Cara a cara

Mike Werb & Michael Colleary 1997

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119094/

Mientras el terrorista Castor Troy está en coma, un agente del FBI decide asumir su identidad para saber dónde está escondida un arma biológica.





                              FACE/OFF


                             Written by

                    Mike Werb & Michael Colleary





                                                        First Draft




     FADE IN:

     EXT.  SKYLINE -- NIGHT

     Drizzling ... cold ... foggy ... gray sky vanishes into gray
     sea without a seam ... fog so dense we move through it
     blindly until ... looming huge:  the GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE.

            SUPERIMPOSE:  SAN FRANCISCO -- THE NEAR FUTURE

     Impossibly close, we soar through repair scaffolding and
     over suspension wires ... glimpsing earthquake damage:
     broken concrete, dangling cables, cracked support beams.

     Turning south ... the familiar jewel-like cityscape  ... 
     Fisherman's Wharf ... Russian Hill ... yet there are now two
     Transamerica Towers and we CLIMB UP the new one.

     Reaching the fogless PINNACLE ... peace reigns ... as we float
     right through an ACCESS PANEL -- strangely wedged open -- and

     INTO THE TRANSAMERICA-TWO SPIRE

     A maze of wiring, ducts and maintenance-controls ... but behind
     one DUCT -- something HIDES ... something GLOWING RED  ... 

     TELESCOPE IN and find THE DEVICE.  Unlike any other explosive
     charge, it is complex in form and compact in size, with a
     sectioned, multi-colored cube panel and a glass GLOBE core  ... 

     MAGNIFY ... now we're INSIDE the globe ... in a gaseous sou