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Dino De
Laurentiis ...
Veteran
Hollywood Producer, but not a fan of "Manhunter" ! |
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Hollywood stalwart and Manhunter
Producer Dino De Laurentiis also produced the third Lecter movie
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"Hannibal" and also
another classic favourite of mine from the 1980's -
"Flash Gordon"
After the well documented (not to
mention baffling...) box-office failure of "Manhunter" at the USA box
office in 1986, Dino famously passed on any involvement
with the making of the sequel
to Red Dragon - "The Silence Of
The Lambs" into a movie. Big mistake. |
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Dino De Laurentiis
Dino De Laurentiis with Ridley Scott during the filming
of "Hannibal"
Dino De Laurentiis with Brett Ratner on the set of "Red
Dragon"
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Crucially though, De
Laurentiis wisely decided to hold on to the rights
to have first refusal on turning any future Lecter novels by Thomas Harris into movies ... |
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After the massive success of The
Silence of the Lambs in cinemas around the world, not to mention Oscar glory,
it was not at all surprising when De Laurentis decided to develop the movie
adaptation of "Hannibal".
The third Lecter film was of course
directed by Ridley Scott (who was on red-hot form after the success of
"Gladiator") and was eventually released worldwide on Valentine's Day in
2001.
Another Bite
?
De Laurentiis has not finished with
Dr. Lecter yet though - rumour has it that there are
plans for a
big budget remake of the
Red Dragon / Manhunter story, which could well be released
sometime in late 2002
... [update: of course these rumours did turn out to
be grounded and the result is Brett
Ratner's "Red
Dragon"]
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