Looking for something? Whatever it was you seek, it isn't here. While I've got you here, please enjoy the shooting script for the 1999 Keanu Reeves movie "The Replacements" FADE IN: EXT. MARINA DEL REY - DAY It's raining lightly in the harbor and the water around the moored boats looks dirty and cold. We PICK UP a sad excuse for a boat sitting in an end slip. It's a sea-gull-shitcovered, thirtyfoot cabin cruiser that hasn't cruised in a long, long time. A ratty looking unpainted plywood addition has been nailed to the top of the cabin. It's partially covered with a blue plastic tarp. SUPERIMPOSE: MARINA DEL REY, CALIFORNIA - FALL The tarp moves and SHANE FALCO's half-naked torso emerges from under it. Shane is late twenties, golden boy handsome, but quickly going to seed. He looks hung over. Shane glances up at the sky and rain. He pulls on the top part of an old patched wet suit and zips it up. He shivers. EXT. MARINA DEL REY HARBOR - DAY We're BUZZING around the harbor with Shane in an old Zodiac inflatable DINGHY. Shane has pulled up the attached rubber hood to his wet suit so that only the white, pasty oblong of his face is visible. It's still raining as he steers the little boat around the sailboats and yachts. He pulls up to a fiftyfoot sailboat and CUTS the ENGINE. With practiced moves, he ties the dinghy to the rear rail of the sailboat and clips a bill for services rendered on the sailboat's stern line. He slips on a weight belt, puts on a pair of old gaffer taped goggles, jams the end of a air-hose in his mouth, and falls backward out of the dinghy and into the water. EXT. UNDERWATER - DAY It's dark, dirty and murky. Suddenly, Shane floats INTO FRAME and comes AT us with a long spatula. ANOTHER ANGLE He attacks the underside of the sailboat which is covered with green algae muck that hangs a foot off the bottom of the boat. The spatula scrapes away the green mess revealing the pure white underside of the boat. CLOSE ON SHANE As he scrapes. Muck from the boat floats past him. This doesn't look like fun. As he works, he happens to look down and notices something on the bottom. SHANE'S POV Amidst the beer cans and other trash, something golden is sitting on the bottom. BACK TO SCENE Shane takes a deep pull on his hose, lets it go and drifts down. A shaft of sunlight penetrates the murky water and reveals a broken trophy half-buried in the mud. Shane kneels over it and picks it up. The trophy is almost a full-size football rendered in bronze attached to a broken base. Shane turns "the ball" over in his hands. He grips the seams like he's done this before. Then he holds the football out in front of him. Suddenly, he starts barking garbled signals to an imaginary offense. He turns to his running back as he yells something like "Blue 31!" It comes out in bubbles He cocks his left leg and his wide receiver goes in motion. Then on the "snap" he turns and starts a five step drop. He moves in slow motion because hey... he's underwater! He executes a perfect play action fake on the third step of his drop, and looks "down field" for his receivers. But there's a blitz! He steps up in the pocket but a linebacker's arm almost takes his head off. He dodges, he bobs, he weaves in a kind of delicate ballet. He rolls left and keeps looking for the open man. Suddenly he points down field, pulls up and cocks his arm. The "ball" comes behind his ear and snaps forward in a perfect release. The trophy spins OUT OF FRAME but we HOLD ON Shane as he watches his pass. Suddenly, he throws both arms up in a touchdown signal. We STAY ON him as he freezes in this pose of victory, fifteen feet underwater, on the trash-covered, muddy bottom of Marina Del Rey. CUT TO: EXT. EDWARD FRANCIS O'NEIL STADIUM (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - DAY Bam! A Miami Dolphin linebacker crushes a Washington Redskin running back and lands on his throat, elbow first. It's a beautiful fall day in November and Miami is beating the Skins in front of seventy-six thousand crazed Washington fans. The Redskins are at their home stadium better known as "The Big O." INT. CONTROL BOOTH - DAY JOHN MADDEN and PAT SUMMERALL are calling the game in shirtsleeves. SUMMERALL That play, my friends, sums up the Redskins' running game all day long. Now Washington calls their last time out. Madden leans over to do his diagram that shows up on your TV screen. We STAY ON him as he draws and explains. MADDEN Hey, the Dolphins do this as good as anybody. See, in a four, three, two, two, you got the guards... boom!... Plugging up the middle, then the corners... boom and boom! Are free to box... leaving the middle linebacker to cut off the trap here... boom! SUMMERALL Third and twenty-two, but forget the first down with eight seconds showing and the Skins down by a touchdown. MADDEN Could be the last play. SUMMERALL Could be the last play of the season if the players go out. EXT. SIDELINES - DAY Redskin quarterback EDDIE MARTEL is conferring with Redskin head coach BUD TILDON near the bench. Madden and Summerall continue OVER. MADDEN (V.O.) Take it all in, people. This could be it for 2,000. We MOVE TO veteran Redskin center REESE EVANS, 38, standing on the sidelines, uniform totally clean. He looks near tears. SUMMERALL (V.O.) Once again, if you haven't heard, it was announced during halftime that the N.F.L. Players Association will hold a press conference immediately following this game -- that would make it about five o'clock Eastern time -- and it is expected that the players' union will announce a strike effective immediately. ON REDSKINETTES Twelve striking-looking women dressed in burgundy and gold are doing some inane chatter to a section of fans that ignore them. The girls are led by pretty ANNABELLE FARRELL, a bundle of manic energy inside a body from heaven. MADDEN (V.O.) It's all about money, folks. More money, of course and ain't it always? The shame of it is the big losers are you out there, the fans. ON MARTEL The Redskin quarterback moves to the huddle. SUMMERALL (V.O.) Here we go: Third down, eight seconds to play, ball on the Dolphins' thirty-three yard line. Skins down by a touchdown. The huddle breaks and Martel sets up over the center. MARTEL Green 48! Green 48! Hut! Hut! The ball is snapped and Martel drops back. He looks for a receiver and doesn't see anybody. He steps up in the pocket, sees an opening and takes off running down field.
Looking for something? Whatever it was you seek, it isn't here. While I've got you here, please enjoy the shooting script for the 1999 Keanu Reeves movie "The Replacements" FADE IN: EXT. MARINA DEL REY - DAY It's raining lightly in the harbor and the water around the moored boats looks dirty and cold. We PICK UP a sad excuse for a boat sitting in an end slip. It's a sea-gull-shitcovered, thirtyfoot cabin cruiser that hasn't cruised in a long, long time. A ratty looking unpainted plywood addition has been nailed to the top of the cabin. It's partially covered with a blue plastic tarp. SUPERIMPOSE: MARINA DEL REY, CALIFORNIA - FALL The tarp moves and SHANE FALCO's half-naked torso emerges from under it. Shane is late twenties, golden boy handsome, but quickly going to seed. He looks hung over. Shane glances up at the sky and rain. He pulls on the top part of an old patched wet suit and zips it up. He shivers. EXT. MARINA DEL REY HARBOR - DAY We're BUZZING around the harbor with Shane in an old Zodiac inflatable DINGHY. Shane has pulled up the attached rubber hood to his wet suit so that only the white, pasty oblong of his face is visible. It's still raining as he steers the little boat around the sailboats and yachts. He pulls up to a fiftyfoot sailboat and CUTS the ENGINE. With practiced moves, he ties the dinghy to the rear rail of the sailboat and clips a bill for services rendered on the sailboat's stern line. He slips on a weight belt, puts on a pair of old gaffer taped goggles, jams the end of a air-hose in his mouth, and falls backward out of the dinghy and into the water. EXT. UNDERWATER - DAY It's dark, dirty and murky. Suddenly, Shane floats INTO FRAME and comes AT us with a long spatula. ANOTHER ANGLE He attacks the underside of the sailboat which is covered with green algae muck that hangs a foot off the bottom of the boat. The spatula scrapes away the green mess revealing the pure white underside of the boat. CLOSE ON SHANE As he scrapes. Muck from the boat floats past him. This doesn't look like fun. As he works, he happens to look down and notices something on the bottom. SHANE'S POV Amidst the beer cans and other trash, something golden is sitting on the bottom. BACK TO SCENE Shane takes a deep pull on his hose, lets it go and drifts down. A shaft of sunlight penetrates the murky water and reveals a broken trophy half-buried in the mud. Shane kneels over it and picks it up. The trophy is almost a full-size football rendered in bronze attached to a broken base. Shane turns "the ball" over in his hands. He grips the seams like he's done this before. Then he holds the football out in front of him. Suddenly, he starts barking garbled signals to an imaginary offense. He turns to his running back as he yells something like "Blue 31!" It comes out in bubbles He cocks his left leg and his wide receiver goes in motion. Then on the "snap" he turns and starts a five step drop. He moves in slow motion because hey... he's underwater! He executes a perfect play action fake on the third step of his drop, and looks "down field" for his receivers. But there's a blitz! He steps up in the pocket but a linebacker's arm almost takes his head off. He dodges, he bobs, he weaves in a kind of delicate ballet. He rolls left and keeps looking for the open man. Suddenly he points down field, pulls up and cocks his arm. The "ball" comes behind his ear and snaps forward in a perfect release. The trophy spins OUT OF FRAME but we HOLD ON Shane as he watches his pass. Suddenly, he throws both arms up in a touchdown signal. We STAY ON him as he freezes in this pose of victory, fifteen feet underwater, on the trash-covered, muddy bottom of Marina Del Rey. CUT TO: EXT. EDWARD FRANCIS O'NEIL STADIUM (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - DAY Bam! A Miami Dolphin linebacker crushes a Washington Redskin running back and lands on his throat, elbow first. It's a beautiful fall day in November and Miami is beating the Skins in front of seventy-six thousand crazed Washington fans. The Redskins are at their home stadium better known as "The Big O." INT. CONTROL BOOTH - DAY JOHN MADDEN and PAT SUMMERALL are calling the game in shirtsleeves. SUMMERALL That play, my friends, sums up the Redskins' running game all day long. Now Washington calls their last time out. Madden leans over to do his diagram that shows up on your TV screen. We STAY ON him as he draws and explains. MADDEN Hey, the Dolphins do this as good as anybody. See, in a four, three, two, two, you got the guards... boom!... Plugging up the middle, then the corners... boom and boom! Are free to box... leaving the middle linebacker to cut off the trap here... boom! SUMMERALL Third and twenty-two, but forget the first down with eight seconds showing and the Skins down by a touchdown. MADDEN Could be the last play. SUMMERALL Could be the last play of the season if the players go out. EXT. SIDELINES - DAY Redskin quarterback EDDIE MARTEL is conferring with Redskin head coach BUD TILDON near the bench. Madden and Summerall continue OVER. MADDEN (V.O.) Take it all in, people. This could be it for 2,000. We MOVE TO veteran Redskin center REESE EVANS, 38, standing on the sidelines, uniform totally clean. He looks near tears. SUMMERALL (V.O.) Once again, if you haven't heard, it was announced during halftime that the N.F.L. Players Association will hold a press conference immediately following this game -- that would make it about five o'clock Eastern time -- and it is expected that the players' union will announce a strike effective immediately. ON REDSKINETTES Twelve striking-looking women dressed in burgundy and gold are doing some inane chatter to a section of fans that ignore them. The girls are led by pretty ANNABELLE FARRELL, a bundle of manic energy inside a body from heaven. MADDEN (V.O.) It's all about money, folks. More money, of course and ain't it always? The shame of it is the big losers are you out there, the fans. ON MARTEL The Redskin quarterback moves to the huddle. SUMMERALL (V.O.) Here we go: Third down, eight seconds to play, ball on the Dolphins' thirty-three yard line. Skins down by a touchdown. The huddle breaks and Martel sets up over the center. MARTEL Green 48! Green 48! Hut! Hut! The ball is snapped and Martel drops back. He looks for a receiver and doesn't see anybody. He steps up in the pocket, sees an opening and takes off running down field.