Desperaux Teasers:
#1 “Beaver”
Filling frame...A glorious, gleaming KNIGHT’S HELMET.
NARRATOR
IN CHRISTMAS OF 2008…
UNIVERSAL PICTURES PRESENTS
AN EPIC TALE…
The visor on the helmet WHANGS open. Revealing an identical – but slightly smaller – helmet inside. Its visor flips open…
…OF GIGANTIC PROPORTIONS.
…Revealing a smaller helmet.
COURAGE HAS NEVER BEEN THIS BIG
Its visor flips open to reveal an even smaller one.
HONOR HAS NEVER BEEN THIS IMPORTANT
Then on and on, visors inside continue opening like a diminishing matrushka doll…
HEROISM HAS NEVER LOOMED THIS LARGE
…until the tiniest one at the center CLANGS open to reveal a smiling mouse – Despereaux.
Card:THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX
He thrusts out his needle/sword – the action causing all of the visors to come clattering down one after the other. A beat…then we hear:
DESPEREAUX (muffled)
Let’s do that again!
Card:COMING TO SAVE OUR KINGDOM
Card:DECEMBER 2008
WRITERS: ROBYN PERRY & WAYNE COE