Jason X

"JASON X" Screenplay by Todd Farmer Based on characters created by Victor Miller SHOOTING DRAFT WE OPEN ON: An EYE We have seen this eye before, but we can't be sure just where. It stares at us implacably. Malevolently. It blinks. Blinks again. Then closes. We are in... DARKNESS The darkness is slowly broken by moving vertical lines. At first we don't realize what we're seeing. But soon the lines resolve themselves into PILLARS. We are moving past pillars. A vast line of them -- cold, concrete -- marching away into the distance. INTERCUT Extreme close-ups reveal bits and pieces of maybe... a figure. We see the hint of a shoe, a link of a chain, a scrap of tattered leather... A MASK. An EYE. The eye closes and again we are in -- BLACKNESS Now we hear FOOTSTEPS. We go from black to gray as we move past the large concrete pillars. In the distance looms -- A PEDESTAL Rising high off the seeping concrete floor, it is framed by pillars on either side -- and lit from above by a single shaft of harsh white light. Something stands on the pedestal. Something huge. But from this distance we can't see what it is. Moving with the footsteps, we approach -- Now we are CLOSE enough to see a massive figure, wrapped in a STRAIGHT JACKET and secured by CHAINS to the floor below and the ceiling above. He is immobile, imprisoned -- chained like an animal. As we get closer, we recognize this figure.His massive limbs... his MASK. A HOCKEY MASK! And behind the mask: the eyes.