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LOCATION: LOS ANGELES, CA LOCAL TIME: 21:30:00 HOURS PST OBJECTIVE: RIP DEVELOPMENT AND CREATIVE EXECS A NEW ORIFICE! I am damn tired o f reading great scripts that turn into mediocre movies or okay movies at best because of the meddling of Hollywood development executives or cre ative executives or whatever these maricones are called. If you ask me w hat is wrong with movies these days, Ill tell ya. To me, its these sou lless and creatively bankrupt people who have to justify their miserable jobs by harassing writers with endless and meaningless notes and rewrit es. Movies are turning out so damn bad because a lot of the blame lies w ith these creative people. These execs need TO BACK THE FUCK OFF and let the professional storytellers do their damn job! The movie that Paramount is putting out is not the script I read. If you read my script revie w of Get Rich or Die Tryin ALMOST NONE of what I put in there made it t o the final film. I hate when I see a script with some great potential a nd it comes out half assed. Everything from my script review and almost ninety percent of what I read was left on the page. I was expecting the 50-cent movie to be as hardcore as his story and as hardcore as the scri pt I read. Do you honestly think that Terry Winter needs to be told how to do his job by some deve lopment exec at the studio? The guy is a writer on The Sopranos and an E mmy winner for crying out loud. You can see the development execs fingerprints all over the 50 -cent movie. Corporate Hollywood is losing a battle with the movie going public. Development execs are the people who made Dakota Fanning live at the end of Man on Fire. I n the script she dies and in act 3 there is hell to pay. Its these same people who probably convinced Spie lberg to let Tom Cruise find his son at the end of War of the Worlds. It doesnt matter what I say about the 50 cent movie because it will open and do huge numbers for Paramount on opening weekend and make a gazillio n dollars but watch it have the huge 70 percent drop the following weeke nd. I am still a hopeful individual and I am stil l a fan of great writing. As a disclaimer now all I can say is that I ho pe that the scripts I review make it intact to the screen. Today is November 1st and XBOX MONTH here at Latinoreview. There has been a lot of talk of videogame movies the last couple of weeks with the rel ease of Doom and all the talk online of Dungeon Siege and Postal and Uwe Boll and all that. Splinter Cell was released in November 2002 and now we bring you a 1st lo ok at the script for the upcoming SPLINTER CELL film written by Stuart B eattie! Stuart wrote a cool little flick you might have heard of called Collateral. Nobody knows he wrote the latest draft (9/1/05) of Spli nter Cell and this script ROCKS! He has style and his work flows and progresses quite nicely on the page. Since Collateral, Beattie has become one of the busiest a nd in demand writers in town. Hes become the go to guy on a lot of proj ects and the simple reason is because this guy can deliver. I only p layed the 1st one briefly because I moved to Los Angeles in November 200 2 Now I am getting back into gaming and all 3 Splinter Cells are at the top of my list. But I do know enough about the game and seen it in acti on to know that Beatties script is a very faithful translation of the h it game. Splinter Cell opens with haunting images of the World Trade Center Bombin gs, the London Bombings, the Madrid Train Bombings, and the Bali Nightcl ub bombings. The open battlefield has been replaced by surgical terrorist strikes on civilians. To gather the intelligence necessary to preve nt these attacks, the National Security Agency formed Third Echelon. A H uman Face materializes behind the lights now aiming a silenced pistol. T hough its very existence is denied by the US government, Third Echelo n deploys elite combat units known as SPLINTER CELLS to seek out and pre vent terrorist strikes by any means necessary. The SPLINTER CELL OPERATI VE stops before us and scans with his electric-green TRIDENT GLASSES the n moves out of frame. LOCATION: DHAKA, BANGLADESH LOCAL TIME: 16:46:29 HOURS OBJECTIVE: ABDUCT TERRORIST MASSUD HASSAN In a warehouse, FOUR ARAB SURGEONS work on the forearm of MASSUD HASSAN. His lieutenant YAKOUB stands nearby with FOUR ARMED GUARDS. One of the s urgeons assistants, a nervous SADIQ AL-QUMAR leaves the room. Meanwhile , back in New Jersey SARAH FISHER and her AUNT KATHY attend the funeral of REGAN MARGARET FISHER. Back at a storeroom in the warehouse in Dhaka, Sadiq hooks up with SAM FISHER who creeps out of the shadows. Fi sher is the paragon of the 21st century warrior, calm, silent, and effic ient. Sadiq is the mole in Hassans operation and is nervous that Hassan knows something is up. He crawls through until he is above and opening to the operating room be low. Fisher speaks out loud that he is in place, has eyes on the target and that the mission is a go. THIRD ECHELON MOBILE HEADQUARTERS RAMSTEIN AIR FORCE BASE, GERMANY In a secure underground room, THIRD ECHELON STAFFERS wearing MICROPHONED EARBUDS type furiously at keyboards and stab at touch sensitive screens. Theyre tracking satellites and scouring noise for signal, while pony-t ailed, wizard hacker, DERMOT BRUNTON, scans lines of data on his monitor . Other monitors around him show satellite surveillance images of Dhaka. Sitting near him at her own station is ANNA GRIMSDOTTIR, an attractive, no-nonsense communications expert. In an alleyway, a battered extraction van sits in an empty alleyway near the warehouse. Field runner, VERNON WILKES, primes a REMOTE DETONATOR in the back of the van. As a field runner, Wilkes is responsible for coord inating equipment and transportation for Splinter Cell. IRVING LAMBERT steps up behind Anna, sipping a coffee as they listen to Fisher give the count. At the end of Fishers cou nt, Wilkes keys the switch on the remote detonator and POP! Fisher systematically cuts the remaining guards down as they panic. One of the scared surgeons opens a cell phone, illuminating the room in an eerie BLUISH GLOW. All four gua rds lie dead where they were standing just seconds ago but Hassan has va nished! I am not going to spoil the rest of the opening sequence but we met all t he major characters of the script in the 1st blazing fast 8 pages. There is more to the sequence and to Fishers escape with Hassan, which goes on, for another 7 blazingly fast pages full of nail biting action. On page 16 it is now two months later after the mission back in New Jerse y By the way what is it now with all these movie heroes living in Jerse y? Tom Cruise in War of the Worlds lives in Jersey and now Sam Fisher li ves in a modest two-story house in a suburb of Jersey! lol Anyway, CNN plays in the kitchen while Fisher tries to takes a shot at do mesticity and makes breakfast for his bratty daughter Sarah who is not f eeling her father for missing the funeral of her mother. She doesnt eve n stay for breakfast and bounces for school. Meanwhile on CNN a news anc hor reports that Officials have just confirmed the high-profile capture of Egyptian terrorist, Massud Hassan, a little over two months ago. The Pentagon claims Hassans capture is a major victory in the war on terror ism. He is currently being interrogated at an undisclosed location. We c ut to that interrogation room at Third Echelon headquarters and SMACK! Apparently theyve be en beating the shit out of Hassan now for 2 months and he isnt giving u p anything as Lambert, Anna, Wilkes and Brunton watch through a two-way mirror in an adjacent room. Hassan tells Lambert that he will tell him about the hammer when Lamber t lets Hassan face the man who murdered his son Sam Fisher. Back in Jersey Fisher is alien to the whole stay at home dad thing. He is in a supermarket trying to buy groceries and is at a complete loss. On the way back home he busts Sarah and her friends cutting school and smok ing weed. A pissed Sam asks Sarah how long has she been toking up and Sa rah responds since hes missed moms funeral. Sam decides he needs to bo nd with his daughter so he takes her to the Florida Keys for...
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