The Tomorrow War (2021)

DODD

A screenplay character in The Tomorrow War (2021).

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Sample dialogue

We’ve lost all contact with the future Forester. The president just placed our armed forces and national guard on high alert. They’re rioting at the border and in Buenos Aries, Johannesburg, Mexico City, Istanbul and London. NATO’s disbanded! Every country believes some other country is responsible for this mess, no one trusts anyone and you want me to use taxpayer money -- without Congressional approval -- to fund a special covert mission into a hostile sovereign nation led by...
scene 123 — INT. CHARLIE’S LAB - TIGHT ON MICROSCOPE POV: MOMENTS LATER
... a biology teacher?
scene 123 — INT. CHARLIE’S LAB - TIGHT ON MICROSCOPE POV: MOMENTS LATER
Whatever sins, whatever shortcomings, whatever mistakes you’ve made in the past--
scene 23 — INT. HANGAR - THAT MOMENT
On behalf of the Department of Defense and a grateful nation, we thank you for your service.
scene 32 — INT. ARMY BASE - HANGAR - CHECK-IN - DAY
The way things are going, we’ll be lucky if we don’t kill each other off long before we even get to 2048.
scene 123 — INT. CHARLIE’S LAB - TIGHT ON MICROSCOPE POV: MOMENTS LATER

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The first Whitespikes, that’s what we call them, will arrive somewhere in Northern Russia in late summer 2048.

The way things are going, we’ll be lucky if we don’t kill each other off long before we even get to 2048.