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Title: F.U.N.E.X

Series: Chronicle

Writer: P E Leody

SYNOPIS: AN EGG STRUGGLES TO FIND ITS OWN WAY IN THE WORLD

PAGE 1


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Pitch dark

EGGBERT: MY FIRST MEMORY, IT'S DARK, VERY DARK, I'M TRAPPED, I FIGHT, I BREAK OUT, I ESCAPE


2  
A close up of paltry light filtering through badly fitting slats

EGGBERT: I'VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE BUT I KNOW ITS LIGHT, I KNOW IT'S GOOD I KNOW IT CALLS ME


3  
A doorway to the bright outside in the distance

EGGBERT: CAN'T FIT THROUGH THOSE GAPS BUT IN THE DISTANCE THERE'S A LARGE OPENING


4  
A close up of the doorway

EGGBERT: I CAN SEE THE LIGHT, FEEL IT'S WARMTH, I WANT TO RUN TOWARDS IT, IT ATTRACTS ME UNSELFISHLY IT HAS A GIFT OF JOY IT IS OFFERING


5  
Reveal ... Eggbert is a .. ahem egg, he has just run outside of the doorway which leads outside. It is the door of a hen coop. Eggbert stands on its steps arms raised

EGGBERT: I AM ALIVE, I AM OUT, I AM AN EGG MAN, WHOOP, WHOOPEDO.

PAGE 2


1  
Close up of Eggbert he has spindly arms and legs and flat disks for feet and hands. They are so fine humans can't see them when they look at eggs

EGGBERT: WHAT TO DO, WHERE TO GO, HOW TO GET THERE, BETTER CROSS THIS ROAD ?


2  
Eggbert is standing in the doorway so other eggs appearing behind him with speed fall over him

ALBEUM: OUTTA THE WAY BROWNY, US SPECKLES NEED SOME ROOM WE'RE ON VACATION


3  
All the eggs accelerate away from the hen houses

EGGBERT: WHAT'S THE RUSH AREN'T YOU JUST GLAD TO BE ALIVE

ALBEUM: US SPECKLES ARE FREE RANGE AND WE INTEND TO STAY THAT WAY


4  
A vast shadow falls over them it is hand shaped

EGGBERT: WHAT IS THAT ?

ALBEUM: THE HAND OF DEATH, YOU CAN WATCH IT OR RUN FOR IT


5  
Eggbert escapes through the farm gate running down the path

EGGBERT: ALL THIS MOTION WILL SEE ME CURDLED BEFORE I GET A CHANCE TO BE SCRAMBLED

PAGE 3


1  
Three eggs are looking a water manhole cover

EGGBERT: WHATEVER IT WAS WE HAVE LOST IT

ALBEUM: NOT FOR LONG, WE MUST HIDE, THIS COVER HIDES A HOLE THAT IS TOO SMALL FOR IT TOO FIT THROUGH

EGGBERT: THEN WHAT

ALBEUM: WE WAIT FOR IT TO PASS


2  
A montage of the third egg, Yokel, holding its stomach, then cracks start appearing then, the cracks spread right across its self

YOKEL: OH I FEEL WARM

YOKEL: VERY, VERY WARM

YOKEL: OW MY STOMACH HURTS, FEELS LIKE THERE'S SOMETHING MOVING AROUND INSIDE

YOKEL: HELP I'M FALLING APART

ALBEUM: ITS THE CRACKING

EGGBERT: THE WHAT

ALBEUM: IF WE DON'T REACH THE CAROUSEL IN 30 MINUTES WE BREAK APART FORM THE INSIDE


3  
A huge unidentifiable mass emerges from the cracked Yokel

ALBEUM: SO WHAT DO WE DO

EGGBERT: WERE YOU BORN SOFT ? WE RUN. WHAT EVER CAME OUT OF YOKEL CAN NOT BE ANY FRIEND OF OURS

PAGE 4


1  
Eggbert and Albeum panting

EGGBERT: I THINK WE LOST THEM

ALBEUM: WE MUST FIND SANCTUARY

EGGBERT: THERE'S ALWAYS CAROUSEL

EGGBERT: NO ONE'S EVER RETURNED FROM THE CAROUSEL


2  
The two eggs approach a box

ALBEUM: THIS LOOKS LIKE A SAFE PLACE TO HIDE

EGGBERT: WHAT IS THAT SMELL ITS VILE ?

ALBEUM: THAT MY FRIEND IS THE SMELL OF FREEDOM, THE CALL OF THE WILD


3  
Inside the box lies an old egg

EGGBERT: ITS ONE OF US, WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH HIM ?

ALBEUM: HE'S OLD, HE ESCAPED AND REMAINED FREE.

EGGBERT: BUT THE SMELL

ALBEUM: COMPLETELY NATURAL, YOU'LL SMELL THE SAME WHEN THE DRUGS FROM THE PLACE HAVE BE WASHED OUT OF YOUR SYSTEM


4  
A huge boot crushes the box on the outside

SFX: KERCRACK

ALBEUM: RUN .. ARGGH


5  
The boot having crushed the box turns on the Eggbert

ALBEUM: RUN

EGGBERT: AL, MY DEAR FRIEND, I WON'T LEAVE YOU,

ALBEUM: RUN BEFORE YOU CAN READ THE WRITING ON THAT SOLE

PAGE 5


1  
Eggbert returns to the hen house, there is a looming large (chicken shaped) blob to one side

EGGBERT: EVERYONE I CARED ABOUT GONE, I WILL RETURN HOME AND BEG TO BE LET BACK IN AND ON TO CAROUSEL.

CHICKEN: SON IS THAT YOU I THOUGHT I'D LOST YOU


2  
Close up of Eggbert cracking up

EGGBERT: OH NO I'M CRACKING UP, MUM HELP, IT HURTS


3  
Close up of the chicken

CHICKEN: HOLD ON SON, IT WILL SOON ALL BE OVER, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO CROSS OVER


4  
A chick bursts out of Eggberts stomach

EGGBERT: SUDDENLY I UNDERSTAND, MY LIFE FLASHES BEFORE ME, WE MUST EVOLVE TO SURVIVE FROM A CALCIUM BASED LIFE FORM TO A CARBON ONE AND THE CYCLE RICHLY REPEATS


5  
Close up of the mother

CHICKEN: THERE YOU ARE SON, I THOUGHT I'D LOST YOU. ALL THIS FREE RANGE STUFF IS VERY ECO FRIENDLY BUT IT PUTS SO MUCH STRESS ON THE FAMILY UNIT. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE START GESTATION YOUNG, THIS EGG DELIVERY SYSTEM IS SO JURASSIC

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