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    The Projectionist
    The Projectionist
    The Projectionist
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    The Projectionist

    By David E. Gates

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    After a freak accident, a man develops a mysterious power which gains the attraction of dark forces who wish to take it from him.

    An Original Screenplay

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid E. Gates
    Release dateSep 9, 2019
    ISBN9780463088333
    The Projectionist
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    David E. Gates

    David E. Gates has published several books and short-stories. His first book, Access Denied, is a true story.  A deeply personal and heart-wrenching account of becoming a father and having to fight the mother and Family Courts to see his daughter and also battles against the incompetence and lies of the Child Support Agency who seem hell-bent on ruining him, emotionally and financially.. It has garnered 100% positive reviews. The Roots of Evil, his first horror novel, is a graphic, violent, intense and gore-laden horror story. His second fictional novel, The Wretched, is an original horror story set in and around Portsmouth. David has made a documentary film about the battlefield memorials in Ypres, Belgium called Ypres – The Battlefield Tours and previously wrote film reviews for Starburst and Samhain magazines and interviewed the likes of Clive Barker, Terry Pratchett, James Herbert and many others. He has also written many short stories and poems, a full-length motion picture screenplay, the screenplay to a short film and in his spare time hosts a rock radio show. Also by David E. Gates: Access Denied The Roots of Evil The Wretched Omonolidee First Words Unzipped: The Mind of a Madman The Projectionist A Planned Demise The Ghost of Clothes Fixing the Faker The Christmas Carol Omonolidee - Morgado, Portugal, 2018. Two Sides of Vegas

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      The Projectionist - David E. Gates

      The Projectionist

      Copyright © 2019, David E. Gates

      Cover Artwork Copyright: © David E. Gates

      Published by Shelley Show Productions

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted by any means - whether auditory, graphic, mechanical, or electronic - without written

      permission of both publisher and author.

      Unauthorised reproduction of any part of this work is illegal and is punishable by law.

      This is a work of fiction.

      Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

      Also available by David E. Gates

      Books

      Access Denied

      The Roots of Evil

      Omonolidee

      First Words

      The Wretched

      Unzipped: The Mind of a Madman

      Short Stories

      The Ghost of Clothes

      The Christmas Carol

      A Planned Demise

      Omonolidee – Two Sides of Vegas

      Omonolidee – Morgado, Portugal, 2018

      Fixing the Faker

      End Request

      Films

      Ypres – The Battlefields Tour

      Coming Soon

      The Deeper Roots of Evil

      The Climbing Frame

      Dedication

      For the Movie Lovers

      THE PROJECTIONIST

      Written by

      David E. Gates

      FADE IN:

      EXT. Desert - night

      The moon casts deep shadows across a range of high sand dunes, which seem to move eerily as the grains of the desert are blown softly across the surface by a strong breeze.

      Two men, dressed in WHITE Arab-style robes come over the top of one of the dunes. They gesture wildly at one another. The SOUND OF THE WIND drowns out what they are saying.

      As they come closer, we see they are ARABS. They stop, briefly, listening towards the direction they have come from, then continue. As they cross one of the dunes, one of them produces something from inside his robe. It’s small enough to be held in one hand and the metal and glass of it glint in the moonlight as he holds it out in front of him.

      The other ARAB makes a grab for it. They struggle.

      FIRST ARAB

      You are insane. It must be returned.

      SECOND ARAB

      No. We have waited too long. Our time is now.

      FIRST ARAB

      The gods will not warrant this. It is not the time.

      SECOND ARAB

      Raheeb, you worry too much.

      RAHEEB

      No, Miktar. I respect the gods. It must go back.

      SUDDENLY, a LOUD ANIMAL SHRIEK of a CAMEL is heard, and the two men forget their quarrel and run.

      The sand is treacherous, and hard-going. MIKTAR falls behind.

      RAHEEB

      Run! Come on Miktar! Come on!

      MIKTAR has stopped. RAHEEB returns to his friend.

      MIKTAR

      I’m stuck. Fast. The sand has me my friend.

      MIKTAR THRUSTS the item previously held aloft into REHEEB’S hands.

      MIKTAR

      (continuing)

      Take the timer. Do with it what you will. I am done for. Go. Now!

      The SOUND of the SHRIEK of the CAMEL is LOUDER, CLOSER.

      RAHEEB

      I shall pray for your soul Miktar. I shall pray for your forgiveness.

      MIKTAR

      Go! Go NOW! Run Raheeb. Run like the wind!

      Raheeb turns, and runs up the dune away from his friend who begins to sink into the sand. As he reaches the top, he turns and sees his friend sink beneath the surface.

      The CAMEL, with an ARAB, dressed in BLACK ROBES and sporting a MASK, atop its back, comes over the rise of the dune and GALLOPS hard into its basin.

      MASKED ARAB

      (shouting)

      By the Gods, return what you have stolen.

      RAHEEB stands at the top edge of the dune, awaiting his fate at the hands of the MASKED ARAB. But the camel slows, then stops, as the going underfoot becomes like TREACLE. The camel WHINES as if in pain as it is sucked deeper into the sand.

      The MASKED ARAB panics. He tries to leap from the camel’s back but his leap is awkward and he falls ungainly face down into the sand. He attempts to push himself up off the surface of the dune. As he does so his mask falls away revealing a HIDEOUS and previously BURNT face.

      MASKED ARAB

      (shouting, pointing at Raheeb)

      Cursed are you. You robbers of graves. You stealers of souls.

      With a LOUD SUCKING SOUND, the camel beside the MASKED ARAB is gone. Almost as quickly, the MASKED ARAB is sucked beneath also.

      Raheeb kneels at the top of the dune. He is exhausted. He clasps his hands together and looks skyward, in prayer. When finished, he looks at the item in his hands. We see it looks like an ornately decorated EGG TIMER. Raheeb holds it up, so that moonlight streaks through the glass illuminating the contents which look like swirls of sand moving back and forth.

      CUT TO:

      INT. antique shop - day

      TITLE: Present

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