R I N G

byEhren K r u g e r

Revised D r a f t by Scott Frank

10/3/01 Shooting Script

For Educational Purposes Only

C

FADE IN:

BLINDING SHAFT OF LIGHT

Opens a horizontal DOOR in the blackness.

A black MONOLITH slides inside, blocking out the light.

With mechanical WHIRS, the monolith's surface flips open. Metallic PRONGS swing toward it and rise -- retracting to pull a shiny RIBBON free.

The ribbon unspools, as the monolith LOCKS home with a thunderous ECHO. It slinks around golden ROLLERS and GUIDES. Wedges snug against CAPSTANS and MAGNETIC HEADS.

A street map of CIRCUITS and TRANSISTORS shimmers beneath the ribbon. FORESTS of WIRES snake into the blackness. A steady, pulsing HUM fills the world.

As a RED SUN labeled 'Record" blazes to life.

DISSOLVE TO:

BRILLIANT WHITE ORB 2

The red now white -- circle in a field of black.

A fierce WIND rises ... As an sphere's SILHOUETTE slide % ! & s s , blocking the light from the orb. Creates a CRESCEN light, then a SLIVER. And then a total ECLIPSE.

And as the wind becomes deafening ... A shimmering RING OF LIGHT surrounds the eclipse. Like a celestial force, glimmering, flickering ... ... unwilling to be silenced.

SMASH CUT TO:

TELEVISION SCREEN 3

Filled with STATIC. Then ZHSSIP! A channel-change.

A hair-care commercial has GORGEOUS MODELS prancing in A3 slo-mo.

KATIE (O.S.) TV gives me headaches.

Ehren Kmgc