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; “I gotta pee.”

March 30, 2020

EXT. ISLAND – LAKE BLED – SLOVENIA – DAY

Lebron stands in front of the cot. He looks at John with the gun aimed at him. He turns to Morgan, she looks at him expressionlessly. Lebron appears nervous.

LEBRON

“I gotta pee.”

John and Morgan turn to each other. John shrugs, turns to Lebron.

JOHN

“Stay where I can see you!”

Lebron bows humbly to John. He exits, walks around the drivers-side of the Hummer. John and Morgan, standby, watch him.

OTHER SIDE OF HUMMER

Lebron looks left over his shoulder towards the lake. It is still, beautiful. He turns to John and Morgan on the other side of the Hummer. They talk among themselves. He looks up at a clear sky. His right eye, turns completely black, green digital code scrolls on his black-eye, beams a brilliant blue-light out to the universe.

OTHER SIDE OF HUMMER

John and Morgan watch Lebron in aw. John reaches for the chrome revolver tucked into the front of his khaki-pants, draws a bead on Lebron’s head on the other side of the Hummer, pulls the trigger.

O.S. (off screen) Gun-blast.

Lebron’s head explodes, smoke and flames shoot out of his neck. His body falls lifelessly on the grass.

INT. HUMMER (parked) ISLAND – LAKE BLED – SLOVENIA – DAY

O.S. (off screen) jet engine at an idle.

John sits in the drivers seat, fastens his seat-belt. Morgan sits in the passenger seat, she presses the navigation-screen on the dashboard. John looks at the, yellow, orange and blue buttons. He turns to Morgan.

JOHN

“I keep asking myself when I’m gonna wake up from this dream. I’ve just killed two……I don’t know what or who I killed! But, I know they weren’t human. And that we were gonna die.”

MORGAN

“We’re not gonna die!”

John studies Morgan’s beautiful face. He appears appreciative, bewildered. He turns to Morgan.

JOHN

“How do you know that?”

MORGAN

“I feel it.”

John appears smitten. He shrugs, turns to the yellow, orange and blue buttons on the dashboard, turns to Morgan.

JOHN

“They pressed the, yellow and the orange button. And we’re still here?!”

Morgan listens intently, seems concerned.

MORGAN

“We’re not pressing that blue-button! Not yet anyway. We have to go to DC.”

John nods.

JOHN

“Agreed.”

John turns away, appears to be in thought, he turns to Morgan.

JOHN

“Despite that life as we knew it is no more. I couldn’t imagine going threw this without you.”

Morgan smiles, nods.

EXT.  ISLAND – LAKE BLED – SLOVENIA – DAY

O.S. (off screen) high-revving jet-engine.

Flames shoot out of the jet-engine mounted in the open cargo-area of the Hummer, parked on the castle lawn.

JUST THEN

Hummer slingshots up into blue-sky trailed by flames.

 INT. – HUMMER (FLYING) – UNIVERSE – NIGHT

EXT. WHITE HOUSE – WASHINGTON DC. – DAY

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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.