Blair Witch II

BLAIR WITCH II By Dick Beebe Original Story By Joe Berlinger & Dick Beebe FIRST DRAFT (REVISED) January 10, 2000 BLACK SCREEN And in that darkness, white words silently FADE UP: The following is based on actual events. Some dramatic re-creation was necessary for reasons that will become obvious. Beat. And then slowly swelling up is the sound of panicked hyperventilation--spasms of words and weeping: VOICE (HEATHER DONAHUE) I'm...scared...to close my eyes-- SMASH UP ON the teary and terrified EYES of HEATHER DONAHUE (the now ubiquitous scene from "Blair Witch Project" of her confessing to the camera): HEATHER DONAHUE --I'm scared to open them. (beat) We're going to die out here-- --then, suddenly, this image of Heather FREEZE FRAMES. And we hear the incongruously perky Voice of ABC's DEBORAH ROBERTS: DEBORAH ROBERTS (V.O.) --she'd be a much happier camper if she'd lived to see this weekend's grosses-- --abruptly, the freeze-framed image of Heather goes squeeze-boxing up into the upper left corner of the screen, revealing: That we're watching ABC WORLD NEWS SUNDAY--the date bannered at the bottom of the screen: August 1, 1999. Reporter Deborah Roberts sits behind the Anchor Desk reading TelePrompTer copy: DEBORAH ROBERTS In only its first week of wide release, "The Blair Witch Project" has taken in a whopping 36 million at the nation's box office.