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Euro-AICN's ace reporter Ozymandias looks behind the scenes at HANNIBAL
This just in to Father Geek here at AICN World Headquarters in Austin, Texas. You know these Euro-AICN reports are really adding up, there's been over 30 of them now. I seem to have picked the right guys to run our Paris offices...
Euro AICN here with some news sent by our Irish friend
Ozymandias... three different kind of news, but all
linked to HANNIBAL... As I am probably the only
"non-fan" of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, I can't understand
why everyone is so excited about that movie (go ahead
and flame me)... but maybe it's because I am not a big
Jodie Foster fan,... I only liked the part with
Anthony Hopkins in SILENCE... so this one could be a
good surprise. Anyway, here're the news :
Ozymandias... three different kind of news, but all
linked to HANNIBAL...
As I am probably the only
"non-fan" of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, I can't understand
why everyone is so excited about that movie (go ahead
and flame me)... but maybe it's because I am not a big
Jodie Foster fan,... I only liked the part with
Anthony Hopkins in SILENCE... so this one could be a
good surprise. Anyway, here're the news :
1. Politicians in Florence are calling for filming of
the sequel to Silence of the Lambs to be halted amid
fears Dr Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter's gruesome
reputation will haunt the city. Director Ridley
Scott's film crew for Hannibal, starring Sir Anthony
Hopkins as the cannibalistic psychiatrist Hannibal
Lecter and Julianne Moore as FBI agent Clarice
Starling, had been welcomed to Florence by its mayor.
But controversy has hit plans to film a gory murder in
the ornate Salon of the Lilies in the city's Palazzo
Vecchio - a partial re-enactment of a killing which
actually took place there in 1478. The local Greens
and the Popular Party have lodged an official
objection to the shooting, which is due to begin on
Thursday, in an open letter to the mayor. The letter
says: "This will add nothing to Florence's world
prestige. "We believe that instead...the city would
become the setting for morbid thrills and vulgar
horror." The letter asks the mayor, Leonardo Domenici,
to cancel permission to shoot inside the 13th century
palace.
2. There are rumblings that producer Dino De
Laurentiis is contemplating a prequel to Silence of
the Lambs should Hannibal be a box office hit.
According to the BBC, De Laurentiis is looking to do
another film version of Thomas Harris' Red Dragon,
which Michael Mann filmed in 1986 as Manhunter.
3. From today's Popcorn check out some behind the
scenes shots from the Hannibal shoot in Florence - I
know it's just Tony Hopkins, Ridley Scott and a bunch
of lads standing around and posing, but
ooooooohhhhhhh........
Just Click Here to see the pics.
Remember send us all your Euro-scoops, scripts, festival news, or whatever. Just contact Edgard, or Darth Bond and we'll fill you in on how to get the necessary items to us.
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This movie is going to bight...just like the book bit...Hollywood producers should start searching for some fresh ideas, instead of having every big budget movie based on a comic book, television series, book, or older movie.
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RyeGuy: how exactly does a college student manage to misspell the word "bite"? Is this one of the reasons we should take your opinion the least bit seriously?
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If you're interested, there's a great little interview with David Fincher here:http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/fightclub/fincherinterview.html
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To tell me something I read in my local paper yesterday.
Though, I shouldn't be surprised most of the news here is recycled.
But what the hell, the animated Harrys are fun and about once a week an actual scoop pops up here.
Keep trying, guys. No one can hold THAT against ya. -
May 11, 2000 2:44:09 PM CDT
Will Graham AWOL, "Hannibal"'s convention-busting, and Ridley Sc
by alexandra dupont
I personally was a bit disappointed that Will Graham (the lead character in the vastly-superior-to-both-its-sequels
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Manhunter was a good film but Brian Cox better than Hopkins? Gimme a break. His performance was the opposite of scenery-chewing. The power of it was in his stillness and how you could see the wheels turning behind his eyes. Besides managing the awesome task of creating a sympathetic character out of an evil psychotic, he also created an iconic and unforgettable character in film.
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The only way I could ever take a remake of Manhunter seriously would be if Michael Mann were to direct it again. That would be absolutely incredible!!! But it'll never happen. Directors like Mann don't come along every day and I think I'd rather see what else he has in store for us that see him do the same movie twice. (then again, look at the brilliance we got when he remade LA Takedown......I'm so torn!!)
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...have faith! And let's hope scenery isn't the only thing Hopkin's will be chewing on...
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Before this movie opens!! What a horrible movie this is going to be. Hopkins is about 80 years old and shouldn't be playing this role again. The book was really terrible, and those of you who are apologists for the book need to read it again. Besides an interesting writing style, at times, the plot and characters are horrible. Making "Hannibal the Cannibal" a romantic character, like Lestat, just didn't work. The movie will be hokey and NOT scary, especially taking all of Lector's mystery away. The only bright spot is that the ending's being changed from the book. *sigh* Next we'll see a Braveheart sequel, or maybe the Usual Suspects II, Electric Boogaloo.
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What is the purpose of remaking good movies??? WHY????????????? Why why why why why? The only thing I can think of is money, I guess that kinda makes sense. But there MUST be good original scripts out there. NEW franchises to start. New ideas, without cliches or homages or adaptations of novels. Where do you think all these ideas came from in the first place? The first Indiana Jones movie was not a sequel or a prequel, but I'd bet my life somebody's glad they tried out something new. And Hollywood: if you're really starving for good original scripts, email me and I will write the damn things for you for free, just so I can do my part to bring back imagination to the movie biz. Ok?
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Like another poster here, I find it pretty funny how so many people post statements like "this is going to bite" (or "bight", if you're a college student I guess ;-) for movies they haven't seen - but I digress. Hannibal is based on what was, I thought, a great book (no, not as good as SOTL or especially RD, but still great), is being helmed by a master director, and has a fantastic cast (I think Julianne Moore was the perfect choice to replace Jodie Foster). I think it should be obvious to anyone with 2 neurons to rub together that the potential is definitely there for a terrific yarn. If only they'd had the guts to keep the ending intact!
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May 12, 2000 7:48:55 AM CDT
OK, if they *do* remake "Red Dragon", who should play Will Graha
by hootdad
Personally, although I liked Manhunter, I found it to be somewhat lacking as an adaptation of what is one of my favorite books. If it *is* remade, however, I don't have any real good thoughts on who should play Will Graham - except the obvious choice of Casper Van Dien. JOKING! The producers would likely avoid a big star, but I would hope they wouldn't choose some unknown, young pretty-boy to play the burned-out cop. Any thoughts?
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Petersen was excellent as the FBI agent, Farina was excellent as his boss, the tooth fairy was excellent, Cox was excellent, escpecially as he didn't brag abut liver, fava beans and friggin chianti tth tth tth tth tth. When Petersen goes after the killer, what song are they going to play when he burst through the window carrying the shotgun. There is no replacement for In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida for that scene IMHO.
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Once the Harris apologists came out and declared Hannibal a "gothic horror romance" or some such bazzfazz, I realized the book was a disaster on most every level. Harris is a crime novelist. Any questions? Good. To suddenly declare that Harris' sequel to his terrific psychological crime novel was actually a quasi-romantic monster chiller horror theatre novel was so much backpedaling. Since the book is so thematically confused, the film, unless rewritten practically whole cloth, will be no damn good. And, really, I love Thomas Harris. His first three books were lean models of psychological tension. Hannibal was just a mess. It read like it had been sitting in a drawer minus the last ten pages, which were dashed off after a glass of absinthe on the limo ride over to turn in the manuscript. The film is doomed because 1) the book was no good and 2) Anthony Hopkins couldn't find subtlety in a dictionary. Peace.
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that any one found the book Hannibal good? It was HORRIBLE!! It had nothing in the spirit of the first 2 books!! It is Harris' vanity that created this book, not an interesting plot or continuation of the series. I can see Harris, much like George Lucas, sitting behind a computer smirking at his own genious as he wrote this book. And, as stated by some one else above, when did this series become a romantic horror? You might as well had Hannibal get frozen in ice, only to get thawed out in the year 2323!! Making Hannibal a sci-fi book would have been caomparable to what it turned out being!!
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"What people want in a sequel is the same movie - only different" Everyone who has bashed Hannibal seems to prescribe to that way of thinking. Harris took beloved characters, twisted them around in surprising ways, and delivered a sequel that NOBODY expected. HOW DARE HE! I, for one, thought it showed unusual guts to write a book that was so different from what most of his audience wanted, or expected. Everyone shouts "Give us something unique! Be daring! Challenge us!" Yet, when the author does just that, he is bashed for ruining beloved characters. Do I think it was his best work? Absolutely not, though arguably better than Black Sunday (I haven't read it in a long time.) And yes, I had some problems with the book (he really *did* need an editor.) However, it had so much going for it that I still give it a thumbs-up. Unfortunately, two of my favorite aspects of the book (the ending and the flash backs to Hannibals childhood) will, apparently, be cut from the movie. Too bad.
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May 12, 2000 4:08:07 PM CDT
THE REWARDING CONCLUSION: Will Graham - Who else could hunt down
by nightsir
The reason why Graham did not appear in "Hannibal" is obvious. Think about it. Harris will want to conclude his Lecter-series, given his age and, to a degree, Hopkins age, ...and in good fashion, and what better way could there be towards that goal than to bring back the retired hero Graham to go for the loving couple, who now is on it's ultimate killing spree? I see a lot of potential in that storyline. Have Lecter and Starling become bored and drop the FBI a little, disgusting hint about Starlings involvement, just to get the game running again. With Crawford gone, Graham would be only one who could take on these two devils. And the big showdown is so screamingly on hand: The man, who doesn't want to go to these oh so dark places in people's minds anymore, aka Graham, searching, finding and terminating a couple, who has been looking to be killed for some time now. And hell shall be unleashed on them... Can't wait!
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Will Graham hunting down Hannibal and Clarice? SIGN ME UP!
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I agree that Hannibal's abrupt and shocking ending (which they should keep for the film) is probably the tip-off that Harris is writing the conclusion now. I don't know if Will Graham will be involved - as Harris already cut him out of SOTL I think it's safe to assume Graham bores him now. Barney's sighting of Lecter and Starling could lead to Ardelia's joining the hunt - and Harris took pains to build up Ardelia's character, so she logically would be the hunter this time out. I also think Lecter & Starling will turn out to have led blameless lives since the Krendler episode, thereby making Ardelia's decision to pursue and terminate them more morally ambiguous, something Harris obviously loves - unlike the average Talkback poster. Harris built up the ambiguous nature of Clarice and Ardelia's relationship which could bring up all sorts of questions about what is motivating Ardelia: justice, honor, sexual jealousy, revenge? It will be interesting to see if Harris presents us with Son of Lecter which would complicate Ardelia's pursuit. At the beginning of Hannibal, a white woman - Starling - kills an African American woman with a baby in her arms, symmetry (which Harris also loves) requires....
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