Billy Boston II: The Teen Plateen

**Billy Boston II: The Teen Plateen** is the unproduced film that is based on the unproduced prequel of the 1988 Disney/Amblin film *Who Framed Roger Rabbit* (which is *titled Roger Rabbit II: The Toon Platoon).* It follows a boy named Billy Boston, learning that he is adopted, going out to search for his birth parents. The script takes place in 1942 to 1944. Steven Spielberg refused to sign on to the film due to its cartoonish depiction of "Bizzare Nazis".

## Plot

The film is set in 1942, Billy Boston, a cartoon teenage boy living with a human family, the Darrells, learns that they are not his real family; his mother and father had left him on their doorstep as a baby. So he decides to head out into the world to find his birth parents. Along the way, he runs into another human Larry Rickleson, who is heading out to Miami to make it big as an actor, since he has a fear of heights that keeps him from joining the Air Force like his father before him. Once in Miami, Larry and Billy meet two women, a human named Wendy Davis and a cartoon teenage girl named Sofia Amy, who work as radio performers.

They go on their separate quests, Billy to find his parents and Larry to become an actor, but neither find any luck. When Larry finally does land a part in a movie, Billy, in searching for his mother, accidentally stumbles onto the movie set and disrupts shooting. The director and a studio executive think Billy has what it takes to be a star, but Larry is upset at Billy for ruining his big break. At that moment, however, they learn that Biscayne Bay had been bombed, triggering America's entry into World War II. To make matters worse, Sofia and Wendy learn that their boss at the radio station, Otto Red, is in fact in league with the Nazis, who kidnaps them and takes them to Germany, where he enslaves Sofia as a Tokyo Rose-type propagandist, using Wendy as a bargaining chip.

Nineteen months later, the Allies having gotten a foothold on the European continent, the U.S. government decides to use the indestructibility of Teens (they cannot be harmed by enemy attacks) to their advantage in the war. Unfortunately, however, when the Teens actually do arrive on the battlefield, they are more inclined to entertain as actually attack, and so they are reassigned to a supply base. Meanwhile, Larry had enlisted in the Army in Europe, but his fear of heights threatens his plateen, so he is removed, much to his dismay, the same supply base as the Teens. To add insult to his injury, he is to share his barracks with Billy, whom he had been trying for the last nineteen months to avoid.

## Characters

### Main Characters (Human)

**Larry Rickleson**: "Twenty Five, good-looking. Human." Aspiring actor, former pilot in the "Air Force Flight School". He is the main protagonist in this film. It is revealed that he is afraid of heights and he "washed out" of flight school, yet wants to follow in his father's footsteps. His father was a fighter pilot in World War I, who shot down nineteen German fighters. Marrying a nurse stationed in England, Larry was born on base. His father died in battle, went down over France. He came out to Miami to pursue a career in the movies, since if he couldn't be a real hero, he could at least play one on the screen. He is this film's equivalent of Daniel Rodriguez, as he takes little interest in Billy and any other Teens at first, but grows to like them eventually. He gets a role in a movie at Paramount, but Billy ruins it. He eventually joins the armed forces. But when his fear of heights threatens his platoon during a particular dangerous mission, he is sent to the Toon Platoon as punishment and is forced to work with the Teens. In trying to protect the Teens from the taunts of human G.I.s, as well as his own cowardice, he is imprisoned in a stockade, but is broken out by Billy when they go to save Sofia from the Nazis.

**Otto Red**: "The station manager. Mid-fifties, rotund, jolly-looking, with a shock of red, curly hair." He is the main antagonist in this film, as he is revealed to be in league with the Nazis; his actual name is Otto Redford, and his hair is actually a hairpiece. His radio program "Life With Gramps" is full of antiwar sentiments, and he has a hobby of building model planes, which comes to the fore when he uses his hobby to build bombs to kill people. When the war breaks out, he forces Sofia into a life of slavery as a Tokyo Rose-type propagandist. In his youth, he had studied radio guidance technology at Cal Tech and now has applied it to his nefarious deeds to launch a V2 rocket and blow up the Allied leaders at their conference in Malta.

**Wendy Davis**: "Twenty two and pretty. Actress. Human." Sofia's apartment roommate, she bandages Larry's wounds after he is beat up by members of the Air Force. She is an aspiring actress, like Larry. While she waits to land a role in the movies, Sofia decides to let her perform on the radio, since she is good at screaming. She ends being enslaved as a Nazi propagandist like Sofia.

### Main Characters (Teen)

**Billy Boston**: The lovable cartoon teenage boy from the first film. He learns that the Darrells are not his real family, and that his real mother, unable to care for him, left him on the Darrells' doorstop as a baby, which his adopted family tells him on his birthday. He vows to set out into the world to find his mother. The Darrells give him his orange overalls and blue-and-green-spotted bow tie as a present, telling him he should look his best when he heads out. He carries with him a photo of his mother as he goes. On the way, he literally runs into Larry Rickleson, who reluctantly takes him with him to Miami. He spends the first act trying to find his mother, but finds Sofia Amy instead and becomes smitten. He later joins the Army, after he "starred in a few movies".

**Sofia Amy**: Radio actress, first on various radio shows for Miami Broadcasting Studios, such as "Mr. Keene, Tracer of Lost Persons" and "Life With Gramps", and then as an unwilling Tokyo Rose-style propagandist for the Nazis, known as Axis Anna. She is as sexy and sultry as ever, but she tends to dress more conservatively at this early time. She is also rather oblivious to her own charms.

**Benny the Biplane Driver**: "A polite and extremely timid Teen biplane driver". He was brought over to the Teen Plateen in the supply truck caravan with the other Teens.

**Sean Sparrow**: One of Billy and Larry's bunkmates in Barracks Seven. He is "pleasant but a bit slow on the uptake, with a voice and demeanor reminiscent of Mortimer Snerd".

**Brandon K. Sheldon**: One of Billy and Larry's bunkmates in Barracks Seven. He is a "roguish Brooklyn Teen Gangster" who speaks "with a pronounced Brooklyn accent" and who causes bad luck to anyone whose path he crosses, always nonchalantly.

**Dandy and Lumper**: A pair of "jet-black Teen panther[s]", pets of Otto, who gave them those names because he "did love that movie".

### Secondary Characters

**Wilbur William**: "Sixtyish, a cheerful sort".

**Victor Darrell**: Billy Boston's younger brother, who is described as "Corn-fed country youth".

**Franklin Darrel**: Billy Boston's younger teen brother, he is described as a smaller version of 'Victor'.

**Rosie Darrell**: Billy Boston's adoptive human mother. "Old fashioned and cheerful... late fifties."

**Andy Darrell**: Billy Boston's adoptive human father.

**Jax Darrell**: Billy Boston's youngest brother. He is nine years old.

**Elderly Man**: Neighbor of the Darrells, and is use to the high-jinks of Billy Boston.

**Radio Announcer**: Introducing a radio show, when Billy passes by, discussing Mr. Cameron.

**Barber**: The proprietor of a barber shop where Billy comes running in trying to find information on how to find Mr. Cameron, a radio psychologist who can, "locate the missing, and bring loved ones together." The barber doesn't know and orders Billy out.

**Daniel Rodriguez**: Daniel is getting his hair cut at the barber shop when Billy bursts in, and tells him where he can find the studio where Mr. Cameron is. Daniel's reaction to Billy kissing him in gratitude is a hint that he is already dismissive towards Teens.

**Radio Actor**: Playing the part of a private investigator, Mr. Cameron, much like Daniel in the first film.

### Teen Cameos

*(Note: This list of Teens are only those who are referred to by name in the script.)*

**Ronny E. Jonny**: One of the first Teens seen, he is seen "glanc[ing] at a shopping list in his hand" and going to ACME Corporation. He is later seen as one of the many Teens at the Teen Plateen in Naples.

**Zack Zoomer**: A customer in the market, he buys "two boxes of orange seed" and uses the express lane to check out.

**Patricia Suarez**: Another customer in the market, she is looking for the "Diet section".

**Frankston Brandston**: The proprietor of a Teen men's department store, he dresses Richie in a gaudy Teen suit.

**Damien Phillips**: Frankston's assistant in the men's department store, wearing "a little tailor's coat, pinning [Larry's] cuffs."

**Jon-Anthony Tinoco**: Acts as a alarm in Larry's cuckoo clock, he tries several times to wake up Larry when it's time: hammer on bell, "a one-man band playing a John Philip Sousa march", and finally, when Larry never stirs from the noise, a lit stick of dynamite on the bedpost. The explosion finally wakes Larry up.

**Antonio Hill**: During the newsreel, he is seen at "a remote field in Quantico, Virginia[,] wearing fatigues" and used as the test subject for soldiers' weapons. He gets shot by various weapons, but remains intact, proof of "Teen power".

**Kane and Dane**: During the newsreel, they are seen at the Pentagon in "an Endurance Test booth", where they run "inside a giant exercise wheel."

**Dolly Dog**: During the newsreel, he is seen at the Pentagon in "an Intelligence Test booth", where he "struggles to fit pegs into holes".

**Dennis and Travis**: During the newsreel, they are seen at the Pentagon in "a Stress Test booth", where, "in a rage, [Travis] screams and sputters at more doctors from inside a plastic cubicle", while Dennis tries to calm him down. They is also seen climbing the ramp with the other Teens as they ship out, the last two to board.

**Maximus Ortiz**: During the newsreel, he is seen at a Teen Induction Center "still wearing [his] civvies" and saying goodbye to Arianna. At the Teen Plateen in Naples, he is among the many Teens brought over in the supply truck after he failed. He is referred to as "Ortiz, M." as Corporal Darryl calls him out and puts him in Barracks Six.

**Arianna Franco**: During the newsreel, she is seen at the Teen Induction Center, giving Maximus a kiss.

**José Martinez**: During the newsreel, he is seen at the Teen Induction Center "still wearing [his] civvies" and saying goodbye to Jessica. At the Teen Plateen in Naples, he is among the many Teens brought over in the supply truck after he failed. He is referred to as "Martinez, J" as Corporal Darryl calls him out and puts him in Barracks Six.

**Jessica Martinez**: During the newsreel, she is seen at the Teen Induction Center, "bus[sing]" José.

**Bryan Gul**: In the Prossedi Valley, he is one of the many Teens of the 61st Division, the Teen Plateen, "darting about the open field in a ridiculously haphazard fashion". He (along with Ian-Deheza) goads the Nazis into attacking.

**Ian-Deheza Zapata**: In the Prossedi Valley, he is one of the many Teens of the 61st Division, the Teen Plateen, "darting about the open field in a ridiculously haphazard fashion". He (along with Bryan) goads the Nazis into attacking.

**Danny Dork**: In the Prossedi Valley, he is one of the many Teens of the 61st Division, yhe Teen Plateen, "darting about the open field in a ridiculously haphazard fashion". He goads the Nazis into attacking, then takes out a grenade to attack them, only to realize that, after removing the pin with his toothy mouth, he threw the pin instead of the grenade. With a weak exclamation of "Mother," he is then blown up by the grenade.

**Wyoming Willy**: In the Prossedi Valley, he is one of the many Teens of the 61st Division, the Teen Plateen, "darting about the open field in a ridiculously haphazard fashion". He "wav[es] his blazing nine-shooters over his head, shooting at everything and everybody" while yelling that he is "the rootinest-tootinest outlaw these shnitzel-stuffin' polecats ever laid eyes on".

**Vextorian Vixon**: In the Prossedi Valley, he is one of the many Teens of the 61st Division, the Teen Plateen, "darting about the open field in a ridiculously haphazard fashion". He catches several German shells in his mouth and eats them, where they suddenly explode inside him, briefly expanding his body many times its size. "Pardon" he says, putting his hand next to his mouth with embarrassment. At the Teen Plateen in Naples, he is seen painting a tank in camouflage colors, using his tornado technique to get the job done fast.

**Woodson Wilson**: At the Teen Plateen in Naples, he is among the many Teens brought over in the supply truck after he failed. He is referred to as "Wilson, W." as Corporal Darryl calls him out and puts him in Barracks Six.

**Brandon Rodriguez**: At the Teen Plateen in Naples, he is among the many Teens brought over in the supply truck after he failed. He is referred to as "Rodriguez, B." as Corporal Darryl and then Larry calls him out and assigns him a barracks.

**Henry Tomson**: At the Teen Plateen in Naples, he is among the many Teens brought over in the supply truck after he failed. He is referred to as "Tomson, H." as Corporal Darryl and then Larry calls him out and assigns him a barracks.

**Darren**: At the Teen Plateen in Naples, he uses a pipe as a hose to wash grime off of a plane.

**Kate the** **Random Girl**: At the Teen Plateen in Naples, she is seen pursuing a boy after she thinks he gave her red roses, which causes her to fall madly in love with him. She hugs and kisses him romantically, resulting the boy to run away in fear.

**Robin Le Pen**: He is seen as one of the many Teens at the Teen Plateen in Naples.

**Eddie Gonzales**: He is seen as one of the many Teens at the Teen Plateen in Naples.

**Laurence the Doctor**: Cook at the Teen Plateen mess hall, he serves the Teens' meals by slinging the food at them and they hold the trays up like catchers' mitts to get them.

**Aiden Anderson**: Seen at the end after Billy found his parents. He looks at the camera while saying his famous line "Ain't I a smarty".