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    Romancing the Ruins, a Film Treatment
    Romancing the Ruins, a Film Treatment
    Romancing the Ruins, a Film Treatment
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    Romancing the Ruins, a Film Treatment

    By Jon Foyt

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    Get Ready for a dramatic visual. Get Set for the authors’ film treatment based on their novel, The Architecture of Time. Go for this rollercoaster read.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJon Foyt
    Release dateJul 18, 2010
    ISBN9781452319278
    Romancing the Ruins, a Film Treatment
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    Jon Foyt

    Striving for new heights on the literary landscape, along with his late wife Lois, Jon Foyt began writing novels 20 years ago, following careers in radio, commercial banking, and real estate. He holds a degree in journalism and an MBA from Stanford and a second masters degree in historic preservation from the University of Georgia. An octogenarian prostate cancer survivor, Jon is a runner, hiker and political columnist in a large active adult retirement community near San Francisco.

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      Romancing the Ruins, a Film Treatment - Jon Foyt

      Romancing the Ruins, a Film Treatment

      by

      Lois Foyt and Jon Foyt

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2010 and Registered with the Writers Guild of America, West by Lois Foyt and Jon Foyt

      All characters in this film treatment, which is an adaptation of the novel, The Architecture of Time, are fictitious, and any resemblance to real persons living or dead is coincidental.

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This film treatment is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This film treatment may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this film treatment with another person, please purchase an additional copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of these authors. At Smashwords.com you can discover other works co-written by these authors.

      Opening:

      From a low-flying airplane, as titles appear on the screen, we see below us massive stone structures—one after another—in the chain of archaeological ruins that comprise the ancient Anasazi center of Chaco Canyon. As we pass over the largest of these 12th-century pueblos in northwestern New Mexico—the multi-story Great House of Pueblo Bonito—we hear the ominous sound of a distant train whistle growing louder and louder.

      Scene One:

      Worthington Rhodes (tall, handsome, blue eyes, early 40’s) and his nine-year-old precocious, curly-haired daughter, Emily, browse the news shop in the Dulles International Airport as they await the arrival from Greece of Worthington’s father, Dusty, an archaeologist. Emily holds up a children’s book about archaeological fables and tells her father she’ll read them so she can surprise her grandfather.

      Seeing the book, Worthington recoils with memories of the humiliation he suffered when, as a high school student, he went to his father’s archaeological excavation in Greece.

      Fade to a flashback. A young Worthington is standing in the hot sun looking down into an archaeological dig. His father and all the men are laughing at him as he tells his father he wants to be a pop singer and not go to college to study archaeology.

      Belittling him, his father tells him the ancient Greeks will sing all the tunes he needs to know. Besides, you’re destined to carry on our three-generation family tradition of archaeologists here in Greece. Young Worthington reacts by storming out of the excavation site, returning to the Greek village, entering a taverna and getting into a fight with the bartender. (These temper outbursts will haunt him the rest of his life. He will cope by being in denial.) Flashback ends.

      Worthington is abruptly brought back to the present by a firm hand on his shoulder. A smiling Senator Schurz of Missouri congratulates him on besting the French T.G.V. technology with The Windjammer, the proposed new transcontinental bullet train. From their dialogue we learn that Worthington is not only a model family man with an attractive wife, Sara,

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