Good news for cannibalistic serial killers - there's a new trailer online for Hannibal Rising, and it promises lots of, well, killing people and eating their flesh. Due out on February 9, the thriller prequel promises to show us how an intelligent young lad with good taste in art and opera turns into a ruthless killing machine with good taste in fava beans and chianti. Check out the trailer here.
This trailer gives us a brief glimpse of Gong Li's Lady Murasaki, who plays the Japanese widow of Hannibal's Parisian uncle (still with us?) to whom Hannibal flees for comfort after his parents are killed. Soon, however, despite her best efforts to care for him, he's embarked on a mad quest for grisly revenge - some people, eh? We still don't get a good look at Gaspard Ulliel's Hannibal, but keep your eyes peeled for Rhys Ifans (having a very bad day), Dominic West and Kevin McKidd.
If you ask us, it's still hard to tell how it's going to play from these trailers, but it is, like its predecessors, rather beautifully shot. One thing though - why would Lecter voluntarily wear a muzzle-like mask of the sort he's forced in to in prison? Clearly, there are only two possible explanations. Either he wore one early in his career to hide his identity, making the later mask he was forced to wear terribly witty and ironic, or the filmmakers are trying desperately to give us an image we'll recognise, without Anthony Hopkins involvement. Of course, only a cynic would go for the latter option, so we're guessing it's irony-tastic.
It's all directed by Peter Girl with a Pearl Earring Webber and written by novelist and Lecter's creator Thomas Harris, and if you really can't wait to find out whodunnit (we bet you could hazard a guess though) the book is out now.