As you may have noticed I have a habit of sharing alot of advice on scriptwriting in this blog. Mostly because I am a scriptwriter myself, and I like to share good ideas with others and also because sharing these tips and hints kind of helps me learn it myself.
Anyway, this has prompted a couple of comments requesting to see some of my own writing.
Unfortunately most of my big ideas are still in my head, and those that aren't are in digital document form as half-formed in prose or as started scripts.
However, I have found this old opening sequence I had written a while back for a film idea I had - I remember it was lots of fun to write, and its far more action packed than most of my other scripts.
I have made a few adjustments to make it little more readable, but otherwise its pretty much the same.
Please note of course that any work that I post on this blog is copyrighted to me, so please do not paste and copy!
EXT. A CAMP NEAR THE SOMME, FRANCE, ROMAN ERA: DAY
An army Roman camp near the Somme river in France. JENNA, 24, a red-haired Celt slave, slips out of a tent. She goes over to one of the stables, and quietly starts to untie a horse.
Two Romans walk out of a nearby tent, and spot her.
ROMAN 1:
(in Latin)
Hey!
Jenna quickly swings onto onto the horse.
ROMAN 1:
(in Latin)
Stop slave!
ROMAN 2, dashes over, grabbing a sword and leaping onto a horse, as several more Romans run out of the tent to see the commotion.
ROMAN 2:
(in Latin)
Don't worry, I'll get her.
ROMAN 1:
(in Latin)
Just don't damage the horse when you catch her!
Roman 2 pelts off at a gallop after Jenna.
Jenna looks behind her, and urges on the horse, faster and faster...
EXT. THE SOMME, FRANCE, PRESENT DAY: DAY
A nondescript silver car screeches to a halt on a dirt road, near a small wooden bridge over a narrow part of the Somme.
DAVIDSON, 36, in a sharp pinstripe suit, jumps out and runs towards the bridge followed by NORMA, 26 and KASSIE, 21.
DAVIDSON:
Which way is she coming?
NORMA pulls out a large electronic pad.
NORMA:
Through the French side...
DAVIDSON:
Crap!
KASSIE:
Of what?
NORMA:
Agincourt.
EXT. AGINCOURT, FRANCE: DAY
Jenna's horse bursts out of some undergrowth joining the French cavalry. Arrows fly through the air, taking out horses and knights on either side of her.
A knight suddenly takes a swing at her with his sword, she ducks and slides down the opposite side of her horse, swings back up and kicks him in the head.
The knight falls...
Jenna pulls to the left cutting across the path of the cavalry and towards the on-foot French soldiers.
She glances back and...
EXT. THE SOMME, FRANCE, PRESENT DAY: DAY
NORMA:
Second interchange...
Davidson is staring anxiously at the empty fields beyond the river.
DAVIDSON:
(tense)
Please don't tell me she choose a battle day...please don't tell me she choose a battle day...
EXT. NO-MAN'S LAND, THE SOMME, FRANCE, WW1: DAY
Jenna's horse dashes through muddy no-man's land. There's the sound of gun fire. A explosion to the left.
The horse reacts, almost slips and swings right, up a mold of earth and over a German trench.
More gunfire, Jenna filches, and leans closer to the horse. Looking up she sees a mass of barbed wire...
EXT. A CAMP NEAR THE SOMME, FRANCE, WW2: DAY
A tank rears up in front of her. The horse rears up to almost throwing her, she pulls the reins and it goes to the side up a bank...
EXT. A FIELD, NEAR THE SOMME, FRANCE, 1960: DAY
Jenna is in open fields, she breathes a sigh of relief, and laughs as the horse canters through flowers.
There's a gunshot, and something glances her bare shoulder, she gasps and looks back...
... at the Roman with a pistol.
EXT. THE SOMME, FRANCE, PRESENT DAY: DAY
NORMA:
She's been tailed...
DAVIDSON:
What?!
EXT. A FIELD, NEAR THE SOMME, FRANCE, 1960: DAY
Jenna is spurring her horse back into a gallop. She is heading straight for the Somme.
The Roman is in pursuit, firing shots at her.
She gets closer and closer to the river...
The Roman catches up, riding beside her now, he points his gun straight at her...
EXT. THE SOMME, FRANCE, PRESENT DAY: DAY
There's a clatter as Jenna's horses lands with on the wooden bridge, Jenna races it past Davidson.
The other horse appears with a clatter on the bridge.
BANG!
The Roman falls from the horse, which keeps cantering, whipping past Davidson, Norma, Kassie and Jenna.
The Roman lies on the bridge, with a dart in his neck.
NORMA looks at her watch.
DAVIDSON:
Well, that's the rest of the schedule gone to pot...
(C)KSANKEY
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