Alternate duel ending - What was supposed to happen in it ect...

I have a copy of the 1st draft screenplay. The ending, in essence, is actually not very different from what ended up in the film. A bit more dialogue. Glaeken says goodbye to Eva (here Magda as in the book)before he tells her to take her father out of the keep.


Molasar retreats to the top of the keep. Glaeken scales a broken wall and they face off on the tower. Molasar has some words for Glaeken before they "fight" (ie. we are one in the same, kill me you kill yourself, etc.) Glaeken senses Eva's love for him and looks down for a moment. Molasar takes this opportunity to lunge (instead of shooting power from his hands). Glaeken takes the blow but impales Molasar with his pike (instead of shooting him with laser rod).

They both topple down a shaft and crash through the stone floor. Cut to a different chamber they plummet down, crash through that floor. Again cut to them falling down another shaft, this time with rings of light and glowing supernatural stones. Cut to falling "through a cloudy sky over a cracked red desert", before they hit cut to black void of them falling together.

Back to Eva on the bridge, villagers helping Cuza up. A bird starts building a nest up on the keep (referencing a previous deleted bit about birds staying away from the fortress) symbolizing the evil being defeated.

I'm not sure if it REALLY answers your question, because the talisman was still the hilt to a conventional weapon, not a laser. You can't really have a "duel" with a laser...perhaps the metal shaft was originally intended as a melee weapon? Who knows...

This first draft is certainly not the shooting script, as they still had elements from the book that I'm pretty sure were not filmed. Soldier corpses coming back to life to try to take the talisman from Eva, Molasar using telekinesis to make a dying Woermann hang himself, etc.)

Could you also share the other picture in your possession? I am very interested in seeing them.

ETC... ECT isn't anything