Land Of The Living Skies

This is one of those spec scripts that I'm beating out in my imagination since I finished the second draft of The Getaway Driver. In a way this is a sequal to it, although the two main protagonists are different, the style and the themes are fairly similiar. So I've decided to write it out on my blog here, because that is what I do....

We start with two kids in Montana 1974, maybe 10 or 11, Josh and Brant. Josh is the slick talking ladies man who always has a plan, he uses every opportunity he can find and he enjoys the crime life more then anything else. Brant is the getaway driver for him, he's simple minded but nice, he doesn;t care about the money but he enjoys the rush. These two are best friends, Josh introduces Brant to the life of crime by first stealing a gumball machine using a go kart. Then it escalates to higher and higher crimes through their childhood. Josh constantly making plans and Brant enjoying the ride. Up until 1982 when they are both 17. Josh(Who I think would be Josh Halloway AKA Sawyer from Lost.) has an aching to cause the biggest crime, Murder and robbery. Brant is up for it aslong as it all goes smooth. Unfortunatly it all goes wrong when Josh chats it up with a teenaged mom outside the bank they just robbed. The cops show up the two book it a Pontiac Trans Am. Brant ends up getting in a car accident after outrunning the cops. The cops show up and Josh runs from the scene while Brant takes the fall for the crime. Brant goes to jail for 20 years for robbery and 2nd degree murder. When he gets out Josh is there with a cab. Josh brings him to a car dealership so he can repay him for going to prison for both of them. Brant understands and apoligizes. During the 20 years josh decided to sway away from crime and do the 9-5 thing. But after buying the car(A 2002 trans am.) They go to a Bank and Josh robs the place out of impulse. Brant is suprised and jets it. They end up in another cop chase, as it turns out Josh just seen the opportunity and took it. Josh suggests going to the boarder so Brant manages to get away from the police by causing a car accident with the help of Josh's fire arm skills and they end up crashing right over the boarder into the land of the living skies! Saskatchewen! They get there and think everything is alright so they stay at a hotel for the night. Meanwhile one of the cops who was chasing them is Sheriff Reynolds from The Getaway driver. He calls up his favorite bounty Hunter, now in his 50's, Rick Magresis, to come in and find the two that just robbed a bank and killed a person. But Rick is briefed that Josh has been doing something else for the last couple years(Illegal stuff.) Reynolds can't cross the boarders anymore so Rick goes for him.

Josh and Brent decide to hit the town while they wait for the heat to calm down. Josh ends up meeting Carey who is a small town girl who is way to book smart. Josh tries his moves but they don't work, but Carey goes for Brent because of his simple nature and his respect for the value of time of life. While Carey and Brent go and hang out in the hotel, Josh ends up robbing a convience store due to his drunken anger. He heads back to the hotel and gets Brent and Carey to take him away from the town. All 3 of them drive off into the darkness and head to the big city to hide, Carey says they can stay in her uncles house. They get there and by the first sight they enjoy what they see. As it turns out, Carey is quite the criminal aswell, or she wants to be. And her Uncle is a drug dealer and lets them stay the night. Rick shows up at the grocery store and talks to the grocery store clerk and finds out about the trans am. He then goes to the bartender and learns of Carey. He learns of her last name and starts looking around town. But when he hears from the hotel clerk that they left in a hurry he looks up names around the province and learns of the uncle and heads to town.

He gets to the uncles house and knocks on the door. Josh, Carey and Brent runaway and Rick goes on a chase through the city. Rick causes them to crash and Josh,Carey and Brent split up. Brent and Carey steal a new car and Josh ends up in house party hiding. He finds a girl and starts hiting on her. Brent and Carey are chased by local police after striking a lightpost once Carey starts giving Brent some sort of sexual pleasure. Josh ends up sleeping with this under age teen and ends up getting a gun pulled on him by the chicks father in the morning. He ends up outpowering the father and stealing his truck, but he can barely drive it. but he ends up putting out of town. Carey convinces Brent to get out of the country and back to montana to get away from josh. Brent tries for the idea but experiences thr boarder patrol and turns around. Rick manages to find Brent and they go on a wicked car chase through the desert area known as Cyprus Hills. Brent ends up crashing after letting Carey go. Josh decides to head back to town to find his old friend.

Brent is captured by Rick and questioned, after realizing that Josh is the only reason he is this much shit Rick decides to let him go if he can only catch Josh. Brent doesn't respond to this setup. bur he gets a hold Josh through a cell phone that he gave him after he got out of jail. Brent ends up meeting josh back in town and the cops show up. Brent leaves josh and heads off, Josh ends up in jail and realizes the faults in his ways....

This is all pretty loose, but most of scripts I work out during the script process.