A SHEET OF DEBRIS washes across the North and South Hemispheres.
Voice : A blanket of dust the sun is powerless to penetrate. For five thousand years our world is robbed of light as a nuclear winter falls. In that darkness, a civilisation is
removed from existence.
EARTH is now completely entombed in a dark, cold hell. Letters push towards us--
"A R M A G E D D O N"
65 MILLION YEARS LATER
for now, but...Goddamn,
Im glad youre alive. Gotta pull your
E-release...no, red handle, red handle.
Ill get the warm-ups out while --
PHFUT-PHFUT-PHFUT-PHFUT: Particles bore through the cabin,
blasting open the captains chest, shattering plexi, DETONATING
INSTRUMENTS on the opposite wall and leaving CONTRAILS
HISSING in the air.
Fry lands on her ass, horrified. Suddenly...
Another LOCKER BLOWS O
Note: Hows this for a change from the finished product?!? ... and NO mention of the powerful Opening Vistas! This is how the script begins ...
[FADE IN]
The screen is a microcosm of leaf, crystal drops of precipitation, a stone, emerald green moss. Its a landscape in miniature. We HEAR the forest. Some distant birds. Their sound seems to reverberate as if in a cavern. A piece of sunlight refracts
for her arrival.
CATHERINE
Thanks for the horse.
Hes a shy child, yet comfortable with Catherine.
EDWARD
You liked him?
CATHERINE
Hes beautiful...
Edward smiles, delighted he made her happy.
CATHERINE (CONTD)
But I thought we were going sailing.
The boy frowns.
CATHERINE (CONTD)
You promised.
A devilish glint in his eye, Edward redirects the mirror.
Catherine follows the flicker to a TOY BOAT in
for the disastrous rise of
misplaced power exists and will persist ... We
must never let the weight of this combination
endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
We should take nothing for granted ...
ELECTION IMAGERY
School kids reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. WPA films of farmers
harvesting the Texas plains. Rain, thunderheads, a dusty car coming
from far away on a road moving to