The 'Young Hannibal' set to showcase Lecter's childhood
Nope. That's not a misprint. Filmmaker Dino De Laurentiis let the cat out of the bag this week at the Cannes Film Festival.
Apparently, novelist Thomas Harris is busy putting the final touches on The Lecter Variation: The Story Of Young Hannibal. The story allegedly follows the young cannibal from his childhood in World War II Lithuania to his immigration to the United States to his transformation into everyone's favorite cannibalistic killer.
No cast has been set, but it appears that Anthony Hopkins, who has played Lecter in three previous movies, will not be reprising the role of Hannibal Lecter...unless he's got a fountain of youth stashed away somewhere.
...sad. (http://www.videoeta.com/news/1440)
I love The Silence of the Lambs.
I love Hannibal.
I love Red Dragon.
I have a bad feeling about this one.
Same here. Anything to do with Lecter but not Hopkins holds NOOOOOOO interest with me.
you can't push it too far. They pushed this franchise to end. If they make this film, it will tarnish the whole group of films
//www.thestate22.com
Given the fact that Hopkins starred in the two very bad movies on Hannibal Lector and the early one was actually quite good and didn't have Hopkins, I can't see this as either good or bad news. It's the continuing destruction of a great serial killer that should have been represented only in Silence of the Lambs.
~rougerum
I didn't like Manhunter at all. Mann went on to do much better things.
And Harris really is milking this too much. He's a terrific writer but he should find something new to do.
Quote from: KeenerI didn't like Manhunter at all. Mann went on to do much better things.
And Harris really is milking this too much. He's a terrific writer but he should find something new to do.
But it's so.... much.... money.... It sounds like a terrible movie to me, too. But I understand why he's not finding something else. No paperback royalties could ever compare to the money you can get from Hollywood. Oddly enough, along those very lines, I expect my DVD of
Barton Fink today. Not that Harris is any Faulkner.
Boooooorrrrring.
Silence=good
Hannibal=bad
Haven't seen Red Dragon...not in a hurry to either.
keener wrote: I didn't like Manhunter at all. Mann went on to do much better things.
'Manhunter' is truly over-rated as hell.
Doesn't this remind anyone of that SNL skit when Matt Damon hosted and played a young Lecter in college and his roommates picked on him and gave him wedgies?
damon did a great lecter, indeed.
Oh my god, I totally forgot about that. That was indeed hilarious. Matt Damon can really be funny, I like him.
If memory serves correctly, that was a post-update skit... right?
Most of those suck... that one did too (too unfunny)... but it does come to mind when I think of this project.
Quote from: oakmanc234'Manhunter' is truly over-rated as hell.
Thank you. I was starting to think I was the only one who saw that.
Quote from: MacGuffinDoesn't this remind anyone of that SNL skit when Matt Damon hosted and played a young Lecter in college and his roommates picked on him and gave him wedgies?
Holy crap...it's like Harris was watching and thought "Hmmm...I could make that work !"
Macaulay Culkin as a Young Hannibal Lecter?
Source: Bloody-Disgusting, Hot Dog Magazine
Bloody-Disgusting tells us that an article in Hot Dog Magazine says producer Dino De Laurentiis is interested in casting Macaulay Culkin in The Lecter Variation after seeing his performance in Party Monster.
While this casting has not been confirmed, Lecter's creator, Thomas Harris, is plotting the film which follows the serial killer from his childhood in Lithuania through a period in Paris in his teens to his arrival in the US. De Laurentiis said that four actors will be required to play young Lecter at the ages of 12, 16, 20 and 25.
"Lecter was born into a very rich family but the war destroyed his family and killed his parents," explained De Laurentiis. "He was left with his sister with whom he had a very close relationship."
Universal is likely to again distribute the movie whose title refers to Bach's Goldberg Variations which have been a recurring musical reference in the Lecter saga to date.
So, this takes place before Manhunter/Red Dragon, but after The Good Son.
Working title might be, Home Alone 4: Lost in Entrails.
loved SOTL
loved Manhunter
liked Hannibal
watched Red Dragon
Hungry for More Hannibal?
The insatiable Dr. Lecter is coming back for more--on screen and in bookstores.
Random House announced a fall 2005 publication date Thursday for author Thomas Harris' latest Lecter novel, Behind the Mask.
In a statement, Richard Cable, managing director of the Random House Division of the Random House Group, hinted that the tale was a prequel.
"Millions of readers in 25 languages have wondered how Dr. Lecter developed his particular appetite for evil," Cable said. "This novel will satisfy their curiosity."
The book's movie rights have already been snapped up by producer Dino DeLaurentiis, who served up Hannibal and Red Dragon.
It's believed Behind the Mask is the source material for a DeLaurentiis project that has been previously referred to as The Lecter Variations.
Like Behind the Mask, The Lecter Variations is billed as a prequel.
In May, Ain't It Cool News posted a fan account of a DeLaurentiis appearance in which the legendary impresario was said to have promised his new Lecter movie would depict the bad doctor as a budding teenaged cannibal.
The story of the young Hannibal Lecter would seem to preclude Anthony Hopkins, age 66, from reacquiring his taste for fava beans and flesh.
Hopkins won the Best Actor Oscar for licking his chops as Lecter in 1991's The Silence of the Lambs. He was back in man-eating form in 2001's Hannibal and 2002's Red Dragon.
All told, the four Hannibal Lecter films, including 1986's Manhunter, the first big-screen take on Harris' Red Dragon novel, have grossed nearly $400 million, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com.
Red Dragon, the first Lecter tale, was published in 1981, followed by The Silence of the Lambs in 1988 and Hannibal in 1999.
Hannibal took such a grisly turn that Jodie Foster, the big-screen's original Clarice Starling, dropped out of the sequel. Julianne Moore took over her FBI agent badge.
Red Dragon was sans Starling altogether, but not stars. Ralph Fiennes and Edward Norton costarred.
behind the mask
huh.
Webber Takes on Hannibal the Cannibal
New Thomas Harris-penned sequel focuses on why the infamous cannibal began to feed on his victims.
Producers Dino and Martha De Laurentiis, who have acquired the rights to Thomas Harris' upcoming Hannibal Lecter prequel, Behind the Mask, have set Girl with a Pearl Earring helmer Peter Webber to direct the film adaptation of the novel. The project, for which locations are being scouted in Lithuania, the Czech Republic and Paris, should begin production in May for a summer 2006 release.
Delacorte announced that the new Lecter novel will be out next fall. The story is an expansion of one passage in Hannibal. The passage explains that Lecter watched as his young sister was killed and then eaten by a group of hungry soldiers in war-torn Lithuania during World War II. The revenge story explains to audiences how Lecter became a cannibal and continues to build both an aversion and sympathy for the character, who kills and eats those audiences want to see killed.
Universal and MGM, which partnered on both Hannibal and Red Dragon, will get the first crack at the rights to the new project. Harris is said to be writing the screenplay as he continues to hammer out the novel. The producers and director are also now looking for young actors to portray a young Lecter at three pivotal points in his life.
From the Associated Press: Hannibal Lecter Rises Again
A new "Hannibal Lecter" novel, originally scheduled to come out last year, will be published this December.
Thomas Harris' "Hannibal Rising," which tells of the early years of literature's most famous cannibal, is the fourth of the million-selling series that includes "The Silence of the Lambs," made into an Academy-Award winning film starring Anthony Hopkins.
The new book will have a first printing of at least 1.5 million copies.
"Now, in `Hannibal Rising,' readers will at last learn of Lecter's beginnings and will see the evolution of his evil," Irwyn Applebaum, president and publisher of the Bantam Dell Publishing Group, said Tuesday in a statement.
Harris' novel was originally titled "Behind the Mask" and was supposed to come out in the fall of 2005. Applebaum declined comment when asked by The Associated Press why the book took longer than expected, saying, "Sometimes, that's how the process works."
Harris was simultaneously writing the screenplay for a film version of "Hannibal Rising," due in early 2007.
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hannibal in space, anytime now.
I now hate this character. Even Silence has lost it's luster.
Saw just a trailer today and they are marketing it now as a hip horror film...I don't know weather or not that will change before we see the "Official" trailer
German Teaser Trailer here. (http://www.tobis.de/home/site_scripts/filmseite.php?id=101)
laughable, mang!
He had his own mask when he was a kid? For kicks?
ugh, they're turning lecter into Jason
Is Your Name... Hannibal Lecter?
Amazon in the U.K. has posted the new international trailer (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hannibal-Rising/dp/B000LC3P40/sr=11-1/qid=1166637209/ref=sr_11_1/202-9659910-0649414) for MGM and The Weinstein Company's Hannibal Rising, coming to theaters in North America on February 9. Starring Gaspard Ulliel, Gong Li, Rhys Ifans, Richard Brake and Kevin McKidd, the thriller was directed by Peter Webber and written by the book's author, Thomas Harris.
Domestic Trailer here. (http://images.hollywood.com/quicktime/hannibalrise_wei_t_low.mov)