SPHERE
BY
PAUL ATTANASIO
Based on the novel by
Michael Crichton
BARRY LEVINSON VERSION SHOOTING SCRIPT
FADE IN:
EXT. OCEAN FLOOR - DAY
BEGIN TITLES.
MOVING AMONG the hallucinatory variety of creatures --
barbaric, distorted, sublime -- that haunt the ocean floor.
All but unknown to man except in the deep preconscious brain
that houses the family album of the race... Where we remember
that they are us... Then...
DISSOLVE TO:
BALLET OF ODD SHAPES
and exotic colors -- like a living abstract painting --
tropical fish moving in the f.g... Aquarium fish -- fish we
know -- fish of the lesser depths, as we RISE UP TOWARD the
surface...
Then nearer the surface still, fish dart and flee before a
distant RUMBLE... that GROWS LOUDER AND LOUDER...
HELICOPTER
ERUPTS INTO WATERY VIEW as it blasts across the ocean...
CUT TO:
EXT. PACIFIC OCEAN - DAY
A tropical morning sun paints its luster on the sea-chop. A
helicopter hurtles across the Pacific Ocean.
CUT TO:
