Darkest Before Dawn: Short Film (Script)

G.O.O.D. Music angel logo fades in and out. Opening credits fade in and out as scenes play, reading: "G.O.O.D. MUSIC PRESENTS. A FILM BY: KID ART. PUSHA T. ROTIMI, NATALYA RUDAKOVA. GEORGE KATT, JOE, GIOCO, MIKE TROLL"

Blue lightning flashes. CUT TO: Lamp flashes in a dark orange room. PUSH lays on the carpet. He walks up the walls. PUSH and the PRIEST narrate elsewhere

PRIEST: Nightmares again?

PUSH: Yeah.

PRIEST: Same one?

PUSH: Same one.

CUT TO TEXT: KING PUSH. DARKEST BEFORE DAWN. Thunder rumbles.

CUT TO: HIDEOUT

CUT TO TEXT: PRODUCED BY GRANT CURATOLA

CUT TO: HIDEOUT

CUT TO: television scene that displays lions.

TV: At a striking distance, the movement that crossed its natural boundary. See them lose their confidence and abandon pursuits.

CUT TO TEXT: "EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS JEAN MOUGIN, SEVEN VICTOR, SHIVAM PANDYA. CO PRODUCERS CARTIER COURT, TAYLOR SHUNG. WRITTEN BY CARTIER COURT." Storm rumbles. "DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPH: J.J. RICHARDS"

TV:[?] they all begin to reunite

PUSH and MANNY count hundred bills as ACE watches TV. TV displays a lion close-up.

MANNY: (Tsk) Yo man, put the game on, man! Throwing my countin' off with all this giraffe shit, man.

On the screen, two lion cubs fight. "PRODUCTION DESIGNER DANICA PANTIC". A lion cub chases and bites down a bull. "EDITED BY KID ART".

PUSH mutters numbers to himself. Thunder rumbles.

MANNY: Do you not hear me, muthafucka? Oh, oh okay. So I got to go talk to...(laughs) this nigga...So I got to talk to Felicia to make sure you listen to me so you, you know, since she basically tells you-

ACE: Shut the fuck up, yo. Shut the fuck up...about Felicia...

MANNY: Whatchu mean? You know I gotta get you guys to listen to me, you won't ever listen to me.

ACE: You know where the joints at, huh?

MANNY: I got joints.

ACE: You ain't got no joints.

MANNY: I got no joints?

ACE: They not messing with you like that right now.

MANNY: So some Maria bodies for me?

ACE: No, Maria light-skinned. Way back then, she was...

PUSH laughs and looks at screen. Screen displays two lion cubs pinning a goat.

MANNY: Leave them lions alone. Make yourself useful.

ACE: I'm watching some information

MANNY: Shit, information nigga? Ha! This nigga, you watching the same shit three times in a row, bruh

ACE: I'm learnin' somethin', I'm learnin' somethin' (Points at own head)

MANNY: You learnin' somethin'?

ACE: If you get up out the house, maybe you can learn something.

MANNY: Yo, ok. Alright. Feliiica! Felica!

ACE: Mutters something and shakes head'

MANNY: You really salty. Feliii-

Sirens wail. MANNY, ACE, and PUSH get up and run. Cut to ACE running upstairs. "DIRECTED BY KID ART". Cut to a siren on the ground. Radio sounds. Someone kicks the siren.