Dead Planet
Script
Written by Alicia Gallavin
48.Boomerang Crescent.
Isle of Sorrento,
Gold Coast.
Qld.
Australia,
4217
Synopsis
The world is literally dead, and the only surviving species is humanity. Living off whatever means necessary to live another day, day to day survival, Story of quest of survival, struggle, betrayal and heroism, and sacrifice.
Scene 1- Ext/Int
Picture: Shows a birds-eye view of the world, of what the future could be like: the narrator’s voice starts to introduce the movie to the audience to begin the journey.
Narrator
“It is the year 2050, and all attempts to save the planet and its inhabitants have failed.” “ Industrialisation had over-powered and crippled the earth’s needs, those individuals who bravely , digently and sacrificially fought for the earth and inhabitants rights , laws were lost , overturned , which in time killed the planet completely .”
Narrator
“The seas are black with pollutants, all other life-forms of plant and animal life, once lived and thrived had gone, extinct, gone forever.” “Web-chains of life which sustained and bloomed many species of life, wilted, broken up and destroyed”.
Picture showing a space view of the earth, with important elements of earth, water, fire and wind, now gone or in pollution.
Narrator
“The holes in the ozone layer had grown so big and wide, that was now beyond repair”. “The ice-caps of the North and the South poles had now completely melted”. “Sea level rises had escalated to impossible levels flooded most coastal cities and beaches and coves were flooded and under water.”
Picture Zooms: Closer to the earth, showing how little of the earth left. Illustrating how destructive the earth has now become to the only species (humans) alive now on this planet. In resulting to the destruction that humanity activates after a long period of time has now afflicted onto this planet.
Narrator
“Huge destructive storms ravage beyond the climatologists and scientist radars”. “Where all the rainforests used to be, were now large cities, higher buildings, homes were built on large steel / concrete chambers, like long towers”.
Picture: Showing on screen, humans within those present environments are doing whatever they could to survive.
Narrator
“Citizens worldwide use technology in about every method available , to help human survive , from create oxygen to breathe , to even make food and water safe enough to eat , drink and clean”.
Camera shoots: To another location of the world. Countries in the Northern and Southern hemispheres. Pictures of people living in very different living conditions.
Scene 2-Ext/Int
Narrator
“People in some places that could go outside were not able to do so, without wearing heavy protective clothing, hats and high powered sunglasses to protect their eyes .Also wearing thick leather boots to protect their feet. Other places around the world, were under water, therefore couldn’t go outside at all”.
“Above all a very sad a highly dangerous place to live in!”
End of scene/ narrator introduction
Scene 2.Ext/ Int – fade in / Smog infested city of New York
Molly, a young biologist/technician is walking down the streets, making her way to the sports dome for the government’s latest scheduled survival seminar.
Suddenly the phone rings: Molly pauses, takes out her phone to answer it. It is her work colleague and friend Josephine.
Josephine
“Hey, are you on your way to the survival seminar?” “The governments are really fired up today!”
Molly
“Yes I will be there in ten minutes!” “Despite what this latest seminar is all about, I don’t know how much of a difference it is going to make for us all now”.
Josephine
“What do you mean?”
Molly looks around the contaminated streets of New York .Watching and looking at the only species alive humanity was suffering big time .Slowly but surely dying on the streets. Millions and billions of people all over the place either going rebellion by looting and rioting over the city streets , or choose the other extreme , by giving up the will to live completely by taking off their protective clothing and breathing masks , and sitting their place on the dark ,gloomy side streets to seal their fates.
“Molly”
“No matter what we do now, it will not help us very much.” “We will all become extinct eventually”.
Pause: No-one says anything for a couple of minutes, before the conversation continues in bleak attitude.
Josephine
“Well I will leave you to deliver the happy news to the parliament, and to the people.” “I am sure they will be real happy to hear our results!”.”We will see you there, bye for now!”
The phone clicks, and then goes silent .Molly puts away the phone into her pocket. Then continues to walk through the dark, gloomy, smog filled streets. As Molly nears to the dome, she stops, turns and looks to see the museum next to the dome. The display sign was showing pictures of living species that used to live before extinction .Molly turns to look at the dome then looks back at the museum. She then makes up her mind to delay going to the seminar to journey through the millennium museum, she walks straights to the museum entrance and approaches the facility.
End of scene 2
Scene 3 Ext/Int – The Millennium Museum
Molly enters the millennium museum, walks through the de-contamination process. Takes off her oxygen mask , overcoat, goggles, and thick overalls , wellington boots, before sterilisation process by health checks , shower and given a plain black outfit to wear , along with black socks for her feet .Before entering the museums displays. As Molly makes her way through the museum, there was plenty for her to see and visit.
Camera Close Up: Displays of millions, upon millions of many species, of birds, beasts, and plants that once used to roam the planet, was now stuffed statues or visual image projections. There were also sound boxes, giving off sounds of what each animal makes, and the audio recordings tape of the narrators voice recordings echoes within the museum. Speeches of recordings presentations about when the species came from, about the species life for when it was alive, to the time the inhabitants originated. To the time the species had died out, the causes of the extinctions.
Camera: Then returns focus on the main character, Molly, tears running down her dark brown eyes, dampen her brown hair. She then visits the department of extinct human tribe’s origins to see how they became extinct as well.
Molly sees enough , she then makes her way back to the exit , goes through the sterilisation process , puts on a completely new out-fit of heavily protective gear, and clothing , before walking slowly to the massive dome parliament building for the latest survival seminar.
End of scene 3
Scene 4 -Survival Seminar- Ext/Int
Scene shoot-up: Of the seminar dome .Within the meeting was a usual sombre mood. Citizens from all walks of life were now settled into their seats, waiting for the seminar to proceed. The government of parliament personal that ruled the world with an iron fist. As if fear and suffering that fuelled them to behave in that manner. It was as if they were trying to keep things as “civilised and normal as possible”.
Sergeant General with the USA president Ryan Quail was now taking the stand to address the world. Along with a sea of parliament personal from around the world came to order.
Ryan Quail
“My fellow citizens, I have the unpleasant duty, of letting everyone know that food and water are increasingly low and unsafe to eat”.
Ryan Quail
“We also need to tell you that a massive storm, which we have named “Hurricane Pollutant is heading this way
Ryan Quail
“It is also said, that this storm, of all is the most dangerous storm on record, and it will cover the entire mid-section of the planet.”
“Therefore we will have to evacuate to a place in a country of any preference within the Northern /Southern hemispheres” “Also there will be transports ready and fuelled to take you to your chosen location”.
Molly
“What good is that?”
Moment of Suspense: Every head in the building turns to the person, who had dared to speak. Molly stands up from the front of her seat to make herself known. Argent General and President Ryan Quail look crossly towards Molly.
Sergeant General
“I beg your pardon!”
Molly
“Can you all recognise to see that, no matter what we do, it’s all too late now?”
Scene 4 continued int/ext.Survival Seminar
President Quail, and General Sergeant, looks at each other uncomfortably. A buzz of murmuring, cold talking throughout the audience within the dome.
President Quail
“What makes you say that?”
Molly uneasily looks around the dome, before sombrely replying.
Molly
“If we move to the Northern or Southern hemispheres, we will be either living in a city in deserts.” “Or live in cities that are under twenty or thirty feet under water.”
Shocked crowds start to get uneasy; Sergeant General stamps the hammer to call for calm. President Quail is focusing intently on Molly’s expression. The president is getting even more impatient.
President Quail
“Well what do you propose we do little Miss Know-it-all?”, “We have no choice!” “This is what we have to do, thanks to all the mess of it all, cause from the generations before us!” “It is up to us to survive!”
Criticisms of people: Start to echo throughout the dome, and people are getting more agitated. Other individuals look like they are ready to give up. Some other people though start to make threats at Molly.
Josephine
“Yeah, what do you propose we say and do?”, “Just to stay here, and perish in this forsaken, hell-on- earth wasteland!!!”
End of scene 4
Scene 5 int/ext- Hurricane Pollutant
Molly looks around at the sea of troubled faces within the dome sympathetically. Before giving the next lot of grim information.
Molly
“Earth has suffered our wrong-doings for too many times and years, and now it is going to let us to have a taste of what it has suffered , before it unleashes its natures furious destruction.”
No-one replies at this sudden reply. Molly then takes the cue to break her silenced more to the audience.
Molly
“Nature has its own way of dealing with a species that wants to overpower and dominate the world”. “Not flowing with the harmony flow of nature.”
Josephine
“What is that supposed to mean?”
Another biologist: Stands up from the crowd, is also a close friend of Molly and is prepared to stand up for her. The biologist knows that no matter what, Molly will speak the truth.
Gerald
“It means that after too many decades of suffering our selfish ways, planet earth is will rage its wrath on us!”
General Sergeant
Snaps “Are you threatening us? You can go to no man’s land!”.
Molly looks at them all coolly before answering:
Molly
“No! I am just bluntly giving you all the truth, as a trained biologist, am trained to know how the natural world works!”. “Just letting you all knows, it will not make any difference, no matter what we do now, it’s too late, and we have exhausted all our chances of redemption!”
Scene continued
Scene 5 int/ext continued Hurricane Pollutant
President Quail
“Yes it will, it will get rid of pain in the neck people like yourself and your friend”. “Troops, kindly escort these two-biologist bunny huggers out of my sight, to their transport to no-man’s land!”
Troops
“Yes Sir”
Troops grab hold of Molly and Gerald, and then a huge gust of wind fills the room. Hurricane pollutant is nearing the dome. Acid rain is drumming against the windows, literally burning the glass windows away like wax from a candle stick. Suddenly a massive explosion erupts, as a 9.9 earthquake shakes the buildings causing cities to collide and topple over like dominoes.
The entire building then erupts with chaos, panicked people run for their lives, and to take shelter, with whatever kits they need. A massive tsunami wave hurls through the large dome, smashes through the windows. People are swept away like ants. Gerald and Molly kicks themselves free from the troops grasp. One man makes a grab at Molly’s arm; she dives out of his reach. Gerald runs up to her, swipes at the man, and pushes him away. Aware that an acid river is closing in fast, both people grab a sheet of metal to cover their heads and ran for it to higher ground, to a giant undercover air-port, where fighter pilot jets are stored.
Small strings of people are closing in towards Gerald and Molly; there is only one jet left. Gerald seizes Molly’s hand throws her through the door, beginning to close it, along with placing sand-bags to block intruders, and slow acid river down.
Molly
“What are you doing?”
Gerald
“I need to hold them off; the people will kill you, and overthrow the jet!”
“You are needed for the planet, Go now!”
Molly
“I want you to come with me!”
Gerald
“I do too, but look! they are coming! , I will never forget you , and will always will be there in spirit”.
Molly and Gerald look at each other, crowds are nearing to the door, along with the river of acid .Gerald kisses Molly and shuts the door and bolts it.
End of scene 5-Hurricane pollutant
Scene 6 int/ext Evacuation to the flight of destiny