“Thank God the door still works, I was worried we’d NEVER find a way through!”
FADE IN:
EXT. PRETTY FIELD FULL OF PRETTY FLOWERS, 1917--AND THAT SHOULD BE THE
ONLY SCENE HEADER WE GET, SO SETTLE IN AND BUCKLE UP FOLKS!
Resting calmly beneath a clear sky, all is good for DEAN-CHARLES CHAPMAN
and GEORGE MACKAY except for the tiny detail of them being BRITISH
SOLDIERS DURING WORLD WAR ONE which makes things more kind of SHIT.
OFFICER
Wake up, Lance Corporal Chapman! You've
been selected for an unspecified mission
of unknown risk, that may or may not
involve crossing No Man's Land. Now pick
someone to go with you.
DEAN-CHARLES CHAPMAN
(thinks)
Can I pick Wonder Woman?
OFFICER
Sorry no.
DEAN-CHARLES CHAPMAN
How about Wolverine, or as he's currently
known, James Howlett?
OFFICER
Also no.
DEAN-CHARLES CHAPMAN
Did we get the rights to ANY immortal
heroes who were active during WW1?
OFFICER
Negative.
DEAN-CHARLES CHAPMAN
In that case I pick my buddy here, George
MacKay. Who knows, maybe we have to win a
Caillou lookalike contest.
GEORGE and DEAN-CHARLES walk over to the TRENCHES and walk into COLIN
FIRTH'S BUNKER.
COLIN FIRTH
Good day gentlemen. Seems we're having a
spot of bother with sixteen hundred of our
men about to get massacred in an ambush or
some nonsense. Do pop across enemy
territory to warn them, there's a good
chap.
DEAN-CHARLES CHAPMAN
That's my brother's regiment! I'll for
sure complete this mission now, to save my
BROTHER!
GEORGE MACKAY
Cool. I'll worry about the other fifteen
hundred and ninety-nine people.
COLIN FIRTH
Now remember lads, this mission is super
duper important and will require 100%
focus at all times. Therefore, you'll be
doing it as a single unbroken scene, never
using cuts.
DEAN-CHARLES CHAPMAN
What, never?
COLIN FIRTH
No. Never.
FULL COMPANY
What, neVAAAAAAAH?!??
COLIN FIRTH
Well, hardly ever. Here's the paper with
my orders, and here is utterly nothing to
keep it safe from mud or water.
GEORGE and DEAN-CHARLES walk through more TRENCHES looking for another
FAMOUS ACTOR so they can begin the first stage of the mission.
ANDREW SCOTT
That'd be me I guess, thanks Fleabag!
Right, here's the walkthrough of the first
level. Go past the dead horses, through
the hole in the barbed wire to the giant
muck field. Turn right at the mud,
through the muck, left at the mucky mud,
past the mud, then left again at the muddy
muck.
(provides gear)
Danger will lurk everywhere, so remember
to save your progress when you see a
typewriter.
GEORGE MACKAY
(nods)
(walks over to manual typewriter and
creates save point GEORGE DEANCHARLES
LVL1)
The two SOLDIERS embark across the eerily empty NO-MAN'S LAND.
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