[Movie Script]Flash Gordon

                                  FLASH GORDON


Written by
Lorenzo Semple Jr.
          FADE IN:



          EXT. WIDE AFRICAN LANDSCAPE - MORNING



At first only darkness, then the rising sun paints in an

endless savanna from horizon to horizon. We hear savage drums

beating in the distance coming from some unknown place.
The sun clears the horizon. Suddenly it changes amazingly:

the white disc goes through a rapid series of color

transitions, from yellow to green to purple to an incredible

BLOOD RED. From it shoots a RED LIGHTNING BOLT.
The sky echoes with THUNDER.
We hear a HOWLING ethereal wind, but not a twig of the brush

stirs as bolt after bolt of RED LIGHTNING rips the sky, with

each one a TITLE or CREDIT appearing.
Under FINAL CREDIT snow is beginning to fall on the burning

blood-red savanna.
          EXT. PLANE IN FLIGHT - DAY


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