The X-Files "Fight The Future"
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(The classic fanfare from Alfred Newman plays as the 20th CENTURY FOX
logo is shown all over the the big screen. Fade to black - Silence.
(DW NOTE: Enough time to Take your greatest fear and multiply it by X:)
NOW, Mark Snows thrilling new movie-version of The X-Files theme song
begins to play. Seas of blackoil fill the screen then text in white letters runs in.
Alien Trespass Script
- At Cape Canaveral,
another probe into space.
Target: the Moon.
A 52-ton multistage rocket
combining elements of
the Thor ICBM and the Vanguard
is ready for firing.
On the planned course,
the 83-pound Pioneer space probe
would closely approach
the Moon
and would be swung into orbit
by the Moons own gravity.
- Two...
One...
Zero.
- The vehicle roars aloft
at too steep an ang
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
My Favorite Martian Script
Mars surface ops, this is Houston. Were go for data.
Copy, Houston. Base pedal temp good. Remote pedal actuator good.
Probe primary and auxiliary transponders a-okay.
Shunt voltage three zero.
D.S.N. uplink rate is now 113.
Copy. Well see if we can better that for you.
This is the probes
We need all the data we can get.
Uh, standby. Were getting a low current level here
Science fiction plucks from within us our deepest fears and hopes then shows them to us in rough disguise: The monster and the rocket.
W.H. Auden
We live, as we dream - alone.
Joseph Conrad
"ALIEN"
FADE IN:
SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE:
INT. ENGINE ROOM
Empty, cavernous.
INT. ENGINE CUBICLE