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Found this on www.imdb.com . . .

Screenplay for the Trailer from:

Priority 7: The Snowy River Story
Inspired by a true story from New Mexico Magazine

CAST:
John Corcoran III: 	Paul Newman
Lee Skinner:	Robert Redford
Donald G. Davis:	Tom Cruise
Lloyd Swartz:	Brad Pitt
Jim Cox:	Vin Diesel
Mike Bilbo:	Bruce Willis
Senator Pete Domenici:	Morgan Freeman
Billy the Kid: Johnny Depp
. . . and featuring Hazel Barton as herself

Title Card: Lincoln, New Mexico: 1881

Opening scene: A dark and stormy night. A loan figure is illuminated  
by flashes of lightning as he digs furiously amidst scrubby pines.  
Closeup of shovel plunging into dark, wet sand next to a large oak  
chest. Behind the chest are the bodies of three men, scruffy outlaw  
types, with bright splashes of blood on their chests.

Billy the Kid: No one?s a gonna git mah treasure! Hahahaha!!!

Closeup: The sand next to Billy?s right foot begins to slide downwards.

Billy the Kid: Huh? Wazzat?

Billy stumbles backwards, trips over one of the corpses, falls. The  
sand continues to slide downwards, forming a swirling pit that sucks  
down first the shovel, then one corpse, then another. Billy notices  
the chest beginning to slide and dives for it. He struggles to hold on  
to it and yanks it backward past the edge of the pit, panting. He  
pulls his six-guns and unloads both at the swirling sands.

Billy the Kid: Thought you?d steal my treasure, huh Satan!!!

Suddenly the ground opens up all around Billy, and he plunges down  
together with the chest. The camera pans up and back so we watch from  
above as he falls into a deep black sinkhole.

Billy the Kid: I?ll take mah treasure all the way to  
He-e-e-el-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l!!!!!!!!!

Fadeout


Title Card: Smoky Bear Restaurant, Capitan, New Mexico: 1999

Corcoran, Davis, and Skinner are sitting in a back booth of the  
restaurant, hunched over a map spread on the table.

Davis: I still say it?s too dangerous. This looks like a Priority 7  
Dig. There?s no one in the whole country who has ever survived a  
Priority 7 Dig.

Skinner: We?ve got to get in there.

Corcoran: Why? What?s so important about this dig, Lee?

Skinner looks around carefully, then reaches deep into his coat and  
pulls out a bulky metal object wrapped in plastic. He clunks it on the  
table.

Skinner: We found this on top of Devil?s Backbone last year.

Davis: What?s this?

Skinner: Take a look.

Davis unwraps the object, which is revealed as a rusty Colt revolver.  
He picks it up and squints at something engraved on the barrel.

Davis: B. T. K.

Corcoran: That?s the lost revolver of Billy the Kid!

Skinner: For God?s sake John, keep your voice down!

Davis: It appears to be real. Notice the calcite encrustations on the  
trigger guard.

Skinner: This is why we?ve got to go in. I?ve already cleared it with  
Domenici.

Corcoran: But we?ve still got no one brave enough, or crazy enough, to  
take on a Priority 7 Dig.

Skinner: There?s one man.

Davis: You can?t mean . . .


Cut to:

Title Card: Sarawak Cave, Malaysia

Lloyd Swartz and Hazel Barton are hang-gliding through Sarawak  
Chamber, the world?s largest cave room, looping around each other in  
elaborate patterns. Suddenly Lloyd?s cellphone rings.

Ringtone: Dixie

Lloyd: Hello? This is a put-on, right? Nobody?s done a Priority 7  
since Floyd Collins. You say Domenici?s behind it? Alright. I?m in.

He dials. Hazel?s phone rings. She answers it. We can hear Lloyd?s voice.

Lloyd: Baby, I?ve got to go to New Mexico.

Closeup of tear on Hazel?s cheek.

Fadeout


Title Card: Priority 7 Dig. Top Secret Area, New Mexico

Domenici, Bilbo, and Swartz are standing in a fenced area in the  
desert. Soldiers armed with automatic weapons stand around the  
perimeter of the fence. Their backs to the three men.

Domenici: Lloyd, you understand that no one can know about this.

Lloyd: I get it already. I just wanna get in there.

Bilbo: Because this is a Priority 7dig, the only equipment you can use  
is this.

He holds out a rusty coffee can, Maxwell House.

Lloyd: Why you son of a . . .

Lloyd jumps Bilbo. They wrestle. Domenici kicks them apart.

Domenici: That?s enough! Save it for the Hodads!


<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


Lloyd and Jim Cox are standing helmetless in Snowy River (actually the  
Big Room at CaCa), dirt-makeup smudged on their cheeks. They each wear  
a Princeton Tec Scout for illumination.

Cox: My God, this cave must be 500 years old.

Swartz: Impossible! No cave is that old.

Cox: Lloyd, this is pure calcite! Have you ever seen anything like it?  
There?s no way this much calcite could have accumulated in less time  
than that.

Suddenly there is a rumbling. Huge formations begin to tumble towards  
the two men.

Lloyd: Run!

The two men run, leaping over formations, knocking mites out of their  
path. Dust fills the screen. From the dust-filled darkness comes a  
voice:

Jim: Lloyd? Lloyd are you all right? LLOYD!!!


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