THE RING 3
By David Loucka
Production Draft - BLUE Revised, January 26, 2011 Production Draft - PINK Revised, January 24, 2011 Production Draft - ORANGE Revised, January 21, 2011 Production Draft - TAN Revised, January 17, 2011
EXT. SOUTH BOSTON STREET – NIGHT
A car walks down a dark road. The sky is cloudy. There is a lot of rain and constant lightning. CLOSE on a VCR and a tape underneath, which are in the back seat of the car. CAM MOVES FORWARD We see a woman driving. She seems very apprehensive and frightened. She looks steadily at the clock, which marks 10:45pm.
WOMAN VOICE'S 20 minutes...
INT. VIDEO VAULT - DAY. The Video Hipster hears the door's bell TINKLE, but he's shelving way in black VIDEO HIPSTER Hey, we're closing up!
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CONTINUED: AT THE FRONT COUNTER
The door's bell TINKLES again. The Hipster frowns. The ring tape sits atop the counter, in foreground. The hipster walks past to lock the front door. As he does, angle moves around the tape... to see a Post-It stuck to one side. The not reads "AFTER YOU WATCH THIS, PLEASE MAKE A COPY AND SHOW IT TO SOMEONE ELSE. IT'S IMPORTANT. Please."
The hipster returns, learning over the counter for a backpack... and now sees the tape. He picks it up, reads it. VIDEO HIPSTER Huh. A silent beat. And then -- with a scoff, he crumples, up the Post-It. Leaves it there as trash... as he throws the tape in his pack. ANGLE holds on the paper-crumple as the Hipster swings on the pack and moves o.s. The store's lights turn off one by one. A back door is heard opening. And the slams shut. The paper-crumple is left in darkness.
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CONTINUED: INT. Video Vault - NEXT DAY
close on the video The new ''ring'' tape sits on a shelf. The little sketch-lines on its label fleck outward, suggesting radiance...
TEENS VOICE'S So have you heard about the video... that kills you when you watch it...?
as angle widens to REVEAL the tapes beside it, and soon the whole shelf, labeled ''Employee Picks''
Another Teen I heard about it back in Boston. I heard as soon as it ends, your phone rings, and theen one week later...
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First Teen ... it starts with this eclipse and the this woman stares right at you... sees you right through the screen...
... and now the whole section. Third teen ... and then this tree's on fire, right, and there's blood everywhere... Second teen ... and dying, they're all dying, all these people are dying.. Third teen ...I'll bring it, you gotta see it, it's the strangest freakin' thing... ... and now the whole store... full of customers perusing the thousands of videos... all waiting to be watched...
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FIRST TEEN ... and then right then your phone rings, and seven days later... Fourth teen ... because she knows who you are... Fifth teen ... and she knows where to find you... FIRST TEEN ... and she wants to you watch it... Second teen ... and she wants you to watch it... Third teen ... and she wants you to watch it...
As the voices- overs overlap into a cacophony of "she wants you to watch it", infinte versions, over and over and over, until it seems the whole world is sharing her story--
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