Trolling the Russian problem.

This is just for fun, so just enjoy reading my rant and don’t take it seriously.

The Norwegian film series, Troll 1 and Troll II, which depicts the mythological creature of Scandinavian lore, awakening from its hibernation deep underground and the excitement that ensues, sparked another idea - and as with all writers I take license with that magical force called imagination to weave another plot, possibly for Troll 3.

Imagine this version.

The heroine of the film, a Norwegian professor of geology, who sings a childhood song to the sleeping troll, one her father sang to her as a child, which wakes the creature from its deep sleep and in so doing, it emerges from its underground lair and starts roaming the Earth.

The Norwegian military want to take ownership of it in order to weaponize it, but the troll, smart enough to see what is about to happen, stays on the run, and the heroine, of course, having a special connection with the troll, goes in pursuit.

The military tries to track it down and even to kill it, but our heroine catches up with the troll first and figures out a means of communicating with it and soon discovers it is very intelligent and is quite aware of the threat posed to it by humanity, that they will simply try to lock it up or kill it. She convinces the troll to work with her, and then she goes back and presents her case to the Norwegian authorities.

The troll, it turns out, is an Elder amongst all the clans, thousands of years old, and knows how to wake up other trolls not only in Norway, but also Sweden, Finland, the Urals in Russia, Ukraine and even China.

The Elder Troll and the geologist, acting as its ambassador, meets with heads of military and government at a safe refuge in the mountains in northern Norway, and presents its case; the trolls will help the humans to overcome a common enemy after which they will be left alone, in their own quarters, to live in freedom.

Baffled by what the Elder Troll has in mind, they finally realize that it wants to use its network of trolls throughout Europe, to destroy the Russian nuclear launch sites, which it also sees as an ultimate threat to their existence too, and as a means of taking away Russia’s one ace card against the free world.

After much discussion a military plan is blueprinted.

The film ends with an exciting episode as the trolls march through Russia, smashing the launch sites into oblivion, as Russian MIGS and fighters try to stop them, followed by an exciting scene as a massive NATO assault, much like the landings on D-Day WWII, sweeps into the Ukraine and Crimea and neutralizes the Russian invasion - stopping the Russian military in its tracks.

The rest...well, you can guess.

I’ll happily write that script for the Norwegian film industry for Troll 3.

Article by Réal Laplaine

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