THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DE! by Bragi Schut Based on DRACULA by Bi foker Revisi Robert S ich Brian ions by Jaiitgs V. Hart AN. fix, Pictures 102. JV. Washington Boulevard FrésikGvich Building Culver City, CA 90232‘ST VOYAGE OF THE DENETER UNDERWATER We are at the bottom of the sea. Kelp beds wave in slow! motion. Among the kelp fronds, we follow the billows; fabric of a dress toward A WOMAN'S BODY. Her face obscured in grey ocean waters as she sinks in a tr; 9 bubbles. MURKY WATER OBSCURES THE BUBBLES, WIPING FRAME gfO7 EXT. COUNTRY RIVER - DAY A few sluggish bubbles surface on flat gugy,w: coursing through a tangle of reeds. ‘The setting ts across the surface, against a landscape of brown g@igldSgbordered by the shadowed Carpathian Mountains. SUPERIMPOSE: “ROMANIA, 1897.” EXT. ARGES RIVER - ROMANIA - SUND\ tains as a cartload of FIELD je, still under ages nearby. Silver light bleeds over the WORKERS heads past an unusi construction. A large he EXT. BRIDGE - SUNDOWN A DARK FIGURE appears pulling a series o departing Workers yp the bridge. The man strains, tight on a windlass. As the ear the bridge: ORKER B eord rested, boy. ‘The man bRtdge is Alec, in his twenties. Ae he ties off the, inch with purposeful movements, hie sinewy build gid Bitense features signal that he has clearly evolved past #orjgng Yn the fields. He grins down. ALEC But only after his work was done. And who knows what he counted as a day? cart bumps away, passengers looking up at Alec as he © his bridge, checking the tension rigging. He looks across to the opposite side of the river. ALEC Nico!2. ALEC’S POV ~ NICO Bight-year-old NICO chases a large dog in the field across from the bridge. He wears an outsized Romanian tunic with an embroidered border. ALEC Leaping on a counter-balance, he releases a block gfid descends, riding the weight down to the ground. dg in front of Nico, cutting off his escape. Dog at bi f he hoists the boy over his shoulders ALEC Come on, you two. It’s getting cold out here -- Circling and barking in a mock threat 12%, the dog knocks Alec and Nico to the ground. NICO Look, Barac’s turning lf. Alec rolls to his feet and begins to%gather tools. ALEC We'll be playi al wolves if we stay ough ich longer. Let's go. Nico follows, dawdling@the dog hanging next to him. When fe g&f home, can we go out long ¢ to look for the dog st! ALEC dog star, the blue star, the ing star of the west —- NICO ich is really the planet venus. ALEC So then. Let’s work fast, and maybe we can find Mars. The red planet. EXT. WOODS