one of the henchmen as Banks finishes his monologue. He then berates them for slacking
- The villains then begin looking for valuables.
- One of them stumbles across the bank's vault
Climax of Act One
- Epic Man arrives
- He arrives by crashing through the wall
- He quips, enraging Banks, the two quickly begin arguing
- "This is not a drill"
- (I had this silly idea of a joke, involving the characters needing a drill to crack the vault and the idea that they had prepared to encounter Epic Man.)
- Banks orders his henchmen to attack Epic Man
Act Two Part One
- Epic Man fights the henchmen
- This fight will be very slapstick focus with Epic Man dispatching the henchmen in comedic ways
- Banks starts to shoot at Epic Man
- Epic Man effortlessly dodges all of the bullets
- Epic Man address how this gun doesn't seem to run out of bullets, but he also mocks Banks by saying that he can dodge all of them
- Banks throws a stick of dynamite at Epic Man
- Epic Man catches it, he turns to the audience to explain the dangers of explosives before throwing it away
- The henchmen are trying to recover from their beat down
- The dynamite is thrown their way, with one of them catching it
- They juggle it a bit until one of them throws the dynamite at the bank vault, blowing it open
Act Two Part Two
- The bank vault has now been broken into
- The henchmen quickly run in and begin looting
- The fight between Epic Man and Banks also enters the vault
- Slapstick featuring all five characters ensues
- While dueling, Banks begins monologuing again
- He then pulls out another stick of dynamite and throws it to Epic Man, who promptly throws it to one of the henchmen
- The dynamite is passed around while the fight continues
Climax of Act Two
- Epic Man trips over his own cape
- While laughing at this and claiming his victory, the dynamite lands in Bank's hand, blowing up
- The explosion leaves cartoonish soot all over Banks as he falls to the ground
Wrap-Up
- Epic Man then turns his attention to the three henchmen, still looting
- He prepares to engage them as one of them hands him a bag of cash
- This stuns Epic Man, which leaves him open for more cash to be handed to him
- After a pause, Epic Man tells the Henchmen to be carefull and bids them adieu
- He leaves through the wall, creating a new hole
- The Narrator wraps up the strange adventure that just happened
