WHITE ANTLER - An original Lapland giallo screenplay - A Concept Development
WHITE ANTLER WHITE ANTLER An original Lapland giallo screenplay Written by Jani Apukka "Kalifornia Jani"OpenAI Original screenplay draft August 2026 WHITE ANTLER LOGLINE During polar night at a university in Finnish Lapland, a detective, a criminal profiler, and a forensic scientist hunt a ritual murderer who marks carefully chosen victims with a white reindeer symbol—until the evidence exposes a stolen identity, a buried human experiment, and a second figure hidden in every reflection. PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS ELIAS RAUTIO — A Lapland detective who trusts places more than people. DR. LEENA SAARINEN — A Helsinki criminal profiler, rigorous and resistant to superstition. DR. AINO KALLIO / ELINA VESA — A forensic scientist with a perfect memory for evidence and an erased past. RECTOR MIRJA HAKALA — The university’s commanding rector and keeper of its founding secret. JONI PELTOLA — A student podcaster who turns murder into campus mythology. NELLI AHO — A folklore student who unders...