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Synopsis: The Robinson family was supposed to set off on a five-year mission to explore a distant planet, but an act of sabotage by the scheming Dr. Zachary Smith -- who managed to get himself trapped aboard the spaceship -- leaves them adrift in space for three years. The Robinsons, pilot Don West, Dr. Smith and their trusty robot move from planet to planet, always searching for a way to return to Earth.
Production: New Line Home Entertainment
  3 wins & 17 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.1
Metacritic:
42
Rotten Tomatoes:
27%
PG-13
Year:
1998
130 min
597 Views


INT.-WEST'S FIGHTER

JEB (OVER)

Does this mean we're going steady?

West pulls his throttle all the way back.

EXT.-MARTIAN CANAL

West shoots up and out towards the dark of space.

WEST (OVER)

You weren't getting out of buying

those beers that easy.

The rescue craft converge on Jeb's ship as Don heads for base.

CUT TO:

CHAPTER 2:
Mission Objectives

-----------------------------

IMAGES-CLOSE. A Sallow field. (OVER) a heroic, stringy anthem.

VO:

Imagine an end to world hunger. What

if ample food and clean drinking water

were the birthright of all our

planet's children?

INSERT IMAGE-A dashing hero, wind in his hair. JOHN ROBINSON.

VO:

This man, professor John Robinson,

inventor of the faster than light

hyperdrive can make that timeless

dream a reality.

INSERT IMAGES -Airbrushed faces of a perfect family. THE ROBINSONS.

VO:

John Robinson and his family have been

extensively trained to take a ten year

journey across the galaxy in the

world's most advanced spacecraft,

The Jupiter.

INSERT IMAGE-A towering launch dome glints in the morning sun.

VO:

From a distant world, the Robinsons,

Will bring back a miracle...

INSERT IMAGE-A satellite photo of a planet. Closer on continental

patches, enhanced to show deposits of a diamond like powder.

VO:

Dimondium can turn even worthless sand

to fertile soil. Earth WILL be a

garden. What kind of - future can our

children look forward to?

INSERT IMAGES - Sun dappled, swaying wheat. (OVER) Music crescendos.

V0

A future without hunger. A future

without suffering. Heaven on Earth.

INSERT CORPORATE LOGO.-A Coke bottle hurling towards the stars.

V0

This mission sponsored by the US Army

and the Coca-Cola corporation.

PULL BACK TO REVEAL

WILL ROBINSON (10) hides in a small space, watching the commercial on a

jury-rigged, palm-sized computer. He mimics the Naylrator.

WILL:

Coke. Saving the world for our

children.

(a beat)

Give me a hi-test break.

WILL-POV. Spying through the open slats of his biding place into...

INT:
-LIVING ROOM-AFTERNOON

Basic twenty first century modern. MAUREEN ROBINSON stands, talking

with a PRINCIPAL who in less than happy.

PRINCIPAL:

He hacked our main power grid to run

his experiment. The school was in

chaos. We didn't even have lights.

The room lights suddenly dim. The Principal flickers, revealed as a

holograph, her head now sitting on Schwartzenegger body.

Maureen LAUGHS, then realizes the Principal has no idea her image is

being distorted. Maureen begins moving about the room, surreptitiously

glancing behind couches, into cabinets.

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Akiva J. Goldsman (born July 7, 1962) is an American film and television writer, director, and producer. He received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the 2001 film, A Beautiful Mind, which also won the Oscar for Best Picture. more…

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