Script to Screen sessions are most effective when you read the shooting script, watch the movie and then attend the session at the festival.
Script to Screen sessions are most effective when you read the shooting script, watch the movie and then attend the session at the festival.NOTE – Shooting scripts are the scripts that were taken to set and NOT the scripts you often find on the internet. Those are often polished drafts rewritten in post for submission in ‘awards season’.
Watch the film at the festival on Friday night – info HERE.
The Machine shooting script
Please do not share the screenplay as it has been given to us in good faith by the producers who own the copyright.
Link to session at the festival HERE
SYNOPSIS
With an impoverished world plunged into a Cold War with a new enemy, Britain’s Ministry of Defense is on the brink of developing a game-changing weapon. Lead scientist Vincent McCarthy (Toby Stephens) provides the answer with his creation, ‘The Machine’- an android with unrivalled physical and processing skills. When a programming glitch causes an early prototype to destroy his lab, McCarthy enlists artificial intelligence expert Ava (Caity Lotz) to help him harness the full potential of a truly conscious fighting machine.
‘The Machine’, was selected from over 6000 films to premiere in this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Reviews described it as:
‘Perfect, heartbreaking… The best film of Tribeca 2013′ Sound on Sight
‘Slickly designed and beautiful… great prosthetics, VFX designs… a pro-science, anti-war fable.’ Fangoria
‘The Machine is a strange and gorgeously shot sci-fi thriller with an intriguing thematic undercurrent about the ever-blurring boundaries between people and machines.’ The Week
‘Slick and thought-provoking… James’ direction captures the feel of a still hopeful dystopia with flourishes of stark, foreboding imagery that shows an eye for what makes a particular shot look epic even when it’s just a close-up. It’s Zen and the Art of Sci-Fi’ Dread Central
