The Production GuideScript To Screen: The Last Sunset
by Martin Willey
The Production Guide
Here we see the original 16th July script page 34, in the wrecked Eagle. Immediately before filming, the scene was revised, as we can see from the 22nd July revised page below.
34
119 CONTD.
HELENA realises this fact can lead only to a loss of
hope. She changes the subject. She looks up at
MORROW's anxious face.
HELENA
Paul, give Alan a hand getting us
some air.
MORROW looks up at HELENA, and then down at SANDRA's
unconscious face.
HELENA
(gently)
She's going to be alright.
MORROW squeezes SANDRA's limp hand and releases it.
He stands up and goes to work with CARTER at the door
of the Module.
CARTER
There's twenty-seven serviceable
Eagles available to search for
us. A pound to a pinch of porridge
not one of still on the
deck.
With that he sets to work with a vengeance hurling debris
away from the door. And MORROW joins in as though
possessed.
120 EXT. MOON SURFACE. SFX.
KOENIG's P.O.V..
As he looks out through the Eagle screens, the landscape
is featureless, covered with finely rippled dust and
quite unbroken.
121 INT. EAGLE COMMAND MODULE.
KOENIG, with MATHIAS beside him, looks out over the
surface. MATHIAS turns to KOENIG.
MATHIAS
We are directly over the last point
of radar contact, Commander.
KOENIG
Not much of a New World is it?
Not much of a place to be lost in...
KOENIG turns and banks the Eagle.
On 22nd July, blue page amendments were produced, ready for filming starting Tuesday 23rd July 1974. This is one reworked page. Alan's line was reworked again before filming (on Monday 29th and Tuesday 30th), becoming "I'll lay you even money finding us is a piece of cake."
34
119 CONTD. 119CARTER
(in despair)
Every transistor, every condenser.
Not one of them isn't blown.
HELENA
The lightning. It must've
burnt out every circuit in the
ship.
(weak)
We are totally dependent on Alpha
to find us.
HELENA realises this fact can lead only to a loss of
hope. She changes the subject. She looks up at
MORROW's anxious face,
HELENA
Paul, give Alan a hand getting us some
air.
MORROW looks up at HELENA and then down at SANDRA's
unconscious face.
HELENA
(gently)
She's going to be alright.
MORROW squeezes SANDRA's limp hand and releases it.
He stands up and goes to work with CARTER at the door
of the Module.
CARTER
(encouraging)
Look, we came out here with enough
food for a fortnight and there's
thirty gallons of water stashed in
the store. There's twenty-seven
serviceable Eagles and I bet you a
wallaby to a kangaroo they're bouncing
off the deck right now.
MORROW and HELENA grimace at the phraseology but
CARTER's enthusiasm has its effect. He sets to work
with a vengeance hurling debris away from the door.
And MORROW joins in as though possesses.
120 EXT. MOON SURFACE. SFX. 120
KOENIG's P.O.V.
As he looks out through the Eagle screens, the landscape
is featureless, covered with finely rippled dust and
quite unbroken.
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"THE LAST SUNSET" |
22nd July 1974 |
Copyright Martin Willey