EXT. COURTYARD - NIGHT
The girls come out the front door ... Betty leading and pulling
a much happier Rita along with her. They half run across the
courtyard to stone steps under an Ivy covered eave.
CUT TO:
EXT. ROOF GARDEN - NIGHT
The girls race up the stone steps toward us. Soon their wind-
blown, smiling faces fill the screen as they look out. There
before them are the lights of Hollywood with silhouetted
palms, slow-moving theater kleig lights, and floating above
it all the giant sign in the hills reading HOLLYWOOD.
BETTY
Here I am Hollywood! My name's Betty.
A pause.
BETTY (cont'd)
(to Rita)
Say it!
RITA
Here I am Hollywood! My name is ... Rita.
They look out, maybe waiting for an answer blowing in the
Santa Ana wind.
CUT TO:
INT. AUNT RUTH'S APARTMENT - NIGHT - A MOMENT LATER
We move in to the pile of money next to Rita's purse. Past
that we move down inside Rita's purse. We see the Blue Key
and move closer to it until it fills the screen.
CUT TO:
EXT. DENNY'S RESTAURANT - HOLLYWOOD - NIGHT
We drift along the red bricks past the payphone, along the
wall until we come to the corner. Slowly we round the corner
and move to a dark alley. There amongst the dumpsters and
trash cans is the dark silhouette of a figure. We move closer
to the figure. It is the bum and the bum sits. We move
closer and the bum's face fills the screen. It's face is
black with fungus. It's eyes turn and they seem to be red.
THE END
------------------------------
Mulholland Drive Pilot - The Screenplay
("Initialement, Mulholland Drive devait être un nouveau Mystères à Twin Peaks, destiné à être diffusé sur ABC. Après moult tractations, la chaîne américaine, qui avait déjà déboursé sept millions de dollars, avait décidé de ne pas l'utiliser, effrayée par la durée du pilote (2h30) et par la complexité de l'histoire. Elle jugeait également le rythme trop lent. C'est alors que Studio Canal a contacté le réalisateur pour le convaincre de transformer le pilote en long métrage pour le cinéma. Le cinéaste a immédiatement été emballé par cette idée, et Mulholland Drive est devenu un film." - WP)
