macaulay culkin as lecter?!?
09-01-03, 09:30 AM
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macaulay culkin as lecter?!?
interesting "news" but not sure i believe it just yet!
http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=15963
forgot the second link...
http://www.itv.com/news/721185.html
http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=15963
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...
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...
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.
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.
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Lector's gay? 
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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.
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09-01-03, 10:14 AM
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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.
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.
09-01-03, 10:56 AM
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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.
09-01-03, 11:23 AM
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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.
I wonder if he gets to make his parents disappear in this film too.
09-01-03, 05:42 PM
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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.
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.
09-01-03, 08:05 PM
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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.
09-03-03, 09:51 PM
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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.
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.
09-03-03, 10:00 PM
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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.
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.
09-04-03, 12:37 PM
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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.
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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
this movie specifically imo is a bad idea, I haven't really been a fan of the whole series of movies so far
09-05-03, 12:51 AM
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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.
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.
09-05-03, 05:17 PM
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Originally posted by littlefuzzy
Off topic... Does he play a killer who's gay, or a killer of gays?
Off topic... Does he play a killer who's gay, or a killer of gays?
If he does playa young Lechter, he'll have to say, "I ate his liver, with jellybeans and a nice YooHoo."
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