Challenge: Create a trailer for an AH film!

[trekchu]

Originally Posted by Timmy811

Dude's 80 years old and only had 3 more years to live, there's no way he'd be up to that.

He did in the book. I have read it.

[HARRY]

Scene 1: University lecture hall with a professor and a slideshow of Roman ruins.

Voice over : Martin Padway studied history.

Scene 2: Man in modern dress trying to talk latin with a bearded man in armor.

Voice over: Now he is living it.

Scene 3: slowly zoom back showing Rome with the Colloseum, the hippodrome and viaducts intact.

Scene 4:Cut between Martin being chased by soldiers, kissed by beautiful woman, holding up a printed news sheet and a battle scene.

Voice over: This summer Miramax invites you to find out can one man change the course of history "Lest Darkness Fall".

Scene 5: Rome in flames fade to black.

[Geekhis Khan]

*Wolf whistle*

[Image of a Lizard in smeared body paint shaking]

{Steel Drum music starts}

"They're back again! Those wild Lizards..and now the ginger is really flowing!

"It's Lizards Gone Wild XII, Lizards in Paradise!"

[Image of a Lizard Male, head scales starting to rise and being hidden by superimposed DVD cover]

"You won't believe what these Horny Home Honeys will do for a lick of the brown stuff!"

[Lizard female bends over, DVD cover strategically superimposed]

"But things really get crazy when Shiplord Straha shows up!"

[Straha, mouth open in humor as two Lizard females lick ginger off of his neck]

"But wait...order now and get Donald's Ginger Diaries absolutely free! That's a double-lick: four gingerific hours of lusty Lizard action for one low price!"

[Donald in Tux bodypaint, eye-turrets googling, mouth open with humor, thumbs-up, big bag of ginger in hand]

"Call now!!!!"

"See more action at lizardsgonewild.com!"




Ok...I've scared myself now.

[DireSituation]

My story is based of World War 2, but has a "Crank" feeling to it.

Trailer Opening starts with:



MOVIE RATED R-RESTRICTED


...Saving Private Ryan Music fades in.


Camera fades to and overhead view of Omaha Beach, June 6th, 1944.

As the camera zooms in, the audience notices something is off.

American troops start to fire with their Thompson SMGs and the Germans fire their cliff-mounted machines guns.

Camera zooms in even further to focus on the Thompson SMG.

The Thompson SMG is firing what appears to be lasers, and an American captain swears loudly and throws a nuclear grenade- which explodes in a mushroom cloud, shaking the camera.

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ROCK MUSIC (Look up the Tropic Thunder soundtrack) slashes through the Saving Private Ryan music.

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Camera starts to shake and flips 30 degrees to a farther end of the beach, where a huge mechanized machine emerges from the waves and crashes onto the sand,
marching towards the bunkers on the cliff.


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"From LIONSGATE and LAKESHORE ENTERTAINMENT"

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6 German Tiger tanks with 3 barrels on each tank crash down to the beachhead from the cliffs.

Allied helicopters (In a very 40s design) roar in from the skies and open fire, while dropping in additional troops.

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"Sometimes, things don't happen the way they're supposed to."

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Allied troops yell as they charge forwards, while German armored airships appear in the smoke and fire missiles onto the beach.

The same captain from before single-handily snipes three German machine gunners in 2 seconds as you see his veins on his neck bulge.

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As the ROCK MUSIC is about to hit the climax, a deafening bass sound crashes, synced with the film's title, which crashes onto the screen.

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WORLD WAR STEROIDS

July 4th, 2012


*art by Keith Thompson

[Condottiero]

In 1491 Chinese astronomers observed a comet.

[Image of some chinese astronomers pointing at a comet in the sky]

It was the closest one in historical times. But what if...

[Images of an asteroid falling in a frozen landscape]

What if the second Flood fell on earth...

[Images of the sky darkening with clouds and intense rain falling in a medieval village; images of water covering XV century Venice, London, Seville and Antwep]

What if a new world emerged from the waters...

[images of Rome with channels, of a town being built by the sea, of a sea port by the pyramids of Gizah]

A new world with old conflicts and grudges...

[Images of a galleon firing on a galley with a crescent in the middle of a massive naval battle]
[Images of a beautiful red haired woman dancing in front of an slavic attired as an ottoman officer]
[Images of a man being tortured in a dark cellar]
[Images of spanish tercio troopers fighting by Petra's ruins]
[Images of an old spanish officer drawing a sword and pointing to a huge ottoman army]

The Road to Mount Abarim.

The Crusade after the Second Flood begins

[Images of a man attired as a mayan warrior but with a huge steel saber killing a dark skinned warrior with a turban]

[In black]
Soon on your theater

[mattep74]

Voice: In 1939 Hitler invaded Poland, the allies declare war

Map is shown with brown and red splitting Poland

Vo: April 9 1940, Norway and Denmark falls.

Map shows the invasion of Norway and Denmark

Vo: Soon the attack comes on France and the low countries

Map shows the attack

Vo: The brittish managed to escape at Dunkirk, but leave lots of material on the ground

We all know the story.

Voice of Churchill "We will fight them on the beaches"

Picture of Hitler studying a map

Scene of Luftwaffe taking off and voice:" We all know the battle and Churchills imortal words. "

Cut to a scene of lots of barges

Voice: But what if Sealion had happened. June 6 2009 it will happen.

SEALION, The battle for mankind

End clip: A massive armada is shown of tugboats with Rhinebarges and surrounded by massive airpower and the entrie German navy. Explosions are shown and a single brittish destroyer sails into a tugboat firering at the camera.

[ianr]

check out link to world war trailer , just want to say this is not mine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2SF3Ghg4LY



come on hollywood get a move on

[Canis Lupus]

Originally Posted by Archangel Michael

A man wearing a gray business suit is walking down a dark hallway. He is followed by four guards dressed in gray military uniforms and World War One-era doughboy helmets. This man is President JAKE FEATHERSTON of the Confederate States of America. The sound of cheering is getting louder and louder.

ANNOUNCER (v.o.)
Imagine a world where the South won the American Civil War.

As the announcer is speaking, images of the past flash for several seconds: images of McClellan surrendering to Lee, the Confederate flag flying over the White House, soldiers in blue and gray clashing, and American barrels fighting in the Great War.

ANNOUNCER (cont’d.)
Imagine a world where the United States was put between two hostile nations. Imagine a world where the Allies lost the First World War.

JAKE FEATHERSTON finally exits the hallway and is standing on a balcony overlooking a huge crowd. Thousands fill the plaza, with guards in gray uniforms and holding Freedom Party flags are in the front. The crowd goes wild as they see FEATHERSTON. He snaps off a clean Bellamy (Nazi) salute. The camera pans around and we see the massive crowd responding in kind. Large cries of “Freedom!” ring out.

ANNOUNCER (cont’d.)
Well, stop imagining.

JAKE FEATHERSTON
My name is Jake Featherston, and I'm here to tell you the truth!

The crowd, which had quieted down, explodes into applause and more shouts of “Freedom!” can be heard.

The shot changes to that of SCIPIO, his wife BATHSHEBA, and their two children running down a dark street. Buildings are on fire and shouts of “Freedom!” can be heard in the background. The shot then changes to that of camp guard JEFF PINKERTON watching as a truck drive up.

ANNOUNCER (v.o.)
Dive into a world filled with hate and violence.

A guard in gray steps out of the truck and walks up to JEFF PINKTERTON. Several more guards open up the doors of the truck and empty out its passengers: black prisoners in chains.

TRUCK DRIVER
I’ve got you another batch.

JEFF PINKTERTON
I’m over my population limit. What I am I going to do with more niggers?

TRUCK DRIVER
That’s your problem.

The image turns to a shot of the battlefield in Ohio. Confederate barrels are charging past the burned out wreckage of their American counterparts. We see more images of war.

ANNOUNCER (v.o.)
And into a world gone mad with war. Presenting Settling Accounts: Return Engagement, the groundbreaking movie based off the best-selling book by Harry Turtledove. Coming to a theater near you on May 10th. Rating pending.

The screen goes black

CROWD (v.o.)

Freedom!

Originally Posted by Major Major

FADE IN . . .
The scenes are of New York at the beginning of the twentieth century: Coney Island, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty, Central Park, the fine houses of Upper Manhattan, the teeming communities, the family neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Queens; couples walking in the streets, children playing on the beach, a fine society party, a laughter-filled tavern.
"It was a new century and a great nation. The Full Dinner Pail was the rule of the land. The country had won its splendid little war. This would be America's Century."

Grimmer music, the scene of a convoy of ships. As the camera pans in we can see a few soldiers on deck, wearing picklehaubes . .
"But others also wanted a place in the sun. They envied and resented our rise, and hoped to cut it down."

Gunfire and fighting. German soldiers march through the streets of New York City. The camera pans in on an American flag that has been torn down and trampled.
"Our nation was attacked, our people put under foreign dominion."

The same flag, flying over Washington. The camera pulls back to two men standing before the White House before a large crowd, shouting "Pete! Pete!" In the background a band is playing "The Stars and Stripes Forever".
"In this time of crisis a new president was faced with the ultimate challenge."

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
"I give you the new General in Chief of the U.S. Army --- General James Longstreet!"

The cheers of "Pete! Pete!" rise to a new crescendo.
General Longstreet turns to face the flag and salutes it. He is in Union blue, with four gold stars on his epaulets. As he salutes we can see a tear in his eye.
GENERAL LONGSTREET
"Americans from North and South, together as one now! America will fight --- and America will win!"

The band breaks into "Dixie"
FADE to Title Card

1901

Coming to a theater near you on 19th January

Originally Posted by luakel

The "Idealist Movies" logo appears, followed by the WB logo.

NARRATOR

Imagine...

The WB morphs into a sun, and the camera moves down to rest upon workers standing angrily beyond a metal gate. They are waving picket signs with slogans like "IWW WILL TAKE CONTROL" and "DOWN WITH THE ROBBER-BARONS". They can be heard screaming various things, while nearby police watch on nervously.

NARRATOR
...a world where things are different.

The sound of horses trotting can be heard. The camera moves to one of the horses' head, and then moves to it's owner. He has a somewhat portly face, and has brownish-gray hair, a short mustache, and round spectacles. He is Theodore Roosevelt, President-elect of the United States. He begins to speak, but his voice cannot be heard over the protestors.

NARRATOR
And it just so happens...

Behind Roosevelt, there are many other horsemen, all with shotguns at readyness. On the ground next to Roosevelt, a Pinkerton (Samuel Hammett) draws his revolver and looks at the crowd as Roosevelt continues to speak.

NARRATOR
...that on this world...

Roosevelt stops speaking, and him and the other horsemen begin to advance towards the gate, even as the protesters start chanting a slogan repeateadly and begin to try and climb the gate. The police begin to take action, rattiling their clubs on the bars of the gate and yelling orders to cease and desist.

NARRATOR
...a change has happened...

The horsemen aim their guns at the gate, which is weakening under the pressure. Roosevelt raises his hand, apparently ready to order a charge, when a gun firing is heard. His mouth opens, and he says one last word.

ROOSEVELT
(softly)
Bully.

Cut to spectacles hitting the ground and shattering, and then to the Pinkerton's face, watching in shock as shotgun blasts are heard.

NARRATOR
...that was heard 'round the world.

Cut to a scene in Washington, with several notable landmarks visible. It is snowing slightly. The camera zooms to a scene on the Capitol, where a man has his hand on the Bible and is speaking.

CHARLES FOSTER KANE
...So help me God.

NARRATOR
And this change...

Cut to a shot of Lincoln's statue in the memorial. Icy tears fall from his eyes. Then, suddenly, the camera is filled with a crimson hue, with a hammer-sickle symbol expanding from the center.

NARRATOR
...would make America go red.

The Beatles' "Back in the USSR" plays, but a similar toned "A" has been spliced into the song in place of the "R". Meanwhile, there is a montage of scenes from the movie, from the sinking of the Titanic as seen from the eyes of Houdini in the water, to soldiers fighting in a trench-crossed France while shells burst, to another scene of Washington with a huge group waving red flags and chanting, to a smartly-dressed Alphonse Capone walking down a White House corridor with his cronies following.

NARRATOR
This fall...

The screen turns to black, and the words First Part of the "Back in the USSA" Trilogy" appear.

NARRATOR
...revolution is in the air.

The words Red Revolution Rising appear in a way that makes it seem as if they have been written in paint... or blood. They then disappear, and "10.13.05" appears to end the trailer.

Originally Posted by Strategos' Risk

Scene opens with black and white, vintage film footage of war, bombings, no sounds. Pearl Harbor. Sea Lion landings. Then, attacks on the U.S. Zeros over San Francisco, Golden Gate hit. Panzers rolling into New York. Finally, silent, cheering German troops.


Screen Text
If history had lost a leader

SFX: A gunshot.

CUT TO: Zangara assassinates FDR


SFX: Tense music, or possibly drumbeats

Quick-Cuts: inauguration, Newspaper with headline “President Bricker declares neutrality!” A fictional conference with smiling Hitler, Tojo, and Mussolini, then colored versions of the earlier scenes of an invasion of U.S.

Screen Text
What would result?

SFX: Sad, patriotic music.

CUT TO: Defeated, dirty American troops standing in the bombed-out ruins of Chicago. Patton ceremoniously hands Rommel his sidearm/sword.

Screen Text
If evil had triumphed

SFX: Again, tense music/drumbeats

Quick-cuts: Images of the Todt Plan, American working on reconstruction under Nazi overseers, refugees running through a dark city, millions of Luftwaffe jets fly over an African savannah, Japanese officials shaking hands with new PSA puppet gov't, German soldiers (actually the SD from the scene late in the book) storming an office building, final shot is of rebuilt New York City, with Nazified architecture

SFX: Shifts, holds a note, makes an odd ethereal sound

CUT TO: Pan over the length of the Nazi Space Rocket, magnificently huge, zoom out until you realize that its launch pad isn’t on Earth.

Screen Text
Who could oppose it?

BAYNES (in hushed tones)
And there are others of us. Do you hear? We did not die. We still exist. We live on unseen.

Screen Text
If hostile nations had conquered America

SFX: No sound, tense silence

Hold shot for 1.5 seconds: Map of U.S. divided into Pacific States, Rocky Mountain States, and the United States

Screen Text
Where would we be?

SFX: Once again, tense music/drumbeats

Quick-cuts: Juliana leading a class of judo students; Frank Frink kneels in front of a I Ching oracle book and tosses sticks into the air, prompting the camera to zoom onto them momentarily; Mr. Tagomi peeks out from behind a wall that has an American Civil War recruiting poster prominently displayed; Ed McCarthy holds up something shiny in his hand though we can't see it clearly; an ornate jewel box opens to show a Mickey Mouse wristwatch on a bed of plush velvet; slaves take Childan's luggage as he disembarks from a rickshaw.

NARRATOR (v.o.)
In this world we see not only the horrors of totality...

SFX: Tenseness/drumbeats near a crescendo of intensity

Quick-cuts: Imperial Japanese troops execute a Japanese man (profiteer mentioned in the novel), a Nazi rocket passes over the Rockies as Juliana watches, an army of SS troops carrying huge portraits of Heydrich marches towards an army of blackshirts carrying huge portraits of Goebbels into an inevitable fight, "Joe" kills a British officer in North Africa.

CUT TO: Two American cops, one holding Frank Frink.

COP #1
Back to Germany.

FRANK FRINK
I'm an American!

COP #2
You're a Jew.

NARRATOR (v.o.)
...But the shame of normality.

SFX: Nostalgic music, slowly fading and becoming more sinister

Quick-cuts: 1950s suburbs, mixed in with some '30s Gernsback-styled art deco technocratic futurism in a way Ray Bradbury would have approved. Kids playing on lawns with hula hoops, roller skates, dressed in odd khaki uniforms. Pan across city, showing well-kept lawns, happy people, neoclassical civic buildings, then...

Shot: The city is surrounded by scorched earth, hundreds of acres of cleared rainforest, images of burnt villages, and as you drift further away, you can see flat, square factories with tall smokestacks spewing out the ghosts of billions of people in the form of midnight-pitch smog.

[[[In the actual film, a caption would be on the bottom left of the screen: Dakar, Senegal]]]

NARRATOR (v.o.)
A shadow of the truth is awaking.

SFX: Desparate, dramatic music

Hold shot for 1.5 seconds: A hardcover book with a picture of a grasshopper prominently displayed.

Cut to: Juliana puts hand on cover carefully, picks the book up and looks at it carefully, curious look on her face.

Quick-cuts: A crowd of Japanese and Americans walk out from a bookstore displaying copies of The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, Wyndan-Matsom throws his head back in loud laughter as he drives, Childan (in the Kasouras' living room) flips the cover over, Reiss angrily throws the book across the room, Mr. Tagomi sits on park bench in a trance

HAWTHORNE ABDENSEN (darkness hiding his face)
I'm not sure of anything.

Juliana
Believe.

Fade in and out for each different line

Screen Text
Based on the alternate history classic about the nightmare of a Nazi victory.

The Man in the High Castle

Directed by Stephen Spielberg

HAWTHORNE ABDENSEN (v.o., passionately)
Germany and Japan lost the war!

Screen Text
A Philip K. Dick Story


Fade to black

Oh my God....



I think my brain just broke from the awesome...

[Condottiero]

This one is my favourite: http://www.cee-gee.net/Movies/Movies.htm

[catboy637]

For ages, the question of "What If?" has plauged humanity.
(Theodore Roosevelt making a speech in front of an upside-down flag.)
We now wonder, "WI the South had won?"
(Woodrow Wilson in Richmond under a Confed. flag.)
Wonder no more.
(Artillery firing, trneches, and drmatic music.)
The world is in flames as WWI breaks out between the Confederacy and the U.S.A. Canada is attacked as well.
(Canadian soilders pulling back, U.S. soilders advancing.)
The front bogs down, and war becomes horror.
(Mutilated soilders in a trench.)
While a dangerous, angry young man fights for the C.S.A.
(Jake Fetherston whooping and firing his artillery.)
Menawhile, the opressed blacks in the South plot an overthrow.
(Scipio walking in on the Red rebels in the shack."

COME SEE THE BEGINNING OF A SAGA THIS SUMMER!

[Polish Eagle]

It starts with a Japanese naval officer meeting with a superior. (can't remember their names right now)

Officer: Honorable Commander, I'm sure you have heard of the proposed strike at the Americans.
Commander: Yes, I have.
Officer: Would it not be wise to beat the Americans as hard as we can, rather than simply irritating them with a bombing raid? Can we not invade Hawaii and really harm them?
Commander: We would need the army's cooperation, but there is no reason we can't.

Announcer, v.o.: What if the "Day that would forever live in Infamy" was just the beginning of a greater nightmare?

Cammera cuts to sequence of Japanese bombers sinking Enterprise, Japanese troops fighting their way through Honolulu with Zeroes strafing the American infantry,

Announcer, v.o.: This time, it was.

Camera cuts to the American General and Admiral surrendering to the Japs, then Japanese troops marching through a predominantly white village, and finally a POW camp.

Announcer, v.o: Days of Infamy,
Coming December 7th to a theater near you.

[Jord839]

v.o.(offscreen)-We never saw it coming.

[images of nineteenth century people going about their lives. Children laughing, people talking, etc.]

v.o-We believed that the era of war and suffering was over.

[images of soldiers putting down their weapons, peace treaties being signed, etc.]

v.o.-All of that changed, when they came...

[camera shows a massive field of slaughtered bodies in the Russian snow, a lone soldier trys to crawl away, fear and agony twisting his face, when a hoof crashes into the ground in front of him. He looks up in terror and screams before there is the sound of a sword swinging down.]

v.o.-The Fae...

[camera zooms in on the mad grin of the beautiful woman with elfin ears atop a horse that is chewing on the severed arm of the man from earlier.

v.o.-We never stood a chance.

[images of soldiers fighting desperate battles against the fae, cities burning, people screaming and running in fear, the fae hunting down survivors. Interspersed between these images is the picture of the world map, slowly being swallowed by the color red until only a few nations remain uncovered.]

v.o.-But now, we may have found a solution.

[image of a mushroom cloud spreading over the Florida swampland]

v.o.-Now, we begin our counterattack.

[images of soldiers under American flags as they traverse the Rockies, Turkish soldiers valiantly defending the Antaolian line as a swarm of Fae approaches, European soldiers capturing the first Fae city, dogfights between fireball-throwing fae and human pilots]

v.o.-I only pray it will be enough...

[image of the Fae superweapon, a mass of sentient vines grabbing soldiers and tearing them apart.]

Radio voice(offscreen)-Avenge the dead, protect the living.



Return of Magic, an RCTFI film, coming this summer.

Not all fairy tales have a happy ending.

[Chris Oakley]

The well's running a bit dry here....

[metalstar316]

Originally Posted by Archangel Michael

A man wearing a gray business suit is walking down a dark hallway. He is followed by four guards dressed in gray military uniforms and World War One-era doughboy helmets. This man is President JAKE FEATHERSTON of the Confederate States of America. The sound of cheering is getting louder and louder.

ANNOUNCER (v.o.)
Imagine a world where the South won the American Civil War.

As the announcer is speaking, images of the past flash for several seconds: images of McClellan surrendering to Lee, the Confederate flag flying over the White House, soldiers in blue and gray clashing, and American barrels fighting in the Great War.

ANNOUNCER (cont’d.)
Imagine a world where the United States was put between two hostile nations. Imagine a world where the Allies lost the First World War.

JAKE FEATHERSTON finally exits the hallway and is standing on a balcony overlooking a huge crowd. Thousands fill the plaza, with guards in gray uniforms and holding Freedom Party flags are in the front. The crowd goes wild as they see FEATHERSTON. He snaps off a clean Bellamy (Nazi) salute. The camera pans around and we see the massive crowd responding in kind. Large cries of “Freedom!” ring out.

ANNOUNCER (cont’d.)
Well, stop imagining.

JAKE FEATHERSTON
My name is Jake Featherston, and I'm here to tell you the truth!

The crowd, which had quieted down, explodes into applause and more shouts of “Freedom!” can be heard.

The shot changes to that of SCIPIO, his wife BATHSHEBA, and their two children running down a dark street. Buildings are on fire and shouts of “Freedom!” can be heard in the background. The shot then changes to that of camp guard JEFF PINKERTON watching as a truck drive up.

ANNOUNCER (v.o.)
Dive into a world filled with hate and violence.

A guard in gray steps out of the truck and walks up to JEFF PINKTERTON. Several more guards open up the doors of the truck and empty out its passengers: black prisoners in chains.

TRUCK DRIVER
I’ve got you another batch.

JEFF PINKTERTON
I’m over my population limit. What I am I going to do with more niggers?

TRUCK DRIVER
That’s your problem.

The image turns to a shot of the battlefield in Ohio. Confederate barrels are charging past the burned out wreckage of their American counterparts. We see more images of war.

ANNOUNCER (v.o.)
And into a world gone mad with war. Presenting Settling Accounts: Return Engagement, the groundbreaking movie based off the best-selling book by Harry Turtledove. Coming to a theater near you on May 10th. Rating pending.

The screen goes black

CROWD (v.o.)
Freedom!

Originally Posted by luakel

The "Idealist Movies" logo appears, followed by the WB logo.

NARRATOR
Imagine...

The WB morphs into a sun, and the camera moves down to rest upon workers standing angrily beyond a metal gate. They are waving picket signs with slogans like "IWW WILL TAKE CONTROL" and "DOWN WITH THE ROBBER-BARONS". They can be heard screaming various things, while nearby police watch on nervously.

NARRATOR
...a world where things are different.

The sound of horses trotting can be heard. The camera moves to one of the horses' head, and then moves to it's owner. He has a somewhat portly face, and has brownish-gray hair, a short mustache, and round spectacles. He is Theodore Roosevelt, President-elect of the United States. He begins to speak, but his voice cannot be heard over the protestors.

NARRATOR
And it just so happens...

Behind Roosevelt, there are many other horsemen, all with shotguns at readyness. On the ground next to Roosevelt, a Pinkerton (Samuel Hammett) draws his revolver and looks at the crowd as Roosevelt continues to speak.

NARRATOR
...that on this world...

Roosevelt stops speaking, and him and the other horsemen begin to advance towards the gate, even as the protesters start chanting a slogan repeateadly and begin to try and climb the gate. The police begin to take action, rattiling their clubs on the bars of the gate and yelling orders to cease and desist.

NARRATOR
...a change has happened...

The horsemen aim their guns at the gate, which is weakening under the pressure. Roosevelt raises his hand, apparently ready to order a charge, when a gun firing is heard. His mouth opens, and he says one last word.

ROOSEVELT
(softly)
Bully.

Cut to spectacles hitting the ground and shattering, and then to the Pinkerton's face, watching in shock as shotgun blasts are heard.

NARRATOR
...that was heard 'round the world.

Cut to a scene in Washington, with several notable landmarks visible. It is snowing slightly. The camera zooms to a scene on the Capitol, where a man has his hand on the Bible and is speaking.

CHARLES FOSTER KANE
...So help me God.

NARRATOR
And this change...

Cut to a shot of Lincoln's statue in the memorial. Icy tears fall from his eyes. Then, suddenly, the camera is filled with a crimson hue, with a hammer-sickle symbol expanding from the center.

NARRATOR
...would make America go red.

The Beatles' "Back in the USSR" plays, but a similar toned "A" has been spliced into the song in place of the "R". Meanwhile, there is a montage of scenes from the movie, from the sinking of the Titanic as seen from the eyes of Houdini in the water, to soldiers fighting in a trench-crossed France while shells burst, to another scene of Washington with a huge group waving red flags and chanting, to a smartly-dressed Alphonse Capone walking down a White House corridor with his cronies following.

NARRATOR
This fall...

The screen turns to black, and the words First Part of the "Back in the USSA" Trilogy" appear.

NARRATOR
...revolution is in the air.

The words Red Revolution Rising appear in a way that makes it seem as if they have been written in paint... or blood. They then disappear, and "10.13.05" appears to end the trailer.

These are the best ones. Somebody should YouTube them.

[Spitfiremk1]

Here's one.

Old style hand wrighting on Black back ground with Music similar to that of Last of the Mochicans theme.

In 1800, the bankrupt and destitute Kingdom of Spain sold the Territory of Louisiana to Napoleon's France.

On the Screen, an old style map fades in, being encroached by blue ink.

Three years later, this territory was sold by France to the United States, today the most powerfull country on Earth.

On the screen, the Louisiana territory on the map is enveloped by the US.

But what if...

Suddenly, from the north, the Louisiana Territory turns pink ()
Scary sounding theme on drums.

Then, the Black fades away and in comes a 1804 looking london street, a carrige pulls up, and a young, handsome man in period clothing steps out, the scene changes to the same man in an office with a older man with a wig.

Old man. "And your name is."

Young man. "Chadwick Sir, i have been assigned to protect His Majestys new North Ameircan Territorys."

Screen turns black, big drums and scary music. Scene fades in to New orleans with a Union Flag beign razed up a flag pole with back ground voice.

"Due to circumstances beyond our reach, it seams that war with the United State's of America and the United Kingdom of great Britain and Ireland, is inevitable."

Screen goes Black again, then turns to scenes of redcoats fighting US solderis and men of war bombarding coast. scene changes to a parliment with a man standing.while music is rising.

"ladys and gentlemen, may i present ot you, the governer of His Majestys North American Dominions, the Saivour of our Empire, the Right Honorable LORD CHADWICK, GOD SAVE THE KING"

Screen goes black again, then music like Requium for a Dream starts.

Screen wrighting: 236 years later.

The Black fades out and a scene of a wierd, strange futureistic london, with hover cars, people wearing cloths that look similar to the 30's and a HUGE airship with a Union Jack on it's hull floating over fades in, then, a hover car pulls up, and out gets a man in a Naval officers attire gets out, scene changes to a futureisitc office draped with union fflags and a big hologram, showing the world with large Areas of pink (Sorry, i just live for Britwanks) and an old man at a desk.

Old man. " And Your name is"

Young Man "Chadwick, and i am here to save youre arse."

Black screen, urgent music scene changes to a futuristic lookign cafe with a man readign a news paper with a huge headline saying "WAR Imminant", Then a load of admirals in a room standing around a table.

"Gentlemen, i think you realsie how serious the situation is here, it now seams that war with the Chinese Soviet, and the Entntte, is inevitable."

Black again. Silent.

Screen Wrighting."What if this happend instead."

Then, the screen explodes with images of titianic sea battles with giant battleships, mechs battles, futuristic trench warfare, jet fighters and Giant airships battling it out.

Then, scene changes to black again.

Screen wrighting "Chadwick... the saga begins, soon."

[Polish Eagle]

Originally Posted by Archangel Michael

A man wearing a gray business suit is walking down a dark hallway. He is followed by four guards dressed in gray military uniforms and World War One-era doughboy helmets. This man is President JAKE FEATHERSTON of the Confederate States of America. The sound of cheering is getting louder and louder.

ANNOUNCER (v.o.)
Imagine a world where the South won the American Civil War.

As the announcer is speaking, images of the past flash for several seconds: images of McClellan surrendering to Lee, the Confederate flag flying over the White House, soldiers in blue and gray clashing, and American barrels fighting in the Great War.

ANNOUNCER (cont’d.)
Imagine a world where the United States was put between two hostile nations. Imagine a world where the Allies lost the First World War.

JAKE FEATHERSTON finally exits the hallway and is standing on a balcony overlooking a huge crowd. Thousands fill the plaza, with guards in gray uniforms and holding Freedom Party flags are in the front. The crowd goes wild as they see FEATHERSTON. He snaps off a clean Bellamy (Nazi) salute. The camera pans around and we see the massive crowd responding in kind. Large cries of “Freedom!” ring out.

ANNOUNCER (cont’d.)
Well, stop imagining.

JAKE FEATHERSTON
My name is Jake Featherston, and I'm here to tell you the truth!

The crowd, which had quieted down, explodes into applause and more shouts of “Freedom!” can be heard.

The shot changes to that of SCIPIO, his wife BATHSHEBA, and their two children running down a dark street. Buildings are on fire and shouts of “Freedom!” can be heard in the background. The shot then changes to that of camp guard JEFF PINKERTON watching as a truck drive up.

ANNOUNCER (v.o.)
Dive into a world filled with hate and violence.

A guard in gray steps out of the truck and walks up to JEFF PINKTERTON. Several more guards open up the doors of the truck and empty out its passengers: black prisoners in chains.

TRUCK DRIVER
I’ve got you another batch.

JEFF PINKTERTON
I’m over my population limit. What I am I going to do with more niggers?

TRUCK DRIVER
That’s your problem.

The image turns to a shot of the battlefield in Ohio. Confederate barrels are charging past the burned out wreckage of their American counterparts. We see more images of war.

ANNOUNCER (v.o.)
And into a world gone mad with war. Presenting Settling Accounts: Return Engagement, the groundbreaking movie based off the best-selling book by Harry Turtledove. Coming to a theater near you on May 10th. Rating pending.

The screen goes black

CROWD (v.o.)

Freedom!

Wasn't his name Jefferson Pinkard?

[Polish Eagle]

In a world gone insane...

(Shows Nazi high command in a room with large wizard and pagan objects visible)

Himmler: Gentlemen, I now have the solution to all your problems!

Only one man...

(Shows Hitler watching with eyes wide into a 6 foot circular portal as we hear wet slapping noises)

Could possibly think to do this.

(Shows scenes of battle between British soldiers and sea lions, Alien Space Bat attacking Churchill, and the attempt to gas the Sea Lions on the beaches)

British soldier: Blimey! The gas just gone and made 'em randy!

Superimposed on screen: Operation Teufelseelowe: The Ultimate Sea Mammal

The insanity begins this fall.

[Atom]

[A man on a horse riding. Should be in Mongol dress, as his horse gallops through the steppes of Hungary]

[Title Card Shows: 1405 AD, which then morphs into: 738 After Hegira, the third year of the Yongli Empire]

[The Horse Rider aproaches an abandoned villages. Corpses litter the streets and his disgust is obvious. Nothing is living in the village. A few seconds of Silence as he looks around and begins to climb a hill. As he approaches the top he sees a man. The mongol looks at him and points to a dead body and the empty houses. All sounds should be muted]
Mongol (In Mongolian): Where are they?
Romanian man (In Romanian): Dead. All dead.
[He points away from the hill and the camera turns revealing an abandoned valley, where ruined farms and fields lie. The Burned remnants of a wont can be seen. Cut to Black]

Announcer: Christendom is dead
[Cut to major European cities of the Early 1400s, Paris, Constantinople, Florence. Emphasize major landmarks. All Abandoned and decayed. Chinese and Arabian music plays in the background, pace should get increasingly rapid.]
Announcer (cont'd): And in its place
[Cut to images of Islamic settlers on the Rhine doing the morning prayers, Chinese junks on the shores of America]
Narrator (cont'd): Others shall rise,
[Rapid cuts to an Islamic man performing experiments in Samarqand, Chinese explorers landing on the Coast of mexico to an Aztec Host, Iroquois armed with rifles marching, Indian Railroads and Zeppelins destroying a Muslim Occupied constantinople]
Narrator (cont'd): and fall.
[Show images of WWI era weapons and a few tanks as they rush across a gray and muddy battlefield. In the background the Taj Mahal can be seen, then rapidly other images of the long war, Iroquois guerrillas ambushing an islamic patrol, aerial dogfights above Russia. Sudden Cut to Black]
Narrator (Cont'd): These are...
[Dramatic Blocky lettering in culturally influenced fonts:
Kim Stanley Robinson's: The Years of Rice and Salt

[Baskilisk]

America-centric much?

[DangerousBob]

Originally Posted by Strategos' Risk

Choose your favorite AH novel (preferably something that would be good for a movie adaptation, I'm thinking A Man in the High Castle Here), and write a short script for the trailer you'd create to promote it.

Our first film we made last year. Has its problems but its a learning process.

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