October Sky Script
While most of President Eisenhowers advisors--
If you have just tuned in to this special bulletin...
Washington has confirmed that yesterday...
on the fourth of October, 1957
on the fourth of October, 1957...
the Soviet Union successfully launched...
historys first man-made satellite...
into space orbit around the Earth.
The satellite which the Russians have dubbed Sputnik...
i
orbit
around Neptune.
The source of this transmission
has been identified
as the Event Horizon.
Yeah. Well, thats bullshit,
for starters.
I lost leave for this?
Thank you so much!
Smitty, sit down.
Cooper, as you were.
Just let the man speak.
What was made public
about the Event Horizon...
that she was a research vessel,
that her reactor went critical,
and she blew up...
none of that is true.
The
The remorseless drought had lasted now for ten million years, and would not end for another million. The reign of the terrible lizards had long since passed, but here on the continent which would one day be known as Africa, the battle for survival had reached a new climax of ferocity, and the victor was not yet in sight. In this dry and barren land, only the small or the swift or the fierce could
Blackness. Then a hint of green becomes EARTH. It lies across an expanse of space. Richly colored. Fertile.
A GIGANTIC ASTEROID cuts into frame, Burning into EARTHS ATMOSPHERE and striking down in the currant area of Guzumel, Mexico.
Voice : An impact equivalent to ten thousand nuclear weapons detonating simultaneously.
A HUGE DINOSAUR FOOT steps down hard and is VAPORIZED with a deafening ROAR.
shower into the room.
A second torch cuts through. They move with machine precision, cutting a rectangular path, converging. The torches meet. Cut off. The door falls inward REVEALING a bizarre multi-armed figure. A ROBOT WELDER.
FIGURES ENTER, backlit and ominous. THREE MEN in bio-isolation suits, carrying lights and equipment. They approach a sarcophagus-like HYPERSLEEP CAPSULE, f.g.
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