Showing posts with label Rejected First Drafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rejected First Drafts. Show all posts

Thursday, July 12, 2018

Rejected first draft script for "A Quiet Place"

My rejected first draft of A Quiet Place, a non-stop thrill ride where monsters will get you unless you're smart enough to keep silent so they don't hear you. Which means my part was immediately cut. 
Scene: Outside family home
FATHER: (signing) Don't pick up the toy jet. It makes too much noise.
SON: (signing) Ok.
ME: "Hey, what's this thing do?" (presses button; toy starts beeping)
FATHER: (signing) Stop! Stop!
SON: "Oh no..." (monsters appear and eat the kid)
ME: (signing) Two kids left though, right?

Scene: In the basement
DAUGHTER: (signing) A hearing aid? For me?
FATHER: (signing) Because I love you. I've always loved--
ME: "Hey, what's this thing do?" (presses button; aid buzzes obnoxiously)
FATHER: "Stop that! What the hell is wrong with--"
DAUGHTER: (signing) Help! (monsters appear and eat the father)
ME: "Bummer."

Scene: Upstairs bathroom
MOTHER: (signing) Baby coming. Need to keep quiet.
ME: "Baby? Wait, you're pregnant?"
MOTHER: (signing) Didn't you notice?
ME: "You mean you don't always have varicose veins and an extremely hormonal temperament?"
MOTHER: (signs) Just...just help me here...
ME: "...Is it mine?"
MOTHER: (signing) It's been complicated between us, and I think we both need some space to...
ME: "Aaaah! Aaaaah! Monsters! Here monsters!"
(Monsters appear and eat the mother)
ME: "Bitch."

Scene: Outside house
DAUGHTER: (signing) Where are my mother and other brother and new brother? Where is everyone?
ME: "Sorry, I don't speak sign language."
DAUGHTER: (signing) Yes you do! You've been using it all--
ME: "Aaah! Aaaaaah!"
(Monsters appear; daughter rigs hearing aid to make their eardrums explode)
ME: "Hey, wow! A weapon! We can use that to--"
DAUGHTER: (signing) Aaaah! (pounces and eats me)
ME: (nothing, because I'm dead)
DAUGHTER: (signing) Asshole. 

Me and Emily Blunt