What I do!

Mario Martin’s love for storytelling originated as a young boy when he felt inspired to tell stories through writing. At eighteen he shot his first film, “Checkmate.” That was the birthing of his passion for film-making and screenwriting.

Early on he honed his craft at the Maine Media Workshops and Boston Film & Video Foundation. Mario has attended many screenwriting boot-camps, worked with multiple coverage companies and many screenwriters.

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Detritus, the flying Hummer.

February 22, 2020

INT. HUMMER – SKY – (flying) – DAY

John’s eyes bulge, his face pulled back from G-forces, sits pinned to the backseat. Morgan next to him, her face pulled back from G-forces, pinned to the seat. They both turn and look at each other. John reaches for Morgan’s hand, holds it firmly, looks into her eyes, smiles warmly at her.

Lee, face pulled back from G-forces, both hands grip the wheel, she turns to Lebron. His face is pulled back from G-forces, he is pinned to his seat, he turns to Lee. She points to the blue-button on the dashboard next to the, red and, yellow buttons.

Lebron struggles to raise his left arm against G-forces, reaches for the blue-button. He presses it.

EXT. SALT-FLATS – SALAR-DE-UYUNI – AFRICA – DAY

White Salt-flats in every direction for miles and miles sparkle and glimmer in the bright-sunlight. Sparse plant-life and tumbleweed strewn about. Shadowy Mountain-range in the far distance.

O.S. (off screen) distant sound of on coming jet plane.

In the sky, Hummer descends, wings spread wide, at one with the yellow-raft. It hovers above the white salt-flat surface. Yellow raft deflates, mechanically rolls up in to the Hummer’s undercarriage.

The Hummer drops down hard on to the salt-flats surface. Its four-fat-tires bounce, settle. Hummer sits at an idle on white-salt-flats. The Hummer wings mechanically retract into its roof-line.

NEXT SCENE

We’ll see, John, Morgan, Lebron and Lee on the salt-flats.

We’ll maybe seat the black pyramid show up, “upside-down,” ya, I know.

And maybe even the beginnings of the alien salt mining .

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What I do!

Mario Martin’s love for storytelling originated as a young boy when he felt inspired to tell stories through writing. At eighteen he shot his first film, “Checkmate.” That was the birthing of his passion for film-making and screenwriting.

Early on he honed his craft at the Maine Media Workshops and Boston Film & Video Foundation. Mario has attended many screenwriting boot-camps, worked with multiple coverage companies and many screenwriters.