This just in to Father Geek here at AICN World Headquarters in Austin, Texas. You know these Euro-AICN reports are really adding up, there's been over 30 of them now. I seem to have picked the right guys to run our Paris offices...
Euro AICN here with some news sent by our Irish friend
Ozymandias... three different kind of news, but all
linked to HANNIBAL... As I am probably the only
"non-fan" of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, I can't understand
why everyone is so excited about that movie (go ahead
and flame me)... but maybe it's because I am not a big
Jodie Foster fan,... I only liked the part with
Anthony Hopkins in SILENCE... so this one could be a
good surprise. Anyway, here're the news :
As I am probably the only
"non-fan" of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, I can't understand
why everyone is so excited about that movie (go ahead
and flame me)... but maybe it's because I am not a big
Jodie Foster fan,... I only liked the part with
Anthony Hopkins in SILENCE... so this one could be a
good surprise. Anyway, here're the news :
1. Politicians in Florence are calling for filming of the sequel to Silence of the Lambs to be halted amid fears Dr Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter's gruesome reputation will haunt the city. Director Ridley Scott's film crew for Hannibal, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins as the cannibalistic psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter and Julianne Moore as FBI agent Clarice Starling, had been welcomed to Florence by its mayor. But controversy has hit plans to film a gory murder in the ornate Salon of the Lilies in the city's Palazzo Vecchio - a partial re-enactment of a killing which actually took place there in 1478. The local Greens and the Popular Party have lodged an official objection to the shooting, which is due to begin on Thursday, in an open letter to the mayor. The letter says: "This will add nothing to Florence's world prestige. "We believe that instead...the city would become the setting for morbid thrills and vulgar horror." The letter asks the mayor, Leonardo Domenici, to cancel permission to shoot inside the 13th century palace.
2. There are rumblings that producer Dino De Laurentiis is contemplating a prequel to Silence of the Lambs should Hannibal be a box office hit. According to the BBC, De Laurentiis is looking to do another film version of Thomas Harris' Red Dragon, which Michael Mann filmed in 1986 as Manhunter.
3. From today's Popcorn check out some behind the scenes shots from the Hannibal shoot in Florence - I know it's just Tony Hopkins, Ridley Scott and a bunch of lads standing around and posing, but ooooooohhhhhhh........ Just Click Here to see the pics.
