ALL CARRIE (2013) Characters © Stephen King, MGM, Sony Gems, Kimberly Pierce, etc.
ALL TERMINATOR (1984-Present) Character © James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd, etc.
Chapter 1: Future War
Noon on a hot summer day. On an EXTREME LONG LENS the lunchtime crowd stacks up into a wall of humanity. In SLOW MOTION they move in herds among the glittering rows of cars jammed bumper to bumper. Heat ripples distort the torrent of faces. The image is
surreal, dreamy... and like a dream it begins very slowly to
The city, people, & children.
Same spot as the last shot, but now it is a landscape in Hell. The cars are stopped in rusted rows, still bumper to bumper. The skyline of buildings beyond has been shattered by some
unimaginable force like a row of kicked-down sandcastles. Wind blows through the desolation, keening with the sound of ten million dead souls. It scurries the ashes into drifts, stark white in the moonlight against the charred rubble.
All skull & body.
Date: Wednesday 20nd July 2040A.D.
Location: Chamberlain, Maine
Chamberlain, Maine was destroyed.
vast tundra of skulls and shattered concrete. The rush hour crowd burned down in their tracks.
jungle gym, the blast has warped the swing set, the merry-go-round has sagged in the firestorm. Small skulls look accusingly from the ash-drifts. WE HEAR the distant echo of children's voices... playing and laughing in the sun. A silly, sing-songy rhyme as WE TRACKS SLOWLY over seared asphalt where the faint hieroglyphs of hopscotch lines are still visible.
"Three billion human lives ended on August 29th, 2013. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war future. They lived only to face a new nightmare, the war against the Machines…" Voice of Sue replied.
A metal foot crushes the skull like china.
TILT UP, revealing a humanoid machine holding a massive battle rifle. It looks like a CHROME SKELETON... a high-tech Death figure. It is the endoskeleton of a Series 800 terminator. Its glowing red eyes compassionlessly sweep the dead terrain, hunting.
The SOUNDS of ROARING TURBINES. Searchlights blaze down as a formation of flying HK (Hunter-Killer) patrol machines passes overhead. PAN WITH THEM toward the jagged horizon, beyond which we see flashes, and hear the distant thunder of a pitched battle in progress.
THE BATTLE. Human troops is desperate combat with the machines for possession of the dead Earth. The humans are a ragtag guerrilla army. Skynet's weapons consist of Ground HKs (tank-like robot gun-platforms), flying Aerial HKs, four-legged gun-pods called Centurions, and the humanoid terminators in various forms.
Pursuing Aerial HK, bringing it down in a fiery explosion.
Human Troops vs T-800 Terminators.
Human troops were killed by HK.
Human troops short to HK.
Human troops were killed by HK, again.
With flesh ripped open and back broken, gropes for a rifle on the ground.
HK killed them.
The truck in the guy troops.
HK killed The guy troops for the truck was fell.
T-800 short to Human troops.
The T-800 was damaged.
Human troops killed T-800.
The truck in the guy, again.
The guy killed HK.
HK was explosion & destroyed.
Down as they run. Fiery explosions light the ranks of advancing machines.
The combat with night-vision binoculars. He wears the uniform of a guerrilla general, and a black beret. He is still amid running, shouting techs and officers.
C.U. MAN & WOMEN, pushing slowly in as the battle rages O.S. He lowers the binoculars. They are forty-five, forty-three, & forty-four years old. Features severe. An impressive man, forged in the furnace of a lifetime of war. The name stitched on the band of his beret is SNELL, WHITE, & ROSS. We push in until his eyes fill frame, then…
FIRE. SLOW, BOILING, ENORMOUS. FILLING FRAME.
"The computer which controlled the machines, Skynet, sent two terminators back through time. Their mission, to destroy the leader of the human resistance. My name is Sue Snell. Tommy Ross & Carrie White. My boyfriend & my best friend." Voice of Sue explained.
They saw Terminators.
"The first Terminator was programmed to strike at my aunt Sarah Connor in the year 1984. Before my older cousin John was born in the year 1985. My aunt Sarah is saved by Kyle Reese. It not failed. The second was set to strike at my cousin John himself, when he was still a child. As before, the resistance was able to send a lone warrior. My aunt Sarah and cousin John were saved by T-800 Terminator from T-1000 in the year 1995. The three was set to strike at Carrie himself, when she was bullied. The resistance was able to send a lone warrior. A protector for Carrie. It was just a question of which one of them would reach him first…" Voice of Sue explained again.
Older Carrie White, Tommy Ross, & Sue Snell.
Explosion was still big.
CARRIE: Terminator vs T-1001
The Terminator's endoskeleton is on fire.