In yet another sign that Hollywood has run out of ideas, instead of making remakes, Dino De Laurentiis told MTV that we may be seeing more Hannibal Lecter in the future in the form of another evil: sequels.
In the interview, De Laurentiis tells MTV that Hannibal could become an even bigger evil superstar with more series installments. “How many James Bond [movies are] there? … Every two years a James Bond movie [seemingly] comes out,” De Laurentiis reasoned, adding that any future Lecter story would likely center on the unusual relationship between Lecter and his HANNIBAL RISING love interest, Gong Li. “You see in the movie that… it’s an attraction, but nothing serious happens,” De Laurentiis said. “In the future, maybe something happens, if we go with [another sequel]… I presume that we created a success with this new franchise about young Hannibal Lecter, and I want to start to think about going ahead with the story.”
Oh boy. Well, at least it’ll give Anthony Hopkins a rest, but still, is De Laurentiis serious about building a new franchise around a male model-turned-actor in Gaspard Ulliel? I don’t know. Perhaps we’ll see if Ulliel can cut it when HANNIBAL RISING hits February 9.
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