![]() Hannibal Rising follows Hannibal’s privileged childhood in his father’s castle in Lithuania and the changes the country went through during and immediately after the Second World War when the Soviets took over. ![]() Which might as well be true, as Thomas Harris himself wrote the script for the 2007 movie adaptation of the novel (starring French actor Gaspard Ulliel in Hannibal’s role). Although, in the end, everything wraps up nicely, the writing is rushed and the readers have the feeling that they’re not reading a book, but rather a movie script. Thomas Harris’s reluctance to continue the series is clearly seen between the covers of the book. Lecter’s brutal behaviour and cannibalism, themes that were wildly and successfully used in Red Dragon (1981), The Silence of the Lambs (1988), and Hannibal (1999).Īpparently, Harris did not really want to write Hannibal Rising but was eventually talked into writing it by Dino De Laurentiis, the film director who owned the rights to the Hannibal franchise. ![]() In 2006, he had ready for publication the fourth novel in the Dr. ![]() About every ten years, Thomas Harris publishes a book. ![]()
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