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Cast of Characters

LONDON

ALICE KINGSLEY briefly known as

UUM from UMBRAGE

HELEN KINGSLEY ALICE’S MOTHER

MARGARET MANCHESTER ALICE’S SISTER

FAITH AND FIONA CHATAWAY CHATTY SISTERS

AUNT IMOGENE A SPINSTER

HAMISH ASCOT A YOUNG LORD

LADY ASCOT HAMISH’S MOTHER

LORD ASCOT HAMISH’S FATHER

UNDERLAND

NIVENS McTWISP THE WHITE RABBIT

UILLEAM THE DODO

MALLYMKUN THE DORMOUSE

OMAQUE UMPQUA THE PLATYPUS

TWEEDLDEE TWIN BOYS

TWEEDLEDUM

TARRANT HIGHTOPP THE MAD HATTER

THACKERY EARWICKET THE MARCH HARE

ABSOLEM THE CATERPILLAR

BAYARD HAMAR THE BLOODHOUND

BIELLE HAMAR HIS WIFE

MIRANA OF MARMOREAL THE WHITE QUEEN

IRACEBETH OF CRIMS THE RED QUEEN

ILOSOVIC STAYN THE KNAVE OF HEARTS

THE RED QUEEN’S COURTIERS

THE RED KNIGHTS

THE RED QUEEN’S CREATURES

THE JABBERWOCKY

THE JUBJUB BIRD

THE BANDERSNATCH

AND OTHER DENIZENS

Plus, various FOOTFROGS, FISH BUTLERS, HEDGEHOGS, FLAMINGOS,

MONKEYS, GUINEA PIGS, DUCKS and other Castle staff

Sizes of Alice under the Influence of Pishsalver and the Upelkuchen

Tiny Alice – three inches high

Small Alice — two feet high

Big Alice — seven feet high

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script used with courtesey of Sci-Fi Scripts

Edward Sissorhands

OLD KIM
Snuggle in, sweetie. It’s cold out there.

GRANDDAUGHTER
Why is it snowing, grandma? Where does it come
from?

OLD KIM
Oh, that’s a long story, sweetheart.

GRANDDAUGHTER
I want to hear.

OLD KIM
Oh, not tonight. Go to sleep.

GRANDDAUGHTER
I’m not sleepy. Tell me, please.

OLD KIM

Well, all right. Let’s see. I guess it would
have to start with scissors.

GRANDDAUGHTER
Scissors?

OLD KIM

Well, there are all kinds of scissors. And once
there was even a man who had scissors for
hands.

GRANDDAUGHTER
A man?

OLD KIM
Yes.

GRANDDAUGHTER
Hands, scissors?

OLD KIM
No, scissorhands. You know the mansion on top
of the mountain?

GRANDDAUGHTER
It’s haunted.

OLD KIM
Well, a long time ago, an inventor lived in
that mansion. He made many things, I suppose.
He also created a man. He gave him inside, a
heart, a brain, everything. Well, almost

everything. You see, the inventor was very old.
He died before he got to finish the man he
invented. So the man was left by himself,
incomplete and all alone.

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Transcript written by and used with the courtesey of Angela Sugden

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used with courtesey of Daily Script

FEAR & LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS

by

Terry Gilliam & Toy Grisoni

BLACK SCREEN

A desert wind moans sadly. From somewhere within the wind
comes the tinkly, syrupy-sweet sounds of the Lennon Sisters
singing “My Favorite Things.” A series of sepia images of
anti-war protests from the mid-sixties appear one after
another on the screen.

In the violently scrawled style of Ralph Steadman, the title
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS splashes onto the screen. A
beat, and then it runs down and off revealing:

TITLE: “He who makes a beast of himself
Gets rid of the pain
Of being a man.”
Dr. Johnson

The VOICE OF HUNTER S. THOMPSON — a.k.a. RAOUL DUKE:

DUKE (V/O)

We were somewhere around Barstow on
the edge of the desert when the
drugs began to take hold.

AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

A red Chevy convertible — THE RED SHARK — wipes the black
screen.

EXT. ON THE ROAD TO LAS VEGAS – DAY

AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

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When Tim Burton proposed the role of Willy Wonka to his friend and frequent collaborator, two-time Oscar nominee Johnny Depp, he was barely able to get the words out. As Depp relates the conversation, “We were having dinner and he said, ‘I want to talk to you about something. You know that story, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Well, I’m going to do it and I’m wondering if you’d want to play….’ and I couldn’t even wait for him to finish the sentence. I said, ‘I’m in. Absolutely. I’m there.’ No question about it.”

“To be chosen to play Willy Wonka in itself a great honor,” says Depp, a long-time fan of Dahl’s work, “but to be chosen by Tim Burton is double, triple the honor. His vision is always amazing, beyond anything you expect. Just the fact that he was involved meant I didn’t need to see a script before committing. If Tim wanted to shoot 18 million feet of film of me staring into a light bulb and I couldn’t blink for three months, I’d do it.”

Before long the two were poring over Burton’s preliminary sketches, discussing Wonka’s look and the themes of the story, falling into a familiar creative rhythm that began when the director cast Depp as the lead in the 1990 poignant fantasy Edward Scissorhands. They subsequently re-teamed for the critically acclaimed Ed Wood and Sleepy Hollow and are currently working together on the stop-motion animated feature Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride.

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Title: The Innocents
Author: Kevin Jackson
Publication: Sight and Sounds
Issue: November 2004

Marc Forster’s unpredictable follow up to his critical success with Monster’s Ball (2001) is a biopic, of sorts, which purports to tell the story of how J.M. Barrie found his inspiration for Peter Pan in his deal­ings with the Llewelyn Davies family – the origi­nals for the Darlings in the play. Adapted by David Magee from a recent stage piece, The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allen Knee. Finding Neverland is an unusually sober, tactful, thoughtful and thought prompting example of the genre; a rare example of a film aimed at the so-called family audience which will appeal most directly to the mature members of the family rather than the screaming tykes.

Like many other highly literate biopics -Lawrence of Arabia, for instance – it is also a pack of whoppers. Well established facts of chronology and geography are distorted, characters traduced or sim­ply invented, unwarranted speculations passed off as gospel truth. Does this matter? Not greatly, and while some pedantic Barrie fans will no doubt wax apoplectic, their ire will be misplaced. Some of the movie’s trifling’s with reality act mainly to stream line the plot and jerk a few additional tears: stan­dard dramatic license. The most important of them strengthen its ruling theme, which, to put it maybe a shade too pompously, is that of the origins and consolations of art: standard poetic license.

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(note: recently, when Ivy met Johnny, he told her he remembered the zone and he remembered his meeting with Irene!)

‘Adventures in Neverland’ – The Night I Met Johnny Depp
I had the privilege of meeting Johnny Depp during the filming of ‘Neverland’ in summer 2002. They were filming night shoots at the Richmond Theatre, Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey, England on three consecutive nights: Sunday 18th to Tuesday 20 August ’02. On the first evening that I visited the filming location I had to leave before Johnny was due to show up on set. On my second visit, however, I had the incredible good fortune of being able to watch him at work for over 6 hours – an evening that culminated in meeting him at 3:15 in the morning! I don’t have any photographs of that extraordinary night, but I do have vivid and wonderful memories together with Johnny’s inscription for me in my little ‘Dead Man’ book.

The simplest way to tell my adventure is to Start at the Beginning and keep going until I reach The End and then Stop. My story’s a long one, but I hope you enjoy it.

:irene
August 2002

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CHAPTER ONE – Sunday 18th August 2002

I went over to Richmond-upon-Thames in Surrey yesterday, Sunday 18 August, to see if I could watch the ‘Neverland’ location filming that Reemi reported from the ‘Dark Horizons’ site. And I arrived about 6 hours too early,

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untitled Wally Pfister Project

written by Jack Paglen

5.1.12

A FIELD OF WHITE fills the screen. Slowly, the white is invaded by rivulets of fragmented black matter. This graphitelike material forms intricate streams from the top and sides of the frame. The network moves, builds, expands and intertwines until the screen is completely black. In the blackness a REFLECTION slowly fades into view. The reflection is in the black smoke glass of a massive room of computer servers. We pan to find ourselves in-

INT. DATA CENTER, BOSTON – DAY

An endless row of computer servers stand lifeless and dark. Illuminated only by a long row of skylights above. There is no power. Two men walk through. MAX WATERS is in his forties. Dirty jeans. Stained coat. JOSEPH TAGGER is sixty. Ungroomed. They take in the dark building, still as a tomb.

JOSEPH

How is it out there? Have you found anything?

MAX

No. Nothing. I heard Tokyo has power. Berlin, too. But they’re just rumors.

JOSEPH Nobody’s connected?

MAX

No. No phone. No internet. No power. Nothing.

They walk in silence, both lost in thought. Max takes in the lifeless machines all around them.

JOSEPH

You know we’re rebuilding the same system?

Max goes silent. They move to the exit, guarded by SOLDIERS with assault rifles.

JOSEPH (CONT’D) Let me know what you find.

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Title: The Hunter in Johnny Depp

Author: Nick Tosches

Publication: Vanity Fair

Issue:  November 2011

It is Johnny Depp’s The Rum Diary as much as it is the late Hunter S. Thompson’s The Rum Diary. For one thing, The Rum Diary, Hunter’s only published novel, likely never would have seen the light of day if Johnny hadn’t discovered it in the writer’s basement while staying with him 15 years  ago, preparing to make Hunter’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas into a movie with the director Terry Gilliam. Hunter himself had forgotten about The Rum Diary, which he had begun writing in 1959, at the age of 22, and had not been able to get published. Johnny found it when he was rummaging through some old boxes of Hunter’s works and notes.

“These perfect boxes,” Johnny says. “I pulled it out. I was like, ‘What is this?’ Hunter was like, ‘Oh, shit. The Rum Diary. Oh, yeah.’ It was hidden. Hunter didn’t know it was there.” Soon after Johnny found the book, it was finally published, in 1998, the year the movie of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas came out.

Thirteen years later, another adaptation, this one as much Johnny’s vision as Hunter’s. It’s an enhancement and a furthering of the novel, and brings to it the rich maturity that the voice of the young aspiring writer had not yet achieved.

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DAVID LETTERMAN, HOST: It’s a big show; going to get a big star – like Johnny Depp.

First guest is a three time academy award nominated actor and one of the all time coolest guys on the planet, he stars in a new film entitled ‘the Rum Diary’, which opens tomorrow
Ladies and Gentleman, here he is: Johnny Depp.
That’s good, good to see you.

JOHNNY DEPP, ACTOR: Nice to see you.

DAVID LETTERMAN, HOST: That sounded great Paul, thank you very much.
Johnny, Johnny, Johnny how are you?

JOHNNY DEPP, ACTOR: I’m allright.

LETTERMAN: Good to see you my friend.

DEPP: You too, thank you.

LETTERMAN: How was your summer? What did you do? Were you working?

DEPP: I was working.

LETTERMAN: Creating movies?

DEPP: I made a film.

LETTERMAN: What film did you make?

DEPP: I made another film with Tim Burton called ‘Dark Shadows’.

LETTERMAN: ‘Dark Shadows’ – and it’s a vampire movie?

DEPP: Something like that.

LETTERMAN: How is your family?

DEPP: They’re great.

LETTERMAN: How are the girls? You get like a teenager and a nine-year old.

DEPP: My girl is 12

LETTERMAN: Boy and a girl

DEPP: Yes, and my boy is nine and they’re just growing all too fast.

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