Red Dragon /

Red Dragon is a 2002 thriller film based on Thomas Harris' novel of the same name and featuring psychiatrist and serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter. The film was directed by Brett Ratner and written by Ted Tally, who also wrote the screenplay for the Oscar-winning The Silence of the Lambs. It stars Edward Norton as FBI agent Will Graham and Anthony Hopkins as Lecter, a role he had, by then, played twice before in The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal. Ralph Fiennes, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Mary-Louise Parker, Emily Watson and Harvey Keitel are also featured. The film's story takes place before the events of The Silence of the Lambs, after Lecter's original capture and incarceration. Red Dragon is a remake of 1986's Manhunter in which Brian Cox played the role of Hannibal Lecter. Baltimore, Maryland, 1980: in his townhouse, psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hopkins) hosts a dinner party, where his guests might well be dining on portions of a man they knew. Lecter is later visited by Will Graham (Norton), a gifted, young FBI agent, with whom he has been working on a psychological profile of a serial killer.