Logan's Run

FADE IN:

BEFORE AND DURING TITLES

1EXT. - SKY NIGHT

The moon and stars are visible, but as CAMERA looks down, the SCREEN

fills with dark, billowing clouds. CAMERA moves into the clouds and

just as they blank out the SCREEN, a distant shimmer of light

becomes visible. Moving toward it, the shimmer becomes

2EXT. - DOME OF GLASS - NIGHT

A glowing but not transparent structure stretching off into the

clouds that press it. CAMERA continues to move in until the

detailed structural webbing of the dome fills the SCREEN and then

CAMERA MOVES THROUGH IT and we see

3EXT. - THE CITY - DAY

Shining below the dome (which we now see as a series of dome-like

structures standing off without end) -a marvelous crystalline city

of great openness, building clusters, green plazas, fountains...

multi-leveled but human scale, crisscrossed by the flickering clear

tubes of the MAZE- CARS.

4CLOSER ANGLE - ROOFTOPS

As a MAZE-CAR slides softly to a stop.

5ROOFTOP - THE RUNNER

The hatch opens and a MAN in a hurry leaves the maze-car and runs

swiftly along the rooftop and disappears into an open elevator

which instantly starts to descend.

6INT - RESIDENCE PLAZA - THE ELEVATOR

From a busy courtyard below we watch the elevator slide down from a

great height. As it reaches the courtyard the RUNNER darts out,

pushes into the crowd.

7 OUT

8WITH THE RUNNER

As he reappears around a corner, skirts a brimming pool and makes

for a kind of broad corridor which seems to lead out of the

courtyard. He is moving even faster now, glancing back as if he

fears pursuit.

9ANOTHER ANGLE - CORRIDOR

Above, at the railing of an oval light well, dressed in black and

silver, a figure holding an odd looking weapon lazily in one hand

-- and watching. It is FRANCIS.

10WITH THE RUNNER

Moving rapidly down the corridor, he suddenly stops as if feeling

the presence above. He looks up, sees the SANDMAN and his face

breaks in terror. He wheels, frantic, screaming, runs back into the

hall.

11THE SANDMAN (FRANCIS)

Vaulting the rail, dropping lightly to ground level, weapon poised.

12P.O.V.

The crowd melting, parting to reveal the Runner backed against the

pool. People are YELLING, shaking their fists, terribly excited and

fearful.

13THE SANDMAN

Emotionless. Aims. Fires.

14THE RUNNER - CLOSE

Seeming to burst aflame in the LENS, then slipping BELOW FRAME to

reveal Francis sauntering forward, holstering his weapon. The crowd

closing in behind him, applauding, congratulating him.

15THE SANDMAN

Arriving at the pool where the body lies, half immersed. He leans

over, lifts the right hand from the water, revealing a palm with a

black flowercrystal shape in it. He lets the hand fall back now as

the crowd CHEERS and APPLAUDS him.

16EXTREME CLOSE UP - HAND - IN THE WATER - (INSERT)

Closing in until the crystal fills the SCREEN.

MATCH DISSOLVE TO:

(TITLES END)

17CLOSE UP - CRYSTAL - (INSERT)

Clear, sparkling, flower-like. CAMERA PULLS BACK to reveal

18INT. - NURSERY CORRIDOR

The crystal is in the hand of a sleeping INFANT who is behind glass

in one of many cubicles. Standing outside, looking in, LOGAN, dimly

lit in the soft glow of the cubicle where the sleeping infant

lies, swaddled and coccooned in the rosy auto-tender which caters

to the baby's every need. Faint MUSIC bubbles like distant

laughter.

19OUT

19X1LOGAN

Logan is twenty-five, strong, virile (yet sensitive) with a kind of

austere grace.

He is somewhat manic...proud...as he peers through the nursery

window into a kind of foam cocoon which cradles THREE SLEEPING

INFANTS. Logan is KNOCKING on the soundless glass.

LOGAN:

Wake up...come on, Logan-6.

19X2FRANCIS

entering .

FRANCIS (shaking

his head in mild, mocking

disbelief)

You are here. I couldn't

believe it when they told me.

What are you doing?

LOGAN (still knocking

on the soundless glass)

Turn this way.

(as one of the infants

stirs, smiles, bubbles)

No, no...not you...YOU!

Francis tries to pull Logan away from the window, but Logan is

intent on waking one of the infants.

FRANCIS:

You should've seen me take my

last Runner...perfect.

(Logan continues to pound the

soundless glass)

I backed him up against a residence

pool and when he terminated...his

hand...

(breaks off as Logan

is paying no attention)

So now you've seen him...what's

the difference awake or asleep?

LOGAN (to infant)

Open your eyes once, idiot.

(to Francis)

It's not every day that a Sandman

son is born. I'm telling you,

Francis - that's him!

FRANCIS:

Maybe, maybe not. What's the

difference? Come on, Logan,

let's get out of here before

everybody finds out.

But Logan isn't moving. Francis gets an idea.

FRANCIS:

Okay...you really want to wake

him up?

Francis starts to pry at the Panel...knowing it will sound an

ALARM.

LOGAN:

Hey, cut that out !

Too late:
There is a SOUND OF ALARM CHIMES. The area in which they

stand is bathed in a violet glow. Logan grabs Francis firmly and

stops him from prying at the panel:

LOGAN:

Now you've done it...

The CHIMES STOP...but the glow continues, a metallic VOICE is heard:

VOICE:

Break-in scanners report intrusion,

identify.

LOGAN:

Logan-5...Francis-7, authorized duty

quadrant. Intrusion accidental.

VOICE:

Clear Logan-5 and Francis-7.

The violet light goes off.

FRANCIS (with affection:

to Logan)

Had enough?

LOGAN (looking at the infant)

Even the alarm didn't wake him.

As Francis starts out:

LOGAN (one last look;

joining Francis)

All right, Francis...I'm with you.

They move off down the corridor...the lights behind them DIMMING as

they pass cubicles suffused with soft pink light, CHILDREN

automatically tended.

CHIMES...soft. A lullaby and a soothing impersonal VOICE.

VOICE:

Sleep time...go to sleep.

Sleeping time, little ones.

As they exit Nursery...Logan stops and takes one final look

backward.

FRANCIS:

You need a lift. Let's go

to Arcade and celebrate...

(teasing tone)

your alert successor...Logan-6.

LOGAN:

Has anyone ever broken in to

where the babies are?

FRANCIS:

(putting a card key into a door

which opens soundlessly)

Not in my time...

They move through the door which closes.

20EXT. - MAZE STATION - NIGHT

They are now on a kind of enclosed platform with widely spaced

doorways, each glowing faintly. They pause, waiting.

FRANCIS (peering

at Logan curiously)

Why?

LOGAN:

just wondered...what happens?

FRANCIS (shrugs)

Dunno...flameout maybe. Whatever

happens, you can bet it's final.

But who would want to find out?

One of the doorways brightens and the word ARCADE _ appears on it.

The two men move to the spot as a maze-car stops. They enter it

through the doorway which dims behind them as the maze-car WHOOSHES

softly off into a kind of twilight.

21INT. - MAZE-CAR - LOGAN AND FRANCIS

The door slides shut. They sink into seat forms which yield to them.

They move off.

22EXT. - MAZE- CAR

Moving through the city at terrific speed. Giving us glimpses of the

city as it goes. slowing finally as we see:

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