imagine who it was.
- Is Joey here? Wheres Joey?
- In the shower. Can I get you anything?
Oh, just some coffee, if you dont mind.
No, its no trouble at all.
I think Ive found a very
nice vase for the foyer.
Uh-huh.
Youll probably think its an extravagance,
but its not, all things considered.
These pieces are
becoming increasingly rare.
Isnt that exquisite?
I hope you like it, because
its perfect
During the SONG we see snatches of the films mentioned in SONG. They look old and scratched and they are INTERCUT with flashes of white screen, burnt celluloid, etc.
SONG: "Science Fiction Double Feature"
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL - THE END SEQUENCE OF THE ROBOT CARRYING THE HERO
VOICE OVER
Michael Rennie was ill.
The day the earth stood still
But he told us where we stand
WIPE TO:
FLASH GORD
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
By
David Self
Revisions by
Michael Tolkin
Based on the Novel
by Shirley Jackson
11/10/98
Initial Shooting Script
NOTE: THE HARD COPY OF THIS SCRIPT CONTAINED SCENE NUMBERS.
THEY HAVE BEEN REMOVED FOR THIS SOFT COPY.
BEGIN MAIN TITLE SEQUENCE.
At the very edge of hearing, the tone of human VOICES.
Unintelligible, babbling, eerie. Then a loud FLAPPING SOUND.
It shifts fro
"TREASURE HUNTER"
FADE IN:
EXT. CARIBBEAN ISLAND -- DAY
A secluded island surrounded by bright blue-green water.
Sand untouched by footprints, this place has been forgotten.
A mountain with the vague image of a skull on its craggy
face grows out of the jungle.
A seaplane zooms overhead, pontoons skimming the water until
they slide onto wet sand.
EXT. BEACH -- DAY
Two sets of BOOTS mar the smooth
images from the life we are seeking:
British: "Who the hell is he?!", lower class British: "I dont know, sir." . . . "My name is Gandhi. Mohandas K. Gandhi." . . . A womans voice, tender, soft: "You are my best friend, my highest guru . . . and my sovereign lord." . . . A man (Gandhi): "I am asking you to fight!" . . . An angry aristocratic English voice: "At home children are writing essays abou
image appears - obscure
at first, then becoming more solid. A vision.
He sees a house - a small, stone, one-story, u-shaped house.
The house has a flat, tile roof and an unusual, wooden rain
gutter, with windows outlined in black and a prayer flag in
the courtyard. A spotted dog is in front of the house,
barking, though we cannot hear him. The vision becomes
completely clear, for an instant - cle
image of Lex Luthor --
commanding, corporate, suave, bald... And ominous.
LEX (V.O)
Greetings. This message -- transmitted in
over one hundred languages -- comes to
you from Earth.
Brainiac regards the message curiously.
LEX (V.O.)
I am Lex Luthor, owner and C.E.O. of
LexCorp -- a vast and powerful
conglomerate that dominates trade on this
planet. To whatever life form that may
receive this, I ex
There is no vegetation whatever, just sand and odd-shaped rock formations. The air is filled with red dust, which alternately obscures and then reveals the image.
CAMERA MOVES FORWARD optically - enlarging the film grain in the process.
SLOW DISSOLVE
OPENING CREDITS BEGIN
ANOTHER SHOT
Of a barren landscape, once more with bizarre rocks. Dust. Sound of wind.
CAMERA MOVES FORWARD again.
DISSOLVE
image of two clocks.
One -hour and one -hour clock.
Day shift and night shift, hours each,
mark the Metropolis working day.
Two groups of Workers,
uniformed, in rows of six,
march in unison,
the exhausted half as fast as the fresh.
"They moved their feet,
but were not walking", reads the novel.
The way people move or are moved
is always highly significant
throughout the film.
The Workers theme -
Downtown L.A. Noon on a hot summer day. On an EXTREME LONG LENS the lunchtime crowd stacks up into a wall of humanity. In SLOW MOTION they move in herds among the glittering rows of cars jammed bumper to bumper. Heat ripples distort the torrent of faces. The image is surreal, dreamy... and like a dream it begins very slowly to...
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. CITY RUINS - NIGHT
Same spot as the last shot, bu