Naomi Watts in "Vintage Alien Dream"

Fig. I - Naomi Watts "Sure I'll be in your crazy alien dream, Mr. Guy"

I had the strangest dream last night...

I was watching this movie, but I had the distinct sense that I had created it. So I guess I was screening the final product.

The film starred Naomi Watts. It was set in the future, but the technology was all WWII era. The film started out with Watts aboard a bus headed for a bus station. When she finally gets there, a large space ship floated down and docked with the bus station.

Matter of factly, she walked through the station and headed toward the terminal where the space ship was. The crazy thing is that the space ship looked exactly like three train cars hooked together. As she boarded the train ship, everything got really bright. The first two cars were full of different species of aliens doing what appeared to scientific experiments. All of the equipment was old and dusty.

So, she finally gets to the last car and inside lies what I can only call the 'captain' of the ship. He was very ill and needed his quarters to be something like 40 degrees to stay alive. The cooling system had broken, so he wasn't doing so good. He used a device that looked roughly like an old rotary telephone to translate his tongue to one that Watts could understand.

He said that they had to go right away so he could get back to his home planet to recover. A minute or two after they took off, however, the ship began to have problems and they were forced to crash land in the desert.

The end is hazy, but I think that Watts had to take the place of the dead captain and help the other aliens survive the forces of nature and the obligatory Army presence. The aliens continued to do their research and something really awesome came out of it. Like a cure for cancer or something.

Possible script idea? Hmmm...