MINOOKA, IL, US, Earth (Sol III), Milky Way Galaxy
Friday, December 13, 1972
CAST
HOST on MAIN SET
Brothers & Cousins Darryl & Daryl Diggleston, corn farmers - John
Twins Dawn & Dawne Didhamhall – 45 yrs old now still living in trailer – Kym
LOCATIONS
The Mood
Country roads
STILLS
Apollo blastoff, lander, Vehicle, EarthRise
Moon
“Minooka Tribune” Front Page
RESOURCES
PICKUP – Betsy
VAN - Mine
VIDEO NOTES
All PICKUP shots are exterior
All VAN shots are thru windshield following PICKUP
??? John Interviewed in PICKUP (survived incident, kept in pristine condition)
Dawn/Dawne Interview on $SET using split screen fx
MOONCLOUD vclip
AUDIO
Dustin Parker “Centerville” – time ‘TwiZone’ line to significant event
Lunatic audio WELN, BOL, PoliceCar etc
SYNOPSIS
Darryl & Daryl leave The Mood to go see Dawn & Dawne
Darryl leaves first in PICKUP, followed shortly by Daryl in VAN
Relate to Apollo 17 dates
12/7/72 Blasted off Cape Kennedy – Deke Slayton, Gene Cernan, Jack Schmitt
12/12/72 Cernan & Schmitt landed on moon ($location)
Friday 12/13/72 Rover mission on moon – PICKUP corn attack on Earth
12/14/72 Left moon for the last time
12/19/1972 Landed Earth – ($location)
Haven’t been back since – just a coincidence or something more??
Darryl attacked in distance (flashing lights, VSFX, etc)
Daryl drives up in VAN in time to see PICKUP filled with stalks, ALIEN vanishing
Daryl interviewed (current time) in surviving PICKUP
MINOOKA Script
HOST on MAIN SET
HOST: (somberly) December 7 (pause) a day that will live in history (pause) The year was 1972.
graphic 2Zoom to STILL Apollo blastoff
Deke Slayton, Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt blasted off from Cape Kennedy. It was the last time humans left Mother Earth to walk on another celestial sphere. They accomplished their mission successfully on December 11.
graphic trans to Apollo Vehicle, dissolve to Orbit Vehicle
On Friday the 13th (pause) of December, Slayton was piloting the command vehicle in orbit. While Cernan and Schmitt were fooling around and tooling around on the Moon in their hot wheelson that fateful Friday,
Pan R to L “Minooka Tribune front page” from “MOON LANDING” to “Minooka Man”
(dramatically) right here on planet Earth, in Minooka, Illinois, USA, other events were unfolding. We talked to the only surviving witness, Daryl DigglesFord, to find out what REALLY happened . . .
Cut to Daryl in PICKUP grinning foolishly in straw hat w corncob pipe
lw3: cbca ”Daryl Diggleston”, “Corn Farmer”
DARYL: Scuse me, that’s Diggleston, DICK!
Slow 2Zoom to HOST on MAIN SET
HOST: Diggleston. Well, Daryl, while they were enjoying the view
2Zoom to Earthrise dissolve to MoonClouds
and getting ready to leave the moon for the very last time,
you had a life-changing experience
Tilt / dissolve to ext The Mood, Daryl exits front door, gets in PICKUP & leaves
DARYL (vo): Well, me ‘n‘ Darryl was out havin’ a few beers. We was playing pool for awhile, and then we started talkin about goin to visit Dawn & Dawne. Well, Darryl got hisself all fired up and he was getting kinda anxious, y know? So he took off in his new truck
PICKUP passes Old Style sign, turns onto WS rd, VAN video following
Aud: Radio tuning blips, end on Centerville
And I couldna bin more’n a minute behind him. (expand to fit video) Well, he was bookin towards Dawn & Dawne’s just about as fast as his hot wheels would carry him.
Country road shots
We was getting so close I could smell their perfume, and then all this weird stuff started happening! There’s flashin’ lights up ahead, and this big glowey thang up in the sky, and sporks everwhere, and this loud twirly sound
FX shots from VAN
And then I come around the corner and there’s Daryl’s truck just a settin’ there in the middle of the road.
Ext PICKUP, door open, filled w stalks
I pulled up, and Daryl was nowhere around. Just his truck (pause) filled with stalks. Maybe it was a warnin’ or somethin’. Those fellers come back from the moon, but I never seen Daryl agin.
(more later)
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