We're Surely Creatures With Unknown Gods

Notes By Me: Look, the only explanation I have for this is that nobody stopped me. Also that I think Maggie Q and James McAvoy are both ridiculously gorgeous people and should be in love in a movie somewhere. Preferably one that involves a lot of ass kicking, revolutions, explosions, and antagonistic relationships that slowly turn into love. Just. Uh. GO WITH IT OKAY.

 

 

here's the trailer. (look, nobody stopped me!)

 

[In an enclosed bunker that looks old, Styx (played by Alex Kingston) is facing Allayi (played by Maggie Q). They're both serious, dressed for fighting.]

STYX: We need Edmund Kensington. I'm assigning you to kidnapping him and guarding him once he's here. Any problems?

[Focus on Allayi's face. Flashes of a young Allayi peering out from a hiding place in the wall, her father being shot.]

MAN (VO): This is what you get when you cross the Kensington's.

[Back to Allayi. Stone faced, cold.]

ALLAYI: No.

[Quiet, soaring music. Establishing shots: a city built on the ruins of another city, a street filled with an odd mixture of impressive cars and animal-drawn carts, Allayi seen from behind as she stands on top of a gutted skyscraper. Allayi narrates.]

ALLAYI: After the Cataclysm, mankind regrouped.

[Percy Ecklund, played by Arthur Darvill, is seen in a lab tinkering with a computer, then scrolling through documents of information.]

ALLAYI: They rebuilt civilization on the scraps of information from Before that they could find.

[Edmund Kensington (played by James McAvoy) waving on a balcony to a crowd, George Kensington (played by Ian McKellen) in a room filled with high-end computers, armored riot police pushing back protestors in a large square.]

ALLAYI: Those who had technology gained power, and control the world with brute force. But we're fighting back.

[Epic music starts. Shots of: Allayi and Edmund running down a hallway, Allayi dragging Edmund behind her, men chasing them, Allayi turning to shoot back at them. A building (Percy's lab) blowing up spectacularly. Allayi fighting a man with knives hand to hand. Styx aiming her gun over a barricade, then pulling it back and checking to see its out of ammunition. Edmund dangling out of a ski lift, Allayi shooting over the back of it at pursuers as he screams. Madeleine shaking as she holds her hands over her eyes. Music goes softer. Allayi has Edmund up against a wall, knife to his throat as she listens carefully. They're both dressed to the nines.]

EDMUND, whispering: Point of confusion here. Are you here to kill me or seduce me?

ALLAYI: Down.

[She drops to the floor and pulls him with her as a bullet goes through the wall where he had been a moment before.]

ALLAYI: Let's go.

[She gets up and pulls him behind her to the door.]

EDMUND: I'll go with seduction, then.

[Screen goes to black, reads: Coming This Summer. Cuts to Allayi training on a punching bag, looking exhausted and bloody. Edmund is handcuffed to the wall nearby.]
EDMUND: Do you have a name?

[She stops and her hands drop, but she doesn't face him.

ALLAYI: Allayi.

EDMUND: I mean, one that isn't your codename.

[She goes back to punching the bag, harder.]

ALLAYI: No.

[He's watching her, an expression of sudden understanding and sadness on his face. Screen goes black, reads: ALLAYI. The letters do some funky transition to switch to reading THE CHANGE. Cut to Allayi holding Edmund's wrist as he swings from a ski lift, her other hand aiming a gun at guys on the top of the ski lift.]

EDMUND, terrified: Don't let go!

ALLAYI: Why not?

[She's deadly serious. Cut to black. Credits page.]