"The story is very much about how this guy who has left this kind of work, gets pulled step by step into exactly the kind of full-on level of exposure to danger that he's told himself he doesn't want to get involved in anymore. What's intriguing to me is how Hannibal Lecter is simultaneously insane, filled with rage and desire to do harm to my character [Will Graham] and yet is also the one who's offering him counsel on how to get over the wounds that he, Lecter, gave him. It's very complicated. When Lecter is saying to Graham that he can help him have a better understanding of what happened to him and how he can get past this, even though he's the one who did it to him, it's very strange."
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Films based on novelsThriller filmsFilms about psychopathsFilms directed by Brett RatnerFilms set in Baltimore
Original Language: English
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Edward Norton, Edward Norton, Alec Cawthorne, BBC Oct. 10, 2002.
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