Realising Actual : A collaborative screenplay

An embryonic screenplay set in the not too distant future.
It is being collaboratively developed by the contributers to Dietfiction.

The story revolves around a group of counter-culture revolutionaries, or anti-corporate terrorists; depending on ones point of view; in a near future where corporate hegemony has supplanted government and rule in their stead in a quasi-feudal system.

The title “Realising Actual” is a working title and working character names all start with T. This does not preclude the final character list using some of the working names, this is just an arbitrary convention.

This group is hired to assasinate the CEO of a large and obviously "evil" corporation. The sub plot being that they have in actual fact been hired by agents acting for their target as a test, with a view to subverting the group to act FOR the very entity they oppose. The title is intended as a euphemistic description of the overt plot. "Realised" being a euphamism for having successfully assassinated the target, for which "Actual" is a euphamism.

Prologue, Scene 1

Fade In....

to a LONG overhead view of a city, possibly satellite. Zoom slowly in as music fades up (Billy Idol, Concrete Jungle) to...
A lookout/carpark on a hillside, a truck parked tail back to the lookout edge and the entrance blocked by faux-workmen (Thorvald and Toby). Assorted cryptic radio chatter is heard in the background, the level increasing as the zoom closes in on...
The Van, typical 2 ton truck with enclosed rear. Camera pans down to a side view then to the rear, revealling...
The rear is open and a man (Tyler) is sitting cross legged with cables running from the base of his skull to a large laser cannon on a motorised tripod. One more pan, zooming in to man and panning to rear, showing the city in the distance over his head. Point of view merges with the seated man, overlay cool targetting graphics and zoom into the top of a building. Cross fade to hard core background music (think Rammstein) and clearly audible, yet still cryptic, radio chatter...
He sees: Rooftop helipad, impressive transport vehicle flanked by obvious attack helicopters sit on pad, rotors spinning. We can see “through” the building as there are graphics of people moving and wireframe doors overlaid on the visual image. In the top corner of the field of view is a small frame showing what appears to be security camera footage of a middle aged man, well dressed but otherwise unremarkable, walking a few steps behind two obvious bodyguards.

Tyler : “Actual, Foxtrot Blue One”

The stairwell exiting to the roof is highlighted with a tactical overlay as soon as Tyler says “Blue One”. In the field of view the security camera view is now clearly mirrored with graphic figures. The middle aged man's graphic is blinking.

Tyler : “We are getting hungry, could use some pizza at Green Two”

When Tyler Says “Green Two” a graphic indicating his current position appears.

Tina : “Pizza en route, we wont miss the party”

In the field of view the graphic of the middle aged man stops flashing and goes bright yellow.

Tristan : “Xray Actual, Condition Yellow”

When Tristan says “Condition Yellow”. A bright green circle in the top left dissappears and is replaced by a flashing red text “Armed”. There is a quiet electrical hum in the background. The graphic vision now has targeting information and a faint purple line intersecting with the doorway to the stairwell.

Tyler : “Condition Red, Xray Actual, Boost Boost Boost”

The target graphic changes to Red with Tylers call and a bright green crosshair appears where the purple line intersects with the door. As Tyler calls “Boost”, the image slows, sounds become more bass and the whole view is tinged red, representing the fact that he has boosted his reflexes and perceptions to double normal.
The door opens and the two bodyguards pass through it MUCH faster than you would expect with the view slowed. They have whipped out compact automatic weapons and are covering left and right.
The red graphic is about to step through the door, the image merges with the real view of a person exiting; the two attack helicopters imperceptibly start to take off.
The head of the target is about to intersect with the green crosshair.

**Image Freezes**

Camera pans back to show a warehouse with the team sitting around, Thorvald is pointing at a screen with the image we were just watching.

Thorvald : “There!”

Tyler : “Yeah, I saw that too.”

Toby : “They are already up, the fuckers knew!”

Everyone : “shit”

Tina : “Well, this is not gonna end well”

**snap back to image and continue**
** Title credits begin to roll**

There is a bright flash and the image blanks briefly.

Tyler : “Realised”

Tina : “Pizza in 15”

The image stabilises with a headless corpse falling slowly, it speeds up to real time as the view returns to normal.
The bodyguards are looking around and the attack choppers are clearly in the air and scanning.
There is an impressive hole in the path of the laser beam.
Camera zooms rapidly out to show a hovervehicle, a “panzer”, approaching the lookout.
Thorvald and Toby are sprinting towards it and Tyler can be seen jumping out of the van and slapping something on the side.
Tyler's nose is bleeding badly and he stumbles a little as he runs.
The team leaps into the open side of the “panzer”, jumping out into free air to do so.

Tina : “Delivered, Foxtrot Orange One”

Tristan : “We sure are hungry down here, starving in fact”

The camera zooms to a much wider angle and it is clear that the attack choppers are headed to the carpark, there is also a lot of traffic in the air...
The “Panzer” darts down the hillside towards a bridge, touching down hard as the team piles into a pair of fast looking cars; as they do, there is a bright flash of an explosion at the lookout, but the helicopters are nowhere near it yet.

Thorvald : “Splash 1, lets book!”

**credits finish as the camera zooms out to another long shot as the two cars tear off in lock step**
**Title fades in as the panzer explodes**

Thorvald : “Splash 2”

End Prologue, End Scene 1.