The Kingdom Script
(INDISTINCT RADIO TRANSMISSIONS)
NARRATOR 1: After capturing
most of the Arabian Peninsula
with the help of
the Wahhabi Islamic warriors,
Ibn Saud establishes
the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
NARRATOR 2: The Wahhabis
were fiercely anti-Western.
They want to
go back in time
to a pure Islam that wasnt
threatened by the West.
SAUDI RULER: It was by chance
that we discovered oil.
We we
daylight.
The mugger put a knife behind him...
scared him so...
his dentures dropped
clear out of his mouth.
Mugger grabbed his wallet
and his teeth.
A mans gotta be
mighty low for that.
Leroy, could you spare
a little cream for Tonto?
Ill be up by and by.
Gracias.
Hasta la vista.
Adios!
- Good morning, Mrs. R.
- Good morning, Mr. C.
Did you see Ironside last night?
Some show.
I loved the scene
w
As the C-130 coasts to a stop, the hatch rotating down on a hot, dusty lifeless airstrip somewhere in Vietnam. Nothing seems to live or move in the midday sun.
TITLES RUN
A DOZEN NEW RECRUITS step off the plane, unloading their duffel bags, looking around like only the new can look around, their hair regulation-clipped, crisp, new green fatigues fitting them like cardboard.
CHRIS TAYLOR is just a
THE SAME SCENE; THE SAME SHOTS. Suddenly time RUSHES FORWARD. Als voice squeaks, the action accellerates.
LEADER (VO)
Run past this stuff.
THE VISUALS SPEED EVEN FASTER. SOMEBODY is running the tapes of
the EXPERIMENT right before the attack...FAST FORWARD.
INTRUDER
You wont believe this.
INT. LAB - The INTRUDERS SLOW the tape and watch with interest.
CU.- THE BEAKER on the pedestal surrounded by
SPHERE
BY
PAUL ATTANASIO
Based on the novel by
Michael Crichton
BARRY LEVINSON VERSION SHOOTING SCRIPT
FADE IN:
EXT. OCEAN FLOOR - DAY
BEGIN TITLES.
MOVING AMONG the hallucinatory variety of creatures --
barbaric, distorted, sublime -- that haunt the ocean floor.
All but unknown to man except in the deep preconscious brain
that houses the family album of the race... Where we remember
that they ar