Bambi 2: Resurrection

Original Screenplay
(final draft)

Hunting season just opened... on the human race.

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 Bambi 2: Resurrection

Original Screenplay

FADE IN. EXT – Forest clearing. BLACK AND WHITE. A

version of the scene audiences know and love from the
first movie – but subtly different.

BAMBI runs into the clearing where his mother is locked

in deadly battle with six hunters. Whilst her kung-fu
skills are easily a match for any of the humans, the
sheer weight of numbers is starting to wear her down.

BAMBI’S MOTHER
Get out of here Bambi, there’s too many of them – I can’t
hold them back much longer.

BAMBI’S MOTHER somersaults onto the back of one of her

assailants and uses him as a human shield, blocking a
spray of machinegun fire with his torso.

Flinging the corpse at another hunter she leaps to her

left, sinking her razor sharp deer teeth (RESEARCH NOTE:
CHECK DEER TEETH ARE RAZOR SHARP) into the nearest
combatant’s neck, tearing his jugular effortlessly.

BAMBI’S MOTHER
Sometimes I can be a real pain in the neck!

As the hunter’s lifeless body drops, fountaining blood

from the neck wound, BAMBI’S MOTHER is hit by several
bullets. Blood sprays over the grass at her feet.

BAMBI’S MOTHER
Motherfucker!
She staggers slightly but regains her balance, and whips
her hind legs into the air, cracking the skull of an
approaching hunter, cartwheeling across the blood stained
clearing she grabs two revolvers from the floor before
flipping into a dive (SLOW MOTION).

Bringing the two guns up as she flies towards a hunter

she blasts fist-sized holes in his body – she is hit in
the neck as this takes place. The hunter’s lifeless body
flies through the air (SLOW MOTION) and smacks into a
tree.

BAMBI’S MOTHER
Consider your hunting license revoked.
Suddenly there is a gunshot; a bullet tears through
BAMBI’S MOTHER’s back, literally creating an explosion of
blood as it exits.

BAMBI’S MOTHER
My spine!

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 BAMBI
Mother!

BAMBI races towards his mother who has crumpled to the

grass in a widening pool of blood, BAMBI slips in the
blood as he draws near. (NOTE: THIS IS NOT SUPPOSED TO
APPEAR FUNNY OR CUTE)

BAMBI’S MOTHER
I’m... okay...it’s a fleshwound.

She vomits a frightening amount of blood. The FACELESS

HUNTER approaches, reloading his smoking shotgun. He
stands over the bullet ridden body of BAMBI’S MOTHER.

FACELESS HUNTER
What kind of monster are you? You took out five of my
best men!

BAMBI’S MOTHER
One day, one of my kind is gonna find you, and when they
do they’re gonna kill you, your family and everyone you
love!

BAMBI’S MOTHER spits a gob of blood at the FACELESS

HUNTER and bares her teeth at him. He levels the gun at
her head.

FACELESS HUNTER
I can live with that.

The FACELESS HUNTER fires at point blank range. BAMBI’s

MOTHER’s head explodes elaborately, splattering brains
over BAMBI and the camera.

Sound of gunshot CUTS TO:

INT. PRESENT DAY. Cave, straw lined floor, close up on

BAMBI’s face - aged, several scars running across it - he
has woken suddenly; the sound of the gunshot combined
with a crash of lightning outside the cave has wrenched
him from his flashback.

It was a nightmare. Rain starts to fall in torrents

outside the cave. To BAMBI’s right lies the sleeping form
of FALINE, BAMBI’s trophy wife and forest queen. BAMBI is
shaking and covered in sweat.

Getting to his feet he staggers towards the mouth of the

cave, formidable antlers scraping against the rock walls.
He has clearly been drinking heavily. Lightning crashes
again.

Reaching the exit, BAMBI is immediately drenched with the

mercifully cool rain, it lashes down around him as he
stumbles out into the muddy clearing.

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Dropping to his knees BAMBI throws his head back and
screams.

BAMBI
Vengeance!

A crash of lightning, more rain. Camera begins to draw

away, upwards into the rainstorm.

BAMBI
VENGEANCE!

He collapses into a sobbing heap as the camera moves

further away, the desperate sound of the orphan deer’s
sobs drowning in the downpour of the storm.

MYSTERIOUS VOICE
Bambi!

BAMBI’s drunken sob catches in his throat, he is

startled, bewildered. He looks around furtively.

BAMBI
Who said that? Is that you Mr Owl?!

MYSTERIOUS VOICE
Bambi! Listen to me Bambi!

BAMBI
Who are you?

MYSTERIOUS VOICE
Do you not recognize your own kin?

BAMBI
M...mother? It cannot be! You’re dead! I buried you
myself! And kept your fragmented skull on my mantle-piece
as a grim reminder of the price we pay to rule these
woods. I also kept your ribcage but, to be honest, I
don’t really understand why.

MYSTERIOUS VOICE
Indeed, but the grave is no barrier to those who do not
rest in peace!

Suddenly a terrifying apparition forms before BAMBI,

solidify into the face of his dead mother. There is a
huge chunk missing from the shotgun wound at the side of
her face, from which blood occasionally squirts in an
amusing fashion.

BAMBI falls back and squeals like a girl.

BAMBI
Mother! It is you! But what fell deed has brought you
here?

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 BAMBI’S MOTHER’S GHOST
A deed you yourself have come to realise my son. A deed
so foul that- wait, you kept my ribcage? Why?

BAMBI
Because...

BAMBI’S MOTHER’S GHOST

I can understand keeping my skull but the ribcage...? I
mean, how did you get it out? Because surely you would
have had to wait for my corpse to decay sufficiently-

BAMBI
No, Thumper helped me pull it out.

BAMBI’S MOTHER’S GHOST

Why? Why would you do that?

BAMBI
Don’t know; we didn’t have anything else to do.

BAMBI’S MOTHER’S GHOST

Jesus. What did you do with it?

BAMBI
I think it’s in the cave. We use it as a letter rack.

BAMBI’S MOTHER’S GHOST

Okay...Well could you bury it with the rest of my
remains? When you get a chance?

BAMBI
Sure. Sorry about that, I’d actually forgotten about it.
You know how it is - you pass something everyday of your
life and you kind of forget it’s there. It’s just ‘the
letter rack’ now; you forget it’s your mother’s ribcage.

BAMBI’S MOTHER’S GHOST

Anyway, the point is – those dreams you’ve been having
about me getting killed?

BAMBI
Yep.
BAMBI’S MOTHER’S GHOST
They basically mean that I want you to go and find my
killer and get bloody revenge for my death.
BAMBI
So it shall be. I will travel to the hated city and
dispense unforgiving woodland justice to all who stand in
my way. Soon the humans will know a fear they could not
have imagined in their most heinous fantasies, and that
fear shall be the name ‘Bambi’.

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 BAMBI’S MOTHER’S GHOST
I also want to include a subplot about you going finding
Thumper who’s gone missing in the city - think you’ll
have time for that too?

BAMBI
Er, yeah – should do.

BAMBI’S MOTHER’S GHOST

Then it is done. Soon I will sleep the blessed sleep of
the avenged; no more will demons haunt my cursed
consciousness, no more will I roam lost through the ether
– avenge me Bambi! AVENGE ME!

BAMBI’S MOTHER’S GHOST fades slowly into nothing. The

first strains of sunlight flit on the horizon. BAMBI
stands and gazes off at the rising sun. Somewhere out
there is the FACELESS HUNTER, living smugly in decadence
and luxury. Rolling around, fat and avaricious, on
deerskin blankets; arteries clogged with the meat of
countless slain woodland folk.

BAMBI’S eyes narrow, in the distance the hazy outline of

a cityscape stands out.

BAMBI
Looks like Hunting Season just opened... on the human
race.

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Following the enigmatic clues he found in Thumper’s
abandoned warren, Bambi’s search leads him to a rundown,
disreputable area of the city known only for its high
incidence of substance abuse and gang rape.
EXT. The city. Alleyway, gloomy and rundown. Skyscrapers
loom high on all sides. BAMBI walks tentatively down the
alley.
BAMBI
Thumper! Thumper! Come out, I know you’re here – I
followed the clues you left under the enchanted oak tree.
There is silence. Suddenly there is a crash from the end
of the alley, BAMBI turns and trots towards the sound.

BAMBI
Thumper, I know it’s you. I could track you to the other
side of the world. Come on out, my old woodland friend.

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From behind a trashcan we hear a familiar voice.

THUMPER
Did...did you bring it? The package, did you bring it?!

BAMBI
You mean the one I found under the enchanted oak tree?
Yes of course I did, just like the treasure map you left
told me too!

There is a rustling from behind the trashcan. A steady,

rhythmic thumping begins, growing louder and faster.

BAMBI
Good old Thumper! I don’t know what you could possibly
want with this little parcel though; it’s just full of
needles and a rubber strap...!

With an ear-splitting, feral screech THUMPER jumps from

behind the trashcan and flies at BAMBI. THUMPER’S eyes
are red and staring, he foams at the mouth and his fur is
soiled with unspeakable stains. He has lost half of one
ear.

THUMPER bowls BAMBI over and scrabbles madly for the

package. Grasping it, he scurries to the far side of the
alley, struggling to wrap the rubber strap around his
arm, before beating frantically at his forearm until a
vein pops to the surface.

BAMBI
Oh Thumper, you always were a strange little rabbit!
THUMPER doesn’t reply; his breath comes in ragged gasps,
his foot beats at an insane rate. He grabs one of the
needles and plunges it into his arm.
His eyes roll up into his head and eventually the
thumping slows.

THUMPER
Oh god...

BAMBI
Th...Thumper?

THUMPER
Oh...god.
THUMPER begins to slide down the wall until he is
slouched on the floor. A detached grin creeps across
THUMPER’s face, he drools slightly from the corner of his
mouth.

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 THUMPER
What have I become...? Bambi, what am I? I am no
rabbit... I’m a joke! A sick fucking joke!

BAMBI
Thumper, you’ve got a problem, but we can get through
this.

THUMPER
I don’t know Bambi, I’m a crack addict...do you know what
that means?! Do you know the things I’ve done to get like
this?! Can you even imagine...? I’ve seen God, Bambi,
I’ve seen him, and do you know what the scariest thing
is...? He doesn’t give a fuck.

BAMBI
You may be a crack addict, but you’re still the same
Thumper I knew all those years ago. Underneath all those
peculiar white stains, is your fur not still grey?
Despite all those painful bouts of the ‘shakes’, does
your foot not still thump?

THUMPER
I...I don’t know...maybe.

BAMBI
Come on Thumper! Are you a wretched, fucked up, crack-
addicted rabbit-whore? Or are you a mean motherfucking
bunny rabbit?!

THUMPER
I’m...I’m a rabbit.

BAMBI
I can’t hear you?!
THUMPER
I’m a mean motherfucking bunny rabbit!

BAMBI
Now let’s go kick some ass!

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INT. ‘VEALCORP’ HEADQUARTERS. Day - BAMBI and THUMPER are
pressed up against the wall in the lobby of ‘VEALCORP’,
the multi-national conglomerate that acts as the legal
face of the FACELESS HUNTER’s nefarious, unethical meat-
pushing ring.

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In the background, the bodies of a VEALCORP SWAT TEAM lie
bloodied and motionless; many are missing body parts,
mostly heads – although THUMPER’s necklace is sporting a
few freshly-severed fingers.

BAMBI and THUMPER are armed to the teeth. THUMPER carries

his trademark samurai sword; unsheathed and slick with
blood. BAMBI holds an M4 Assault Rifle, equipped with
M203 Grenade Launcher, the barrel is still smoking. Both
struggle under the weight of several ammo-belts.

THUMPER
I never would have guessed that Faline, your own wife,
was a ‘Vealcorp Deathbot’ all along.

BAMBI
No, neither would I.

THUMPER
Nor would I have guessed that it
ordered the hit on your mother,
dissent over his involvement in
operating out of our own
was your own father who
in order to silence her
the meat-pushing ring,
woodland glade!

BAMBI
Which is why I had to kill him too.

THUMPER
I know, I was there. Additionally I want to thank you for
pulling me out of the fetid, drug-induced hell that my
life had become; living hour by hour for the feeling of
sweet oblivion that only a dirty needle could deliver. I
love you Bambi, and before we do this thing I wanted you
to know that.

BAMBI
I love you too Thumper. You’re the greatest friend a deer
could ever have.

BAMBI risks a look around the wall against which they are
hiding. Beyond the grey tiled floor, through the smoky
haze of hundreds of spent shell-casings, is the heavily
armoured door of the FACELESS HUNTER’s inner sanctum.
BAMBI slams a new clip into his rifle.

BAMBI
Lock and load!
Int. The inner sanctum. A well decorated office, covered
in the pelts and heads of various woodland creatures.
(PRODUCER’S NOTE: MAYBE WE CAN HAVE SOME CAMEOS FROM THE
FIRST MOVIE AMONGST THE STUFFED CORPSES – AS A NOD TO THE
FANS?)

In one section of the room lie dozens of fresh deer

carcases, ready to be distributed to the hundreds of
veal-dealers in the city.

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The room is packed with black clothed members of the
VEALCORP SWAT TEAM, their weapons pointing nervously at
the reinforced steel door.

The FACELESS HUNTER stands impassively behind them. His

genetically enhanced muscles ripple under the metal
braces of his armoured exo-skeleton.

A SECURITY GUARD stares intently at a monitor at the back

of the room, suddenly he jumps up from his desk.

SECURITY GUARD
Oh my god, here they come!

The reinforced door blasts open in an earth-shaking

explosion, bodies are messily vaporised in the blast and
others are tossed like rag-dolls into the air (NOTE: some
should get impaled on things)

Through the clearing smoke emerge two silhouettes.

BAMBI
Knock knock!

BAMBI releases a withering hail of fire, and dozens of

the VEALCORP SWAT TEAM die screaming.

THUMPER leaps into the fray, sword dancing through the

air, blood erupting in clouds behind him. When he lands
he thrusts his sword upwards into the belly of a
terrified officer who howls in agony.

THUMPER
Get the point!

BAMBI is cutting his way through dozens of the SWAT team

with bursts of gunfire. Ahead of him stands the FACELESS
HUNTER, his sophisticated exo-skeleton beeping and
hissing mechanically.

THUMPER has been driven into the corner by one of the

feared SWAT TEAM NINJAs. They trade a complicated series
of blows and karate moves before the NINJA wrests
thumper’s sword from him and kicks him into the pile of
butchered deer carcasses. THUMPER lies prone.

NINJA
Run rabbit, run rabbit, run, run, run. Here comes the
ninja with his samurai sword!

THUMPER
I’m sorry; I think we got off on the wrong foot. My
name’s Thumper...

Behind his back, THUMPER’s hand closes over a leg of

lamb.

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 THUMPER
Nice to MEAT you!

THUMPER brains the overconfident ninja with one blow from

the leg of veal. Brains go everywhere.

THUMPER
Did not know who he was fucking with.

BAMBI
Thumper, he’s getting away!

The FACELESS HUNTER has disappeared through a secret

passage, his laughter echoes round the room.

THUMPER
Go Bambi, I’ll take care of this!

BAMBI races off down the tunnel, leaving THUMPER to

finish off the any surviving Vealcorp guards.
Another NINJA leaps from the shadows, blade twirling
skilfully.

NINJA
You’re gonna pay for what you did to my partner, rabbit.
I’m gonna cut you up so small, you won’t even be fit for
stew!

THUMPER
You know something my father always used to tell me?
If you can’t say something nice...

THUMPER whips a deadly looking throwing knife from his

belt and launches it through the air. It catches the
NINJA directly in the mouth and pins him messily to the
far wall.

THUMPER
Don’t say nothing at all!
The NINJA gurgles and dies.

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Ext. Rooftop of the VEALCORP skyscraper. The FACELESS
HUNTER clings desperately to the end of a huge industrial
crane. His exo-skeleton is battered and heavily damaged
from the unbelievably spectacular fight he has just had.

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Thousands of feet below, onlookers gather to witness the
extraordinary spectacle taking place at the end of the
crane.

BAMBI hovers, metres away, in his Harrier Jump Jet,

stinger missiles levelled at the FACELESS HUNTER.

FACELESS HUNTER
This is madness! Join me, and together we can rule the
world of illicit meat trading! No-one could stand before
us!

BAMBI
What about the pain and suffering?! Don’t you ever stop
to think about that? Thousands of kids worldwide, hooked
on illegal meat, hollow eyed and shaking - stealing money
from parent’s wallets, selling themselves on street
corners just to pay for their next meat-fix. There’s your
madness Hunter!

FACELESS HUNTER
Think about the money Bambi, you’d be rich beyond your
wildest dreams! You could move out of your woodland hovel
and into a nice apartment! Have mercy – you’ll be my
right hand man; you’ll have a forty nine percent share in
Vealcorp!

BAMBI
What about all those baby deers!

FACELESS HUNTER
Forget about them! What do you say?

BAMBI
No deal Hunter. Besides, I’ve a feeling your stock’s
about to CRASH!

BAMBI fires both stinger missiles at the base of the

crane and there is yet another spectacular explosion. The
crane begins to topple earthwards.

FACELESS HUNTER
NOOOOOO! Curse you Bambi! Curse you!
BAMBI
Sorry you couldn’t hang around!

The crane crashes to the ground. People flee in all

directions. The FACELESS HUNTER’S screams persevere,
growing quieter and quieter until, with a muted smash,
the crane impacts with the earth.

Ext. Evening. The city lies on the horizon, BAMBI and

THUMPER make their way down an old country road. The
forest looms green and welcoming before them.

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 BAMBI
What an adventure we’ve had!

THUMPER
I confronted the darkness in my soul old friend.

BAMBI
I think we all did Thumper, I think there’s a little bit
of darkness in all of us. Every time I pulled the
trigger, every time I heard the splatter of blood against
the wall, even the pain of every blow I endured... well,
a little bit of me rejoiced Thumper. A little bit of me
enjoyed it.

THUMPER
Can things ever go back to the way they were? I’ve killed
people, Bambi, lots of people. How do we go on after
everything we’ve done?

BAMBI
We just have to take it day by day, Thumper. Day by day.

Camera pans upwards from the two forest pals, up past the
forest, past the tree-line and into the warm evening sky.
As the scene fades out a deep booming laughter echoes in
the air – the laughter of the FACELESS HUNTER!

THE END?

Fade to black.
Credits roll.

FOR PRODUCTION NOTES PLEASE SEE BELOW.

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Production notes:
- Early drafts have Thumper dying of his drug
addiction – this didn’t play well with the
fans; they felt as though childhood
memories were being betrayed.

- Several title changes: Bambi: Bloodlust,

Bambi: The Reckoning, Bambi 2, Bambi Part
2, Bambi: Episode 2. A particular favourite
for a long time was ‘Bambi 2: The Revenge’
– this was changed at a late stage since
the director didn’t think ‘revenge’ was a
trait Bambi embodied.

- Idea was to always leave the door open for

a sequel; fans always felt that Disney
didn’t do enough to address Thumper’s
obvious drug problem in the first movie.
Fortunately this is explored with a lot
more depth and maturity in the sequel. Walt
Disney made no secret of his vision for
Bambi as a trilogy of movies charting the
rise and fall of the self-proclaimed
‘Forest King’. Unfortunately Disney died
before he could see his vision become a
reality.

- Early drafts featured an appearance of

Bambi’s other woodland chum ‘Flower’ the
skunk, as a city crack-whore. Producers
felt she was too similar a character to
Thumper – possibility of appearing in the
next movie?

- The idea for the story is actually based on

true events – in 1986, a stag managed to
make its way across several city blocks in
downtown LA, injuring several people before
it wandered onto the interstate and was hit
by a lorry. The film is dedicated to that
stag.

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