The Assassination of Jesse...

Rev. 08/26/05 (Blue) Rev. 11/03/05 (Pink) THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD Screenplay by Andrew Dominik based on the novel by Ron Hansen This script is the confidential and proprietary property of Warner Bros. Pictures and no portion of it may be performed, distributed, reproduced, used, quoted or published without prior written permission. FINAL WHITE JJ Pictures, Inc. - Domestic August 17, 2005 JJ Films Inc. - Canadian © 2005 4000 Warner Boulevard WARNER BROS. ENT. Burbank, California 91522 All Rights Reserved 2. FADE IN: INT./EXT. WOODLAND AVE. COTTAGE - DUSK NARRATOR (V.O.) He was growing into middle age and was living then in a bungalow on Woodland Avenue. Green weeds split the porch steps, a wasp nest clings to an attic gable, a rope swing loops down from a dying elm tree and the ground below it is scuffed soft as flour. NARRATOR (V.O.) (CONT’D) He installed himself in a rocking chair and smoked a cigar down in the evening as his wife wiped her pink hands on an apron and reported happily on their two children. His children knew his legs, the sting of his mustache against their cheeks. They didn’t know how their father made his living, or why they so often moved. They didn’t even know their father’s name. EXT. STREET (KANSAS CITY) - DAY JESSE, from a distance, a dandy in his gentleman's clothes and cane. Everyone seems to know him.