EXP. ORPSANAGE 105 ANGELES - aay ALYOUNG BOY, maybe 8, helps a NW wash clothes. she hangs ‘then on the’ Lines, a3 the hot LOS ANGELES sun beata down. he Little boy looks up at the sky where he sees a majestic Floating SPACE AABITAT. A torus. Bigger than ths noon But the sane effect against the blue sky. nx Sistas? Nox es Max? vox Arg the paople from there, are they aigeerent co me? Sho looks over at tho Little bey for a momant, chen goes back te hanging the laundey, as we COP TO KE. SPACE lWe see the TORUS as it sparkles in all of ite glory. we fly over millions of mansions covering the inner habitable side of the torus as it spine alowly in the sunlight. WON (V.0.) they are not so different to you Max. They are just rich. that’s the only differance. ‘They are rich- EXP. LOS ANGELES - DUSK Gleaming rockets take off, tearing through the atmosphere and Inte space from a run down SLUM in LOS ANGELES. A LITLE GIRL watches as they glow up into the heavens. Her Shire is dirty and riddled with holes. NON (9.0.} You see one day the rich decided that Earth was too disty for them and they wanted a new piace to ive, ‘36 they bullet ztysium. 2X7. ORPRANAGE - CONTINUOUS Max Leoks over at the aun akeptically. But they look different.aw don’t think so. You think ao? Max nods, and we cur To-- A COMERCIAL FOR SHE NEW FALL LINE BY GUCCI. Various gupernodel-like faces come up on the screen. A" through "P" lettered next to each head. A PINGER selects the sch medal, we realize it's a touch screen. A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN takes her finger off the screen and walks into = MSDICAL BAY that sits in a high-end designer store. She lies down on an MAI looking machine. ‘The machine closes around her. A lash of Light and then Gucct reads across the image of the dazzling women, her face looks Instantly younger. Now (¥.0.) They just don't gat old the sane wey as us. EXT. ORPHANAGE - conrnyuous Max goes back to scrubbing. vax Do they get sick? nvr. GucCT MEDICAL aay The MRI machine runs a lager up and down the woman’s body. A computer monitor reads the diagnosis: ‘Trace emounts of CANCER. Certain smaller ailments. the laser changes color. RS-ATOMIGING comes up on the sereen. WON (v.04) ‘hey have machines vo fix that. ‘They Live longer. They are very lucky. BEEEP. fealth check COMPLETED. 100% CLAAR ‘The woman’s name and details come up: AGE 97. she looks 40. EXP. ELYSTUM ~ DAY BLYSTAN MOTHERS push strollers past a perfect lawn. They chat as the curvature on the inside of the habitat stretches ovt Behind them. They lock healthy, happy, perfect.MAX (V.0-) Z don't want to get sick. 1 want to go there like thes. Phen’ I won't get sick. INT. SPIDER'S LAIR - SIGHT Lines of humans wait to buy illegal tickets to glysiun from gun-strapped SKUGGLERS. Ne see « HOMER and DAUGHTER. NUN (V. Well, soma peopl do ga there... we see the little girl got a fake SLYSIAN TD NUNBER burnt into her weist. She wines. A FATHER and his YOUNG SOW on crutches step forvard. The father places the dirty essh down, EXP. SPACE - DAY A filthy graftitincoverod rickety old space-ship shoots avay from earth, heading tovard the magnificent ring tn the. aky. NUM (V.0.) Actually many people go there. INT. THMIGRANT SHEP ‘Throngs of illegal immigrants. The MOTHER strokes her DAUGHTER’S hair. Coke bottles and garbage Float in sero G. The PATHER and his YOUNG SON lie waiting co land. num (v.0.) Bot it’s illegal, they don’t Like be there. ExT. ELYSIUM — Day As the ship pulls up to the surface... EWP. PROTOCOT, ROOM A very high-tech cylindrical room on the inside of elysiua. & Siny scroll of text blinks on a computer nonitert ZIOLEGAL, ENTRY. DISPATCHING HOMELAND DEPENSE. BAD. PLYSTUM - DAY The graztitied ship touches dovn. the back bay doors open anc she immigrants emerge. The MOTHER helps her sick DAUGHTER cut onte the lawn of this new usopia. Naw (¥.0.) So they send us hone.‘The immigrants see HELICOPY=2-LIKE VEBICLES dotting the OO) akige, getting elocer, filled vith MIGRATION POLICE OROIDS: ‘the Smmigrante run for their lives. the father and son get Saught, a9 a droid fires a net over them, trapping then. WX (V.0.) ALL of ua? WON (¥.0.) Yo, not all. ‘The mother and daughter escape through a hedge. The mother Throws a rook through the window of a big empty mansion. she opens the door and carriee hor sick child inside. DWP. MANSION BLYSTUM ~ MED BAY ‘the mother finds an in-house madical bay. Like a large hospital wAE inside each of the Biysian homes. she puts the child down on the machine and presses the button. ‘the machine Seang the barcode on her wrist. The MRI closes around her. NOW (V.0.) some people stay. 2 ‘The mother watches a screen. The graphic on sereen shows the RE-ATOMLZATION PROCESS. ‘The machine opens, and.«+ ‘The girl looks hoalthy, The screen reads: 100% CLEAR. The nother cries with happiness as sne hugs her healthy daughter. NOW (v.0.) ‘hey stay as long as they can XE, ELYSIUM MANSION - LARN ~ DAY ‘The young girl and mother sit at a picnic, enjoying every Becond, watching artificial waterfalls in the distances, But-- ‘hey see Little black dots on the horizon. Those helicopter- Like Yenicles. The nother wraps up fase, racing inside. NUM (V.0.) But gooner or later, they axe found. SVD, ELYSIUM MANSION ~ DAY ‘The mother and daughter hide. the doors SLOW OPEN. HOMELAND i DEFENSE droids raid the house. The mother is violently handcuffed, the girl trying to protect her is held dow.IND, DEPORTATION BANGAR - NIGHT A huge hangar. TULEGAIS ars lined up Like cattle, waiting to be deported. Zhe massive space shuttle waits aa orange Jum>- suited mans climb os board. ILLAGAL ALTEN on their backs. ‘The mother and daughter are anong then. ‘The imense shuttle Lifts up and departe. Pan with it. Zarth cones into free. foge and bright, <¢ feele net far away, BON (¥.0.) And they are sent back here. EXP. BARI SLUM ‘The ship pulls up to a no name slum. The HUMANS ave Eepatriaved. Thrown ost by ARMED DROIDS- MAK (¥.0.) it's not fair. EXT. ORPHANAGE - DAY now x know, 1 knew my Little Max. Tes not fair. But one day if you become eseh aan you can go thefe. Mex oda, determined. wax 1 will be Heh. oh really. ‘That's good. How are you going to be rich? wax. Twill be a dealer. ‘The nun whipe her head over, looking at Max. wow A dealer? sho have you bee Speaking to? Max looks down and goes hack to scrubbing. Pedro. He said you can be rich sf you be & dealer.Well you just stop listening to ~ Pedro. T don’t want to hear such nonsense ever. Do you understand? ‘The oun turna back to har washing. wax. Yes sister. Close-up on YOUNG MAX’s face as ho scrubs the clothing. ‘Thinking, dreaming of SLYSIUN. We slooly DISSOLVE TO: INP. MAX’S SHACK — MORNING Adult WAX leans forward in front of @ emall dirty mizzor. He splashes vater on his face. He 19 308, good locking, clearly ron a troubled past. Ne see gang tatts run down his neck and armg. A small gold Lockst dangles from his neck EXP. LOS ANGELES FAVELA - MORDING Max walks past serious GANGSTERS hanging owt in the favela. a few GIRLS hang out with them. cawcsrer OFF to work? carte cotta be up early to work that Tine, man. ‘The gangsters laugh. 0x Se bist winey cation mene 7H ome Carle goes quiet. Max keeps noving Wide shot of the FAVELA: vo see the thousands of rickety Little houses and cinde:-biock shacks all interconnected. ‘ETLE+ LOS ANGELES - FORMERLY UNITED STATES 2109. What looks Like the layout of the ollywood Hills, overlooking 4 vast polluted population, seens £0 resemble ‘Tijuana more than Los Angeles. Women hang laundry, police choppers fly overhead. Chickens equawe, Another ay" in DA. Little favela CHTEDEEN suddenly appear, surrounding Max. They try and go through his pocksts. He slaps thear hands away.cue 2 You got money? carey 2 We want oney! wax You think T got aoney? T NEED money, that's why T'n going to Gonk: Wait.-.do YOU have money? ‘She children look confused. Max catches ons of then and ‘urna him upside downy shaking hin by his feet. A few coins f2l1 out of is pockets. The other hildren laugh hysterically. Max pute Mim down and grabs a five do! max (CONT'D) lh hunt Rich! The kid grabs for it, the other kids dying with laughter. wax (cowr” >) Now T can Finally buy my ticket co Blysiun! ‘the kids laugh even harder. Max hands it back. Max (cONT"D) Now fuck off. ‘The childron run off Laughing. Max continues down the sloping Favela. Up ahead he sees? UNDREDS OF PEOPLE gathering. Ragged clothing, filthy and Starving. A flying machine heada toward the nob. Ie slows and hovers overhead. The airborne vehicle is mostly bine and has a UN peacekeaper vibe. ELYSIUN #009 PROGRAM Gritten on the side. Max keeps walking alsngsice the mob. ‘the rear bay doors open on the flying vessel and a robotic DROrn pressde 2 release button on the cargo controls. Food aid bags begin ejecting out of the jet. The huge grain bags fall to the dusty ground. Beople fgat over the tood. Max looks up at the droid. rts cold wechanical ayes looking Sowa on che humans. Max watches aa the jet seals up asd flies auay while the starving people fight fiarcely over scraps. NT. TRAIN — MORNING Max stands in 2 crowded, filthy train. He watches LA skim by out of the graffitiniaden windows.