FILM 2206: HANNIBAL (2001)

TRIVIA: During the scene where Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Sir Anthony Hopkins) is seen in his study playing the piano, on the desk to the right of the frame a book can be seen open displaying the painting of the Red Dragon.

Sir Anthony Hopkins wrote a screenplay for a sequel to this movie, most likely titled "Hannibal Ending", which would've involved Starling killing Lecter. However, this was never used.

The first shot of Florence after the movie starts is the same scene as depicted in the drawing on Dr. Hannibal Lecter's (Sir Anthony Hopkins') cell wall that he described to Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) in The Silence of the Lambs (1991), the Duomo, as seen from the Belvedere, in Florence, Italy.

Producer Dino De Laurentiis visited producer and director Ridley Scott on the set of Gladiator (2000) to offer him the job of directing this movie. Scott misunderstood which Hannibal he meant, thinking De Laurentiis was speaking of the General and historical figure from Carthage, who nearly brought down the Roman Empire back around 200 B.C., so he replied: "Basically, Dino, I'm doing a Roman epic right now. I don't wanna do elephants coming over the Alps next, old boy." Dino then clarified "No, Hannibal LECTOR". Ridley immediately accepted.

Frankie Faison appeared in the first four "Hannibal" movies. He played Lieutenant Fisk in Manhunter (1986), and played Barney the asylum orderly in The Silence of the Lambs(1991), this movie, and Red Dragon (2002).

Gary Oldman based Mason Verger's voice on Katharine Hepburn.

Sir Anthony Hopkins was reportedly furious and heartbroken when Jodie Foster decided that she wasn't going to return in the role of Clarice Starling; he was also disappointed that Jonathan Demme would not return to direct.

There are several Gucci products featured and promoted throughout this movie. This is due to the friendship between Julianne Moore and the designer Tom Ford, who was the creative director of Gucci at the time the movie was being filmed.

Dr. Hannibal Lecter's Florentine alias, Dr. Fell, is taken from a rhyming epigram by seventeenth century English satirist Thomas Brown: "I do not love thee, Dr. Fell; The reason why, I cannot tell. But this alone I know full well: I do not love thee, Dr. Fell." The alias is also a reference to "The Silence of the Lambs" novel, where Jame Gumb (Buffalo Bill) lived on Fell Street. Dr. Fell could also be a reference to the 1979 play "I Do Not Like Thee, Dr. Fell" by Irish playwright Bernard Farrell, which parodies American psychobabble, or it could refer to Room to Let (1950), where a new tenant in 1904 London, named Dr. Fell, is suspected by his neighbors of being the infamous Jack the Ripper.

Paul Krendler's (Ray Liotta's) lake house with the boat dock is the same house used in What About Bob? (1991).

When Jodie Foster declined to reprise the role of Clarice Starling, Julianne Moore beat Gillian Anderson, Jennifer Aniston, Christina Applegate, Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale, Cate Blanchett, Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Connelly, Kristin Davis, Cameron Diaz, Shannen Doherty, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nicole Eggert, Calista Flockhart, Bridget Fonda, Teri Hatcher, Helen Hunt, Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Lucy Liu, Heather Locklear, Alyssa Milano, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sarah Jessica Parker, Meg Ryan, Winona Ryder, Brooke Shields, Hilary Swank, and Denise Richards for the role. Anderson fell out of the running early on when it was discovered her contract to The X Files (1993) prohibited her from playing another FBI agent. Davis and Parker turned down the part due to their contracts to Sex and the City (1998). Flockhart declined due to her contract to Ally McBeal (1997).

The music during the opening credits is "Aria da Capo" from Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations, as being played by Glenn Gould, a tape of which was playing while Dr. Hannibal Lecter killed the two guards in Memphis, Tennessee in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) (although performed by Jerry Zimmerman).

David Fincher was slated to direct, but dropped out.

Mason Verger's mansion was also seen in Ri¢hie Ri¢h (1994) as the Rich Mansion.

In the scene featuring the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" fugitives, the man to the right of Osama Bin Laden is James "Whitey" Bulger, Jr., whose own criminal career was portrayed by Johnny Depp in Black Mass (2015).

Producer and director Ridley Scott's first sequel.

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