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Screen story & screenplay by
Jim V. Hart
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Based on "Crisis in the Hot Zone"
by Richard Preston
"You might call AIDS the revenge of
the rain forest..."
Richard Preston
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"These diseases are true emergers.
Humans have truly stumbled into
these occult agents."
Dr. Karl Johnson
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"Weve got company!"
Han Solo
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BLACKSCREEN:
LEGEND: IN 1976, OUTBREAKS OF LETHAL HEMORRHAGIC
FEVER CAUSED BY THE DEADLY EBOLA VIRUS
OCCURRED AMONG HUMANS IN ZAIRE, AFRICA.
318 CASES RESULTED IN 290 DEATHS --
91% FATALITIES
A SIMULTANEOUS OUTBREAK IN SUDAN, 800 KM
THROUGH THE JUNGLE REPORTED 250 CASES
RESULTING IN 150 DEATHS --
53% FATALITIES
EBOLA IS CALLED A "SLATE WIPER" FOR HUMANS.
THERE IS NO KNOWN CURE. ONCE INFECTED,
THE VIRUS KILLS ITS HOST IN 7 DAYS...
FIRST COME THE HEADACHES...
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BLACKSCREEN: PRESENTATION TITLES
FADE IN:
AERIAL POV - LANDSCAPE - LIVING ORGANISM
Rivers, teeming with microscopic life thread like
spaghetti through a geography of living cells. Invaders.
Territory is overrun. The view is like an aerial recon
photo of an alien land -- at war.
SUPER: CATEGORY - FILOVIRUS
STRAIN - EBOLA ZAIRE (Z)
FATALITY - 88% KILL RATIO
SURVIVORS - 12% IMMUNE ANTIBODY
CURE NONE - NONE
MATCH DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. AERIAL POV - LANDSCAPE - AFRICAN TERRAIN - DAWN
Rivers, gleaming in the sun, thread like spaghetti through
a geography of jungle terrain, perfectly matching the
patterns of the virus landscape.
SUPER: ZAIRE, AFRICA - EBOLA RIVER REGION - SEPT. - 1976
A Fokker light air transport descends into view.
THE JUNGLE - LOOKING UP - CONTINUING ACTION
As the transport busses overhead, AFRICAN GREEN MONKEYS,
hundreds of them, frolic and chatter in the trees.
A BIG MALE watches inquisitive. The planes SHADOW passes
over him. The Male opens its mouth frighteningly wide; a
"threat display." Four HUGE FANGS flash at the intruder.
FLYING POV - CONTINUING ACTION
Twenty five feet above the Ebola River.
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EXT. REMOTE AIRSTRIP - AT THE RIVERS EDGE - DAWN
The Transport touches down and stops on the empty field.
THE TRANSPORT - CARGO DOORS OPEN
A Land Rover emerges. Then another. "WORLD HEALTH
ORGANIZATION" emblems on the side panels. We see a SIX
PERSON MULTINATIONAL EPIDEMIC TEAM inside.
Hermetically sealed hospital isolator stretchers with its
own air supply sticks out the back of each. A casualty
inside cant infect the world outside.
CUT TO:
INT. CARGO HOLD - POV THROUGH DOORS
We see the Rovers speeding into the bush. Cargo doors
close. Engines rev.
OUTSIDE - THE TRANSPORT TAXIS
Picking up speed.
HIGH ANGLE - THE TREETOPS - CONTINUING ACTION
The plane BARELY CLEARS the trees sending Green Monkeys
scattering in all directions. Their angry cries echo;
"KRA KRA KRA!!!"
END MAIN TITLES
CUT TO:
A GREEN MONKEY - ROASTING ON A STICK
THE VIEW SHIFTS TO REVEAL:
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EXT. EBOLA RIVER - FERRY CROSSING - MORNING
A handful of ZAIREAN POLICE guard the primitive landing.
REFUGEE VILLAGERS camp along the banks in the b.g.
One POLICEMAN passes out half-cooked monkey.
The POLICE CAPTAIN chews on a bloody haunch, licking his
fingers. The Ferry Bell RINGS O.S.
Now a jeep HORN HONKS O.S. approaching --
THEIR POV - THE EBOLA RIVER
The primitive Ferry parts the mist. Four wooden canoes
held together by a plank deck. FERRYMEN buck the current
with long poles.
KARL JOHNSON EMERGES from the mist. He stands on the hood
of the lead Rover WEARING A FULL FACE RESPIRATOR. A
creature from another planet.
WITH THE FERRY - APPROACHING
CHUCK REESE (22) honks at the wheel. He wears a full
respirator. All the team members wear respirators.
REESE
(in French)
Do not shoot. Do not shoot.
American Doctor! Doctor!
JOHNSON - CLOSER
He raises his respirator staring right into the guns -- At
30, hes already a legendary field virologist.
He surveys the scene like a military general as the Ferry
lands.
JOHNSON
(in French)
Johnson. Center for Disease Control.
U.S.A. -- Were headed to the
Yambuku Mission.
He points to his armband; CDC shield -- U.S. flag.
Police respond yelling threats at the frightened Ferrymen
and banging their weapons on the Rovers.
REESE - INSIDE THE ROVER
He is about to soil his trousers. The two Norwegian Team
members whisper in their language.
REESE
Jesus Christ, these people should be
quarantined. This outbreak is outta
control --
THEIR POV - THE FRIGHTENED VILLAGERS
Meager belongings, hungry children, terrified.
TO JOHNSON
JOHNSON
(in French)
How far to Yambuku?
Silence. The Police Captain approaches menacingly.
CAPTAIN
(in French)
You dont want to go there, Doctor.
There is nothing but death there.
People are dying all along the
river --
SISTER GENEVIEVE, a Belgian Catholic Nurse, approaches
from the Refugee camp. 40s, haggard, suffering
dehydration. She pushes past the Police, unafraid.
SISTER GENEVIEVE
(in French)
Etes-vous Doctor Johnson?
(in English)
-- I am Sister Genevieve from the
Yambuku Mission --
Johnson offers a bottle of Perrier -- Sister chugs it.
SISTER GENEVIEVE
Bless you, Doctor --
JOHNSON
Save the blessi
