One Page Comic Nightcrawler

By
Mathew Wilmot

Based on the Marvel Comics character Nightcrawler

E-mail:
mathew@twentytwopages.com
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www.twentytwopages.com
INT. CHURCH. NIGHT
1: exterior shot of a disused inner city church.

NIGHTCRAWLER
(caption)
This is new
2: interior of the church, Nightcrawler is sitting on top of
a pew, ROSARY BEADS in his hands, he is reciting the lords
prayer.
NIGHTCRAWLER (cont’d)
vater unser im Himmel, geheiligt
werde dein Name

NIGHTCRAWLER (cont’d)
(caption)
I’m not used to the quiet.
3: NIGHTCRAWLER runs the ROSARY BEADS through his fingers.

NIGHTCRAWLER (cont’d)
dein reich komme; dein wille
geschehe, wie im himmel so auf
erden.

NIGHTCRAWLER (cont’d)
(caption)
I suppose all those years at the
institute have... desensitised me

4: NIGHTCRAWLER looks up to the large statue of Jesus on the

cross.
NIGHTCRAWLER
Unser tägliches Brot gib uns heute.

NIGHTCRAWLER
(caption)
You never notice these things till
they’ve gone I suppose. What I
wouldn’t give for a teenage
squabble interrupting me.

5: NIGHTCRAWLER drops his head, his shoulders and arms slump

down with him.
NIGHTCRAWLER
(caption)
or for the voice in my head and my
heart to return.
6: NIGHTCRAWLER runs a hand down his grief strickened face.

(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: (2) 2.

NIGHTCRAWLER (cont’d)
(caption)
I know it is there, it has to be
there

7: NIGHTCRAWLER looks to his side and out the large window

toward the moon, partially hidden by clouds.
NIGHTCRAWLER (cont’d)
(caption)
I know it to be there, for hope
lives on... I saw to that