House on Haunted Hill
By
Dick Beebe
Story by
Dick Beebe & William Malone
Adapted from the screenplay by
Robb White
Blue Revisions: 13 Jan 1999
Production Draft: 2 December 1998
NOTE: THE HARD COPY OF THIS SCRIPTS CONTAINED SCENE NUMBERS.
THEY HAVE BEEN REMOVED FOR THIS SOFT COPY.
FADE IN:
BLACK SCREEN
And in the darkness, a TICKING sound is heard. Soft and
steady -- soothing -- and then a BANG!
S
A school bus. TWO very buxom PROSTITUTES are being handcuffed by a plain clothes special agent, CHESTER DESMOND. Another AGENT has his gun to the spread eagled BUS DRIVERs head. The KIDS inside the bus are screaming. The phone inside Chester Desmonds car starts to ring. Desmond walks to the car.
INT. DESMONDS CAR - DAY
Desmond picks up the ringing phone.
DESMOND
Yes...
INTERCUT WITH:
COLE
COLE
Ch
RONIN
an original screenplay by
J.D. Zeik
DRAFT: May 20, 1997
A BLOOD RED SCREEN - A JAPANESE DRUM starts to play, softly,
but tinged with a desperate edge, growing louder, joined by
other DRUMS as a BLACK LEGEND scrolls up: In feudal Japan,
the warrior class of Samurai were sworn to protect their
liege lords with their lives. Those Samurai whose liege was
killed suffered a great shame, and they
Pretty, 30ish JOY JORDAN and teary-eyed STUART sit opposite each other. He is trying to resist bursting into tears as they finish dessert.
JOY
Stuart??Are you okay?
STUART
Yeah. Sure. Im fine.
JOY
Good. Well. I had a really nice time.
STUART
Yeah. Me too.
JOY
Open Your Eyes Script
Open your eyes.
Open your eyes.
Open your eyes.
Open your eyes.
Open your eyes.
Open your eyes.
Open your eyes.
Open your eyes.
Open your eyes.
Why tell me that dream?
You said I could tell you
whatever I wanted.
All right. Anything else you
should tell me before we start?
Nothing you dont know.
I was about to turn .
I liked eating, sleeping,
making love, like everyone.
And
PLEASANTVILLE
A Fairytale by Gary Ross
October 7, 1996
"He was part of my dream of course
but then I was part of his dream too."
- Lewis Carroll "Through the looking glass"
FADE IN:
INT. HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM. DAY.
A college counselor stands at the Podium lecturing the high
school seniors about their future.
COLLEGE COUNSELOR
... For those of you going on to college
next year, the chance of fin
KING KONG
Screenplay by
FRAN WALSH & PETER JACKSON
From an idea conceived by
EDGAR WALLACE & MERIAN C. COOPER
1st Draft
1996
EXT. SKIES OVER FRANCE 1917 - DAY
CAMERA drifts towards a large puffy cloud floating 6000ft above the
French countryside ...
... a roar of engines - sounding like angry buzzing bees - and three ...
six ... NINE SOPWITH CAMEL FIGHTER PLANES emerge from the cloud, flying
in t
Then huge CLOSEUP of EYES opening, gazing into mirror, HAND applying makeup, sudden BLACKNESS, then -
PRINCE (CONTD)
Thats right... a world of never-ending happiness,
You can always see the sun -
Day or night.
BURN IN MAIN TITLE: "PURPLE RAIN"
PRINCE (CONTD)
So when you call up that shrink in Beverly Hills,
You know the one - Doctor
Everythingll Be Alright -
H A N N I B A L
Screenplay
by
Steven Zaillian
Based on the Novel
by
Thomas Harris
Revision
February 9, 2000
INT. PANEL VAN - DAY
Clarice Starling is dead, laid out in fatigues across a bench
in the back of a ratty, rattling undercover van. Three other
agents sit perched on the opposite bench, staring at her
lifeless body.
BURKE
How can she sleep at a time like this?
BRIGHAM
Shes on a jump-out squ