Pitch Black -- fast read

[Randall_Oelerich]

I am reading the screenplay PITCH BLACK today. Very fast read, for anybody looking for an easy screenplay to read, study. Fun movie too. Attaching the script for anybody interested. I dare you to read three pages and not get hooked.

 

[Sad Max]

I thought Pitch Black was an unusually clever science-fiction movie. Good stuff.

 

[Randall_Oelerich]

I thought Pitch Black was an unusually clever science-fiction movie. Good stuff.

I found the screenplay not only easy and fast to read, but actually fun to read because of the many dialogue zingers (witty comebacks). The script is full of interesting dialogue (all intercut with the dangers of an alien planet and hordes of hell-hound creatures out to eat the stranded space travelers), but here is one example: Paris (~50), a plump truffle-eating antiquities dealer, suddenly finds a knife at his throat, held by 12 year old stow-away (runaway) Audrey, as they are adapting to being stranded on the planet.

PARIS
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So did you run away from your parents,
or did they run away from you?

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I love that line, among many others.

Most screenplays I have a really really hard time reading, not fun, every page a chore to read, let's face it screenplays are not literature. But a few screenplays I have found a pleasure to read, Pitch Black being one.

 

[Sad Max]

Chronicles of Riddick was frankly not as tight a story or film, but was still great fun too. Also had some fun zingers -

Pretend that you're talking to someone who was educated in the penal system. In fact - don't pretend.

 

[Nektonic]

Pitch Black is still and awesome little sci-fi/action/horror flick, especially considering that it was a low budget film from about 10 years ago. I agree, Chronicles of Riddick was fun (best part was the prison planet sequence in the middle of the film... they could do a whole film on just that idea), but not nearly as good. They're making a third Riddick film that is to be more in line with Pitch Black. Hopefully they'll be able to capture some of that essence in the new one.

Thanks for the script link Randall. I haven't read the screenplay for it yet.

I love a fast read, especially for an action-oriented film.