The Florida Project
INT. MAGIC CASTLE – STAIRWELL - DAY
MOONEE (6) and SCOOTY (7) are outside The Magic Castle Motel,
purple and run-down. The kids sit against the wall in the
shade of an alcove under the stairs outside the main office.
The two take turns playing a game on a phone.
They hear a small boy, DICKY (7), calling from the distance.
DICKY:
Moonee! Scooty!!
MOONEE:
What!?
DICKY:
Mooneeeeeeeeee!
Dicky makes his way to the enclave moving fast.
MOONEE:
WHAT!!??
Steadicam:
Begin close on Dicky's screaming face andCONTINUOUS move from the side road parallel to Route 192 to
behind Dicky, following him running towards the motel.
MOONEE (CONT’D)
WHAT!!!!?
Dicky arrives at the enclave.
DICKY:
Freshies at The Future!
Moonee and Scooty are enthralled.
MOONEE / SCOOTY
Freshies at The Future!!!
They jump up and exit frame. We hold on the purple wall.
“Celebration” by Kool & the Gang blasts over the OPENING
TITLES that play out as we continue to hold on the wall.
EXT. ROUTE 192 - DAY
Moonee, Scooty and Dicky make their way to the end of the
motel’s driveway. PAN RIGHT to follow them and reveal Route
192 in full.
The kids run to the adjacent property -- FUTURELAND INN
(located a block West from The Magic Castle).
EXT. FUTURELAND INN - DAY - CONTINUOUS
Moonee/Scooty/Dicky arrive at the entrance to FutureLand.
Scuffed-up retro-futuristic rockets adorn the weather-damaged
sign in front, its logo embedded within a constellation. A
faded ‘Stay in the future... today!’ sign dangles below it.
Moonee/Scooty/Dicky run off the sidewalk and onto the lawn of
the shanty motel.
They peer around a dirty wall. Their eyes widen.
DICKY:
That one. The blue one.
The kids run upstairs to the second floor and look toward the
ground halfway down the walkway. They begin spitting
downward.
DICKY (CONT’D)
I can get it farther than you,
Moonee.
MOONEE:
No way. I’ll totally get it much
farther than you!
SCOOTY:
Yeah but I bet none of you can get
it on the top!
EXT. FUTURELAND INN - JANCEY’S ROOM - DAY
GRANDMA STACY (younger than your average Grandma) steps out
onto the walkway. She lights a cigarette, taking in her new
environment. She looks to her left where a YOUNG MAN and his
PITBULL are lounging down the walkway. She nods to him.
She continues to smoke. Something grabs her attention. She
approaches her blue 90’s Toyota Corolla to see a spit-covered
windshield. A gob of spit shoots down onto it from above. She
looks to the upper floor.
GRANDMA STACY:
What the f***? HEY!
Moonee/Scooty/Dicky slide back and laugh.
2.
GRANDMA STACY (CONT’D)
Are you kidding me over here? You
get down here and clean this sh*t
up now!
The commotion causes Jancey and her young sister LUCI (4) to
emerge from the room.
The kids continue to LAUGH HYSTERICALLY.
Moonee jumps up and spits blindly through the rail.
DICKY:
Go home, you rachet b*tch!
SCOOTY:
You ain’t sh*t, jit!
MOONEE:
You are sh*t!
Jancey gets hit by a gob of spit.
JANCEY:
Gramma, he spit on me.
MOONEE:
(offended)
It wasn’t him, it was ME, stupid
THOT!
GRANDMA STACY:
Hey! I’m coming up there and I am
f***ing telling your parents!
Moonee/Scooty/Dicky get up and race down the walkway of the
second floor, the screaming back and forth persists.
MOONEE:
Try it, bee-otch. I don’t even live
here!
Moonee/Scooty/Dicky LAUGH hysterically while running away.
Stacy fumes. Jancey and her little sister Luci stand by the
door, confused.
EXT. FUTURELAND INN - DAY
Moonee, Scooty and Dicky race to the other side of FutureLand
and down the stairs. They run onto the parking lot.
GRANDMA STACY (O.S.)
Get the f*** back here!
3.
DICKY’S DAD (40’s) is sitting on a ratty lawn chair on the
second floor, he spots them racing away.
DICKY’S DAD
Hey! Dicky... not another step. Get
your ass over here. Now.
Dicky stops as Moonee and Scooty keep running. Grandma Stacy
yells up to Dicky’s Dad.
GRANDMA STACY:
Are they your kids?
Moonee and Scooty return to their home motel and run up the
stairs to the third floor.
WIDE on the two little kids as they walk down the entire
length of the motel toward the elevator/stairwell in the back
(this is the first big reveal of the geography of The Magic
Castle grounds).
They reach Moonee’s home -- Room 323.
INT. MAGIC CASTLE - ROOM 323 - DAY - CONTINUOUS
Moonee slides the window open from the outside, sticks her
right arm in through the curtain and opens the door.
HALLEY (22) is in pajamas and lying on the bed, smoking and
watching “The Price is Right” on an old 19-inch tube
television.
Moonee and Scooty enter the room through the window, jump on
the bed and hop over Halley.
HALLEY:
Hey, take your shoes off.
Their shoes come off as they grab all the pillows in sight to
make a fort.
INT. MAGIC CASTLE - LOBBY - DAY
Grandma Stacy, Jancey and Luci burst into the lobby. A tiredlooking
AMBER (40’s, day clerk) looks up.
GRANDMA STACY:
I want to speak with the manager
right now.
4.
AMBER:
Can I help you with something?
GRANDMA STACY:
Are you the manager?
AMBER:
No, but I’m in charge of...
GRANDMA STACY:
I want to speak with the manager
now.
AMBER:
Can I ask what this is regarding?
GRANDMA STACY:
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