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Clive Scarff Screenwriter |
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Flight 2012 by Clive Scarff It is 1950, the heart of the Cold War, and aliens are preparing for their planet's encounter with Earth in 2012. They bring down an American bomber carrying a nuclear bomb, igniting a desperate search for the bomb's volatile plutonium core, and the truth about Earth's future. |
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| Synopsis - "Flight 2012" | |
| Valentine’s Day, 1950. Northern Canada. RCAF Captain JAMES
MONTGOMERY’s date with his wife ends early as he heads out on a routine
surveillance flight. Post World War II, uneventful flights are the norm
and welcomed over the skies of Canada. Further north, at a US Air Force Force base, the Cold War is heating things up. Under the cover of a frigid Alaskan night 17 members of the US Air Force Strategic Air Command ready a B-36 bomber for, they are told, a routine training mission. Yet a Mark IV nuclear bomb is loaded into the bomb bay, explaining why Weaponeer TED SHERO has been brought in for this particular training mission, and why something supposedly routine is so cloaked in secrecy. Under that cloak is a man named RAYMOND ORAY of the Atomic Energy Commission. Classified as an ‘observer’ on this mission, he has in his possession secret orders that include the direction to arm the Mark IV, and change the flight’s destination. As southbound flight 2012 hugs the Canadian coastline Shero is given the deadly nuclear core, and ordered to arm the Mark IV. The bomb is no sooner hot than the flight comes under attack by an unknown enemy. The pilots can no longer control 2012 and the order is given to bail, which all the crew – minus Shero and the mysterious Oray – do. Shero must disarm the bomb before bailing, while Oray is determined to stay with the nuclear core. Meanwhile, Captain Montgomery witnesses the strange attack and subsequent crash landing of USAF Flight 2012 in his jurisdiction. With smoke still pouring from the fuselage and Oray seemingly dead at the controls, three visitors - from another planet - invade the downed plane. These aliens systematically search the wreckage but are unable to locate what they are looking for. The nuclear core. It is then they notice that Oray is now missing too, and they take off in pursuit through the deep Canadian snow. Montgomery lands and makes his way to the crashed B-36, unsure of what, or who, he might find. What he gets for his efforts is a surprise attack from the frightened Oray who has returned to search for his precious nuclear core. Once they determine they are on the same side, Montgomery and Oray form an unlikely team and set out in search of the aliens presumed to have taken the core. The aliens’ search takes them to a remote cabin in the woods, the home of recluse BOB METCALF. An old woodsman, Metcalf fled the violence of the real world, never suspecting the surreal world that would one day arrive at his door in the middle of nowhere. The aliens take over his cabin, making it their homebase as they continue to search for the missing plutonium core. It is here that the leader of the alien trio, nicknamed CHRIS, befriends Bob and is humanized somewhat as we learn about him, the purpose of the alien mission, and what lies ahead for planet Earth when Chris’s planet approaches in the 21st century. The core is the key. Montgomery and Oray, meanwhile, are trying to survive the wilderness let alone locate the aliens and the core. Finally, having barely survived a bear attack, they make their way to the only home in the area – Bob’s cabin. Suddenly this unassuming wood cabin becomes a flash point for earth’s future, and the unmuddling of true motives. Oray reveals his kill-at-all costs approach to retrieving the deadly core, the alien Chris finds he has a violent traitor amongst his ranks, and Montgomery and Bob must distinguish the devil-you-know from the devil you don’t want to know as the location of the nuclear core is finally discovered. --30-- |
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Clive Scarff Contact Info: Email: clive@clivescarff.com |