YOU RUN FASTER THAN IT FOLLOWS

Written by

Nicholas Ezyk

Based on It Follows, Which is Great

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INT. APARTMENT - MORNING

A spry college couple are waking up after some seriously good fucking. The boy, JASON, earlier to rise, watches the girl, LEAH, get up.

JASONHey there, late bloomer. You enjoy last night?

LEAHI wont be able to walk straight for a week.

They chuckle a bit as Jason emerges from bed and begins to clothe up.

JASONIm glad you liked it. Want me to make breakfast?

LEAHI love guys that make breakfast.

JASONI gotta tell you something first, though.

LEAHOh? And that is?

JASONYeah, youre now cursed with this monster thats gonna walk at you until it finds you, then itll kill you, then itll kill me, then itll kill the person I fucked who gave it to me, all the way down the line. It can take the form of any person, sometimes a rando, sometimes your best friend. Who knows? It could be me, maybe. I dont care. Not my problem.

LEAH(shocked)

Oh my god, what did you to me?? I(just as quickly unshocked)

You said walks?

JASONYeah.

LEAH(annoyed sigh)

How mildly inconvenient.

INT. VEHICLE - DAY

Leah is driving with her friend ERIN (a clear expy of Yara in the movie). Leah is fiddling with the radio, playing short-enough-to-be-legally-allowable snippets of various early 80s songs with one hand and driving with the other. Janie is fiddling with her stupid seashell Kindle thing.

LEAHThank you again for getting me the 2 grand and/or 800 bucks to get me out of here, Erin.

ERIN(dry)

Whats up to my partners? Whats up with my haters? I done fucked around and sang a hook like Anita Baker. -Horst Simco

LEAHYou realize thats just a shell, right?

Erin is, in fact, swiping her fingers on the inside of a plain-ol shell.

ERINYour point?

INT. DETROIT WAYNE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - DAY

After an establishing shot of Willard with MSPaint graphics reading DETROIT WAYNE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT written on it, Leah walks to the counter and asks for a ticket.

LEAHOne-way to Tokyo, please? Next flight is preferable.

She hands the attendant (off screen, of course) an envelope of money and receives a boarding pass.

ATTENDANT (O.S.)Here you go, please proceed to the security gate or dont, Im not really sure.

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INT. TOKYO-NARITA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - DAY

Among a series of greenscreen shots of the Narita interior, Leah walks by with her luggage. After a title card...

EXT. POOLSIDE, PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA - DAY

Leahs tanning in the warm Australian sun, using a landline phone (or if we can get one, one of those Gordon Gekko-style brickphones) to talk to one of her friends.

LEAHOh yeah, I love it here. Its always warm, the roads actually look halfway decent, and this slang! I cant tell where Im a bogan or a spruiker.

(beat)Or an abbo. The fucks an abbo? Either way, I should be back in the Wayne State in maybe...six months? Thats enough time to let the thing walk my way. Now, if youll excuse me, Ive got my 16 dollar an hour minimum wage to get to.

EXT. CALIFORNIA BEACH - DAY

On a green-screend beach, we see a gratuitous amounts of establishing shots, and when we finally focus on the monster, we see it waiting in front of the beach, then cut to a seashot, then the monster in another persons form, so on and so forth until we fade out.

END.

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