HANNIBAL (SPEC)

Following the events of the S3 finale, Will Graham and Hannibal Lecter plan their next move whilst their actions have consequences for everyone else.

About

As a passion project, I wrote this as my first venture into screenwriting as a new graduate. After watching HANNIBAL on NBC, I wanted to challenge myself to imagine what the season four premier of Hannibal would look like.

You can read the full script here.

Teaser

EXT. FOREST - DAY

--SUPER: FÖSTERSUNDOMIN KOIRAMETSÄ, FINLAND.

The forest stirs, the morning sun rises as the rain falls down onto a vast lake.

WILL GRAHAM scans the horizon, rifle in hand and a muddy cloth wraps around his head, covering his eye.

INT. HOTEL ROOM - DAY

--SUPER: DOLOFONEÍS SYZÝGOUS, GREECE.

ALANA BLOOM awakes in a shabby hotel room, MARGOT VERGER by her side. MORGAN

VERGER sleeps on blankets on the floor.

Alana silently climbs out of bed, tiptoes to the door, peers through the peephole. She checks the many locks.

EXT. FOREST - DAY

Will focuses ahead. He loads his rifle, takes a step.

A deer approaches the water, drinks from the steamy lake. Will takes aim.

A fawn follows it's mother, drinks by her side.

Will lowers his rifle.

INT. JACK CRAWFORD'S BEDROOM - DAY

--SUPER: CRAWFORD RESIDENCE, MARYLAND.

JACK CRAWFORD sleeps, the crumpled comforter forgotten on the floor, the nightstand littered with empty food boxes and beer bottles.

Jack's phone RINGS. He opens his eyes, swipes a pizza box away, finds the root of the noise.

He GRUNTS, rejects the interruption and turns over with a HUFF.

--ON THE PHONE: 1 MISSED CALL - JIMMY PRICE.

EXT. FOREST - DAY

Will tilts his head, watches the fawn. He raises his rifle.

BANG! He SHOOTS the mother and the fawn scarpers.

INT. BEDELIA DU MAURIER'S HOME - DAY

-- SUPER: DU MAURIER'S RESIDENCE, LONDON.

BEDELIA DU MAURIER leans on her balcony, pensive. She takes a sip of whiskey, pulls her phone from her robe pocket, opens a CCTV app.

She swipes through the lavish rooms in her house; an empty kitchen, a vacant dining room, a MAN asleep in her bed.

Tense but pacified... she takes another sip.

EXT. FOREST - DAY

The deer is not yet dead.

It staggers and collapses... bloody.

Will SIGHS, strides towards it.