Film Star by Rowan Coleman

very precise process. So you know when Polly jumps and Flame doesn’t manage to catch her and she falls?” I nodded. “Well, we’ll cut as you jump and then morph you into a computer-generated version of you. That will be the you that falls into the pit of fire, thought lost for ever. Are you comfortable with all this, Ruby?”
    I looked around me at the huge studio and the blazing lights and the crew all there for me—me, two film stars and a tiny, tiny set.
    â€œI think I can do it,” I told Art.
    â€œI know you can,” Art said.
    â€œMs Grant and Mr McLean on set!” somebody shouted from behind the cameras.
    â€œAll right then,” Art said, looking me in the eyes. “This is where the fun begins.”
THE LOST TREASURE OF
KING ARTHUR ©
A WIDE OPEN UNIVERSE
PRODUCTION
DIRECTED BY ART DUBROVNIK
WRITTEN BY ART DUBROVNIK AND
ADRIENNE SCOTT
STARRING: IMOGENE GRANT, HARRY
MCLEAN AND SEAN RIVERS
    INT. TIME OF DAY—INDISCERNIBLE, THE SECRET CAVERNS OF MORDRED
POLLY is perched on the edge of a ledge that hangs over a narrow but deep ravine. The bottom is lost in darkness. On the other side of the ravine FLAME and GARETH are waiting for her. POLLY is very distressed and confused.
POLLY
Who are you? Why are you doing this to me? It was just a normal day until you came and told all these lies and now…(POLLY LOOKS OVER HER SHOULDER INTO THE DARKNESS WHERE SHE CAN HEAR STRANGE NOISES GETTING CLOSER.) I hate you! I hate you!
    FLAME edges along the ledge and tries to reach across to POLLY who cowers away from her. The gap is just too great and FLAME slips and almost falls; she is caught just in time byGARETH. Rubble falls and long moments pass before we hear it hit the ground.
FLAME
Please, please believe me. All I want to do is to help, to save you. Ember—you have to trust me!
POLLY
My name is not Ember! I’m Polly Harris. I have been all my life, and I…(POLLY becomes very upset.) I don’t understand any of this. Why is this happening to me? I’m just a normal girl.
    Suddenly the hissing growl that they have been hearing in the background is very loud. Out of the shadows creeps THE ZOMBIE WITCH MORGAINE. She inches closer to POLLY.
MORGAINE
    (Her voice is dry and crypt-like.)
Come, come my lady Guinivere. Let me take you to meet your master at last. Ha, ha, ha!
    POLLY cowers back from MORGAINE as she approaches her. She is frozen with fear.
FLAME
Ember! Polly, I mean! Just jump, stretch out your arms and jump. I swear I’ll catch you. It’s your only chance!
    POLLY looks from MORGAINE to FLAME. She jumps.

Chapter Ten
    â€˜â€¦And it was just amazing, ” I told Danny, Nydia and Anne-Marie as we sat in the café. It was my first Saturday off, the first time we had all been together since I had started on the film a week earlier.
    â€œWe know,” Anne-Marie said, rolling her eyes. I looked at her quizzically.
    â€œHow could you know?” I asked her.
    â€œBecause according to you,” Danny said, leaning towards me and smiling his heart-flipping smile, “every single thing you do there is ‘amazing’. You’ve said ‘amazing’ about two hundred times so far this morning, don’t you reckon, Nydia?”
    Nydia glanced up from her cup of tea which she had been stirring for at least a minute and smiled a half-smile.
    â€œAt least,” she said, before going back to stirring her tea. I looked at her. She was quiet, not like Nydia at all. Not like Nydia used to be. Since the auditions for TheLost Treasure of King Arthur she seemed to have made herself smaller. I missed her loud laughs and her endless questions and mad ideas. She was here but not here all at once.
    â€œNot like you to have tea, Nydia,” I said, licking the whipped cream that topped my hot chocolate off the teaspoon. “Sure you don’t want a choccy marshmallow special? I’ll buy you one.” Nydia shook her