AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! Macaulay Culkin to play a young Hannibal Lecter in THE LECTER VARIATION?!?!?
Hey folks, Harry here and there's something strange afoot at the Circle K methinks! In one of the weirdest and most bizarre career turns since Kurt Russell went from THE COMPUTER THAT WORE TENNIS SHOES to playing Charles Whitman on TV or Jodie Foster's going from FREAKY FRIDAY to TAXI DRIVER. It seems though this is all PARTY MONSTER's fault. Yep, the film that cast Culkin as the drug popping gay killer... well for Producers trying to find someone that can play Lecter from ages 12 to 25, apparently he seems... logical. Hmmm. Let's see if we can track Lecter's look if this goes through...
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http://www.itv.com/news/721185.html
Culkin set to play Hannibal Lecter
14.20PM BST, 28 Aug 2003
Macaulay Culkin could be about to play a young Hannibal Lecter in a film about the serial killer's early life.
Producers are currently casting The Lecter Variation which follows the character - famous for tucking into some fava beans and a nice glass of Chianti - from the age of 12 to 25.
They think the Home Alone star would be the perfect choice after seeing him play a drug-taking gay killer in his new film Party Monster.
But if Macaulay takes the role he will have a job to fill Sir Anthony Hopkins' shoes.
In 1991, Hopkins won an Academy award for his portrayal of the bloodthirsty cannibal Dr Hannibal Lecter in the Silence of the Lambs.
Giantrobo
09-01-03, 10:40 AM
Lector's gay? ;)
Charlie Goose
09-01-03, 10:46 AM
Whiule I can picture Culkin looking like Lechter, with the slicked back hair and the perpetual malocchio, I'm not cetain he has the chops to bring the character to life more than just an imitation of Hopkins. Time will tell, I suppose. The only real acting I've seen him do is when he was the evil kid horsing around with the kid who's a Hobbit now. Maybe he's one of those child stars that goes on to a great career as an adult as well.
And that movie where he was an evil kid was unrealistic...Elijah Wood could kick his ass.
RyoHazuki
09-01-03, 11:09 AM
Will his parents still get to fight over his paychecks?
hgar78
09-01-03, 11:14 AM
Originally posted by Charlie Goose
The only real acting I've seen him do is when he was the evil kid horsing around with the kid who's a Hobbit now.
that's what i'm wondering. party monster has been sitting around for a while now without distribution. (i think, but didn't it play some festivals?) makes me question it's quality. plus, we haven't seen anything else he's done as an adult, party monster was supposed to be his big comeback!
PalmerJoss
09-01-03, 11:56 AM
Even if this movie gets made I have zero interest in seeing it. It's not from any material by Thomas Harris, plus I just don't care for Macaulay Culkin. Red Dragon was barely watchable for me so I don't care to submit myself to any further torture at Dino DeLaurentiis's hands.
Drexl
09-01-03, 12:23 PM
Producers are currently casting The Lecter Variation which follows the character - famous for tucking into some fava beans and a nice glass of Chianti - from the age of 12 to 25.
They should have started shooting this about 10 years or so ago, when Culkin was actually 12, and then continued a little at a time as he got older.
I wonder if he gets to make his parents disappear in this film too.
jasonbird
09-01-03, 12:55 PM
Hmmm....
I always thought that kid was weird...
Jason
The Bus
09-01-03, 01:52 PM
Aren't the two other Culkin's more talented?
lesterlong
09-01-03, 03:54 PM
Originally posted by UAIOE
Culkin is still making movies?...
I think the real question is: Hollywood is still making Hannibal movies?
bigdogkt2003
09-01-03, 05:06 PM
Yeah, I heard about that a while back.
SERPICO7
09-01-03, 06:42 PM
Originally posted by PalmerJoss
Even if this movie gets made I have zero interest in seeing it. It's not from any material by Thomas Harris, plus I just don't care for Macaulay Culkin. Red Dragon was barely watchable for me so I don't care to submit myself to any further torture at Dino DeLaurentiis's hands.
I totally agree. The only Lecter movie I would go to would be a sequel that takes place after Hannibal. Red Dragon sucked. Dino Delaurentis needs to move on and find some new books or scripts to develop.
Geofferson
09-01-03, 07:16 PM
Wow - this has bad idea written all over it.
LivingINClip
09-01-03, 09:05 PM
Dino is obsessed with his money making machine - and the Hannibal character, even though he really was a minor / supporting character in ManHunter / Silence of the Lambs. That's why Hannibal wasn't near as good, it took a minor character and tried to push it on for over two hours (I didn't care for the book either). Then of course, after Manhunter got some much-belated popularity, Dino jumped on the wagon and made a remake , where he once again made Hannibal a bigger character than he needed to be.
milo bloom
09-03-03, 10:51 PM
Hmm, when I saw this, first thing I thought of was the Good Son and how evil he was in that. Maybe I'm forgetting things in my old age. I do remember it was the second movie my (now) wife saw together. The first was In the Line of Fire.
They need to make my idea to tie up the Hannibal franchise.
It would be a dual storyline thing like Godfather II. It would follow Graham's pursuit of Lecter, the end of which we saw in Red Dragon, and the parallel would be Clarice finally snapping and going on a manhunt to kill Lector once and for all.
littlefuzzy
09-03-03, 10:54 PM
Off topic... Does he play a killer who's gay, or a killer of gays?
SERPICO7
09-03-03, 11:00 PM
Originally posted by milo bloom
Hmm, when I saw this, first thing I thought of was the Good Son and how evil he was in that. Maybe I'm forgetting things in my old age. I do remember it was the second movie my (now) wife saw together. The first was In the Line of Fire.
They need to make my idea to tie up the Hannibal franchise.
It would be a dual storyline thing like Godfather II. It would follow Graham's pursuit of Lecter, the end of which we saw in Red Dragon, and the parallel would be Clarice finally snapping and going on a manhunt to kill Lector once and for all.
Not a bad Idea.The Graham story is told to death though. I would have the childhood lecter story tie in with a story line that would take place 5 years after Hannibal.
Buttmunker
09-04-03, 01:37 PM
I think that, if written in a poignant note, the story of a would-be serial killer/cannibal from the point of innocence to the point of corruption - as would be the ages between 12 and 25 - would be very insightful and educational. After all, the movies we see that are about serial killers - we see them as they are, but never as they were. What makes a serial killer? Are they born that way, or is it conditional to their environment/upbringing? It will be very interesting, if the film is done well, to see the birth of madness.
ArchibaldTuttle
09-04-03, 03:43 PM
call me crazy, but I think Mac could be a really good actor, I like his brother Kieran in movies, only time will tell
this movie specifically imo is a bad idea, I haven't really been a fan of the whole series of movies so far
Buttmunker
09-04-03, 04:02 PM
I thought SNL's take on it was kinda amusing: Lector's College Years with Matt Damon as Lector.
costanza187
09-04-03, 05:27 PM
Can't wait to see what he does to Marv and Harry!
DonnachaOne
09-04-03, 07:36 PM
You mean he's not rumored to play Batman?
SteveyP93
09-05-03, 01:51 AM
I may be the only one, but I would really interested to see that. Culkin in his major league return tries to tackle one of the greatest dark characters of all time...
Whether you like it or not, the buzz that would surround the project if it did happen would be pretty huge...
I'm a big Mac fan, am interested by him (as I am of most "mega stars who go fade away) and I've been hoping for a couple of years that he has a career renaissance. I hope nothing but the best for him.
Charlie Goose
09-05-03, 06:17 PM
Originally posted by littlefuzzy
Off topic... Does he play a killer who's gay, or a killer of gays?
I think he plays a gay man, who kills a drug dealer to whom he owes money. Not sure if the dealer is gay as well.
If he does playa young Lechter, he'll have to say, "I ate his liver, with jellybeans and a nice YooHoo."
Originally posted by Buttmunker
I think that, if written in a poignant note, the story of a would-be serial killer/cannibal from the point of innocence to the point of corruption - as would be the ages between 12 and 25 - would be very insightful and educational. After all, the movies we see that are about serial killers - we see them as they are, but never as they were. What makes a serial killer? Are they born that way, or is it conditional to their environment/upbringing? It will be very interesting, if the film is done well, to see the birth of madness.
While interesting, you do realize that once Holywood got done - it would be nothing like the original idea, right? There is no way they are goin' to take the time and dedicated to do the research, then act on the research and make a movie that shows the brutal childhood of a would-be serial killer - all to have the movie end with him killing someone. It just wouldn't happen.
Romero
09-07-03, 02:50 AM
This is the reason American movies IMHO is in a decline. Every new great movie has to have a big name actor attatched. Or atleast a name that is recognizable like culkin.
DJ_Spyder
09-07-03, 03:34 AM
Whoa Macaulay Culkin plays Hannibal lecter I just can't picture it IMHO his career peaked when he did those Home Alone movies what has he done since then?
Giantrobo
09-07-03, 07:20 AM
Originally posted by Romero
This is the reason American movies IMHO is in a decline. Every new great movie has to have a big name actor attatched. Or atleast a name that is recognizable like culkin.
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