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F O R Y O U R C O N S I D E R A T I O N BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Luke Davies LION by Luke Davies Based on the book A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley [*Note: throughout, all dialogue is in the appropriate dialect/language, with subtitles where appropriate. In Khandwa, Saroos home town, this is Hindi; in Calcutta, where he is lost, it is Bengali - which he doesnt speak. So if Saroo is hearing Bengali, we wont always see subtitles, except where necessary for our own understanding.] Copyright ? 2015 See-Saw Films EXTREME HIGH AERIAL - DAY (1987) We’re soaring - 20,000 feet above this vast island earth - VERY HIGH AERIAL - DAY 15,000 feet now - we’re soaring over a dark emerald ocean - HIGH AERIAL - ABOVE INDIA - DAY 4,000 feet, whooshing effortlessly over cities, villages, countryside, rail lines - all the mad glory of India - AERIAL - INDIA - DAY 2,000 feet, soaring, slowing, high above an ochre landscape - - way down there: a TINY FIGURE picks its way through the fringes of a small trash heap by a dam - AERIAL - ABOVE FIELD NEAR DAM, KHANDWA - CONTINUOUS (DAY) 20 feet above ground now, we’re following that tiny figure (a SMALL BOY) from behind, as he scampers through the trash - EXT. RUBBISH-STREWN FIELD NEAR DAM, KHANDWA - CONTINUOUS His TINY HANDS come into frame. Scavenging. IN TIGHTER: the same hands. Clearly a practised routine. A YELLOW BUTTERFLY flutters onto the hand. The hand STILLS, so as not to scare the butterfly. Our tiny figure (SAROO, 5) stands up, ever so carefully. FRONT ANGLE: we see him properly for the first time. Studying the butterfly. Entranced. Then he notices a few more. WIDER: he’s in a field entirely filled with their fluttering. Delighted, he spreads his arms wide. He moves through the butterflies - fluttering all around his head and shoulders. Suddenly - a 5-year-old testing his powers - he ROARS - SAROO ROARRRGHHH!! - laughing - the butterflies scatter all around him - VOICE (O.S.) Saroo! Saroo! In the distance, up on the railway line th