RING

by

Ehren Kruger

Revised D r a f t by
Scott Frank

10/3/01

Shooting Script

C
For Educational
Purposes Only
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