Screenwriter Ted Tally, who's already won an Oscar for his work adapting the script to SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, is talking to CINESCAPE about his newest Hannibal Lecter work, the prequel film RED DRAGON.
Staring Anthony Hopkins as the mythically evil doctor and Edward Norton as the FBI agent who brings him in, DRAGON tells the story of another serial killer who idolizes the gruesome work of the good doctor. He also had a few things to say about the movie previously made on Thomas Harris' book, 1986's MANHUNTER.
"One of the things I hoped to do in this adaptation was to sort of dig more out of the book than I felt MANHUNTER had done," Tally told us. "MANHUNTER is a film that I like and respect, but you make choices in any adaptation, and one of the choices that Michael Mann made was to turn the Francis Dolarhyde character [played by Ralph Fiennes n DRAGON] into something of a cipher. I didn't think we understood in [MANHUNTER] where that character was coming from, what had made him into a monster... As good as MANHUNTER was, I felt there was room for another adaptation that would find different colors from the novel and emphasize them more. I saw it more as the movie being shared among Will Graham, Lecter and Dolarhyde."
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