Hannibal Rising

Started by Keener, May 16, 2003, 07:00:20 PM

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Keener

May 16, 2003, 07:00:20 PM
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.

I love The Silence of the Lambs.
I love Hannibal.
I love Red Dragon.

I have a bad feeling about this one.
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oakmanc234

#1
May 17, 2003, 04:25:25 AM
Same here. Anything to do with Lecter but not Hopkins holds NOOOOOOO interest with me.
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meatwad

#2
May 17, 2003, 09:04:02 AM
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







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Gold Trumpet

#3
May 17, 2003, 10:30:41 AM
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

Keener

#4
May 17, 2003, 11:43:16 AM
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.
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godardian

#5
May 17, 2003, 12:30:39 PM
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.
""Money doesn't come into it. It never has. I do what I do because it's all that I am." - Morrissey

"Lacan stressed more and more in his work the power and organizing principle of the symbolic, understood as the networks, social, cultural, and linguistic, into which a child is born. These precede the birth of a child, which is why Lacan can say that language is there from before the actual moment of birth. It is there in the social structures which are at play in the family and, of course, in the ideals, goals, and histories of the parents. This world of language can hardly be grasped by the newborn and yet it will act on the whole of the child's existence."

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Ernie

#6
May 17, 2003, 02:52:45 PM
Boooooorrrrring.

Silence=good

Hannibal=bad

Haven't seen Red Dragon...not in a hurry to either.

oakmanc234

#7
May 17, 2003, 04:57:57 PM
keener wrote: I didn't like Manhunter at all. Mann went on to do much better things.

'Manhunter' is truly over-rated as hell.
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MacGuffin

#8
May 17, 2003, 05:02:35 PM
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?
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sphinx

#9
May 17, 2003, 05:05:11 PM
damon did a great lecter, indeed.

Ernie

#10
May 17, 2003, 09:47:49 PM
Oh my god, I totally forgot about that. That was indeed hilarious. Matt Damon can really be funny, I like him.

RegularKarate

#11
May 18, 2003, 12:43:32 AM
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.

Keener

#12
May 19, 2003, 03:19:55 PM
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 !"
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MacGuffin

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August 26, 2003, 09:54:49 AM
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.
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markums2k

#14
August 26, 2003, 10:29:21 AM
So, this takes place before Manhunter/Red Dragon, but after The Good Son.

Working title might be, Home Alone 4: Lost in Entrails.
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