LOST STEVO: First Draft
TEASER
(SCENE: 9 Elms Grove, Loughborough, sometime in the mid 21st Century. Old Stevo is at dusty old computer. He looks like he’s been there a long time. Door is shut. Old Bevis knocks on door, switch to outside Stevo’s room, where Bevis and Doctor Bob Bevros wait.)
BEVIS:
Stevo, Doctor Bob is here.
STEVO:
F**k off! F**K OFF!
DR BOB:
I’m really very sorry, Mr Thomas. I’ve seen this many times in recentyears, there is nothing I can do – I’ll have to pull the plug.
(Dr Bob bends down, and picks up a cable that leads into Stevo’s room, giving it a hard yank. There is a groan from Stevo’s room and a hard bang. Switch back into Stevo’s room where Stevo is slumped down on the keyboard.)
(EFFECT: Stevo’s transparent soul rises out of body, high up above Elms Grove, before travelling over Loughborough towards a huge White rectangular building marked ‘Loughborough University Department of Advanced Technology’. Besides the building is the much smaller Towers Hall. By this time the soul has picked up speed and is more of a faint beam of light travelling through the air than a human shape.)
(CUT TO: Interior of LUDAT building. Five or six technicians are milling around. CLOSE UP on syringe being emptied into a test tube clearly marked "Dr. Sarah Mills". At exactly that moment the beam of light/Stevo’s soul enters a window into the test tube. The tube is placed by a technician into a large metal canister marked "LUDAT" attached to a computer. The monitor flashes up: "Fertilisation confirmed". The technician turns to another).
TECHNICIAN:
(smiling) Congratulations, Doctor Mills – you’re going to have a baby!
DR MILLS:
Oh good. Stand back!
(Dr Mills presses pulls a lever, and the canister is sent through a whole in the wall on a track at a very rapid rate. In a blur of special effects the camera follows it through a kaleidoscope of colours and noise…)
OPENING SEQUENCE
(Still following canister through tunnel of colours and noise)
CAPTION: CRESCENT PICTURES PRESENT
(Noise and colour abruptly ends as we cut to external Scottish shots – Glaswegian terraced houses, rolling hilly landscapes, windswept coastlines, etc.)
MUSIC: All Saints – Never Ever (Lost Stevo Amazing Grace edit)
LOST STEVO
MAIN CREDITS LISTED
(Music volume reduces, CUT TO: Aerial shot following Aston Martin along motorway, then lowering in time for the car to leave at a sign we pause briefly at: "Loughborough 1 Mile". Car drives through the streets of Loughborough town before finally pulling up at large iron gates marked "Loughborough University". Stevo’s Dad in the car nods to the guard, who opens the gates, allowing the Miles’ family car through. Up until now, all we have seen of the University is the gates. Camera pans up to show sprawling campus. To the left of the view is Towers as we saw in the first scene but without the huge white building. Music fades.)
END OF OPENING SEQUENCE
(SCENE: Outside Royce Hall. Rugby players throw ball around in background. Stevo’s Dad is taking boxes out of the car.)
ADDITIONAL CREDITS CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THIS SCENE