[Movie Script]Cast Away

                           CAST AWAY


by
William Broyles
                                               THIRD DRAFT



March 13, 1998
FADE IN:



EXT.  MARFA, TEXAS - 1993 - WIDE - DAY



The Texas plains, horizon to horizon, nothing but the browns

and ochres of earth and the blue and violet of the sky.  The

sheer scope of it sinks in:  the blank slate of nature, the

absence of man.  On the screen superimpose:
                    MARFA, TEXAS, 1993.



CREDITS BEGIN.



A plume of dust comes into frame.  The dust is from a TRUCK,

orange and white and violet, with "FedEx" blazoned across the

side.
The truck turns into a collection of ramshackle World War II

era Quonset huts and outbuildings.  Around the outbuildings

are large sculptures of wood and metal.
EXT.  QUONSET HUT - DAY


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