Red Planet Page #3

Synopsis: Mission Commander Kate Bowman is the pilot and commander of the most important mission of the 21st century: saving the human race. It's 2050, earth is dying, and colonizing Mars is the only alternative to obliteration. Bowman and her crew have made this journey to investigate what went wrong with the malfunctioning Mars Terraforming Project, and to repair it. But what happens when they get there is far more terrifying than anyone could have guessed.
Production: Warner Bros.
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
34
Rotten Tomatoes:
14%
PG-13
Year:
2000
106 min
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GAGE:

Hi-Durch!

CHURCH:

Waow!

GAGE bends down and tries to open the cat-carrier's door. No soap.

Either he can't solve the latch or his fingers don't have the

strength. Anyway, he stops trying after a moment.

SOUND:
Growing thunder of an approaching truck - a big one.

EXT. THE ROAD (GAGE'S POV)

A big tanker truck--silver body, ORINCO written on the side in

blue letters--blasts by.

EXT. GAGE, BY THE CAT CARRIER

The windlash if the passing truck blows GAGE'S hair back from his

forehead. We should be scared here--not by the truck, but by

GAGE'S lack of fear. He's smiling, happy.

GAGE:

Druck!

He starts down the driveway toward the road.

EXT. LOUIS, RACHEL, ELLIE (AT THE SWING)

ELLIE has been disentangled from the swing. She's sitting by the

wreckage at the end of the driveway, weeping hysterically (as much

from tiredness as from pain, I think) as LOUIS and RACHEL examine

her scraped knee. The wound doesn't look too serious.

LOUIS (to RACHEL)

Would you get the first aid kit?

ELLIE (screaming)

Not the stingy stuff! I don't want the

stingy stuff, daddy!

RACHEL suddenly looks around toward:

EXT. THE FRONT OF THE WAGON (RACHEL'S POV)

No one there.

EXT. RACHEL, ELLIE, LOUIS, BY THE SWING

RACHEL:

Gage's gone!

LOUIS:

Jesus, the road!

They get up together.

EXT. GAGE, AT THE EDGE OF THE ROAD

A truck is coming. A great big one.

EXT. ANGLE ON THE TRUCK, CU

The grille looks like a tombstone that's learned how to snarl.

EXT. GAGE

He takes a step into the road...and then big, gnarled hands grab

him.

GAGE looks rather surprised at this, but not worried--this kid is

used to being picked up and treated humanely. To GAGE strangers

are as interesting as...well, as interesting as Orinco trucks.

EXT. GAGE AND JUD CRANDALL

The fellow who has picked GAGE up is a man of about eighty in old

blue jeans, a faded Bruce Springsteen t-shirt. Over this he wears

a faded khaki vest with bright silver buttons. His face is deeply

wrinkled and kindly.

JUD CRANDALL (to GAGE)

No you don't, my friend--not in

that road.

But he softens this with a grin. GAGE grins back at him.

GAGE:

Drucks!

JUD (low)

No sh*t, Sherlock.

JUD carries him up the driveway to the station wagon. Here he's

joined by LOUIS and RACHEL, out of breath and really scared. ELLIE

brings up the rear. She's still sniffling.

RACHEL:

Gage!

JUD (hands him to her)

He was headed for the road, looked

like. I corralled him for you, missus.

RACHEL:

Thank you. Thank you so much.

LOUIS:

Yes--thanks. I'm Louis Creed.

He sticks out his hand and JUD shakes it. LOUIS takes it easy--no

crushing JayCees grip, or anything like that--the old guy looks as

if he might have arthritis.

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Chuck Pfarrer

Charles Patrick "Chuck" Pfarrer, III is an American novelist, screenwriter, and former U.S. Navy SEAL from Biloxi, Mississippi, USA. more…

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