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And as the moon rises, we shall prepare for war
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This is the modified outline of a screenplay I started a while ago, and then decided to change it quite a bit.
It takes place in the near future, probably like 2012 or 2015 or something like that.
There is a revolution going on in Russia, and as America is supporting the rebels who are attempting to usurp the Russian government, they offer them aid secretly. Several US Special Forces units are sent to help the rebels, who are starting to be in desperate need of it.
The story follows a small unit of the SF operators, who are working with several of the rebels. They are focusing on finding and fighting a splinter group of the rebellion, who didn’t like the idea of having American aid. They capture several members of the splinter group, who after being interrogated say they have gotten control of a missile launch facility near Kaliningrad. The group intends to fire the missiles shortly. The team gets the green light to go after it, however they will be the only ones who are going to be anywhere close to it and will be on their own for at the very least two days. Without that much time, they decide to go for it. It becomes known that the Russian military is also going to be attacking the silo, but will almost assuredly arrive too late to stop the missiles. In addition, the splinter group is sending several hundreds of their soldiers to the base to defend it. The team, knowing that if they do go through with the plan won’t get out alive because the splinter soldiers will arrive, or the Russian military will arrive, by the time they are able to leave, reconsider if they want to go through with it. Several of the Americans decide that they don’t want to do it, and their commander gives them permission to leave and they set up a transport to come get them.
Those who stay agree that they need to attack now. Most of them call home and tell their family good bye, knowing that they’ll probably be killed and won’t have a chance to do so later and won’t be alive to deal with charges regarding defiance of orders. The main character leaves a message for his fiancee as she doesn’t pick her phone up. He gives his ring to one of those staying behind and tells him to send it to his fiancee. The splinter group’s soldiers are supposed to arrive in several hours, so the team attacks immediately, before they have the chance to bolster their forces.
As they force their way down into the base itself to reach the control room, the missiles are set to fire. NORAD works on tracking them and getting deactivation codes as the team gets into the room. By the time they get into the room, the splinter group had arrived, as expected. They seal several of themselves within the control room to work on deactivating the missiles and defend the ones working on the deactivation once their enemies get int, while the others are sent to destroy the exterior control room door control and to hold off the rebels as long as possible.
Inside the control room, on the database they find records of deals being done between the splinter group and the Russian government negotiating deals to have them take the silo and attack the US, and make it so that they could blame the real rebels. However, after getting the silo, they decided they didn’t really want to do that and were going to make the Russian government give them control of the country, or they were going to launch the missiles everywhere and make sure that everyone went to war with them, thus effectively ending the current central government.
The splinter group soldiers manage to kill all of the guards outside the control room. While the main character’s fighting, there are flashes of past memories, such as his graduation from Basic Training, and important things people told him. Several minutes after the missiles are deactivated and the soldiers within the control room destroy all of the consoles, the splinter soldiers force their way in and finish off the soldiers.
It then goes to the exterior of the facility, where the Russian military is arriving, and the splinter group soldiers attempt to defend the facility as they fight. The Russian military takes control pretty easily, and a helicopter arrives, dropping off the current Russian President and Prime Minister, who are shown shaking hands with one of the rebels, who acted as a mole to them.
Throughout this last bit, from the time the splinter soldiers get inside the facility, there is the sound of a woman crying (main character’s fiancee), which steadily gets louder nearing the end, and it flashes to scenes of a soldier’s funeral and a woman listening to a message on her cell phone. Near the end of it all, the main character’s voice can be heard reciting the message that he had left on his fiancee’s phone earlier.
The final scenes show the Russian President execute the rebel who he was earlier thanking for the help (as they didn’t want to pay him), and it backs out to show the remaining rebels and Americans moving towards the base in hopes of rescuing the others. The final bit shows the end of the funeral, with one of the soldiers who stayed behind from the attack handing the main character’s fiancee the ring.
The majority of the screenplay takes place leading up to the fight for the facility, however that's the important part so I went into more detail with it rather than what leads up to it.
Thoughts, comments, criticism?
It takes place in the near future, probably like 2012 or 2015 or something like that.
There is a revolution going on in Russia, and as America is supporting the rebels who are attempting to usurp the Russian government, they offer them aid secretly. Several US Special Forces units are sent to help the rebels, who are starting to be in desperate need of it.
The story follows a small unit of the SF operators, who are working with several of the rebels. They are focusing on finding and fighting a splinter group of the rebellion, who didn’t like the idea of having American aid. They capture several members of the splinter group, who after being interrogated say they have gotten control of a missile launch facility near Kaliningrad. The group intends to fire the missiles shortly. The team gets the green light to go after it, however they will be the only ones who are going to be anywhere close to it and will be on their own for at the very least two days. Without that much time, they decide to go for it. It becomes known that the Russian military is also going to be attacking the silo, but will almost assuredly arrive too late to stop the missiles. In addition, the splinter group is sending several hundreds of their soldiers to the base to defend it. The team, knowing that if they do go through with the plan won’t get out alive because the splinter soldiers will arrive, or the Russian military will arrive, by the time they are able to leave, reconsider if they want to go through with it. Several of the Americans decide that they don’t want to do it, and their commander gives them permission to leave and they set up a transport to come get them.
Those who stay agree that they need to attack now. Most of them call home and tell their family good bye, knowing that they’ll probably be killed and won’t have a chance to do so later and won’t be alive to deal with charges regarding defiance of orders. The main character leaves a message for his fiancee as she doesn’t pick her phone up. He gives his ring to one of those staying behind and tells him to send it to his fiancee. The splinter group’s soldiers are supposed to arrive in several hours, so the team attacks immediately, before they have the chance to bolster their forces.
As they force their way down into the base itself to reach the control room, the missiles are set to fire. NORAD works on tracking them and getting deactivation codes as the team gets into the room. By the time they get into the room, the splinter group had arrived, as expected. They seal several of themselves within the control room to work on deactivating the missiles and defend the ones working on the deactivation once their enemies get int, while the others are sent to destroy the exterior control room door control and to hold off the rebels as long as possible.
Inside the control room, on the database they find records of deals being done between the splinter group and the Russian government negotiating deals to have them take the silo and attack the US, and make it so that they could blame the real rebels. However, after getting the silo, they decided they didn’t really want to do that and were going to make the Russian government give them control of the country, or they were going to launch the missiles everywhere and make sure that everyone went to war with them, thus effectively ending the current central government.
The splinter group soldiers manage to kill all of the guards outside the control room. While the main character’s fighting, there are flashes of past memories, such as his graduation from Basic Training, and important things people told him. Several minutes after the missiles are deactivated and the soldiers within the control room destroy all of the consoles, the splinter soldiers force their way in and finish off the soldiers.
It then goes to the exterior of the facility, where the Russian military is arriving, and the splinter group soldiers attempt to defend the facility as they fight. The Russian military takes control pretty easily, and a helicopter arrives, dropping off the current Russian President and Prime Minister, who are shown shaking hands with one of the rebels, who acted as a mole to them.
Throughout this last bit, from the time the splinter soldiers get inside the facility, there is the sound of a woman crying (main character’s fiancee), which steadily gets louder nearing the end, and it flashes to scenes of a soldier’s funeral and a woman listening to a message on her cell phone. Near the end of it all, the main character’s voice can be heard reciting the message that he had left on his fiancee’s phone earlier.
The final scenes show the Russian President execute the rebel who he was earlier thanking for the help (as they didn’t want to pay him), and it backs out to show the remaining rebels and Americans moving towards the base in hopes of rescuing the others. The final bit shows the end of the funeral, with one of the soldiers who stayed behind from the attack handing the main character’s fiancee the ring.
The majority of the screenplay takes place leading up to the fight for the facility, however that's the important part so I went into more detail with it rather than what leads up to it.
Thoughts, comments, criticism?