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ollage of old photos, prints, etc., and silent live-action vignettes, all dark and heavily shadowed like a dimly-remembered dream. The first images show the opulence of the Gilded Age, the epic vistas of the west, cattle drives and cowtowns with all their violence.... V.O. NARRATION ...
er: THE KHYBER PASS, AFGHANISTAN We're looking down at what used to be called "The End of the Known World." A landscape that is both beautiful, and forbidding. In the center of this vista, there is a deep ravine. Pushing in on the ravine, there appears to be a giant icicle hanging ...
plane to plane, plane to carrier. Aerial dialogue in small case is ICS; an inter-cockpit system; a live mike, heard by pilot and RIO only. TG1 REVISED 04APR85 . 1. EXT. NIGHT. - THE PACIFIC IS ANYTHING BUT WINDS HOWL. Rain drives horiz...
d Shusett and Steven Pressfield ______________________________________________________________________________ "TOTAL RECALL" FADE IN: 1 EXT. DESERT - DAY All we can see, filling the entire frame is a flame-orange sky...almost like ...
June 9 2008 EXT. PARIS - DAY CRANE DOWN from a view of Paris on a misty day. Cool, gray and beautiful. A taxi stops by the curb of a wide, cobbled street. All around there is bustle and activity, with cars and people hurrying abou...
BEDROOM - PREDAWN In a Simi Valley housing tract. It's dark. CLOSE ON ALARM CLOCK 4:59 AM. WIDER ANGLE: Eyes glisten in the clock's shine, patiently watching the time. BZZZZ! The ALARM SOUNDS. A hand that's been hovering over the clock drops. Silence. JAKE HOYT, a ...
, is eating it. PUSH DOWN TO: EXT. THE NEAR SIDE OF THE PLANET'S SURFACE Strange robotic creatures scramble around the planet in a wild panic. It looks like Pompeii must have looked as Vesuvius erupted. ANGLE ON ONE OF THE CREATURES - TRACKING The crea...
The Roman Empire has fallen. The land lies in ruins, divided amoung feuding tribes. To the west, Ireland has flourished untouched by the Romans, protected by the sea. Led by their powerful and ruthless King, the Irish have subdued ...
Prod. 0222 Fourth Draft Screenplay by Charlie Haas April 6, 1981 BLACKNESS 1 THE ELECTRONIC WORLD 1 ...
WMEN and MACHINERY branded "X-NET". 3D lattice of routers, refractors, reassemblers... New, unused data OPTIK HIGHWAY routes radiate from all sides, crossing cyberspace. X-Net Tactical Corps troops (herein X-Takks) patrol every inch. 2 INT. X-NET NEXUS - UNDER CONSTRUCTION D...
, we see THE UNIVERSAL LOGO. The globe stops rotating, and STARTS TO BROWN AND CRACK. VOLCANOES ERUPT ON IT... ACTION TRAILER ANNOUNCER In a world where only one man made a difference... "n 1a% AND WE ZOOM ALL THE WAY IN TO,.. A POST APO...
, we see THE UNIVERSAL LOGO. The globe stops rotating, and STARTS TO BROWN AND CRACK. VOLCANOES ERUPT ON IT... ACTION TRAILER ANNOUNCER In a world where only one man made a difference... "n 1a% AND WE ZOOM ALL THE WAY IN TO,.. A POST APO...
he snow covered Alps stand out clearly in the light of a full moon. A fortress-like CHATEAU is situated in a flat saddle of forest partway up the mountain, next to a frozen lake. The property is surrounded by high stone walls, and the stately grounds are bathed in floodligh...
red by him, in fact, she's alittle charmed. But, you can tell, that she isn't going to leave her barstool. CLARENCE In "Jailhouse Rock" he's everything rockabilly's about. I mean he is rockabilly: mean, surly, nasty, rude. In that movie he couldn't give a fuck about anything except rockin' and rollin', livin' f...
and William Goldman Re v. 04 /1 5/ 88 (B lu e) Re v. 04 /2 2/ 88 (P in k) Re v. 04 /2 7/ 88 (Y el lo w) Re v. 04 /2 8/ 88 (G re en ) Re v. 05 /0 2/ 88 (G ol de nrod) Re v. 05 /0 9/ 88 (B uf f) Re v. 05 /2 5/ 88 (C he rr y) Re v. ...
FADE IN: In the darkness, we hear a voice, a woman's voice. Her name is Evey. EVEY (V.O.) "Remember, remember, the fifth of November, the gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no...
through a downtown street. Hunters hot on the trail of their prey in an urban jungle. The sidewalk is crowded with people. So is the street. Too many people, not enough cement. Los Angeles, 1997. Summer, probably August. 103 degrees. Heat shimmers off the horizon. Making the sky look peculiar. T...
We home in on a boat coming in to shore. Off walks a man, he is carrying a backpack and wearing shades. EXT. TOWN He walks through a town, passing various stores and the general bustle of the people there. He notices a baby in a pr...
CAMERA. WESLEY (V.O.) Six weeks ago, I was ordinary and pathetic. His wry smile gives way to... Black. And then... INT. APPLEBY'S - DAY The CAMERA STARTS FROM THE CEILING, pointing straight down, overlooking a table of twenty-...
NOVEMBER 30, 2015 BLACK SCREEN PRIMITIVE WAR DRUMS POUND OMINOUSLY... as a LEGEND BEGINS: Fifteen years ago, a scientific experiment gone wrong gave RISE to a species of intelligent apes... and destroyed most of humanity with a virus that became known as the Simian Flu. The word "RISE"...
Resized to fit on minimal number of pages [Showing Pictures of City Life] NARRATOR No one would have believed in the early years of the21st century, that our world was bei...
EXT. PITTSBURGH, PA - TWILIGHT A beautiful blue-collar city approaching nightfall. Bridges. Rivers. Churches. The working class poetry of the `Burgh. EXT. ST. MARY'S CHURCH - SAME ...
ILING. We PULL BACK and find that the pin adorns the lapel of a ROBE worn by EDWARD BLAKE, 63, but amazingly not far from his physical prime--body chiseled, built like a truck. Handsome too, save the LONG SCAR running down the side of his face. Blake removes the ke...
Greg Rucka December 22, 2006 SCROLL OVER BLACK: Antarctica. Six million square miles of ice. The coldest place on earth. Forty-...
Greg Rucka December 22, 2006 SCROLL OVER BLACK: Antarctica. Six million square miles of ice. The coldest place on earth. Forty-...
S OF A SOUTH TEXAS RAILROAD YARD (SAN RAFAEL) A TRAIN ROARS PAST REVEALING IN THE DISTANCE FIVE MET RIDING TOWARD CAMERA along the tracks. In CLOSE F.G. is.the back part of a sign. NARRATOR To most of America in 1913, the Age of Innocence had arrived...
FADE IN: INT. KITCHEN - MORNING ANGLE ON: BILLY MATTHEWS, 8, ravenously eating a plate of hashbrowns, runny fried eggs and syrupy waffles. WOMAN'S VOICE (O.C.) Doug?... We see DOUG MATTHEWS, 40's, sitting across the table, staring at his...
flawless DIAMONDS, glinting in the morning sun. Tounted on crushed velvet, the identical diamonds are on a glass covered pedal stool in the middle of a vast, marble MUSEUM HALL. The stunning beauty of the stones is matched only by the breath...
Rev. 04/09/99 (Salmon) WILD WILD WEST Story by Jim Thomas & John Thomas Screenplay by S.S. Wilson & Brent Maddock and Jeffrey Price & Peter S. Seaman B...
Third Revision November 14, 1986 (c) LFL 1986 Lucasfilm LTD. All Rights Reserved Act I FADE IN: EXT.. NOCKMAAR CASTLE - DAY Under gloomy sky a huge fortress looms on a volcanic mountainside. From within WE HEAR the agonizing scream of a woman giving bi...
ated by William Moulton Marston FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT FADE IN: 1 EXT. THE EARTH (FROM SPACE) 1 The EARTH as seen from space, perfect and seemingly serene. DIANA (V.O.) ...
imate source. INT. HALLWAY OFFICE BUILDING - DAY An engraved brass plaque announcing the name of the "private banking institute" within. INT. PENTHOUSE BANK OFFICE - GENEVA - DAY JAMES BOND, dressed impeccably as ever, is being FRISKED by three THUGS in Armani sui...
NOTE: THE HARD COPY OF THIS SCRIPT CONTAINED SCENE NUMBERS, AND SOME "SCENE OMITTED" SLUGS. THEY HAVE BEEN REMOVED FOR THIS SOFT COPY. FADE IN: EXT. SNOWSCAPE A BLINDING WHITE SCREEN, under which we hear an ominous low end Dolby THX Big Screen rumble. We're not in 19" ...
Chris McQuarrie Tom DeSanto Bryan Singer February 24, 1999 BLACK Sounds of a train rolling to a halt, a shrill whistle. EXT. CAMP - D...
ims over the treetops, heading south before the first snowfall. A young BOY (12), undersized and feral, trudges home, bookbag strapped to his back. Black-haired and pale-skinned, the boy looks as if he hasn't had a good meal in a long time. Before we hear anything ...
IGHT On a hill above the city is an old CATHEDRAL. The night is spooky, with harsh shadows playing across the cobblestones and medieval walls. A NERVOUS YOUNG HACKER makes his way down an alley. There is a DOOR at the end of the all...

ollage of old photos, prints, etc., and silent live-action vignettes, all dark and heavily shadowed like a dimly-remembered dream. The first images show the opulence of the Gilded Age, the epic vistas of the west, cattle drives and cowtowns with all their violence.... V.O. NARRATION ...

er: THE KHYBER PASS, AFGHANISTAN We're looking down at what used to be called "The End of the Known World." A landscape that is both beautiful, and forbidding. In the center of this vista, there is a deep ravine. Pushing in on the ravine, there appears to be a giant icicle hanging ...

plane to plane, plane to carrier. Aerial dialogue in small case is ICS; an inter-cockpit system; a live mike, heard by pilot and RIO only. TG1 REVISED 04APR85 . 1. EXT. NIGHT. - THE PACIFIC IS ANYTHING BUT WINDS HOWL. Rain drives horiz...

d Shusett and Steven Pressfield ______________________________________________________________________________ "TOTAL RECALL" FADE IN: 1 EXT. DESERT - DAY All we can see, filling the entire frame is a flame-orange sky...almost like ...

June 9 2008 EXT. PARIS - DAY CRANE DOWN from a view of Paris on a misty day. Cool, gray and beautiful. A taxi stops by the curb of a wide, cobbled street. All around there is bustle and activity, with cars and people hurrying abou...

BEDROOM - PREDAWN In a Simi Valley housing tract. It's dark. CLOSE ON ALARM CLOCK 4:59 AM. WIDER ANGLE: Eyes glisten in the clock's shine, patiently watching the time. BZZZZ! The ALARM SOUNDS. A hand that's been hovering over the clock drops. Silence. JAKE HOYT, a ...

, is eating it. PUSH DOWN TO: EXT. THE NEAR SIDE OF THE PLANET'S SURFACE Strange robotic creatures scramble around the planet in a wild panic. It looks like Pompeii must have looked as Vesuvius erupted. ANGLE ON ONE OF THE CREATURES - TRACKING The crea...

The Roman Empire has fallen. The land lies in ruins, divided amoung feuding tribes. To the west, Ireland has flourished untouched by the Romans, protected by the sea. Led by their powerful and ruthless King, the Irish have subdued ...

Prod. 0222 Fourth Draft Screenplay by Charlie Haas April 6, 1981 BLACKNESS 1 THE ELECTRONIC WORLD 1 ...

WMEN and MACHINERY branded "X-NET". 3D lattice of routers, refractors, reassemblers... New, unused data OPTIK HIGHWAY routes radiate from all sides, crossing cyberspace. X-Net Tactical Corps troops (herein X-Takks) patrol every inch. 2 INT. X-NET NEXUS - UNDER CONSTRUCTION D...

, we see THE UNIVERSAL LOGO. The globe stops rotating, and STARTS TO BROWN AND CRACK. VOLCANOES ERUPT ON IT... ACTION TRAILER ANNOUNCER In a world where only one man made a difference... "n 1a% AND WE ZOOM ALL THE WAY IN TO,.. A POST APO...

he snow covered Alps stand out clearly in the light of a full moon. A fortress-like CHATEAU is situated in a flat saddle of forest partway up the mountain, next to a frozen lake. The property is surrounded by high stone walls, and the stately grounds are bathed in floodligh...

red by him, in fact, she's alittle charmed. But, you can tell, that she isn't going to leave her barstool. CLARENCE In "Jailhouse Rock" he's everything rockabilly's about. I mean he is rockabilly: mean, surly, nasty, rude. In that movie he couldn't give a fuck about anything except rockin' and rollin', livin' f...

and William Goldman Re v. 04 /1 5/ 88 (B lu e) Re v. 04 /2 2/ 88 (P in k) Re v. 04 /2 7/ 88 (Y el lo w) Re v. 04 /2 8/ 88 (G re en ) Re v. 05 /0 2/ 88 (G ol de nrod) Re v. 05 /0 9/ 88 (B uf f) Re v. 05 /2 5/ 88 (C he rr y) Re v. ...

FADE IN: In the darkness, we hear a voice, a woman's voice. Her name is Evey. EVEY (V.O.) "Remember, remember, the fifth of November, the gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no...

through a downtown street. Hunters hot on the trail of their prey in an urban jungle. The sidewalk is crowded with people. So is the street. Too many people, not enough cement. Los Angeles, 1997. Summer, probably August. 103 degrees. Heat shimmers off the horizon. Making the sky look peculiar. T...

We home in on a boat coming in to shore. Off walks a man, he is carrying a backpack and wearing shades. EXT. TOWN He walks through a town, passing various stores and the general bustle of the people there. He notices a baby in a pr...

CAMERA. WESLEY (V.O.) Six weeks ago, I was ordinary and pathetic. His wry smile gives way to... Black. And then... INT. APPLEBY'S - DAY The CAMERA STARTS FROM THE CEILING, pointing straight down, overlooking a table of twenty-...

NOVEMBER 30, 2015 BLACK SCREEN PRIMITIVE WAR DRUMS POUND OMINOUSLY... as a LEGEND BEGINS: Fifteen years ago, a scientific experiment gone wrong gave RISE to a species of intelligent apes... and destroyed most of humanity with a virus that became known as the Simian Flu. The word "RISE"...

** Resized to fit on minimal number of pages** [Showing Pictures of City Life] NARRATOR No one would have believed in the early years of the21st century, that our world was bei...

EXT. PITTSBURGH, PA - TWILIGHT A beautiful blue-collar city approaching nightfall. Bridges. Rivers. Churches. The working class poetry of the `Burgh. EXT. ST. MARY'S CHURCH - SAME ...

ILING. We PULL BACK and find that the pin adorns the lapel of a ROBE worn by EDWARD BLAKE, 63, but amazingly not far from his physical prime--body chiseled, built like a truck. Handsome too, save the LONG SCAR running down the side of his face. Blake removes the ke...

Greg Rucka December 22, 2006 SCROLL OVER BLACK: Antarctica. Six million square miles of ice. The coldest place on earth. Forty-...

S OF A SOUTH TEXAS RAILROAD YARD (SAN RAFAEL) A TRAIN ROARS PAST REVEALING IN THE DISTANCE FIVE MET RIDING TOWARD CAMERA along the tracks. In CLOSE F.G. is.the back part of a sign. NARRATOR To most of America in 1913, the Age of Innocence had arrived...

FADE IN: INT. KITCHEN - MORNING ANGLE ON: BILLY MATTHEWS, 8, ravenously eating a plate of hashbrowns, runny fried eggs and syrupy waffles. WOMAN'S VOICE (O.C.) Doug?... We see DOUG MATTHEWS, 40's, sitting across the table, staring at his...

flawless DIAMONDS, glinting in the morning sun. Tounted on crushed velvet, the identical diamonds are on a glass covered pedal stool in the middle of a vast, marble MUSEUM HALL. The stunning beauty of the stones is matched only by the breath...

Rev. 04/09/99 (Salmon) WILD WILD WEST Story by Jim Thomas & John Thomas Screenplay by S.S. Wilson & Brent Maddock and Jeffrey Price & Peter S. Seaman B...

Third Revision November 14, 1986 (c) LFL 1986 Lucasfilm LTD. All Rights Reserved Act I FADE IN: EXT.. NOCKMAAR CASTLE - DAY Under gloomy sky a huge fortress looms on a volcanic mountainside. From within WE HEAR the agonizing scream of a woman giving bi...

ated by William Moulton Marston FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT FADE IN: 1 EXT. THE EARTH (FROM SPACE) 1 The EARTH as seen from space, perfect and seemingly serene. DIANA (V.O.) ...

imate source. INT. HALLWAY OFFICE BUILDING - DAY An engraved brass plaque announcing the name of the "private banking institute" within. INT. PENTHOUSE BANK OFFICE - GENEVA - DAY JAMES BOND, dressed impeccably as ever, is being FRISKED by three THUGS in Armani sui...

NOTE: THE HARD COPY OF THIS SCRIPT CONTAINED SCENE NUMBERS, AND SOME "SCENE OMITTED" SLUGS. THEY HAVE BEEN REMOVED FOR THIS SOFT COPY. FADE IN: EXT. SNOWSCAPE A BLINDING WHITE SCREEN, under which we hear an ominous low end Dolby THX Big Screen rumble. We're not in 19" ...

Chris McQuarrie Tom DeSanto Bryan Singer February 24, 1999 BLACK Sounds of a train rolling to a halt, a shrill whistle. EXT. CAMP - D...

ims over the treetops, heading south before the first snowfall. A young BOY (12), undersized and feral, trudges home, bookbag strapped to his back. Black-haired and pale-skinned, the boy looks as if he hasn't had a good meal in a long time. Before we hear anything ...

IGHT On a hill above the city is an old CATHEDRAL. The night is spooky, with harsh shadows playing across the cobblestones and medieval walls. A NERVOUS YOUNG HACKER makes his way down an alley. There is a DOOR at the end of the all...