Blackness –baby noises.
V.O.
ONCE UPON A TIME, IN THE KINGDOM OF DOR, A TINY CHILD WAS BORN…
O.S. ANTOINETTE, DESPEREAUX’S MOTHER
LOOK! HIS EYES ARE OPEN!
V.O.
A TINY, TINY CHILD…
O.S. ANTOINETTE
HE’S SO PUNY! AND LOOK AT THOSE EARS!
O.S. LESTER, DESPEREAUX’S FATHER
A REAL PAIR OF DINNER PLATES.
Cut to: Baby Despereaux, wrapped in swaddling clothes, whips out his diaper pin and wields it like a sword. Pins gleam FLASHES!
TITLE “THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX”
WRITERS: ROBYN PERRY & WAYNE COE