All Is Lost

THE SCREEN IS BLACK.

We hear the sounds of gentle waves.

OUR MAN:

13th of July, 4:
50 pm. I’m sorry...

I know that means!little at this

point, but I am. I tried, I think

you!would all!agree that I tried.

To be true, to be strong, to be

kind, to love, to be right. But I

wasn’t. And I know you knew this.

In each of your ways. And I am

sorry. All is lost here... except

for soul and body... that is,

what’s left of them... and a halfday’s

ration.

It’s inexcusable really, I know

that now. How it could have taken

this long to admit that I’m not

sure... but it did. I fought ‘til

the end, I’m not sure what that is

worth, but know that I did. I!have

always hoped for more for you

all...!I will miss you.!I’m sorry.!

OVER BLACK.

The sound of water peacefully running against the bow (front)

of a boat.

TITLE CARD #1 (over black): ALL IS LOST

TITLE CARD #2 (over black): EIGHT DAYS EARLIER

TITLE CARD #3 (over black): ACT ONE (Man vs. Man)

FADE IN:

INT. BOW SLEEPING BERTH OF A 39 FT SAILBOAT - DAWN

OUR MAN is sound asleep as the boat moves up and down through

the small waves that we can hear through the hull of the

boat.

A terrible crunching and ripping noise echoes through the

small space. OUR MAN immediately opens his eyes to the sound

of rushing water.

OUR MAN jumps out of the berth and as his feet hit the ground

they land in several inches of water inside the cabin of the

boat.

2.

He jumps up. As he looks down several small white knock-off

Keds kids sneakers are floating in the water.

OUR MAN rushes towards the back of the boat, as he enters the

main cabin he sees a four foot long gash in the side of the

boat.

There is water pouring into the cabin from the bottom of the

gash.

The gash is located right at the navigation table of the boat

where all the electronics are located. The water is pouring

in around and through the electronics including the GPS,

RADAR, RADIO, and SATELLITE PHONE.

OUR MAN jumps through the rushing water and climbs up the

steps to the cockpit of the boat.

EXT. COCKPIT OF THE BOAT - MORNING

Through the early morning light he now sees what has

happened.

A massive shipping container that had fallen off a cargo ship

is almost completely submerged in the water and is now stuck

to the boat through the gash in the side of the boat.

Thousands of the white shoes are floating in the water and

emptying from a hole in the container.

OUR MAN jumps into action.

The boat is heeling (being pushed at an angle due to the

pressure on the sails) towards the side of the boat that the

gash is on allowing the water to flow into the boat.

But first he must get the container unhooked from the gash as

it will sink the boat very soon unless he intervenes. He

pushes against it with his feet, kicking. Nothing. Gets out a

boat hook and tries to use that as a lever. Nothing. Tries

kicking and pushing again. Nothing.

The water continues to pour into the boat.

So he turns and opens a storage locker under the cockpit

seats and pulls out a long line (rope).

He jumps down onto the half sunk container, lashes a line

around one end. Slips several times almost falling into the

water.

He can now really see that the container is totally lodged in

place.

3.

He jumps back onto the boat and heads down the stairs into

the cabin that is now filled with several feet of water. The

white kids shoes are everywhere.

He wades through the water to a front storage locker. He

opens it and pulls out a large case that has LIFERAFT written

in red letters on it. But instead of taking the case upstairs

he opens the case and lifts the raft up and grabs a yellow

looking sack that is stored behind the raft.

He heads back up onto the deck.

He jumps back down onto the container and takes a metal loop

that is sticking out of the yellow sack and ties the long

rope to it.

He now stops and looks around and tries to calmly analyze the

situation before he takes another move. He looks up at the

sails and the wind direction indicator at the top of the

mast.

He scans the horizon.

Finally he shakes the contents out of the yellow bag, it

fills with air. It is a small parachute of some kind. (It is

a SEA ANCHOR, a device that is used in extreme weather, to

help stabilize a boat by dragging it under the water. The

parachute holds the boat back as huge waves thrash it) He

shakes out the sea anchor and holds it over the edge of

storage container into the water.

The water catches in the chute and starts pulling the rope

that is spooled on the deck. The rope unspools, as he jumps

back onto the boat and gets behind the steering wheel waiting

for the rope to run out.

The coil of rope gets shorter and shorter and finally it is

all gone.

In one extremely loud and jarring move the container rips out

of the hull of the boat as OUR MAN turns the wheel of the

boat away from the container.

He is free.

He immediately turns the boat onto the other tack (the

opposite point of sail) so that the boat is now leaning the

other direction so that the gash is up in the air slightly so

that water is no longer coming in through the hole.

He immediately looks back at the container that he is leaving

in the distance and seems to be making a decision.

4.

He turns around, scans the horizon. Looks down into the cabin

that is filled with water, then reaches out to the lines

controlling the sails and begins to turn the boat around back

towards the container... what is he doing?

He sails the boat back towards the container but at this

point of sail he is not always able to heel the boat enough

to keep the water from coming in, so the water continues to

pour in every so often.

He finally approaches the shipping container again. It sits

in the water looking like every inch the destructive force

that it has been.

He looks back up at the wind indicator again trying to gauge

an approach strategy.

He turns the boat abruptly into the wind and comes up next to

the side of the submerged container.

He stalls out his boat, the water starts coming into the boat

again as the boat levels, he jumps back onto the container.

EXT. BOAT - SUBMERGED CONTAINER

He pulls out a knife from the holster on his belt loop and

cuts the rope that attached the sea anchor to the container.

As he is reaching out for the rope he drops his knife and it

rolls off of the container into the ocean.

OUR MAN recovers and takes the rope and jumps back on his

boat just as it begins to drift away.

EXT. COCKPIT OF THE BOAT

He now begins to pull the sea anchor back towards him. It is

a struggle. As he is pulling, he keeps looking behind him

down into the cabin at the water that is coming in through

the gash.

But he must get the sea anchor back on board. He pulls and

pulls and finally the large orange parachute appears from

below the surface like some sort of fish net. He struggles to

empty the water from it and get it into the cockpit.

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