Fifth and final draft
March 2007
Original story and screenplay
Written by
Zarak
Shawn of the damned Friday.
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FADE IN:
On the moving waters of a swimming pool
the camera zooms on Closely revealing a stunning
blue image.
LETTERS FILLS IN:
[Production name]
Presents
LETTERS FADE OUT:
Title appears:
Shawn of the damned Friday.
CREDIT FILLS IN:
PROLOGUE DAY Ext…
London city
1. We see the London eye with a superb view, its summer. 1.
1.a We see the city with crowds 1.a
Everybody is enjoying.
1.b Images of The London Bridge appears with the river 1.b
Thames revealing the magnificent city of London.
1.c We pass under the bridge, the view is outstanding 1.c
Cut to:
Ext: Day.
2. Image of a 15 to 20 storey flat. 2.
Int:flat Day.
3. We are in a flat, the camera moves across 3.
the floor,we see scattered clothes,as we
move closer a pair of socks appears,
then a pair of shoes with tied up
laces, then the bed of shawn is
revealed.
Shawn is a guy in his mid 30’s who works for
the London news as a photographer and
a news reporter.
4. He is snoring deeply on his bed enjoying the 4.
sleep of his life.
4.a We move closer towards him. 4.a
FADE TO BLACK:
5. We see a light, a man is approaching slowly. 5.
5.a We see his face. 5.a
He is Shawn.
5.b He is lost in the dark, he glances on 5.b
the sides, left then right as if afraid,
then checks again with a frightened face.
He is looking for an exit to get out.
He starts to yell.
6. SHAWN 6.
‘Is there anybody?
Please let me get out.’
Int:Dark room
7. A light appears, comes closer and closer 7.
towards Shawn.
It’s a candle light, suddenly behind the candle
light a face appears.
8. 8.
SHAWN
Yells
‘Who are you?’
9. Suddenly another light comes, more and more follows 9.
Subsequently and surrounds Shawn.
Shawn is surrounded by candle light and he sees
lots of weird faces speaking to him.
‘V.O’
10. ‘We are coming to get you Shawn’. 10.
Int:flat Day.
11. Shawn jumps off the bed. 11.
Sweating profusely and breathes very firmly
as if suffocating.
11.a He turns around and stares at his digital clock. 11.a
The clock shows Friday the 13th.
Its 13 hours
SHAWN
Yells 11.b
11.b ’Fuck sake not again’.
12.Shawn jumps off the bed and leaps for his bathroom. 12.
Int:flat Bathroom
12.a Shawn rapidly brushes his teeth. 12.a
12.b He shows a worried expression on his face. 12.b
SHAWN
12.c ‘Shit, I promised Julie 12.c
That we are going out
SHAWN
‘As well I had to propose
Her today, god dammit why
why you Chose the damned Friday.
13. Shawn emerges from the lift of his flat 13.
with a camera and newspaper
Ext.day busy street
14. Shawn runs staring at his watch at the same time. 14.
Suddenly his newspaper falls down.
14.a He bends to pick the newspaper. 14.a
14.b A strong wind blows the sheets apart 14.b
SHAWN
‘Fuck’.
14.c He becomes nervous and kicks the sheets. 14.c
The bus stop is a bit far from his flat,
he rushes down arriving nearly 25 metres
near the bus stop.
15. He sees a bus pulling over, he sprints after 15.
it and tries to stop it, but the bus carries on.
15.a He waits at the bus stop for about ten minutes. 15.a
SHAWN
15.b ‘Oh my god it seems 15.b
That there is no bus
For Shawn today’.
A man standing near him answers
MAN
15.c ‘It’s Friday the 13th mate, 15.c
the worst day of my
Life as well’.
SHAWN
15.d ‘Sir do I know you’. 15.d
MAN
15.e ‘No I don’t, but soon we 15.e
Will know each other’.
SHAWN
15.f ‘What do you mean?’ 15.f
MAN
‘I mean that friendship
15.g Starts from a bus stop’. 15.g
SHAWN
15.h ‘Mind your own business and 15.h
Keep your fuckin friendship
for yourself’.
15.i MAN 15.i
‘Hey chill out mate
I was just jokin’.
SHAWN
15.j “I don’t like jokes and can you 15.j
fuckin solve my problems’.
SHAWN
15.k ‘Huh! Talking about 15.k
friendship crazy man’.
16. Shawn starts to run towards his workplace. 16.
Int:Office day
17. Shawn reaches the main door. 17.
18. RECEPTIONIST 18.
‘Mr Johnson is looking for you’.
SHAWN
18.a ‘Where is he’? 18.a
18.b RECEPTIONIST 18.b
‘He is waiting for you in the office’.
19. Shawn goes to see Mr Johnson. 19.
He knocks the door
SHAWN
19.a ‘Mr Johnson it’s me Shawn 19.a
can I come in’.
Shawn knocks the door again
19.b ” Tok Tok Tok “. 19.b
SHAWN
19.c ‘Hello can I come in’. 19.c
No one replies.
19.d Shawn opens the door and glances inside. 19.d
SHAWN
19.e ‘Coo coo’, 19.e
‘Is there anybody in the office’?
19.f Shawn grabs a chair and sits. 19.f
Int: Office day
20. A lunch is lying on the table of Mr Johnson. 20.
20. a Shawn’s stomach starts to rumble. 20.a
Shawn starts feeling hungry; he has been
waiting for about 15 minutes.
20.b He grabs the lunch and starts to eat. 20.b
20.c Suddenly the door opens and Shawn stands 20.c
up subsequently.
21 SHAWN 21
‘Oh, hello what a surprise Mr Johnson.
By the way Sarah told me that
You wanted to meet me’.
21.a Mr Johnson sees his lunch on the hand 21.a
of Shawn.
Mr JOHNSON
22 ‘Where is my lunch’? 22
SHAWN
23 ‘Oh am sorry, I was feeling 23
Hungry I ate it’.
24 Mr JOHNSON 24
‘How dare you’.
25 Mr JOHNSON 25
‘By the way, can you
Look at the time’.
26 SHAWN 26
‘Its 10 minutes to 2.00pm’.
Mr JOHNSON
27 ‘Is this a time to come to work? 27
You were supposed to come at
8.00am sharp. This week it’s
The fourth time that you
are coming late’.
SHAWN
28 ‘Mr Johnson I can explain 28
you what happened’.
29 Mr JOHNSON 29
‘On Tuesday your granddad died,
It’s the fifth time that
he died this year’.
30 Mr JOHNSON 30
‘On Wednesday you went to the dentist
It’s the 30th time that you went to
remove your teeth and you still
got all your teeth.’
31 SHAWN 31
‘I can explain that one’.
Mr JOHNSON
32 ‘Shut up and listen to me’. 32
Mr JOHNSON
33 ‘On Thursday your friends brothers sisters 33
Cousins grandma had a cardiac arrest
You did not came to work, it seemed
that you had the cardiac arrrest‘.
34 SHAWN 34
‘I can explain that one as well’.
35 Mr JOHNSON 35
‘And what for today, did your dog died
Or your girlfriend dumped you’.
SHAWN
36 ‘I don’t have a dog’. 36
36.a Mr JOHNSON 36.a
laughs
SHAWN
37 ‘Mr Johnson it’s Friday the 13th today’. 37
Mr JOHNSON
38 ‘It’s not my birthday today anyway’. 38
39 SHAWN 39
I know but.
40 Mr JOHNSON 40.
‘He knows it’s not my
birthday today’.
41 Followed by laughs
41
Mr JOHNSON
42. ‘Shawn you are fired. I don’t wanna 42.
see your face anymore’.
SHAWN
43 ‘I have a story for you’. 43
44. JOHNSON {Laughs} 44.
Mr ‘He got a story for me, what is it, your next
door neighbour is pregnant for an alien’.
my newspaper is not interested in such
Stories’.
SHAWN
45. ‘Funny’. 45.
46. 46.
Shawn gets out of the office with a dull
Face and walks down the road.
46.a He looks at his watch with a bizarre and 46.a
rather worried face.
SHAWN
46.b ‘Oh shit man am late again Julie, 46.b
Julie is gonna kill me’.
Ext…Day London eye place
47. Julie is waiting in London city, 47.
looking at her watch.
47.a She appears very angry moving back 47.a
and forth…
48. Shawn arrives with a flower on his hand. 48.
He makes his way towards Julie.
48.a SHAWN 48.a
‘Hia angel’.
48.b JULIE 48.b
‘Is this a time to come’?
48.c SHAWN 48.c
‘I had some work to do am sorry’.
48.d JULIE 48.d
‘Where is your mobile?’
48.e Shawn checks his left pocket. 48.e
The right.Then, the top pocket.
48.f SHAWN 48.f
‘I think I forgot it at home’.
48.g JULIE 48.g
‘Am sorry to tell you that, it’s
all over between us’.
48.h SHAWN 48.h
‘What are you telling’?
48.i JULIE 48.i
‘Did you heard,it’s all over’.
48.j SHAWN 48.j
‘Why’?
48.k JULIE 48.k
‘I met someone else better
than you’.
48.l Julie chucks the flower on Shawn’s 48.l
face and goes away.
49. Shawn is left heart broken 49.
A Chinese tourist comes closer to Shawn;
the tourist is wearing a hat and carrying
a camera with him.
49.a. CHINESE TOURIST 49.a.
‘Do you know where is pa**s.
49.b SHAWN 49.b
‘Paris is in France’.
49.c CHINESE TOURIST 49.c
No, LONDON Pa**S’.
49.d SHAWN 49.d
‘Oh you want a flight from London to Paris,
am sorry mate I am no travel agent’.
49.e CHINESE TOURIST 49.e
‘pla**n’.london pa***S’.
49.f SHAWN 49.f
‘Oh you are planning to go
No am sorry am not a good planner’.
49.g CHINESE TOURIST 49.g
‘Me going to burimgam pa***S.
49.h SHAWN 49.h
‘Oh I see you want to go to
Buckingham palace’.
49.i Chinese tourist nods his head and shows 49.i
a cheerful smile.
49.j SHAWN 49.j
‘You know I have never given a good advice
to anybody yet but I am going to
give you a good one’.
49.k CHINESE TOURIST 49.k
‘Cheerfully smiling, yes advance’.
SHAWN
49.l ‘Yes me give you good advance, you jump 49.l
in water back of me it river thames’.
49.m CHINESE TOURIST 49.m
‘Oh I watch’.
49.n SHAWN 49.n
‘I see not watch’.
49.o CHINESE TOURIST 49.o
‘Me jump in river tom and ride to pa***S.
49.p SHAWN 49.p
‘No no no, You not understand me, I tell you
jump in river tom and swim, no riding,
no horse to carry you, horse
will drown.
49.q 49.q
CHINESE TOURIST
‘No boat carry jin sui ta ka ma’
49.r SHAWN 49.r
‘What is jin sui ta ka ma’.
49.s CHINESE TOURIST 49.s
‘Me’.
49.t SHAWN 49.t
‘jin sui ta ka mum, whatever it is,
boat very danger, can
sink o.k.you die’.
49.u CHINESE TOURIST 49.u
‘Good advance, f**nK you’.
49.v SHAWN 49.v
‘I watch you later, if we ever
meet again’.
49.w CHINESE TOURIST 49.w
‘F**NK you for good advice’.
SHAWN
49.x ‘You are welcome I always give 49.x
good advance’.
50. Int: Pub Day 50.
Desperate, Shawn goes to drink in a pub.
Ext… on the street
50.a He drinks few cans of beer and emerges 50.a
out of the pub with a bottle of wine
in his hand.
50.b Shawn Drinks half of it and grabs his pant.
50.c SHAWN 50.c
’oh shit pee pee.’.
50.d He starts to look for a toilet. 50.d
50.e SHAWN 50.e
‘I gonna pee pee in my pants’.
50.f Shawn looks across the road and finds 50.f
a place where he can pee ,there is no one.
Ext… Shawn peeing in the corner.
51. Shawn puts his bag on the floor and goes 51.
to pee; he takes the bottle to pee in it.
51.a A boy comes behind him and 51.a
nicks his bag;
51.b Suddenly Shawn’s sixth sense makes him 51.b
aware of something fishy.
He looks over his shoulder
and finds someone nicking his bag.
51.c SHAWN 51.c
‘Hey what are you doing’.
Ext… shawn chasing the thief.
51.d THIEF 51.d
‘See you asshole’.
51.e Shawn throws the bottle down and 51.e
starts to run after him.
51.f The thief runs away and disappears. 51.f
Ext… the corner.
52. Shawn comes back to the place he was 52.
peeing and finds an old man drinking
his bottle of wine which he had peed in.
52.a SHAWN 52.a
‘Hey stop’
52.b OLD MAN 52.b
‘Don’t come closer you moron,
you wanna steal my bottle
of wine, its mine don’t
dare come closer’.
52.c SHAWN 52.c
‘It’s not wine’.
52.d OLD MAN 52.d
‘I’ve never drunk such a
tasty wine in my life’.
52.e Shawn witnesses the old man enjoying 52.e
his wine
52.f Seconds after,the old man falls on 52.f
the floor.
52.g Shawn is amazed and shows a shocked expression 52.g
With his mouth left wide open and a nasty face.
52.h SHAWN 52.h
‘It wasn’t me’.
52.i Shawn runs away. 52.i
Cut to...
Ext…South end on sea, shore
53. A man is standing near the shore. 53.
53.a He has wore a bandana on his head 53.a
53.b Suddenly, another man appears and hands 53.b
a piece of paper to the first man.
On it, the words ‘Friday the 13th’ appears.
53.c SECOND MAN 53.c
‘it’s the code’.
53.d FIRST MAN 53.d
‘Have you got the man’.
53.e SECOND MAN 53.e
‘yes nearly found’
53.f FIRST MAN 53.f
‘where is Romeo’