Currently
the Film is in post-production, and these
are some of the quotes from the now-released
book "Hannibal Rising" in addition
to other information about the film.
...In
a last-minute addition to its holiday-season
list, Delacorte Press, an imprint of the Bantam
Dell Publishing Group, is expected to announce
today that it will publish “Hannibal
Rising” on Dec. 5. The 356-page novel
chronicles the early life of Dr. Lecter.
...Mr.
Harris just handed in the manuscript for
“Hannibal Rising” last month,
and Bantam is rushing to publish the book
in time for the crucial holiday sales season.
It also hopes to capitalize on the February
2007 release of the movie version of the
new novel, for which Mr. Harris also wrote
the screenplay. The movie, which is produced
by the Dino De Laurentis Company and marketed
by the Weinstein Company, stars Gaspard
Ulliel,
the French co-star of the 2004 film “A
Very Long Engagement,” as the young
Dr. Lecter.
...Close
readers of Mr. Harris’s previous novels,
which also include “The Silence of
the Lambs” and “Red Dragon,”
may recall that Dr. Lecter saw his entire
family killed during World War II in Eastern
Europe. The new novel, which covers the
young Hannibal from age 6 through 20, will
shed more light on the circumstances of
those deaths, with a focus on Dr. Lecter’s
memories of his younger sister, Mischa.
"Based
on Thomas Harris' upcoming new book of the
same name, this prequel shows a young Hannibal
Lechter in three different phases of his
life from childhood in Lithuania to his
ten years in England up to his time in Russia
before his capture by FBI agent Will Graham
in Manhunter.
This
is the story of the monster Hannibal Lecter's
formative years. These experiences as a
child and young adult led to his remarkable
contribution to the fields of medicine,
music, painting and forensics.
We begin in World War II at the medieval
castle in Lithuania built by Dr. Lecter's
forebear, Hannibal the Grim. The child Hannibal
survives the horrors of the Eastern Front
and escapes the grim Soviet aftermath to
find refuge in France with the widow of
his uncle, mysterious and beautiful Japanese
descended from Lady Murasaki Shikibu, author
of the Tale of Genji. Her kind and wise
attentions help him understand his unbearable
recollections of the war.
Remembering, he finds the means to visit
the outlaw predators that changed him forever
as they battened on helpless during the
collapse of the Eastern Front. Hannibal
helps these war criminals toward self-knowledge
even as we see his own nature become clear
to him."
...In
a last-minute addition to its holiday-season
list, Delacorte Press, an imprint of the Bantam
Dell Publishing Group, is expected to announce
today that it will publish “Hannibal
Rising” on Dec. 5. The 356-page novel
chronicles the early life of Dr. Lecter.
...Close
readers of Mr. Harris’s previous novels,
which also include “The Silence of
the Lambs” and “Red Dragon,”
may recall that Dr. Lecter saw his entire
family killed during World War II in Eastern
Europe. The new novel, which covers the
young Hannibal from age 6 through 20, will
shed more light on the circumstances of
those deaths, with a focus on Dr. Lecter’s
memories of his younger sister, Mischa.