Extreme Hunting

By Daniel West

Desperate to distract the public from their ever diminishing lifestyle, the government steals a page out of the Roman’s playbook. They brings back the gladiatorial arena to give the unwashed masses a chance to revel in the blood and gore of true reality TV.
Contestants, armed with only a hunting knife, go up against some of the deadliest predators in the world.
The rules are simple, two go into the arena, but only one can come out alive, and the odds are stacked against the hunter.

Join the excitement when Blood sport returns to prime time Television

George and the crew at Extreme Hunting take reality TV to a whole new level of excitement

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Aug 10, 2015
• ISBN: 9781329453432

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Extreme Hunting

Extreme Hunting

A Faux reality show

From

Daniel West

Extreme Hunting - Is a work of fiction.

Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Places and events have been created for effect

© Copyright 2015: Daniel West and Gestalt Epiphany, Ltd

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All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States.

ISBN 13 - 978-1-329-45343-2

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First Edition

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Acknowledgments

I thank my son and coauthor, Daniel West Jr. for standing by me all these years and helping produce this book

I owe all of my success to you.

- Daniel Sr.

To all of the people who left the comfort of their home to explore the vast unknown… and to all of the women who drove them to do it.

Characters

Unless specified otherwise, all characters in the book are not race, gender, or sexual orientation specific. Any unspecified character may be portrayed as the director chooses.

Race and sexual orientation are never specified in this series.

If gender is specified, it is for a specific reason that will make that gender become necessary for the character at a later point in the series.

George – Late thirties, a rugged survivalist that has a penchant for wearing leather. Has a dry sense of humor.

Carl and Eddie (Sports announcers) – Extremely self-important. They state the obvious and act like it is deeply insightful.

Little Timmy - 13 years old, dying from cancer, he lives at the local children’s hospital. He is very intelligent and has learned how to use his illness in order to manipulate adults.

Vicky – 13 years old, Little Timmy’s girlfriend at the children’s hospital, she has leukemia.

Kate – Mid-thirties, she is Vicky’s mother.

Guest stars – unless named and based on actual characters, they are nonspecific and can be portrayed as best seen fit.

Notes to Director

Each episode is designed to run 48 – 51 minutes, allowing for 9 – 12 minutes of commercial time.

Timing is critical

Opening sequence ~9 minutes

4 faux commercials group total ~5 minutes

2 fight scenes, each should be choreographed to run ~12 – 20 minutes.

If one fight is choreographed short, the other fight needs to go long in order to maintain the overall timing.

Suspenseful music, stalking and intimidation tactics are your friend on drawing out the length of the fight sequence.

The fight descriptions in this series are just designed to give an overall account of what transpires during the fight. Lengthy choreographed descriptions make for poor reading and limit what a director is free to achieve with CGI imaging and professional stunt people.

Closing sequence ~3 minutes

Extreme latitude was intentionally left in the race, gender and sexual orientation of all characters in order to allow the director the ability to tailor the overall show to their own preferences.

The author intended this work to be an anti-hunting statement, showing the senseless brutality and death involved in the sport. However, the ultimate goal of any work is to turn a profit. Therefore the tone of the series must be determined by the director and the producer.

Final note – Do not skimp on the blood and gore, that is exactly what is going to sell the show and captivate your audience.

As much as people claim that they are offended by blood and gore, whenever there is a car accident, human nature makes everyone look and see if they can spot a bloody body part.

The basic fact is, a significant part of the population revels in Horror movies, they watch Zombie movies to see people get eaten alive, and they made Jaws a blockbuster movie watching to see people get eaten by a shark.

Extreme Hunting

Season 1

Episode 1 - 850 pound Grizzly Bears

Episode 2 - Sixteen-foot Crocodiles

Episode 3 - Bengal Tigers

Episode 4 - Twenty-foot Great White Sharks

Episode 5 - A Cave full of venomous spiders

Episode 6 - Anaconda

Episode 7 - "Preempted for: The Late Great Mr. Happy

Episode 8 - Giant Wharf Rats

Episode 9 - 650 pound Wild Boars

Episode 10 - California Condors

Episode 11 - A Pack of Wolves

Episode 12 - Buffalo Hunters

Episode 13 - The Ultimate Predator

Dedication

Keep Me in Your Heart - Warren Zevon

This series is dedicated to anyone who has lost someone they deeply loved.

Keep them in your heart. No one can ever take away those memories.

Introduction

Desperate to distract the public from their ever diminishing lifestyle, the government steals a page out of the Roman’s playbook. They brings back the gladiatorial arena to give the unwashed masses a chance to revel in the blood and gore of true reality TV.

Contestants, armed with only a hunting knife, go up against some of the deadliest predators in the world.

The rules are simple, two go into the arena, but only one can come out alive, and the odds are stacked against the hunter.

Extreme Hunting

A Faux reality show

From

Daniel West

Extreme Hunting

A Faux reality show

from

Daniel West

Season 1

Episode 1

850 pound Grizzly Bears

EXT. Large stadium crowded with camo clad spectators

The crowd is chanting, and stamping their feet, anticipating the event.

EXT. Announcers booth

An announcer wearing headphones speaks

Eddie

Well, Carl, it looks like the crowd is really really excited tonight.

Carl

Yes, Eddie, they certainly are.

Eddie

Tonight we have an exciting show for you.

Two men are going to have the match up of their lives

They will be facing off against 850 pound Grizzly Bears.

Carl

That does sound exciting, Eddie, I can’t wait to see it

Eddie

It looks like the crowd can’t wait to see it either.

Drum roll followed by a trumpet blast

Eddie

That’s our signal, the show is officially underway

EXT. Large stadium crowded with camo clad spectators

The crowd starts chanting. George… George… George…

A double Iron door gate swings open revealing a dark hallway

A man stands at the end of that dark hallway

He is dressed head to toe in well worn, natural, leather.

He is wearing a leather cowboy hat, a leather vest, leather chaps, and leather cowboy boots

The crowd stands up and goes wild, they start stamping their feet, and screaming, GEORGE… GEORGE… GEORGE…

EXT. Dark hallway

George lifts his hands over his head in the Touchdown signal.

He is holding a large, heavily serrated, hunting knife, in each hand.

He lifts the points, blades up, forming an arch over his head.

Maintaining the arch above his head, he charges out of the dark hallway and into the stadium.

He swings his arms down like wings. As his arms slowly lower, the crowd noise slowly lowers following his arm signals.

He sheathes the knives in his belt scabbards. As the knives slam into their sheathes, the audience silences.

Just for emphasis. George slightly lifts one of the knives in its sheath.

The crowd screams one last time.

George slams the knife all the way into the sheath, and the crowd is, once again, immediately silent.

EXT. Stadium floor.

George spits on the floor, then slowly lifts his face toward the crowd. Revealing a scarred and leathery face.

The crowd screams

George glares coldly at the crowd.

George

We have quite the show lined up for you tonight.

Our hunters are going to face two of the meanest Grizzly bears that I have ever had to wrestle into submission.

I call the woman, Mauley, and the buck, Gnarly.

Don’t discount Mauley just because she’s a female, she’s like every woman in the world.

She gets damn mean if you don’t bring her flowers.

The crowd howls with laughter.

George

But first, I understand that there is a special young man in the audience tonight.

This young man is a brave lad, he is fighting for his life. He has cancer. Make a wish sent him here to us tonight.

Of all the things he could wish for in life, he chose to be here, on Extreme Hunting, with us.

The crowd sighs.

George

Young man, come out and see us.

A young boy emerges from a side entrance

He walks slowly over to George

Little Timmy

George, you’re my hero.

George

I’m everybody’s hero, son.

Little Timmy smiles

George pats Little Timmy lovingly on the shoulder

George

Little Timmy, since you’re such a fighter, I’m giving you a Marshal of the Universe badge.

This badge shows that, just like me, you keep the universe in order.

George holds out a shiny, gold, metal badge.

Little Timmy

Thanks George, that’s awesome.

Is it real gold?

George cocks his head to the side and glares at Little Timmy

Little Timmy faces the cameras.

Little Timmy

Ladies and gentlemen, I have a shiny, gold colored, Marshal of the Universe badge.

I’m dying from cancer, so this sucker is going on EBay… tonight.

It will be a three day auction.

Bid fast, and often, I want to see my parents become millionaires before I die.

Little Timmy looks at George.

Little Timmy

It will be signed… won’t it?

George continues to glare at Little Timmy. George slightly nods in an affirmative.

Little Timmy, once again, faces the cameras.

Little Timmy

It will be signed… and everything. Pull out your checkbooks.

George makes a shooing motion toward Little Timmy.

George

Well, Little Timmy, It was so good to see you here tonight.

Keep up your good fight.

Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

Little Timmy, admiring the badge, walks out of the arena.

George pulls his knives from their sheathes and holds them high over his head, signaling for the crowd to scream.

The crowd screams.

George

Welcome to tonight’s episode of Extreme Hunting!

EXT. Title scene and opening credits.

The camera angle shows an aerial view of a well-lit stadium in a heavily forested section at the base of the Rocky Mountains.

The camera moves in in a slow spiral like the angle a helicopter would take when moving in to land in the center of the arena.

When the camera is on the center of the arena at ground level, the image cuts to George standing strong in the center of the arena

George lifts his head slowly and glares at the camera menacingly.

Announcer V. O.

Live from the Extreme Hunting Lodge, in beautiful Montana. It’s time for tonight’s episode of Extreme Hunting.

(Break)

EXT. Arena floor.

George stands in the center of the arena

George

It’s time to meet tonight’s contestants.

From the woods of West Virginia, we have Ron Hatfield

The crowd cheers as Ron enters the arena

George

From the woods of Eastern Kentucky, we have Joe McCoy

The crowd cheers as Joe enters the arena

George

Gentlemen, tonight you face 850 pound grizzly bears, armed with only a hunting knife.

Are you up to the task?

Both of the hunters nod in agreement.

George

Good, I wrestled both of these bears into submission, bare handed I might add.

I am betting that both of you can be winners tonight.

The hunters smile

George

Ron, can you tell the audience why you signed up for this show?

Ron

I’ve been hunting all my life, and your show got me to thinking.

I go out into the woods, armed with a high powered rifle and a scope, and I ambush an unarmed, defenseless, creature.

That doesn’t seem very fair, or sporting. Does it?

I want to face an animal, the way nature intended, one on one. Mano-a-mano.

I want to prove myself to be the best hunter I can be.

George smiles

George

You came to the right place to prove that.

George faces Joe

George

Joe, can you tell the audience why you are here tonight.

Joe

I came here for my girlfriend, Loretta.

Joe points to a, well-rounded, blonde in the audience

Joe

Loretta needs me to prove to her that I am a real man

George

Why is that?

Joe

Loretta thinks that, just because I raped my six year old sister, when I was younger, that I am less than a complete man.

George

You raped your own sister?

Joe

It wasn’t really rape. It was more of a twisted relationship we had going when we were kids.

George cutting Joe off.

George

This isn’t an episode of True Confessions.

We don’t really want to hear about it.

The best of luck to you.

George pulls out his hunting knives and throws them, point first, into the ground between the men’s feet.

George

These will be your only weapons.

George pulls out a coin and flips it. He covers the coin with his boot.

George faces the men, and says, heads or tails?

Joe

Heads

Ron

He can have heads. It doesn’t matter to me.

George moves his foot. The coin is heads up.

George

Heads it is. Joe, what’s your choice of bears, and are you going first, or second.

Joe

I will go second, and I will take Mauley.

George nods.

George

Joe, go take your seat and watch the show. Ron is up first.

Ron, are you ready?

Ron

I was born ready.

George

Great. We will begin… right after a quick word from our sponsors.

(Break)

EXT. Faux commercial #1

George is in the woods, he turns toward the camera.

George

When you’re out in the woods for days at a time, you can’t always wipe yourself properly.

After a few days, you can start to develop a rash, and start chafing real bad.

That’s why I developed this product, the Woodsman Towelette.

George pulls a small pack out of his leather vest pocket.

George

The Woodsman Towelette is an alcohol wipe, a moisturizer, and an anti-itch cream.

Does it work?

George rubs his arse gently

George

Does a bear crap in the woods?

EXT. Arena floor

George faces Ron

George

Ron, are you having any second thoughts, or do you want to do this?

Ron

I’m ready to go. Bring on the bear.

George walks over to a cage door on the arena wall. He reaches in and pats a Grizzly bear on the head.

George

This is Gnarly. Only one of you can leave this ring alive.

The law of the jungle, show no mercy, eat or be eaten.

George flips open the cage door, then climbs a ladder out of the arena and into the stands

Gnarly swaggers out of the cage door, he rears high on his hind legs

EXT. Announcers booth

Eddie

Look at that, it stands almost nine feet tall

Carl

It must look at least fourteen feet tall to poor Ron in there

Both men laugh wickedly

Gnarly rushes toward Ron

Ron dodges the attack, at the last second, and slashes the bears shoulder open as it passes him.

Eddie

It looks like Ron draws first blood

EXT. Arena

The bear stands up.

This time it doesn’t look like a real bear, it looks like a man in a bear suit.

The bear pulls of its head, there is a man inside the suit

Man in suit

Goddamnit Ron, you cut me.

That cut is deep, it’s gonna need some stitches.

They pay me in beer for doing this.

I only get paid, one case, for each fight.

Ron

I’m sorry Billy. It was a heat of the moment thing.

Billy

OK… But just… watch it

George calls out from his