World War Z Page #2

Synopsis: Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.
Director(s): Marc Forster
Production: Paramount Pictures
  3 wins & 24 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
63
Rotten Tomatoes:
66%
PG-13
Year:
2013
116 min
$202,351,611
Website
15,274 Views


You're gonna be all right.

Hey, hey, you breathe

through your nose.

Rach, Rach, look at me. Look at me.

You're gonna be all right.

You've done this a hundred times.

Look at me. Look at me.

Breathe in through your nose,

out through your mouth.

(GASPING)

Okay, we're gonna go to a pharmacy.

We gotta move.

(BREATHES DEEPLY)

Okay.

- (ENGINE STALLING)

- GERRY:
Good. Good. Look.

Look at me, look at me.

Rach, breathe through your nose.

KARIN:
(SOFTLY) No, no, no, no...

(EXHALES) You're gonna be all right.

- Look at me.

- Daddy, what are those things?

Honey, find us some water.

Okay? Something to drink.

(RACHEL GASPS)

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

It's Thierry.

Where are you?

THIERRY:
Airborne.

Lower East Side to Turtle Bay.

It's all gone. We barely made it out.

- Tell him to go south.

- No, no, we need visual confirmation.

- (ENGINE SPUTTERING)

- No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

What is this?

We don't know. How close were you?

Face to face.

Good, honey, good.

Daddy.

Connie, give me that.

Give me that. Oh, thank you, honey.

THIERRY:
Where are you?

GERRY:
95, heading north.

- (ENGINE STARTS)

- Okay. Okay.

THIERRY:
All right.

We'll try to get a helicopter to you.

I'll call you back with

an extraction point.

Can you hold out for another hour?

Do we have a choice?

This is not

for old time's sake, my friend.

I'll need you.

I need you back.

Don't forget about us.

What do you mean, we've lost Boston?

All right. Good luck, Gerry.

Okay.

Good, honey. Keep it going.

It's gonna be all right.

(PEOPLE CLAMORING)

- Come here. Stay close.

- Super close.

Take my hand.

Get her medicine,

I'll get us something to eat.

I'll meet you back here.

(ALARM BLARING)

Stay close, honey.

What do you need?

Albuterol.

They outgrow the asthma supposedly.

And this sh*t, too. It's magic for my kid.

GERRY:
Thank you.

(SCREAMING)

CONNIE:
Daddy!

GERRY:
Connie?

Daddy!

- Connie?

- CONNIE:
Daddy!

- Where's Mommy?

- KARIN:
Gerry!

Gerry!

Karin?

- Karin?

- KARIN:
Gerry! Gerry!

Get off of me!

Get off of me! That's all I have.

- Gerry!

- Hey!

- Hey!

- Gerry.

(GASPING)

OFFICER:
(ON RADIO)

Multiple 11-99s at Washington Park.

Please, send units.

We're falling back on Reed Street.

FEMALE DISPATCH:

Two Robert 12, units need backup.

Mobile ops is down. Please respond.

Two Robert 12, are you there? Copy.

- GERRY:
Girls!

- Responders, Code 3, Code 3.

KARIN:
Rachel, quick, come on.

(DISPATCH CONTINUES

INDISTINCTLY)

(PEOPLE CLAMORING)

No.

No!

We got to get out of here.

We got to get off the street.

Gerry.

Apartments?

Hey. Yeah.

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

- Gerry?

- We're in Newark.

We're stranded.

Apartment buildings, 23rd.

If we can get to the roof,

can you get someone to us?

- Not tonight.

- When?

The earliest would be sunrise.

Sunrise.

Tell him I got flares.

GERRY:
We'll be on the roof with flares.

Listen, Gerry, I will move

mountains to get you out here.

- (SCREAMING)

- Come here, baby.

(CONNIE SHRIEKS)

(GURGLING)

Go! Go! Go!

KARIN:
Baby, in here!

GERRY:
Come on. Quick!

Gerry!

Inside, girls!

By the stairs. Inside, inside!

(SNARLING)

GERRY:
Wait! (GRUNTS)

Wait.

KARIN:
Up, up. It's okay, baby.

- (THUDDING)

- (SCREAMING)

Run! Run! Go, Rachel!

KARIN:
Go!

GERRY:
Go!

Keep running, baby.

KARIN:
It's all right.

GERRY:
To the top.

Go! Go!

Go!

Run!

Go! Go! Go! Go!

I need a new flare!

This a**hole's about to get through!

(METAL CLANGING)

KARIN:
Where's Connie? Connie?

GERRY:
Connie?

KARIN:
Connie!

CONNIE:
Let me in!

KARIN:
Connie!

- Baby?

- It's not her. It's not her.

- Let me in!

- Connie!

Let me in!

In, in, in! In!

(INDISTINCT TALKING)

Thank you so much.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

- I'm Tomas.

- GERRY:
Hey, Tomas.

TOMAS:
My mom's cooking everything

before it starts to stink.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

GERRY:
That's smart.

You guys all right?

It's all right.

It's okay.

(SPEAKS SPANISH)

Are you guys hungry?

Yes, thank you.

(TUNING)

(SPEAKS SPANISH)

(KARIN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

- TOMAS:
Here you go.

- Thank you.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

- Thank you.

- (EMERGENCY TONE BLARING)

KARIN:
You want some juice?

ROBOTIC MALE VOICE:

The following message

is transmitted at the request of the

New Jersey State Police Department.

Authorities recommend

that the following actions

should be taken

by all the members of the public.

Stay indoors if at all possible.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

Have enough food

and water supplies for sheltering

for one to two weeks.

The following message

is transmitted at the request

of the New Jersey State

Police Department.

An unidentified virus strain is rapidly

spreading across

the state of New Jersey.

- (GASPING)

- (CLATTERING)

She was crying.

GERRY:
Hmm.

Thanks, Tommy.

I used to work in dangerous places

and people who moved survived,

and those who didn't...

(TOMAS EXPLAINING IN SPANISH)

Movement is life.

(SPEAKS SPANISH)

You have a better chance

if you come with us.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

You need anything else

before you leave?

(DISTANT SCREECHING)

GERRY:
(WHISPERING)

Okay. Come on. Come on.

(DISTANT SCREECHING)

We should have left with them.

There is nowhere to go.

What's going to happen

when the food is gone?

- (POUNDING)

- (GASPING)

Okay, come on.

I'm scared.

Connie, there's a helicopter

waiting for us on the roof.

Keep your eyes

on Mommy and Daddy, okay?

Be ninja quiet.

Just a walk in the park.

How do we know they're coming?

They're coming.

Ready?

(EXHALES)

- GERRY:
Okay, come on, guys.

- (SNARLING)

- (SCREAMING)

- (GUNSHOT FIRED)

Come on! Come on!

KARIN:
Up, up, up.

GERRY:
Come on, baby.

Go, go, go!

(ZOMBIES SNARLING)

- Come on, baby!

- KARIN:
Go, go!

Go, girls! Gerry!

(GROANS)

Come on. Gerry!

Girls, get back!

(GROANS)

Watch out!

- Go!

- Go, go, go!

Come on, faster, girls!

(HELICOPTER APPROACHING)

PILOT:
Lieutenant, I've got no contact.

I say again, no contact.

- (ZOMBIES SNARLING)

- GERRY:
Let's go, let's go!

Karin!

- Karin!

- Yeah.

Go through the door!

Gerry?

(ZOMBIE GROWLING)

(STRAINING)

(YELLING)

(GUNSHOT FIRED)

PILOT:
There they are!

Ace, we have positive contact.

That's our target! Get us down!

Daddy!

- Daddy!

- Baby, get back.

CONNIE:
Daddy!

Gerry?

- Gerry, what?

- Stay back!

Baby! No!

One thousand seven.

One thousand eight.

CONNIE:
Daddy, get off the edge!

- KARIN:
Gerry, please?

- One thousand ten.

One thousand eleven.

(PANTING)

I got it in my mouth.

You're okay. You're okay.

- (DISTANT SCREECHING)

- Go! Go!

(ZOMBIES SNARLING)

Come on. Come on.

(STRAINING)

SOLDIER:
Let's go! Let's go!

Come on, let's go! We got to go!

KARIN:
You got her?

Let's go, let's go, let's go!

CONTROLLER:

Traffic en route, altitude 5-7 thousand.

Heading 250. Turn right,

heading 075, once clear.

Remain below 4,000.

(CONNIE SOBBING)

Clear to land,

heading 040, wind 060 at five.

Follow L.S.O. directions.

Prep for immediate dust off.

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Matthew Michael Carnahan

Matthew Michael Carnahan (sometimes credited as Matt Carnahan) is an American screenwriter who wrote the feature film The Kingdom (2007), and the film adaptation of the hit BBC television drama serial State of Play. Carnahan also wrote the screenplay for Lions for Lambs for United Artists. His brother is Joe Carnahan, who wrote and directed Narc (2002), Smokin' Aces (2006) and The A-Team (2010). More recently, he worked on the screenplay for the zombie film World War Z (2013). He wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Nemesis with his brother Joe Carnahan. more…

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