pilots. Their unkempt faces, their blazing eyes notate a
wildness. They bark at each other in some Scandinavian
tongue. Two men arguing like mad and desperate children.
The man with the binoculars sights something.
EXT. HORIZON - BINOCULARS POV - A DOG
It turns and snarls at the craft some fifteen hundred
yards to its rear. Then whirls and gallops off. A gun
blast kicks up snow at its heels.
INT.
one six
thousand.
The Co-pilot is working on the planes altitude when his hands
slip off the controls. His eyes flutter, then:
CO-PILOT
Captain, I dont..cant..
He passes out. The Captain, HUGH STAMP, turns to verify that the
relief pilot is also unconscious at the controls.
He then removes his oxygen mask, sets the auto pilot, inputting
numbers to slow the plane and descend. As the craft tit
of A MINING BASE. Illuminated landing crosshairs alight a landing pad, beckoning the ship.
CONTROLLER (OVER)
Roger, Grissom One, this is Mars
Mining, You are cleared to land. Hope
you got some Partagas in that rust
bucket, Sal.
EXT.-EDGE OF SPACE
THE CARGO SHIP changes attitude, landing thrusters FIRING as the vessel begins to penetrate the atmosphere.
PILOT
I brought you the most amazing...
for ourselves
as she lies broken
on the seafloor.
How do you prepare
for such an experience?"
Okay. Dive one.
Its gonna be
J. B. And Bill in "Mir- "
and me and Vince in "Mir- ."
Pilots are gonna be
Genya Chernaiev, "Mir- "
Anatoly Sagalevitch, "Mir- ."
Okay. Heres your checklist.
Have your last will
and testament in order,
make sure your insurance
is paid up,
write a final note
to your famil
vessel,
that her reactor went critical,
and she blew up...
none of that is true.
The Event Horizon was
a secret government project
to create a spacecraft capable
of faster-than-light flight.
Uh, excuse me.
You cant actually do that.
The law of relativity prohibits it.
Relativity, yes. We cant break
the law of relativity,
but we can go around it.
The ship doesnt really
go faster than light.
It cre
pilot by the
silent stars. Like me, alone among
many. But most of all for us, the
crew of the brigantine Albatross, he
was always and would forever be...
our Skipper.
A SHIPS BELL turns him around. Ding ding. Ding ding. A
beautiful three masted schooner steady on the water slips
into port. A picture out of another time, another place.
It takes him away...
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. FOREST - WATER TOWER -
pilots are looking in
their direction. With practiced skill, MATT reaches down for something
in his tiny cockpit ... HE STANDS UP, wedging the control column between
his knees and turns back towards JACKS Camel ... a BASEBALL IN HIS
HAND!! With equal proficiency, JACK jams his control column between his
knees and stands, brandishing a BASEBALL BAT! Both pranksters have to
fight against the fierce
pilot error," hmm?
HAYES
Im really not prepared for any kind
of in-depth review of --
DEHAVEN
Id like to think our next Secretary
of the Navy would be prepared for
anything, Mr. Hayes.
A humorless smile. Shes roasting his nuts over an open
fire, and everyone knows it.
HAYES
The commission concluded that the
aviator in question failed to
execute a proper approach to the
carrier.
DEHAVEN
That aside
PILOT, 30s, a tightly wound
military type, as they zoom across the waves.
PILOT
Good sleep?
NORMAN
Not bad. So, where are we?
PILOT
Whered they bring you in from?
NORMAN
San Diego. Left yesterday.
PILOT
So you came Honolulu-Guam-Pago-here?
NORMAN
Yeah.
PILOT
Long trip. What kind of work do you do,
sir?
NORMAN
Im a psychologist.
PILOT
A shrink, huh? Why not. Theyve called
in just about everything
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