Aerial HKs, four-legged gun-pods called
Centurions, and the humanoid Terminators in various forms.
SEQUENCE OF RAPID CUTS: 5A Explosions! Beam-weapons firing like
searing strobe-lights. 5A* 5B A gunner in an armored personnel
carrier fires a LAW rocket at a pursuing 5B Aerial HK, bringing it
down in a fiery explosion. 5C Another APC is crushed under the treads
of a massive Ground HK. 5C
5D A TEAM
PEARL HARBOR
by
Randall Wallace
EARLY DRAFT
Out of BLACK we hear the sound of an airplane roaring by.
EXT. POV OF AN AIRPLANE
Flying over American heartland. We see the earth through the
pilots perspective as sky and ground swap positions, the
plane swooping down and storming over the ground.
THE PLANE
is a biplane, racing over a field lush with young plants. It
releases a trail of crop spray, an
A high AERIAL SHOT of the island features the Statue of Liberty prominently in the foreground then TRAVELS ACROSS the harbor, OVER the Battery and Lower Manhattan to Greenwich Village.
EXT. EAST 77TH STREET - DAY
A car is being hoisted up by a municipal tow truck while its owner is having a terrible screaming argument with a parking enforcement officer. DANA BARRETT comes home pushing a baby bugg
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
Silence. Gradually the sound of distant traffic becomes audible. A LOW ANGLE bounded on one side by a chain-link fence and on the other by the one-story public school buildings. Spray-can hieroglyphics and distant streetlight shadows. This is a Los Angeles public school in a blue collar neighborhood.
ANGLE BETWEEN SCHOOL BUILDINGS
Where a trash dumpster looms in a LOW ANGLE, part of the clutter b