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  1. Reilly, Actor: Chicago. Character actor, dramatic leading man, or hilarious comic foil? With an astonishing range of roles already under his belt, John C. Reilly has played an eclectic host of rich characters to great effect over the years, from seedy ne'er-do-wells, to lovable, good-natured schlepps. The fifth of six children, John Christopher Reilly was born in Chicago.
  2. Brennan Huff is a sporadically employed thirty-nine-year-old who lives with his mother, Nancy. Dale Doback is a terminally unemployed forty-year-old who lives with his father, Robert. When Robert and Nancy marry and move in together, Brennan and Dale are forced to live with each other as step brothers. As their narcissism and downright aggressive laziness threaten to tear the family apart.
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Feb 15, 2019 The second Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly appear onscreen in “Stan & Ollie,” there is no question that they are the legendary Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, respectively. The physical transform.

The FocusFeatures logo appears on screen and we slideINTOthe “O” in Focus.

Stock dissolves from 35mm to 16mm. BLACK & WHITE. GRAINY,

like OLDDOCUMENTARY FOOTAGE.

SCIENTIST’S VOICE

Experiment 208, day 20...

INT. SCIENTIST’S LAB - DAY

We see an earlyincarnation of a MACHINE (this will be theinnerbrain of the FABRICATION MACHINE). We see the

scientist, in a white coat.

We pull back to see the Scientist is playing a complicatedMULTI-LEVEL 3-D chess game on a MULTI-LEVEL GAMEBOARD with

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the MACHINE. The Scientistmakes an elaborate multi-level

move. The Machinereaches an arm out into the chess game butthenmalfunctions and strews the game everywhere.

We pull back further to see the back and legs of theDICTATOR, with black-uniformed soldiersflanking him. The

regime’s emblem can be seen on the uniforms.

DICTATOR:

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Useless.

SCIENTIST:

Please. Give it a chance.

We’re on the machine, which is clicking and jerking as itmalfunctions.

DICTATOR (V.O.)

One more. That’s all.

He turns to leave. We hear the clicking of boots as thesoldiersaccompany him out.

We see the scientist’s dejected face as he comestowardsthecamera to turn it off.

CUT TO:

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And then...

2.

INT. SCIENTIST’S LAB - NIGHT

The grainyfootagerolls again; we see the scientistmovingaway from the camera (having just turned it on).

The lab is shadowy, late at night. We see his worktable for

the first time, covered with discarded sketches, a furiouslyfilled-in journal, and pieces of failedmachinery (the flooris also similarly littered). The TALISMAN sits on the

worktable. Nearby is a small old-fashioned tiny little box.

SCIENTIST:

(tired, but dictating to

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keep the documentary

record complete)

My last possible solution....

(muttering to himself)

It must work...

He gentlybrushes his fingers over the little box as thoughfor good luck. He picks the TALISMAN up off the table. He

moves over to insert the talisman into the port of themachine.

His back to us, he faces the machine. We see him puttingsomething over his face (but only from behind).

There is a suddenFLASHOFGREENLIGHT and the machine JOLTS,

and then suddenly, starts up...lighting up, electricitycrackling, partsmoving in smooth coordination, etc.

The scientist waits, watching. The machinecontinues to run.

Its arms move smoothly, almost curiously.

The scientist puts the devicecovering his face down and getsup and comestowards camera.

We see the camera’s POV as the scientistcomestowards us:

CLOSE on the scientist’s face, which is exhausted, cheekssunken, eyes wide, pupils dilated.

Pull back to show the machine purring, suddenly full of a newsort of energy. Something new has happened.

The scientistswitches off the camera and:

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3.

INT. SCIENTIST’S LAB - A DAY LATER

The machine zips through the complex 3-D chess game at

lightning speed, checkmating the scientist in seconds as theDictator watches.

The scientistlaughsfondly and pats the machine.

DICTATOR:

Perfect.

SCIENTIST:

(proudly)

You see, it evolves.

The scientistproudlygives the machine to the dictator. Aflash goes off: someone is taking a picture O.S.

The dictator exits; we hear the click of boots and see asmuch as possible of the soldiersflanking him.

OUT OFSIGHTOFTHE SCIENTIST,

CLOSE on the machine: the dictator is gripping it with anasty firmness. The machineseems to try to squirm away.

The director’s BLACK-GLOVED HANDgrasps it harder.

The machine, responding to the brutality, lashes an arm outandgrabs the nearestsoldier (seen from the back, we seeonly the uniform and helmeted head) by the back of his arm,

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BREAKING his ARM. The soldierfalls (if possible).