Hannibal Lecter Prequel
Not the "Red Dragon". The movie is going to be about a younger Hannibal Lector. Anthony Hopkins will probably not reprise his famous role. I also heard that Tim Roth may take over the role.
Thomas Harris is currently writing "Behind the Mask". It will be the fourth book of his famous Hannibal Lecter series. According to the Associated Press, Dino De Laurentiis (produced "Hannibal" and "Red Dragon"😉 is already planning to bring the story to the cinema in 2006.
The novel will tell how Lecter was born in the late 1930s into a wealthy Lithuanian land-owning family. His parents were killed by the Nazis when he was six and he and Mischa, his elder sister, had to fend for themselves in the winter of 1944. They lived in a barn until starving soldiers found them. The men decided to eat one of the children and chose Mischa because she was fatter, killing her with an axe. It was the defining moment in Lecter’s life. It will tell how Lecter fled to America after the war and became a psychiatrist. But gnawing away in his mind was the image of Mischa being eaten.
