Other Titles • Manhunter • Red Dragon (1986) • Red Dragon: The Pursuit of Hannibal Lecter (1986) • Blutmond (1986) • Roter Drache (1986)
Trivia from Manhunter (1986)
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Released theatrically in the U.S. on August 15, 1986. The film was also screened at the 1987 London Film Festival in November.
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Shot in Atlanta, Georgia; Washington, DC; Chicago, Illinois; St. Louis, Missouri; and Captiva, Florida; and at Wilmington and DEG Film Studios, North Carolina. Filming began on September 9, 1985. Estimated budget: $14 million.
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The film was retitled RED DRAGON: THE PURSUIT OF HANNIBAL LECTER for its television debut. MANHUNTER was originally entitled RED DRAGON, like the novel, but producer Dino De Laurentiis ordered the name change because YEAR OF THE DRAGON bombed at the box office. He suspected the word "dragon" meant box office death and wanted no part of it.
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MANHUNTER was followed by Jonathan Demme's THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, also based on a Thomas Harris novel. Even though the Harris novels and SILENCE call the psychiatrist/serial-killer "Hannibal Lecter," MANHUNTER refers to him as "Hannibal Lecktor." THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS swept most of the major categories at the Academy Awards in 1991.
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Mann lost his DGA membership when he ordered real ammunition to be used on a bus full of extras.
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"You want the scent? Smell yourself."--Hannibal Lecktor (Brian Cox) to Will Graham (William L. Petersen)
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"You had certain disadvantages."--Will Graham, explaining to Lektor how he was able to capture him. "What disadvantages?"--Hannibal Lecktor "You're insane."--Will Graham
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"If one does what God does enough times, one will become as God is."--Hannibal Lecktor, giving Will Graham an archaic clue
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