Vantage Point

MADRID, SPAIN - PRESENT DAY STILL IN BLACK; WE HEAR CHATTER, VOICES TALKING OVER OTHER VOICES. In the background a TELEVISION further fills -- REX (V.O.) And here we go in 5, 4, 3, 2, and -- INT. CNN PRODUCTION TRUCK - DAY TIGHT ON PRODUCER REX BROOKS...as he spearheads the BROADCAST TEAM. Rex is the alpha; driven, aggressive. Beside him is his associate producer, GRACE RIGGS. Grace is resilient, a vital quality for working with the hard-driving Rex -- In front of them is a BANK OF MONITORS. Each is marked; A, B, C, D and “ON AIR”. Filling the “ON AIR” monitor is reporter ANGIE NEDERLANDER, standing just inside the northwest gate, with her back to Plaza Major -- ANGIE (ON SCREEN) (re: to in studio news anchor) ...Thank you, Mark. I’m standing just inside Plaza Major in Madrid, where crowds have lined up for the kick off of what is certain to be a landmark summit. Over the next 5 days, President Ashton will be meeting with leaders from all of the European Union countries in the hopes of bringing the continents together in the ongoing war against terror. It is the belief that together, Western leaders can once and for all put a stranglehold on international terrorism. Dignitaries from France’s Jean Jacques Pierre to Russia’s Vladmir Rhiechnov are on hand for this historic event... REX Let’s bring him up.