I wanted to try something a little different. Moving to old-time radio serial script format wasn’t easy…it’s an entirely different mindset. Doing it and trying to be funny? Well, you tell me…
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FUTURE MAN EPISODE 1: October 28, 1937<\/p>\n
RECORDING<\/p>\n
“Future Man”<\/p>\n
ANNOUNCER<\/p>\n
Future Man – A Hero out of time<\/p>\n
RECORDING<\/p>\n
“Future Man” ... Fade<\/p>\n
ANNOUNCER<\/p>\n
From a laboratory far beneath the fabled Mountains of Time, a black spacecraft flashes across the sky.\u00a0 With his sidekick Minuteman, Future Man rockets through the space time continuum with a single goal in mind. To change the world.<\/p>\n
SOUND<\/p>\n
Telegraph key dit-datting away.<\/p>\n
CROWD<\/p>\n
General sounds of a production office.\u00a0 Typewriters, presses running, crackling static.<\/p>\n
ANNOUNCER<\/p>\n
Tonight’s Future Man adventure takes place at...wait a minute, is this right?\u00a0 I’m having a hard time believing what I’m reading, but tonight’s adventure takes place ... here ... in the WWTF studios. I...<\/p>\n
PRODUCER<\/p>\n
Just read the lines Kowalski.<\/p>\n
ANNOUNCER<\/p>\n
Yes...yes, of course.\u00a0 At WWTF studios, the crack staff of writers, producers, sound men and crew toil busily on the next episode of Future Man.\u00a0 The announcer and the Producer discuss plot shifts as the voice actors and sound-effect men prepare for the days broadcast.<\/p>\n
PRODUCER<\/p>\n
So, what do you think of the plot shifts?<\/p>\n
ANNOUNCER<\/p>\n
Are you kidding?\u00a0 Is this real, I mean, are we...?<\/p>\n
PRODUCER<\/p>\n
Live, yeah, and discussing plot shifts.<\/p>\n
SOUND<\/p>\n
Roar of a Jet Engine...screech of brakes.\u00a0 Door opens and closes. Window creaks open.<\/p>\n
FUTURE MAN<\/p>\n
Greetings.<\/p>\n
ANNOUNCER<\/p>\n
This is the fifty-seventh floor.<\/p>\n
PRODUCER<\/p>\n
Is that a plot shift, or are you just talking to yourself.<\/p>\n
ANNOUNCER<\/p>\n
Future man just climbed in my window.<\/p>\n
PRODUCER<\/p>\n
That’s a shift.<\/p>\n
ANNOUNCER<\/p>\n
Future Man, why are you here?<\/p>\n
FUTURE MAN<\/p>\n
I am here to increase your bandwidth.\u00a0 I am here to take this thing global, baby.<\/p>\n
SOUND<\/p>\n
There is a thump of boots on the floor.<\/p>\n
MINUTE MAN<\/p>\n
Sorry boss.\u00a0 Had to save the window washer.\u00a0 He saw the ship and panicked.<\/p>\n
FUTURE MAN<\/p>\n
Good work.<\/p>\n
ANNOUNCER<\/p>\n
What’s bandwidth?<\/p>\n
PRODUCER<\/p>\n
Global?<\/p>\n
FUTURE MAN<\/p>\n
I come from the future. I bring word from the CEO of GOOGLE itself.\u00a0 If you will include a bit for him now, just greasing the wheels, he’s willing to guarantee a share of the pie when the whole Internet thing hits.<\/p>\n
ANNOUNCER<\/p>\n
Google?<\/p>\n
PRODUCER<\/p>\n
Pie?\u00a0 Internet?<\/p>\n
FUTURE MAN<\/p>\n
He doesn’t want much.\u00a0 Just, whenever you are writing my bits and you need to say I’m searching for something, or looking for something, or wish I could search for something...instead of search, say Google.\u00a0 He wants to get the ball rolling ahead of time.\u00a0 Of course, I’ll be putting in the copyright papers, but you are free to use it in the context of the show.\u00a0 He guaranteed me we’ll be indexed and available in multiple formats for generations.<\/p>\n
PRODUCER<\/p>\n
Is this in the script?<\/p>\n
FUTURE MAN<\/p>\n
It’s all in the script, I’m afraid.\u00a0 Pretty unavoidable.\u00a0 They’ll have cameras on everything this century and all the scripts will be on line.\u00a0 Not much privacy, but the AVAILABILITY is the thing.<\/p>\n
MINUTE MAN<\/p>\n
We’re supposed to have that bit up in ... less than a minute.<\/p>\n
FUTURE MAN<\/p>\n
Right.\u00a0 Hmmm now where was that disaster.\u00a0 Let me Google my memory banks for the answer...<\/p>\n
ANNOUNCER<\/p>\n
I don’t see...wait.\u00a0 How did those words get on the paper?\u00a0 What in hell is a memory bank.<\/p>\n
PRODUCER<\/p>\n
You can’t say that on the radio.<\/p>\n
ANNOUNCER<\/p>\n
Memory banks?<\/p>\n
PRODUCER<\/p>\n
Hell<\/p>\n
CROWD<\/p>\n
Laughter.<\/p>\n
ANNOUNCER<\/p>\n
Where does it say that?<\/p>\n
MINUTE MAN<\/p>\n
Wait, let me Google my memory...<\/p>\n
PRODUCER<\/p>\n
Cue commercial.<\/p>\n
FUTURE MAN<\/p>\n
That was the commercial.<\/p>\n
ANNOUNCER<\/p>\n
He’s right.\u00a0 It says right here, “Google Internet Search bit”<\/p>\n
PRODUCER<\/p>\n
We have ten minutes of airtime left.\u00a0 What’s next?<\/p>\n
FUTURE MAN<\/p>\n
Let me...<\/p>\n
ANNOUNCER<\/p>\n
Don’t say Google your memory banks.<\/p>\n
FUTURE MAN<\/p>\n
I was going to say check the Time Scope, but if Google works...<\/p>\n
CROWD<\/p>\n
Laughter.<\/p>\n
PRODUCER<\/p>\n
Keep it up, and my foot’s gonna Google your ass.<\/p>\n
ANNOUNCER<\/p>\n
You can’t say that on the radio.<\/p>\n
PRODUCER<\/p>\n
Google?<\/p>\n
ANNOUNCER<\/p>\n
ASS.<\/p>\n
CROWD<\/p>\n
Laughter<\/p>\n
SOUND<\/p>\n
Window opens, thumping sounds followed by the closing of a door and rocket engines.<\/p>\n
PRODUCER<\/p>\n
What just happened.<\/p>\n
ANNOUNCER<\/p>\n
Google me...<\/p>\n
FADE:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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