ARMAGEDDON Story by Jonathan Hensleigh Written by …

1 ARMAGEDDONS tory byJonathan HensleighWritten byRobert Roy PoolFOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLYC onverted to PDF by ScreenTalk INBlackness. Then a hint of green becomes EARTH. It lies acrossan expanse of space. Richly colored. GIGANTIC ASTEROID cuts into frame, Burning into EARTH'SATMOSPHERE and striking down in the currant area of Guzumel, impact equivalent to ten thousandnuclear weapons HUGE DINOSAUR FOOT steps down hard and is VAPORIZED with adeafening hundred trillion tons of dirtand rock hurled into the , seen from space, is rocked with an IMMENSE SHEET OF DEBRIS washes across the North and blanket of dust the sun is powerlessto penetrate. For five thousand yearsour world is robbed of light as anuclear winter falls.

2 In thatdarkness, a civilisation is removedfrom is now completely entombed in a dark, cold hell. Letterspush towards us--"A R M A G E D D O N"MILLION YEARS LATEREARTH, reflected off the face of ASTRONAUT PETE SHELBY'SHELMET. It appears close enough to touch. Shelby, attachedto SHUTTLE ATLANTIS BY LIFELINE, struggles to replace a pieceof the shuttle's operational (with radio squawking)Houston, I can't get this thing - MISSION CONTROL - DAYIn a hub of computers and tracking equipment, we find DANGOLDEN, former Astronaut from Apollo 8 (first crew to orbitthe Moon) and now 's second-in-command. Golden iswatching Shelby on a SERIES OF VIDEO DIRECTOR WALTER CLARK sits with rows of stands over him, arms on the back o his , what's the problem?

3 SHELBY ( )It just isn't working. Anysuggestions?CLARKEHang on Pete. We'll figure somethingout for taps Clark and sits (to Shelby)We got the top scientific minds inthe world working on this.(a slight smile)Try "whacking" the , Houston, commence begins Whacking the satellite with his glove. TheSATELLITE comes n-line, lights up like a Christmas HORRIFYING RUMBLING SOUND. SHOTGUN LIKE PELLETS assaultthe satellite. SHRAPNEL rips into it's delicate gold satellite 's lifeline breaks; he spins off, suit leaking fromtwenty SHUTTLE ATLANTISCOMMANDER JAMES TURNER turns to his "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?"EXT. SHUTTLE ATLANTISSTOTGUN LIKE PELLETS shred through Atlantis' logo,peeling the shuttle down to her ribs. FIERY SPACECLOSE ON SHELBY as he twirls away from Atlantis.

4 His helmetis fogging. He gasps for air, wretching, his eyelids leakingblood. He tries to form 's SHOULDER-CAM angle spins - MISSION CONTROLMONITORS go TECHNICIAN #1 All systems crashing! TECHNICIAN #2 Massive failure. We lost silence. Utter desolation. DOLLY IN ON GOLDEN'S WKU MOUNTIAN OBSERVATORY - NIGHTTHEO and PEARL (at telescope), and JIMBO (at the console),20's, are star-gazing. Astronomy books, Starbucks cups,etc.,spread all over. Nine Inch Nails plays on the radio. These three could land a date if only they would lose theroad flares (plaid shirts, glasses) that signal the painfulfact that they are die-hard science nerdsTHEO'S POV - THROUGH WKUTELESCOPE - Far off in space is a dusty, murky swarm of matter -something resembling a FLOATING are we going to let inon what we've found?

5 THEOWe don't even know what we have , asteroid - it could be anythingup there. And don't be so eager tored flag They don't call uswhen they discover , but this is their sandbox wereplaying is our discovery. We're goingto hold a press conference. We'regoing to be famous. SPACEWATCH'llname this thing after us. Job offersare going to fly in from all the bigcompanies. , that think tankup at , hell even 'llbe chasing 'm going on Oprah, Larry King, with them, I'm going on (concentrating)This things really acting up should find out if anyone elseknows about (matter of factly)Call say what? "Hi, we're a coupleastronomer geeks who found somethingreally bitchin; floatin' in space." You can't just call It'slike calling the White House.

6 Besides,you'll never get the have the number. I got it from"Mega monster."PEARLWho?JIMBOHe's some super-hacker, I went tohigh school with. Guy's totally wiredinto every encrypted 's also an never proved he shut down thepower in those seven grabs the HOUSTON TEXAS - JOHNSON SPACE CENTER - NIGHTG olden and his crew, devastated and exhausted, search foranswers. We cut around the the hell was that?TECHNICIAN 1 Space junk? 2 Too big, too much. It took out thewhole press is going to want are we going to say?GOLDENN othing. Not until we know - MISSION CONTROL/WKU OBSERVATORYINT. - MISSION CONTROLTwo techs, FLIP and SKIP, looking very haggard,furiously typing numbers into the circulator. The phone RINGS,Flip (whispers to Pearl &Theo)I got mission !

7 FLIPYeah, Mission (into phone)Uhh hi, I'm an astronomer in Kentucky,and I was wondering if you guys hadseen some strange activity in thesouthern middle quadrant of theasteroid belt between Antares Majorand Epsilom is this?JIMBOMy name? is a restricted line. How didyou get it? Where are you? you tell me the exact up! Hang up now! hangs up the I told you not to call MANHATTAN ISLAND - SUNRISEE stablishing. The sun rises over the Brooklyn MANHATTAN - MADISON AVENUE - EARLY MORNINGLITTLE GUY, still yawning, exits an apartment with a JackRussell terrier on a long RETRACTABLE LEASH. TERRIER'S POVas the little dog attacks the city, looking for a place torelieve himself. The Man stops in front of a "Crazy Eddie's" store.

8 Floor-to-ceiling 's in the window 's "Morning Exercise Show" with hot women Jack Russell strains on the leash to a FIRE HYDRANT. ASHOE is next to the hydrant, connected to a HUGE SAMOAN GUYwatching the pelvic thrusting on The dog lifts his legand pees, hitting both hydrant and shoe. The huge Samoan guykicks the dog. The dog GUYYou kick my dog again and I'll gonuclear on images BLINK and STATIC. A massive SONIC BOOM emanates directly above. The huge Samoan guy looks up as---A ROCK, the size of a basketball, strikes him and EXPLODES into the pavement, spewing sparks and concrete, throwingPEDESTRIANS to the "CRAZY EDDIE'S" STOREFIFTY are BLOWN across the showroom floor. SALESMENand CUSTOMERS dive to the floor, MANHATTAN - "CRAZY EDDIES"Little guy, lying on the sidewalk, recovers.

9 His DOG LEASH runs from the leash grip into a 10 FOOT CRATER in thesidewalk. The huge Samoan guy's LEGS GUYS amson?PEDESTRIANS omebody call 9-1-1!INSIDE THE CRATER - THE JACK RUSSELL dangles by the in the hole 30 feet below is A SMOKING, RED - CHEYENNE MOUNTAINThe 's Early Warning Air Defence. Two RADARTECHNICIANS are hunched over radar TECH 1I got one, two, three board's lighting up!The RADAR TECH 2 hits a KLAXON, stabs phone line MANHATTAN - MORNINGT raffic is ground to a halt. CAMERA MOVES into a cab. STU,the Cabbie, with an ASIAN TOURIST, who's craning his neckout the TOURISTWhat's the problem?STUC ould be a couple of things: shootin',stabbin', dead guy(shrugs)Well, it's Friday, payday. Could bea projectile the size of a dump truck SCREAMS through thesky and blasts through three huge projectiles explode in the intersection.

10 Cars get throwneverywhere. Stu's cab slams upside down into JOHNNY'S BLOCK DOWN. THE ENTIRE TOP FIVE STORIES -- A shearedsection topples and hits the street below. Bricks, mortarand gargoyles WASHINGTON - PENTAGON - DAYE stablishing, over which we hear RINGING PENTAGON - GENERAL TEMPLE'S OFFICE - DAYC haos in the corridors. GENERAL TEMPLE, Chairman of the JointChiefs of Staff, a man of stature, bursts out of his office,met by his 're getting reports as far away asGreenland and parts of Mexico!TEMPLEGet me Dan Goldman on the enters his office and picks up a secure MISSION CONTROL - INSIDE THE GLASS-ENCASED ROOMG olden enters the room and sits down. Technician Flip handshim a secure phone. Golden sinks into his chair.