![]() ![]() The narrative also reveals everything from Lecter’s childhood through to his arrival in the United States, meaning it subtracts much of the ambiguity that helped make the Chesapeake Ripper so chilling a decade and a half beforehand. However, that’s all that’s worth writing home about in this origin story, which is a dime-a-dozen revenge thriller depicting Lecter hunting down the Nazis that ate his sister. On screen, Gaspard Ulliel plays the young Lecter at only 22 years old, he matches the menace and measure that defined Anthony Hopkins’ take on the character. Harris penned the book Hannibal Rising and the film’s screenplay, both of which expand upon the cannibal’s backstory that the Hannibal novel whisked through. Hannibal and Red Dragon producer Dino De Laurentiis claims he told the author, “If you don’t do, I will do it with someone else,” which forced into existence a reviled 2006 novel and an even more hated film adaptation the following year. Hannibal Lecter novelist Thomas Harris was essentially blackmailed into writing this prequel. ![]()
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