reprogrammed
twice, but kept on killing.
RALPH
Humans are scrap.
GERNSBECK
If it were my decision, I would have
you disassembled and melted down,
sold as slag.
MERRITT
Ralph the toaster.
Gernsbeck looks from Ralph to Merritt.
GERNSBECK
As you know, your labor has been leased
by Manrocci Industries to mine the
Carnubium deposits here on the planet
Isaac. Now that the Carnubium has
been depleted, t
directions and fills the stage. MARK sets up a small tripod and a
16mm movie camera downstage center, aimed upstage. He addresses the
audience.)
"INTRO"
MARK
We begin on Christmas Eve with me, Mark, and my roommate, Roger. We
live in an industrial loft on the corner of 11th street and Avenue B, the top
floor of what was once a music publishing factory. Old rock n roll posters
hang on the walls. T
direction.
Its the most powerful receiving dish in the world.
..in the world.
Can I have their full names and specific roles?
This is Ross Mitchell.
Hes responsible for manoeuvring the dish.
This is Mr Glenn Latham.
Glenns in charge of all the electronics.
Glenns a Sagittarius. He enjoys knitting, flower-arranging...
Mitch, I do not! Dont write that.
From NASA, AI Burnett.
AI makes sur
direction its coming from.
This is what weve been waiting for.
Well go up and counter-attack.
Youre crazy.
lm not going up in that.
- l cant handle the capsule alone.
- Youd better try.
- Get your toothbrush and whatever.
- Right, chief.
Munson!
Why are you running away?
All the frequencies are dead.
- Get a look at the V.O.R.
- Holy cow!
John, ten oclock!
lll put this baby down right here.
What
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
-- TERMINATOR 2 SCRIPT --
1 ext. city street - day 1
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:
2 e
No Way Out Script
No more.
- Is that supposed to scare me?
- Dont be a wise-ass.
Just take it easy. Commander Farrell
is trying to lay it out for us.
Why dont you just knock it off?
How did you actually meet
the secretary of defense?
I was introduced to him by Pritchard.
I met him when I was in college.
- Pritchard?
- Yeah, Scott Pritchard. Jesus.
General counsel for the secretary of
defense. Got
TRACKING DOWN the line of empty, open capsules. Frozen twilight. The final four capsules are sealed, lids in place.
ANGLE - INSIDE CAPSULE
NEWT, then RIPLEY. HICKS next, his head and chest bandaged. Then BISHOP in his caul of plastic. But the lid of Bishops capsule is misted with hothouse condensation.
CLOSER
A tear of fluid streaks the condensation.
An alarm SOUNDS.
A monitor begins to scroll da
Stars in the black of space. PAN DOWN to sapphire blue sky, the brighter stars still shining through. Its Arctic midnight, the weak sun tiny on the distant horizon. We skim along the water, in and around looming glacial cliffs-- The top of an iceberg pushes through the waters surface. Carved into the ice is a single mammoth word:
G o d z i l l a
We continue past, along the ocean, and discover:
The Hollow Man
written by Andrew W. Marlowe
Red Wagon
Prods.
Revised Draft
6/26/98
FADE IN:
On complete darkness.
A SMALL DOOR swings open.
A circle of light reveals that we I re looking down the
length of a tube. At the far end of the tube, we see a
gloved hand dangling a rat. The hand shoves the
frightened rat into the tube and closes the door behind
it. The rat s stark white fur bristle