MACHINE GUN PREACHER
Written by
Jason Keller
based on the life of Sam Childers
FINAL SHOOTING DRAFT
9/30/2010
This is true...EXT. VILLAGE - NIGHT - (2003)
The night is stillborn.Without sound or movement and nothing is in definition. All we see
are degrees of blackness in this unlit world. The vague impressions
of an African village in the void... a ragged line of tukuls (straw
huts)... a bicycle propped against a mud wall... a soccer ball in
the dirt...INT. TUKUL - NIGHT
And we find a Sudanese family asleep on reed mats. A mother, father
and their two boys. The younger boy we'll come to know as "WILLIAM"
(9). His older brother "CHRISTOPHER" (12) curled next to him.EXT. VILLAGE - NIGHT