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Clif Mendivel | 2nd Place EXT. GREAT CITY OF GIZA - DAY
SUPER: EGYPT: 25 to 75 BCE. The great SPHINX sits with the HEAD of ANUBIS. It is surrounded by palm trees, temples, and pyramids. PEOPLE shufe throughout the city as it fourishes with life from the Nile. EXT. SUNDECK - CONTINUOUS QUEEN AMUNET, 30s. Her body is painted gold and black like the Egyptian Cobra. She saunters onto a sun deck overlooking GIZA. HORUS (V.O.) Queen Amunet was the ruler of the great city of Giza. And all of Northern Egypt. Her beauty was so bright. No man could ever win her heart. Many have tried, all have failed. OMAR, 9, dashes out onto the sun deck hugging Amunet frmly. HORUS (V.O.) (CONT’D) For Queen Amunet’s heart belonged to her only son, Omar, the future Pharaoh. INT. TEMPLE OF AMUNET - CONTINUOUS Amunet stands in front of a polished gold refecting dish. She leans in for a closer look. HORUS (V.O.) Amunet had it all: power, beauty, wealth. But it wasn’t enough; she wanted more. Amunet places a single fnger near her eye. HORUS (V.O.) (CONT’D) Amunet wanted eternal life. Never aging, staying young and beautiful forever. But Amunet is beginning to see the early stages of aging, as time waits for no one. She pulls her skin upwards removing her wrinkles. INT. CITY OF THE DEAD - RITUAL ROOM - NIGHT A dozen KEMITES surround Amunet on their knees praying as she reads from the Book of The Dead. HORUS(V.O.) The only god dark enough to grant such a wish would be the great god of the underworld, Typhon. Amunet knew it would not be easy. For the price of eternal life requires the soul of a Pharaoh.
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