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# PG SLUGLINE
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1 INT. DARKENED ROOM - TOWER STUDY - NIGHT 1 A match illuminates the darkness. The match lights 7 candles on a fine antique DESK. A small WOODEN BOX with 7 sets of INITIALS carved into the lid: TWM, KY, JK, AT, RO, KB, TW, sits open.
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6 EXT. LA PALMA - COURTYARD - ESTATE - CONTINUOUS 6 TRINITY WARNER age 37, (older) wearing riding pants and jacket, leaves the front entrance of the estate home and walks down the steps to a waiting servant, who holds Trinity's white horse. Trinity is stunning, beautiful but has the
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9 EXT. SAILING SHIP OPEN WATER - CONTINUOUS 9 Just off the coast at anchor is the twin masted sailing ship, it rolls in the ocean waves. On the deck of the ship is the MAN who later will be know as MARKUS. His face is still hidden. He looks out towards Trinity on the coastline
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13 EXT. MOUNTAIN ROAD - LATER 13 The SUV rolls on ever closer to the mountains and the Chunga Caves. 14 EXT. PARKING AREA CHUNGA CAVES /CAMPSITE - DAY 14 The SUV is parked and the young adults are moving their
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15 EXT. CAMPSITE - LATER 15 A cool, dry morning... Trees, ground, rock and sky, there are only two colors here in March: Gray and brown. Camp is set up. Four small tents surround an old campfire ring.
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16 EXT. MOUNTAIN SLOPE, TRAIL TO CHUNGO - DAY 16 The mountains / trees sweep past to reveal the seven friends. The young adults are walking along the stunning trail, foothills and Mt. Shunda towering above them... Trinity looks to the summit of the mountain and cave. Robert
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19 INT. ENTRANCE TUNNEL / CATHEDRAL, CHUNGO CAVES - DAY 19 Single file they go down into the entrance tunnel, a steep 50-degree incline, they're happy for the rope... They spill out into... ...A towering hall of stone... the CATHEDRAL.
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20 INT. THE TUBE, CHUNGO CAVES - DAY 20 They're squeezing single file through "the tube," a long, tight tunnel, just 30 inches wide, deep in the cave system. Jacob leads, then Keara, Tom, Andy, Kim, Robert and Trinity. Their head-lamps bounce off the rock pressing in all around
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22 INT. TUBE - DAY 22 The friends are squeezing back out the narrow tunnel, bathed only in the green glow of the Chem sticks and flashlight, increasingly fearful. Tom looks back to Jacob in the rear. Water runs past them.
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24 EXT. ENTRANCE TUNNEL, CHUNGO CAVES - DAY 24 Robert emerges and stares in confusion at the landscape: The gray March colors have vanished. The sun's baking. The foothills and forest below are lush with mid-summer canopy. 24.
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27 EXT. PATH TO CAMPSITE/CAMPSITE - DUSK 27 Down, off the mountain, Jacob can't find the path through the scrub-land to the campsite. He crashes through the waist- high undergrowth, he pauses perplexed, he spins around. The others wait confused behind him.
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28 EXT. FORMER CAMPSITE - NIGHT 28 From different directions, Jacob, Trinity and Robert, Keara and Tom and Andy --still gripping his flask-- all re-emerge from the bush after reckoning the entire area. They all wear a similar stunned expression.
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29 EXT. FORMER CAMPSITE - LATER 29 Later that night Trinity lays beside the campfire looking at Robert as Jacob puts more wood onto the fire. There is now a look of great concern on the face of Robert. TRINITY
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32 EXT. CAMPSITE - LATER 32 Trinity and Keara have all the supplies laid out on the ground. As they call the items out, Keara makes a list in her NOTEBOOK. Both go grimly about their job as the others look
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33 EXT. CAMPSITE - LATER 33 Jacob is ready, and turns away from them. The others watch Jacob stride into the river towards the opposite bank... Robert and Kim slowly pick up their packs and sling them on, and follow Jacob into the river... Trinity watches as Tom
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34 EXT. MOUNTAINSIDE - DAY 34 Andy struggling his way back up towards the caves, his face set in mad determination. Roaring in his earbuds, driving him forward: head-banging death-thrash by Slaughter. A light rain starts to fall, angry black clouds roll in.
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37 EXT. RIVER BANK - NIGHT 37 Rain lashes the friends along the river bank. They haul each other from the stinking ooze and form a human chain to climb the ten meters up onto a grassy plateau. KEARA
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43 EXT. BEND IN RIVER AT NORDEGG - DAY 43 The friends walk south alongside a river in a deep valley, the FOOTHILLS tower on either side. Their pace is slow, the last two days have taken their toll. The BIG BLUE solar charger is clipped to the back of Jacob's
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45 EXT. PLATEAU - DAY 45 A CARD READS: Day Four The six friends emerge unscathed from the forest onto a plateau. Not a house or car or highway to be seen. Robert glances with fear now up at Mt. Shunda, looming high
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46 EXT. RIVER BANK, FOREST - DAY 46 Robert sits next to a tree resting looking out at the sea of trees. Trinity slowly walks up behind him. He hears her, but he continues to look ahead as if she wasn't there.
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49 EXT. CAMPSITE CLEARING, PLATEAU - NIGHT 49 Keara and Robert and Trinity sit in the makeshift camp staring in the flames of the fire, as the three hunters return with the deer. They drop the deer. They collapse where they are, all
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51 EXT. CLEARING, FIRE PIT - NIGHT 51 The stunned friends stare into the fire and drop off one by one some of them in GROUND-SHEET COCOONS others just with their jackets. Trinity sits beside Robert.
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52 EXT. CLEARING - DAWN 52 Andy sits there looking at the group. Kim tries to clean up more of the cuts on his face. JACOB We only have so much in the way of
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53 EXT. LOW BUSH - DAY 53 The seven friends walk in single file. Jacob in the lead. JACOB So, starting today, we take turns
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54 EXT. PLAINS - DAY 54 A CARD READS: Day Eight. The group pushes on. Robert is looking weak, Trinity is by his side. ANDY
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55 EXT. PLAINS - EVENING 55 A CARD READS: Day Ten. The young adults push on as the sun sets. 56 EXT. PLAINS - NIGHT 56 The friends sit around a campfire for the night trying to
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59 EXT. PLAINS - DAY 59 Jacob and Tom are carrying Robert on a make shift stretcher, built with two poles and a ground sheet. From time to time, Kim looks in on him to see how he is doing. KIM
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60 EXT. 2330 ANDAMAN SEA - GATE KEEPER'S ISLAND - DUSK 60 CARD READS: Andaman Sea Year 2330 . Sitting in the Andaman sea, rests a number of towering islands with rock pillars stretching 100 feet into the sky. The water races past us, ever pushing ahead towards a monstrous
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62 INT. 2330 HANGER FORTRESS GATE KEEPERS - MOMENTS LATER 62 The now loaded VTOL aircraft powers up and lifts into the air, turns and leaves the safety of the underground hanger to open skies. 63 EXT. 2330 NIGHT SKY - LATER 63
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70 EXT. 2330 CHUNGA CAVE SUMMIT - DUSK 70 Markus pulls from his packet a small monitoring tool. It beeps and points Markus up higher on the mountain side, he runs fighting to climb higher. 71 EXT. 2330 CHUNGA CAVE SUMMIT - MOMENTS LATER 71
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73 EXT. CAMPSITE, RIVER - NIGHT 73 The evening wind blows across the plains, twisting the flames of the camp fire. Next to the warm glow is Robert at rest, wrapped in jackets to stay warm. Kim and Keara sit overlooking him.
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74 EXT. CAMPSITE, RIVER - MORNING 74 A CARD READS: Day 13. Trinity is sleeping... She opens her swollen eyes and spies... Two forms bent over Robert's corpse--tugging at it. JACOB
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75 EXT. PLATEAU - DUSK 75 Trinity has laid out all of Robert's belongings, in a neat pile. She is on her knees. Robert's naked body is laid out straight, his face covered. Jacob walks up.
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77 EXT. PLAINS - DAY 77 A CARD READS: DAY 14 High noon, the sun beats down on the six friends. They plod on across dry ground, pitted with hundreds of gopher holes.
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78 EXT. CAMPSITE, PLATEAU - DUSK 78 The campfire glows. Trinity, is writing in the margins of Robert's SIDDHARTHA BOOK. Keara smiles kindly, sits beside her. KEARA
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79 EXT. VALLEY CROWS NEST PASS - DAY 79 Aerial view. The valley below races past, the sun to the west slowly descending in the mountains. TRINITY (V.O.) There would be no Calgary. Tom would
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83 EXT. CROWS NEST VALLEY - NIGHT 83 The wind and snow are hammering the six as they huddle into a rock crevice to stay out of the cold. Their small fire fights to survive but the wind is too much for it and it begins to fade. Trinity looks to Jacob, as she does she pulls
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86 EXT. CROWS NEST VALLEY - CONTINUOUS 86 Open in BLACK, two gun shots! 87 EXT. CROWS NEST VALLEY - CONTINUOUS 87 POV, of Trinity running towards Keara, the scene is delirious! The tall grass races past. We catch a glimpse of the Black
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89 EXT. CROWS NEST VALLEY - DAY 89 Subtitle card: Day 74 90. Aerial view: The six head west ever west through the Crows Nest pass, Keara is being carried by Jacob and Tom on a
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91 EXT. CROWS NEST VALLEY - WEST - AFTERNOON 91 The group has stopped to rest. Sitting looking at each other. Keara's arm is out of the sling and her face now shows the scar of the bear attack on her. Trinity looks toward her friend. Kim, goes to Keara and
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92 EXT. CROWS NEST VALLEY - WEST - DAY 92 Aerial view: Snow falls. The six march on. Hell, has no forgiveness. DIP TO BLACK: 93 EXT. CROWS NEST PASS - WEST - NIGHT 93
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97 EXT. BRITISH COLUMBIA TRAIL TO SALISH VILLAGE - DAY 97 The six with their Salish native escort make their way towards a coastal village on the banks of the British Columbia shore. Kim, falls, one of the Salish WARRIORS puts out his arms to help her to her feet again. It is clear Kim, is not like
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100 EXT. SALISH VILLAGE - LATER 100 The six are lead from the main lodge to a small lodge a short distance away. 99. The snow softly falling, the sun setting to the west on the
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102 EXT. SALISH VILLAGE SWEAT LODGE - NIGHT 102 The six covered in furs are taken to a sweat lodge. (Slow- motion) As they walk in the open air, barefoot, Sangaa stands looking on, watching them. His eyes on Trinity, he follows her every move. The snow falls in slow motion. The only
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106 INT. SALISH MAIN LODGE - LATER 106 Tom sits across from the Chief and the two try to talk. Making hand gestures and points, looking for words in each language. 107 INT. SALISH MAIN LODGE - NIGHT 107
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111 EXT. SALISH VILLAGE - DAY 111 Change of seasons, winter slowly gives way to spring. A number of day to day, lifestyle shots of the friends. 103. 112 INT. LODGE HOME OF THE GROUP - DAY 112
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115 EXT. SALISH VILLAGE - DAY 115 Trinity walks the hills above the village, she stops, looks around and from her clothing she pulls her iphone in the orange case along with the ear-buds, placing them in her ears. She starts to listen to music. She leans back and
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118 EXT. SALISH VILLAGE - DAY 118 Trinity walks from the beach, and as she does she is confronted by Sangaa. SANGAA (in Salish; subtitled)
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119 INT. LODGE HOME OF THE SIX - MOMENTS LATER 119 Trinity storms into the lodge with Jacob, Tom, Andy behind. They just arrive as Kim and Keara are finishing. To all in the room it is clear what just happened. Tom stands there not knowing what to make of it. He looks to Keara, the two
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121 EXT. SALISH VILLAGE - NIGHT 121 Tom, Andy, Jacob, Keara, and Kim sit around the fire with the other Salish natives. The sparks slowly drifting into the night sky. Jacob stares at the fire. Tom, looks at Keara. Thoughts racing through his mind.
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122 EXT. SALISH VILLAGE - DAY 122 Jacob sits looking out at the sea, he is working on what looks to be a fishing net. Tom, joins him. TOM
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125 INT. SALISH MAIN LODGE - NIGHT 125 In the lodge a number of Salish WOMEN are with Trinity, they are washing her and preparing her for the wedding. Two women are at work, giving Trinity a traditional tattoo on each of her arms. One is of two Eagle heads circling each other, a
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129 INT. LODGE HOME OF THE SIX - DAY 129 Tom and Keara stand in the open doorway. Outside the rain falls, hard. Tom, lights a pipe and takes a pull of it. Tries to hand it over to Keara. She waves him off. KEARA
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130 EXT. MOUNTAIN TOP / CHUNGO CAVES - DAY 130 Snow slowly falls from the dull skies. The sound of an aircraft can be heard in the distance. The lights of the VTOL aircraft, then break through the snow. The small four seat aircraft comes into view. It circles the mountain top.
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134 EXT. MOUNTAIN TOP / CHUNGO CAVES / CAMP SITE - NIGHT 134 A fire burns, the bodies of the frozen Gate Keepers with Jessica are piled and set ablaze. Markus looks on. The light of the fire on this face. MARKUS
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138 EXT. SALISH VILLAGE BEACH - DUSK 138 Two canoes line the beach with the five now dressed as they were that snow covered morning, when the Salish first found them. Trinity is the last to walk down from the lodge. She slings her backpack and has a fur roll with her Salish
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139 EXT. OPEN SEA SAILING SOUTH - DAY 139 The two small dugouts push south, in open seas, with the west coast always within sight of the friends to their left. The blue and orange ground sheet sails pushing the boats ever faster.
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141 EXT. BEACH SOUTHERN COAST CALIFORNIA - EVENING 141 The two boats are now beached. Trinity is in the shade, watching the sunset. Jacob and Kim are tending to her, with water and food. KIM
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142 EXT. OPEN SEA SAILING SOUTH - NIGHT 142 Subtitle: Day 315 The two boats move south, the sea is calm. A full MOON is in the night sky. In Keara, Tom and Andy's boat the three are stretch out.
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143 EXT. OPEN SEA - BOATS HEADING SOUTH - DAY 143 Subtitle: Day 321 The two dugout boats are underway with full sail. Tom stands and looks out over the sea, the wind in his hair. Tom spots something on the horizon. Moods are low, the days at sea

Crossing the Rubicon

A group of young adults find themselves mysteriously transported back in time to the 18th century, where they must navigate the challenges of survival, cultural differences, and their own personal struggles to find a way home.

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The unique selling proposition of 'Crossing the Rubicon' lies in its innovative blend of time travel and historical drama, allowing for rich character development and exploration of themes such as belonging and sacrifice. The screenplay's ability to juxtapose modern sensibilities with historical contexts creates a compelling narrative that engages audiences on multiple levels, making it a standout piece in its genre.

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Genres: Drama, Adventure, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Romance, Survival, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Action, Historical

Setting: 1754 and 2330, with time travel elements, La Palma, Chungo Caves, Andaman Sea, Salish village, and various landscapes in British Columbia

Themes: Survival, Loss and Grief, Identity and Purpose, Love and Connection, Time Travel and Alternate Realities, Cultural Encounter and Assimilation

Conflict & Stakes: The group faces survival challenges in a harsh environment while dealing with personal struggles, relationships, and the consequences of time travel.

Mood: Somber and reflective, with moments of tension and hope.

Standout Features:

  • Unique Hook: The integration of time travel with survival in a historical context, creating a compelling narrative.
  • Cultural Exploration: The depiction of the Salish culture and its interactions with modern characters, providing depth and authenticity.
  • Character Dynamics: The complex relationships among the group, highlighting themes of friendship, love, and betrayal.
  • Supernatural Elements: The introduction of ghostly figures and otherworldly phenomena that challenge the characters' perceptions of reality.

Comparable Scripts: The Time Traveler's Wife, Lost, The Giver, The Lord of the Flies, Interstellar, The Maze Runner, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Secret History, The Hunger Games

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