Lost in Space Page #2

EXT.-MARTIAN CANAL

Jeb's tiny craft is plunging toward the rocky crater floor below.

Overhead West's fighter appears, under full thrusters, roaring towards

the crater floor faster and at a sharper angle.

INT.-3EB'S FIGHTER

The canal floor is rushing up fast.

COMPUTER:

Impact in five seconds.

INT.-WEST'S FIGHTER

Don is blasting toward the canal floor, almost as if trying to beat

Jeb's ship to a fiery impact below.

COMPUTER:

Warning. Proximity alert.

WEST:

Jeb, I'm going to give you a little

kiss. Don't take it the wrong way.

EXT.-MARTIAN CANAL

West angles his ship directly under Jeb.

INT.-JEB'S FIGHTER

The expanding surface of Mars, visible beneath his feet, is suddenly

obscured by Don's fighter, swooping under his ship.

JEB:

Don, abort. Abort.

INT.-WEST'S FIGHTER

Jeb's fighter is visible overhead.

West going up. Don angles the throttle.

EXT.-MARTIAN CANAL

Don's ship, sandwiched between the surface of Mars and Jeb's fighter,

angles up and, like a cue ball hitting it's target, Knocks Jeb's ship

spinning toward the safety of space beyond. West's ship actually

scrapes the surface of the planet, sending up a plume of Martian dust.

INT.-WEST'S FIGHTER

JEB (OVER)

Does this mean we're going steady?

West pulls his throttle all the way back.

EXT.-MARTIAN CANAL

West shoots up and out towards the dark of space.

WEST (OVER)

You weren't getting out of buying

those beers that easy.

The rescue craft converge on Jeb's ship as Don heads for base.

CUT TO:

CHAPTER 2:
Mission Objectives

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IMAGES-CLOSE. A Sallow field. (OVER) a heroic, stringy anthem.

VO:

Imagine an end to world hunger. What

if ample food and clean drinking water

were the birthright of all our

planet's children?

INSERT IMAGE-A dashing hero, wind in his hair. JOHN ROBINSON.

VO:

This man, professor John Robinson,

inventor of the faster than light

hyperdrive can make that timeless

dream a reality.

INSERT IMAGES -Airbrushed faces of a perfect family. THE ROBINSONS.

VO:

John Robinson and his family have been

extensively trained to take a ten year

journey across the galaxy in the

world's most advanced spacecraft,

The Jupiter.

INSERT IMAGE-A towering launch dome glints in the morning sun.

VO:

From a distant world, the Robinsons,

Will bring back a miracle...

INSERT IMAGE-A satellite photo of a planet. Closer on continental

patches, enhanced to show deposits of a diamond like powder.

VO:

Dimondium can turn even worthless sand

to fertile soil. Earth WILL be a

garden. What kind of - future can our

children look forward to?

INSERT IMAGES - Sun dappled, swaying wheat. (OVER) Music crescendos.

V0

A future without hunger. A future

without suffering. Heaven on Earth.

INSERT CORPORATE LOGO.-A Coke bottle hurling towards the stars.

V0

This mission sponsored by the US Army

and the Coca-Cola corporation.

PULL BACK TO REVEAL

WILL ROBINSON (10) hides in a small space, watching the commercial on a

jury-rigged, palm-sized computer. He mimics the Naylrator.

WILL:

Coke. Saving the world for our

children.

(a beat)

Give me a hi-test break.

WILL-POV. Spying through the open slats of his biding place into...

INT:
-LIVING ROOM-AFTERNOON

Basic twenty first century modern. MAUREEN ROBINSON stands, talking

with a PRINCIPAL who in less than happy.

PRINCIPAL:

He hacked our main power grid to run

his experiment. The school was in

chaos. We didn't even have lights.

The room lights suddenly dim. The Principal flickers, revealed as a

holograph, her head now sitting on Schwartzenegger body.

Maureen LAUGHS, then realizes the Principal has no idea her image is

being distorted. Maureen begins moving about the room, surreptitiously

glancing behind couches, into cabinets.

PRINCIPAL (OVER)

This is no laughing matter, Mrs.

Robinson. Will is terribly gifted. His

little time machines, though pure

fancy, are the products of a truly

brilliant mind.

The Principal's body has become Twiggy's. Now that of an ape. Maureen

pulls open a closet. Will sits inside. Grins.

WILL:

The changing shape of education.

MAUREEN:

No more monkey business.

Will shrugs, adjusts his deck. The Principal returns to normal.

PRINCIPAL:

The boy is starved for attention. Was

there no way his father could have

attended the science fair?

EXT.-HOUSTON - DAY

Probably Austin and Dallas too. Texas has become a giant urban sprawl

spreading into Mexico and beyond. Immense industrial air purifiers hang

in a dark, wet sky.

EXT.-HOUSTON SPACE COMMAND-ESTABLISHING

A giant dome topped pedestal towers ever the skyline.

INT.-SPACE COMMAND-MISSION CONTROL-DAY

A MAN stands before a large viewscreen facing the throng of PRESS.

He's a little uncomfortable with all the media attention. This is

PROFESSOR JOHN ROBINSON.

JOHN:

Once we have landed on Alpha Prime our

on board robot will begin construction

of a hypergate.

ON SCREEN a hi-tech orbital gate is highlighted and expanded.

JOHN:

By then, technicians here on Earth

will have completed a companion

hypergate in our planet's orbit.

ON SCREEN an image of an orbital gate now under construction.

JOHN:

Once both gates are complete, ships

will be able to pass instantaneously

between them. The Jupiter can bring

the Dimondium back to Earth without

the ten year delay of a return trip.

REPORTER:

Why can't you just use the Jupiter's

hyperengine to zap straight to Alpha

Prime?

JOHN:

As you know, hyperspace exists beneath

normal space. If you try to enter

hyperspace without a gate

ON SCREEN a graphic spaceship appears randomly in the corner of a

turning schematic of the galaxy.

JOHN:

Your exit vector is random. There's no

telling where you'd come out.

REPORTER:

Professor, how is Captain Daniels

recovering from the flu? Will we still

be able to pilot the mission?

John glances to the doorway where a uniformed GENERAL stands.

GENERAL:

Ladies and Gentlemen, you came to get

a look at the Jupiter One. Don't you

think you've waited long enough?

John hits a button and the room darkens. A giant monitor reveals...

INT.-LAUNCH DOME

A giant saucer sits connected to its launch pad by loading belts,

steaming fuel tubes and spindled gantries.

REPORTER (OVER)

Professor, how does your family feel

about leaving the Earth behind....

JOHN (OVER)

They couldn't be more excited.

CHAPTER 3:
Goodbye!

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EXT.-ROBINSON HOUSE-ESTABLISHING

A suburban colonial, the launch dome towering in the distance.

PENNY (OVER)

This whole mission sucks!

INT.-ROBINSON HOME HALLWAY-SUNSET

PENNY ROBINSON (14) furious, turns, looks downstairs at Maureen.

PENNY:

I Don't want to stay home for dinner.

I want to see my friends for the last

time.

She takes a beat, blinking away the tears. Lifts her wrist and turns on

a video camera watch. She begins down the hall.

VIDEO-POV. Penny's face in the monitor screen.

PENNY:

... On the eve before she is torn from

her friends, kidnapped, hurled into

deep space against her will, what

thoughts fill the mind of the young

Space Captive....

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