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  Prometheus

  Jon Spaihts

  Damon Lindelof

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  We have decided to call this one another FAKE. Though, no official word has yet been released, so the urge to avoid is still in effect. But a number of us here believe this is another fan leak. An entertaining read none the less.

  PROMETHEUS

  An original screenplay by Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof

  Property of 20th Century Fox

  Stephen Blairson C.E.O

  We open on total darkness.

  STUDIO AND PRODUCTION COMPANIES CREDITS

  MAN’S VOICE

  In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty

  The OPEN shot is that of SPACE. We see a massive epic DARK NEBULA and a series of small and large scale stars riddled all around and within the Nebula.

  (see Scott’s sketches for more details)

  Our VIEW PANS to the right and in our journey two small Pluto sized orbiting Planetoids pass our VIEW and coming into view is a large Orange/Pinkish coloured Saturn type planet. As we PAN further RIGHT we are now looking at another planetoid and watch as a large Flying saucer space craft approaches this planetoid (later known as Zeus)

  INT. ZUES. NIGHT

  The landscape is rugged, volcanic, baron, mountainous and Primordial. Violent wind storms rage through the scenery and the wind itself has a violent, angry and unforgiven sound. The large spacecraft hovers overhead. The flying saucer type craft is weird and Alien in design.

  (see Scott’s sketches for more details)

  Attached to the top of the craft are two ‘U’ shaped objects which face each other. As the hovering Craft stops its movements a hatch at the bottom of the craft opens and a large thick blinding laser beam shoots out and the powerful beam penetrates the rocky surface. We then cut to total BLACKNESS.

  CAST CREDITS

  MAN’S VOICE

  And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so.

  INT. ZEUS. NIGHT

  We are looking up at the mountainous terrain from the rocky primordial surface. Our view PANS to the right and we are faced with a large leathery URN. As we PAN further to the right we can see a small stream of water like Liquid moving through the ground passing us and then we CUT to total DARKNESS.

  PRODUCERS CREDITS

  MAN’S VOICE

  And the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters and god said “let there be light,” and there was light.

  INT. ZEUS. DAY

  There is now an ATMOSPHERE and even thick dense CLOUD formations. We are looking at a massive WATERFALL and the large SPACECRAFT hovers overhead. We again cut to TOTAL DARKNESS.

  WRITERS CREDITS

  MAN’S VOICE

  At first there was the sun and the sun said “I’m all alone. I have no one to shine down on” so it created man.

  INT. ZUES. DAY

  In our VIEW is a towering CATHEDRAL. We then PAN to the right and are now facing a more strange object.

  This towering ‘U’ shaped object is standing up right with it’s two ARMS touching the ground and it’s body facing the sky. Purplish flame, smoke and sparks explode out of the several large holes at the bottom of the body whilst a large thick blinding beam of light shoots out from the top of the body. The beam reaches out and beyond the sky.

  EXT. ZEUS. SPACE

  The bright blinding beam shoots out of the PLANETOIDS dense cloudy atmosphere and reaches far into space. We cut to TOTAL DARKNESS

  DIRECTOR’S CREDITS

  CUT TO BLACK

  MALE VOICE

  God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

  FADE FROM BLACK

  INT. BEDROOM. NIGHT

  A little EIGHT year old dark haired girl lying under her bed covers looks up at her FATHER whom sits at the edge of the bed. Her FATHER; a man in his late thirties closes the BIBLE he holds in his hands.

  FATHER

  And that’s enough for tonight. We’ll continue tomorrow. Time for sleep

  GIRL

  Is mummy in heaven?

  FATHER

  Of course she is. Now Elizabeth when you get older your going to hear a lot of bad things about me but I want you to remember I did everything for you and you’re future. I have to go now and we won’t see each other for a while. But Mrs Bateman will take care of you while I’m away

  ELIZABETH

  I don’t want you to go Daddy

  FATHER

  We’ll be together again baby I promise. Now give me a kiss goodbye

  The father and daughter kiss as a woman stands at the doorway. The father stands up and walks toward her and nods. She walks over to ELIZABETH.

  ELIZABETH

  Daddy?

  FATHER

  What is it baby?

  ELIZABETH

  Will I ever meet god?

  FATHER

  One day you will Elizabeth, one day you will.

  The FATHER walks out of the room. ELIZABETH crawls over to the window and outside she can see the main door of the house open and her father stepping outside where four uniformed armed men wait. One of the men’s distant voices can be heard.

  MAN

  Mr Shaw you are under arrest for the suspected bombing of the Weyland corporation Earth HQ.

  Two of the four armed men grab Mr Shaw and drag him away ELIZABETH rushes past the woman and out of the room.

  WOMAN

  Elizabeth wait!

  EXT. FARM. DAY

  ELIZABETH runs out of the house and into the sun baked farmland. Crop fields surround the farm house.

  Not far from the house is a large 800 foot futuristic robotic crop duster drives through the crops with it’s tank like tires. The sky looks polluted.

  (See Scott’s sketches for more details)

  SHAW is being led by the four men to a vehicle which reads ‘Weyland Police Force. Building safer communities’

  The woman runs out of the house and grabs ELIZABETH and holds her back.

  ELIZABETH

  Daddy please don’t go. Please. Please daddy! Don’t go!

  INT. CRYOGENIC ROOM.

  We are looking down on SHAW whom is still asleep. She is lying inside a capsule which is bright Yellow from the capsules lights. She is naked and her facial expression is pleading, frowned and tense.

  A hand reaches down and shrugs her.

  SHAW awakes, startled and begins shaking and looking around in confusion. DAVID looks at her with his bright yellow goggles as if he is curiously studying her emotions.

  DAVID

  Miss Shaw?

  SHAW

  Where am I?

  DAVID

  On board the Prometheus. My name is David, I’m the ships Science officer

  DAVID looks at the monitor next to her capsule which shows a full body scan of SHAW and then DAVID leaves the sweaty gasping and shocked SHAW and walks over to a control manual in the centre of the room. He types in a series of commands and within seconds thirteen other cryogenic capsules open and the room is quickly illuminated yellow.

  There is now a series of moans, groans and shocked whimpering that comes from the opened capsules.

  In a series of CUT SHOTS we see the naked bodies and weary faces of each of the startled men and women inside the capsules. However one of the crew members: MEREDITH VICKERS is the only one of them not frowning. She stares at the ceiling in a sinister INCIDEOUS
silence. We then CUT TO DARKNESS

  PROMETHEUS TITLE CREDITS

  INT. SICKBAY CORRIDOR

  Eight men stand in a line in the corridor; each of them talking to each other about regular everyday things. Along the left side of the corridor are windows looking into the sickbay where MUDOW and SHAW are sitting opposite each other. The only people not PRESENT are DAVID and VICKERS.

  INT. SICKBAY

  SHAW is sitting at the edge of the examination table as MUDOW examines her.

  MUDOW

  First time?

  SHAW nods her head. She is pale and sick looking.

  MUDOW

  Well for the next several hours you’ll be feeling a constant sense of hunger, dehydration, weakness in your joints and limbs and a mind grain worse than the biggest hangover you’ll ever encounter. Well good news. You’re blood has reprocessed and replaced all of the chilled feline solution in your body. Oh and I’m Imora Mudow By the way. I’m the ships medical officer. We left Earth in such a hurry I didn’t get to know anyone

  SHAW

  Elizabeth Shaw.

  MUDOW

  So what brought you on this little adventure?

  SHAW

  I’m an Archaeologist along with Holloway outside. We were digging up ruins on a site in Tibet when Weyland asked us to examine ruins on some lifeless planet they found. It was all rushed.

  MUDOW

  I hope it’s worth all the money the company invested on this mission.

  SHAW

  So do you work for Weyland?

  MUDOW

  That’s right, eleven years.

  SHAW

  It’s a nice ship, looks fancy

  MUDOW

  It should be. It’s the first ever ship to have been fitted with FTI speed technology.

  SHAW

  Seems like an expensive ship

  MUDOW

  You kidding me? Weyland spent most of it’s budget and profits on those Master-class star freighters. There’s trillions to be made on collecting Millions of tons of ore

  INT. MESS HALL

  DAVID sits quietly in a quiet trance at the table but looks up as VICKERS enters dressed in a white robe.

  On the wall behind DAVID is a large poster which shows the ship PROMETHEUS and the sentence “Weyland launches the FTI fitted Prometheus star ship on it’s 50th anniversary” written on it.

  She sits at the table and places a cigarette packer and lighter on the table. She takes out and lights a cigarette and leans back as she relaxes. A small tube descends from the ceiling and absorbs the smoke from the cigarette. She looks over at an emotionless DAVID.

  VICKERS

  You don’t talk much do you?

  DAVID

  I talk when I’m asked a question Miss Vickers

  VICKERS

  So you’re the ships Science officer huh?

  DAVID

  That’s right

  DAVID stares at the palm of his hand which has been cut. White fluid drips from the wound.

  VICKERS

  Does it hurt?

  DAVID

  I don’t feel pain

  VICKERS

  I’ve always wondered what goes on inside the head of a synthetic

  DAVID

  I too have wondered what it would be like to see what’s inside the head of a human. But I think even that would frighten a synthetic

  INT. CONTROL ROOM

  Both CHANCE and RAVEL; both dressed in white robes sit by their control seats. The door opens and JANEK walks in. Both CHANCE and RAVEL stand up and salute.

  JANEK

  This ain’t the military guys. What’s our status?

  CHANCE

  Everything’s operational. No problems at all. Oxygen’s at 100 per cent and we’re right on course

  JANEK

  Good. Before we do anything else let’s go grab something to eat. I don’t know about you lot but I’m starving

  INT. SICKBAY CORRIDOR

  SHAW walks past the cue of recently awaken passengers but stops when she comes across a smiling HOLLOWAY.

  HOLLOWAY

  How did it go?

  SHAW

  Not bad, How are you feeling?

  HOLLOWAY

  Like I have a massive hangover

  SHAW

  Any regrets accepting my offer to come along?

  HOLLOWAY

  How could I? It’s a chance of a life time. I always wanted to go into space ever since I was little.

  INT. MESS HALL

  Everyone apart from DAVID are all in the Mess Hall eating the weird jelly like substances and Corn bread. SHAW is sitting next to both MUDOW and HOLLOWAY. She notices Vickers; now wearing a suit is sitting in a corner away from the table.

  SHAW

  Who is she?

  MUDOW

  Meredith Vickers. She’s a company suit sent here to make sure all of our actions are in the Companies best interests. Janek might be in charge of the ship but Vickers can end all of our contracts just by blinking.

  JANEK stands up and hits is spoon off his steel cup. Everyone stops chatting and looks up at him.

  JANEK

  Can I have everyone’s attention please. Captain speaking. Now this mission was kinda rushed so I didn’t get to know everyone too good so if you’ll indulge me I’ll try and break the Ice. Now we all know that on the year 2042 the Voyager 3 programme flew past this star system and on 2069 the images arrived at the Hubble 2 and those pictures were of a small planetoid named Zeus and The pictures showed what looked like the Nazca lines. It may be nothing but Weyland spent a large amount of money on this hunch so that’s why were all on this little trip. I’ll start with the crew. There’s me, Captain Janek and over here we have First officer Mudow, she’ll tend to any medical related problems and if any of you have problems wetting the bed at night.

  There are laughs from the group.

  JANEK

  Our two lazy mechanics Ray and Joshua who I’m told are geniuses with a couple of wrenches and duck tape. Over here is my trusty pilot Ravel. He’s flown every kind of ship there is including an M-Class star freighter. And meet my young handsome Navigator Chance. He’s the best navigator there is but still has trouble finding the clitoris.

  There are more laughs.

  MUDOW

  You can say that again

  JANEK

  Weyland has sent us the best of the best of Astrology and science, Dr Milburn and Dr Fifield. Archaeologists Miss Shaw and Mr Holloway. Science officer David whom I’m told is flawless and I truly hope that’s true. Then we have Miss Vickers. To explain her role here on this mission, let me explain. If we’re bankers then Miss Vickers would be the bank. So If we do uncover alien ruins then we my friends will make history. I’m going to recite a famous line from a famous man.

  This is one small step for…

  EVERYONE

  Man and one giant leap for mankind

  JANEK nods his head toward both CHANCE and RAVEL before walking toward the exit. CHANCE and RAVEL quickly follow him. All three are watched and scrutinised by VICKERS.

  INT. CONTROL ROOM CORRIDOR.

  JANEK leads both CHANCE and RAVEL through the very narrow and CLAUSTROPHOBIC white corridor.

  JANEK stands at the door and presses his hand against the panel. The door which has WEYLAND written on it opens. All three men enter the control room.

  INT. CONTROL ROOM.

  The three men get in their regular positions. CHANCE is seated at the navigation system whilst RAVEL is seated at the pilot control system. JANEK is seated next to RAVEL and looks straight forward at a large blast shutter.

  JANEK

  Chance where are we from destination?

  CHANCE

  We’re definitely in the Zeta 2 Reticuli star system and we should be directly 200 miles from Zeus.

  JANEK

  Ravel open the shutters. I wanna see this Bastard

  RAVEL

  Sir the sun’s still in our direction

  VICK
ERS stands at the doorway unknown to the three men. She then walks over and stands behind JANEK.

  VICKERS

  Are we near the planet yet?

  JANEK jumps with a fright. He sighs and shakes his head.

  JANEK

  We’re close, real close

  VICKERS

  Open the shutters I wanna see it

  JANEK

  We Can’t right now

  VICKERS

  Why is that?

  JANEK

  Because we’re facing the sun. Listen is there anything I can do for you?

  VICKERS

  No nothing. I’m just checking up on things. Making sure the companies dollar isn’t going to waste

  JANEK

  Well ma’am you picked the right crew

  VICKERS

  I hope so. Let me know when we’re in position

  JANEK

  Yes ma’am

  INT. ENGINE CORRIDOR

  RAY and JOSHUA walk through the corridor chatting to one another and occasionally stop and flick switches. The sound of steam and the hissing of gas can be heard.

  RAY

  Hey Joshua?

  JOSHUA

  Yeah Ray what is it man?

  RAY

  Have we really been out for five years?

  JOSHUA

  Hard to believe huh?

  RAY

  Forty light years in five years. Damn that gotta be some kind of record. What the hell makes this thing go so fast anyway?

  JOSHUA

  FTI

  RAY

  What’s FTI?

  JOSHUA

  Faster than Light. After those big boys at CERN created antimatter WEYLAND took it over and they developed antimatter into a fuel source. That’s what’s powering this ship and that’s what’s giving us gravity. Think of it like this. The Earth and other planet’s with gravity have cores which creates gravity. Well the antimatter is the ships core

  RAY

  You know a lot for a mechanical engineer

  JOSHUA

  Knowing the simple details in life make the bigger picture more clear

  RAY

  I don’t know man. But what I do know is I’d like to give that Archaeologist chick a piece of my core

  JOSHUA

  I wouldn’t count on it apparently she’s Roman Catholic

  RAY

  Really? Shit, I didn’t know they still existed

  JOSHUA

  Yeah I know right? Science today pretty much debunks everything the bible says

  INT. HOLLOWAY’S ROOM

  HOLLOWAY stands in the room smirking. It’s clean and polished. There is a small square window but it is closed with a protective shutter. Suddenly his metallic door opens vertically and SHAW enters.