Script.
Draft 1
Scene 1
Hot summer day at the foot of Bennichie mountain, in Inverurie.
The countryside is no longer the landscape you would expect due to the irreparable damage to the ozone layer.
The grass and greenery of the tree has become harsh and red in colour, evolutions way of protecting the environment.
Felix is on a dig along with several colleagues they are researching the area and its history.
Felix: is on her knees brushing dust off a large stone, slowly uncovering its carvings.
Unnamed man 1: shouts. Lets pack up before the weather turns.
Felix : Nods her head and signals help her remove the stone from its resting place.
The stone is winched on to the back of a truck, every one jumps into cars and drives off as the weather turns to a storm.
Scene 2
Passengers in rear of car : chatting excitedly about the days dig and all the artefacts they have gathered.
Felix: sat in the front of car on passenger side keeping an eye on a satellite navigator.
In a low even tone of voice so the other passengers don’t over hear:
they are not far behind us we had better hurry, if we get stuck in this storm they will find us.
Unnamed man 2: cast his gaze to Felix for a moment then accelerates rapidly.
Scene 3
The vehicles turn into a private road as they do big gates close behind them, they drive up to a old manor and a garage door opens from the ground closing behind them.
They all exit their vehicles, unload their equipment, and the days finds along with the stone.
Felix: turns to unnamed man 2, taps the stone saying there is definitely something different about this one, look at that its like nothing I’ve ever seen on one of these (she runs her hand along the carvings)
Unnamed man 2: winks at Felix smiles, saying this could be a money maker.
Felix: winks back and with a sarcastic smile replies, just as well I found it then. Isn’t it! Not everyone’s agenda is cash !
Scene 4
Felix walks along a antique filled corridor into a room closing the door tight behind her.
She throws her jacket off sits on her bed unlaces her boots, curls up on the bed and falls asleep.
She begins to dream, it’s the same dream she has all the time.
….. she wakes up in a unfamiliar room in
Felix walks to end of corridor, peers around door to a girl crying.
The girl looks identical to her she is sitting at a dressing table sobbing with her hear in her hands, on the dressing table is a hand held comb and mirror.
She picks up the mirror looks in it and wipes away her tears.
Felix wakes up to an alarm going off. She quickly gets changed and rushes down stairs to find out what’s going on.
trial scrip for part later in film
Script for small section of story.
The inn
Alasdair is in a small dark dirty inn, just off the coast.
Alasdair: whiskey please.
Barmaid: Acknowledges him, turns her back to pour his drink.
Fisherman 1: notices the stranger
Alasdair: I was told I could get some help here, some information.
Barmaid: turns her head
Alasdair: About a island, just…..
Fisherman 1: listens to what’s being said
Barmaid: she cuts him off mid sentence, And gestures to him to move to the corner which is cast in shadow.
She finishes pouring his drink and brings it over to him.
Alasdair/Barmaid: They whisper in the corner for a moment, he hands her a few coins.
Stow away
Two fishermen are on their a boat preparing to set sail. Both have their back to Alasdair. He sticks to the shadows and quietly climbs aboard. He pulls a pile of fishing nets over himself to hide.
One of the men had seen him in the inn and had been keeping an eye on him, knowing that he had stowed away on the boat.
Flash back.
King: throws a bag of gold at the fisherman.
In a raised aggressive voice: oh and be warned, if any one should find out!
Takes in a deep breath, then calmly says: be on the look out for a man, if he should try to get to her allow him passage. But be sure you leave them there with no way off, and send word to me.
Fisherman1: holding his hat, looking at his feet.
Yes my king.
King: if you help to aid his capture I will see you are rewarded. Waves his hand for the fisherman to leave, that is all.
Fisherman 1: leans down to pick up his gold, walks out the room backwards still with his head down.
At the shore
The boat pulls up to the shore.
Fisherman 1: leaves the boat with supplies and place them in a large wooden storage box a little way from the shore.
Alasdair: sneaks off the boat into the water. Emerges from the water behind a group of rocks.
He follows the fisherman up to the supply box, just beyond it he can see a small cottage.
He sees her standing at the window. And runs to the house giving his position away.
He shouts jess………….. Jessica. I can believe I found you again.
Jessica: standing at the window watching the supplies being dropped off. She sees someone running and turns her gaze to him. She recognises him she has a look of terror on her face, as she realises that he has been seen by the fisherman.
She runs out the cottage shouts, you shouldn’t have come. She has a tear in her eye
They embrace each other.
Fisherman1: looks on. Then turns his back and begins to head back to the boat.
Jessica: wait.. please.. please wait !!
The couple run after him, down to the shore.
Alasdair: I’m sorry I stowed away, but please, I will pay you to take us back.
Jessica: lowers her head. you don’t understand he’s an employee of the so called king !
Fisherman 2: what’s going on.
Fisherman 1: I pay you to work, mind your own business. As makes his way on board the boat.
Jessica: please sir, he will kill us. We have to get off this island.
Fisherman 1: has his back to them trying to ignore them, the boat begins to move off.
Jessica: on her knees pleading and sobbing. Please. Don’t leave us here.
Alasdair: you will regret this, don’t you realise what your doing.
Pauses and looks down to jess
Don’t worry.
He kneels down next to her, lifts her head. He wipes her tears then kisses her.
I’ve come this far to find you, we will find away out of this.
Jessica: lifts her head with a look of defiance in her eyes.
I no what I have to do.
The summoning
Jessica: standing in the shallow water. Lifts her hands to the sky.
She chants in Gaelic.
Search they sky. Search the sea.
The journey home, I have to find.
In the sky I command u to work for me.
Show me light, strike hard till the seamen go blind.
(Lightning begins to strike at the ocean)
In the depth of the dark, cold water.
By speed and haste take me across the waves
I command you to carry Lucifer’s daughter.
The monsters deep wake from your graves.
(The sea begins to churn and massive waves form. She falls to her knees)
massive creature emerges from the water, its making a angry screeching noise.
Its tail crashes on the rocky shore allowing the pair to board him.
Alasdair: shocked looks to the creature then to Jessica.
Takes Jessica (who is worn out kneeling on the sand) by the hand.
Jessica: exhausted she collapses into Alasdair’s arms.
Alasdair: catches her and lifts her.
I’ve got you my love.
He carry’s her on to the animal.
Race back to shore
The creature sets off at lightning speed, to catch up and beat the boat back to the shore.
Either illustrated by a animated map.
Or
A front view from above of the boat and sea creature.
Still to script
They made it back to the mainland in a lightning pace arriving before the seaman could send word to the king of their union together on the island.
Within the week they had married, and set about building an army. Over the next year they grew in strength, and numbers.
By the time the year was over they had a child together, realising it would be in danger it was sent to seek safety in a convent in France , they planned to send for the child as soon as possible.
During the same year Ruairdh having been tipped off by the sea man, he prepared for his sisters threat to become apparent.
He doubled his army in size, and summoned dark warriors from the underworld.
The battle commenced on Christmas day 1338 on the mountain range on Bennichie, where Jess and Alasdair had set up camp.
The slaughter was imminent, they were outnumbered the battle was drawn out only because on the protection offered from the mountain.
On the 2nd day they had been captured and held at the top of the mountain by Ruairdh’s top guards.
Ruairdh unsheathed his sword turned and in a single movement sliced off Alasdair’s head. She looked down to her feet as her loves head rolled towards her.
Ruairdh turned to her, “commit your self to me, and marry me! Or u will serve as a warning to all who plan to cross me”
She spat in his face, held her head high, told him “does what u will, u can’t hurt me anymore”
Ruairdh lifted his sword and plunged it into the earth, as he began to chant lightning connected with the sword, and the sky darkened.
He pulled it from the ground and pointed it at her the lightning that had been harnessed into the weapon now surged wildly from it in the direction on her, and she was gone.
