Director: Peter Weber
2007
Discover the roots of Hannibal Lecter's rage in another prequel to Silence Of The Lambs and Hannibal. The fourth film to feature the infamous character, Hannibal Lecter, but this time replacing the classic actor, Anthony Hopkins, with the youthful Gaspard Ulliel to retell Hannibal's teen/20's years.
This one received negative reviews from the critics and only earned $82 Million off a $50 Million budget. Far different from the original films, this one portrays Hannibal as a likeable and sympathetic hero, avenging his family's deaths.
Story: After his family is killed in the crossfires of war, a young Hannibal Lecter's life is changed forever. As he grows older, he's haunted by nightmares of those ill fated events, until he finally discovers the names of the war criminals who killed his sister. Hannibal sets out across Europe on a murderous streak of revenge.
Gay Factor: None, this is not a gay film. I'm only including it here to complete the Hannibal storyline which i've already reviewed below; the other films do have bits of a gay factor. In fact, this one would contradict the suggestion in Hannibal that Hannibal Lecter was gay. In this film, he is romantically involved with a girl, so if Hannibal was gay, it wasn't something he explored until later in life, or was bisexual, or even as suggested in the other post - that he only used at as an occassional tool to get close to certain victims.
The French actor, Gaspard Ulliel, who portrays Hannibal this time is quite the cutie and you can catch him playing gay in The Last Day and Paris Je T'Aime. He also played gay in a stage play, but probably isn't available on video.
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