The Italian Job

The Italian Job screenplay by The Powers Based on the Movie December 21, 2001 FADE IN: EXT. THE PORT OF GENOA, .ITALY - NIGHT Forklifts RUMBLE. Workers WIPE FRAME. All the bustle and cacophony of a major seaport. We FIND ourselves focusing on ONE LARGE CRATE. With the GRINDING of gears, a crane lifts it off the dock and carries it onto a ship . INT. HOTEL ROOM - SAME TIME Through night-vision binoculars, CHARLIE CROKER, 28, watches the mysterious crate. Charlie is young to run his own crew but he's a born leader. CHARLIE Lyle? SWISH PAN TO: LYLE, 21, brilliant and punctilious, fingering the keyboard of his strap-on supercharged laptop. LYLE I've got the orbital data and SV clock corrections for each satellite that gets the signal. That'll make my reading as solid as the Precise Positioning Service that only the D.O.D. can use. We're talkin' 100 meter horizontal accuracy, 156 meter vertical accuracy, .340 nanoseconds time accuracy. SWISH PAN TO: STEVE, 30, bearded. Steve has an arrogant confidence mixed with the hint of a smile. STEVE Why can't he talk like a person? CHARLIE ..Because he's not. LYLE I do need one more thing, Charlie. CHARLIE What's that? • LYLE Someone to turn the goddamn homing device on. No signal, no score. (CONTINUED) CONTINUED: CHARLIE (to Steve) Where're the Italians? STEVE Patience. INT. HUMVEE (MOVING) - SAME TIME The driver is HANDSOME ROB, 30. Riding shotgun is HALF-EAR, 35, immersed in a book-: Albert Einstein Creator & Rebel.