New Hannibal Lecter film? (nope)

[The Dream Master]

Hopkins and Ridley Scott? (http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0786350/)

Sir Anthony Hopkins is teaming up with director Sir Ridley Scott to bring his most infamous villain Hannibal Lecter back to the big screen.

The actor will reprise his cannibalistic serial killer for the fourth time in a second sequel to the 1991 hit film The Silence of the Lambs, for which he won a Best Actor Oscar.

Hopkins also appeared in 2001's Hannibal before starring in the 2002 prequel Red Dragon.

And actress Cate Blanchett has been tipped to take over the role of Clarice Starling after Jodie Foster pulled out to direct Claire Danes in the forthcoming Flora Plum.

A spokesperson for film-makers Universal says, "Hopkins and Scott are both very committed. We like what we've got, and the revised script is really, really good."


First of all, I know it's IMDB, but their news is often reliable (it's not user-submitted like their other material).

Second of all, isn't Ridley Scott attached to like a million other projects? My guess is that he might only be producing.

Regardless, I look forward to it, and I never in a million years expected another one. That said, it'll be great to wash the taste of Hannibal Rising out of my mouth if this happens. :X

[Cody]

Not quite sure where the original source is.

Jodie Foster pulled out to direct Claire Danes in the forthcoming Flora Plum.

Unless Foster is still trying to get that movie back together, that line's copy/pasted straight out of Hannibal press in 2001.

[The Dream Master]

Yeah, like I said, it sounds rather dubious to me. I can't seem to find any more information out there.

[Jus-X]

Well I'm stoked! Kinda wish if they weren't going to have Jodie Foster they would have Julianne Moore since she played Clarice in Hanibal.

[Kane Lives]

Aren't these usually based on Thomas Harris' novels? This would be the first Hannibal story to have an original screenplay, if they indeed already have something being written. Unless there's a new book I'm not aware of.

I haven't liked any of the films since Hannibal, so I'm kind of so so about the series at this point.

[Jus-X]

Yeah Hannibal was great! I loved the scene where the guy smells his own brain and starts licking his chops. But Red Dragon was very will done in my opinon. I don't know if they wrote a new book or not, but I don't that Hannibal Rising was a book either...

[Cody]

I don't know if they wrote a new book or not, but I don't that Hannibal Rising was a book either...

It was, Thomas Harris wrote the book and screenplay at the same time.

[Jus-X]

It was, Thomas Harris wrote the book and screenplay at the same time.

Oh, my bad...

[Cody]

Silence those bloody Lambs (http://www.moviehole.net/200919097-silence-those-bloody-lambs-already)

Dubious? You betcha - and the story isn't just far-fetched, it's as false as my grandmother's teeth.

Not to say the story is a fake - it isn't, in fact it's quite real; even the quotes are legit.... thing is, it's a story from eight years ago.

Why has it only emerged now? Well, either time-traveling Jacob from "Lost" is fucking with with the movie nerds, or "It's an old New York Post story - one without a date, that's suddenly popped up in Google News", a friend from Universal tells us via email. "The NY post website probably reposted a few archived articles, and unfortunately Google has picked this one up, believing it's re-posted date to be the same day the story was written. They even quote a Variety article in there - you're going to be hard-pressed to find such an article at Variety after 2001. Bottom Line : It's the old pre-"Hannibal" story getting another-run again. There's no new movie".

Of course there's not. Don't people remember who was tipped to replace Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling before Julianne Moore got the "Hannibal" gig? Cate Blanchett. And why did Jodie Foster opt to do that film in the first place? She - as this 'new' article suggests - was busy directing the long-gestating "Flora Plum". You only have to do a web search for "Hannibal" news items to see that this new item is a near replica of ones published pre-911. Even the quotes are old.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news folks, but... Wait!, this isn't bad news at all

[Germaniac]

I wish they did a movie of Lecter´s killing spree between the end of Hannibal Rising and before he was caught by Will Graham. I don´t think a sequel to Hannibal would be a good idea because the ending of the book and the movie is too different to find a find a common basis for continuation.

[DouglasJ]

Aren't these usually based on Thomas Harris' novels? This would be the first Hannibal story to have an original screenplay, if they indeed already have something being written. Unless there's a new book I'm not aware of.

I haven't liked any of the films since Hannibal, so I'm kind of so so about the series at this point.

An interesting point - shortly after the release of Hannibal, before the release of Red Dragon, Hopkins apparently pitched a sequel to "Hannibal". From what he himself has said, it involved Lecter seeking out Clarice Starling, so that she could kill him. He had finally decided he wanted to die, and wanted Clarice to do it.

They decided not to go with that. Can't blame them, it sounds pretty lame... but then these are the same people who basically forced Harris to write the bile that was Hannibal Rising (I think they told him, "either write it yourself, or we'll get someone else to do it - hence why I don't blame Harris for both the novel and film being garbage)

[Apocalypto]

I'd heard the idea for a Hannibal follow up would be Clarice teaming up with Graham to take Lecter down, and she would kill him in the finale. I'm sure that would've been miles better than Hannibal Rising.