Young Hannibal Starts Filming in Czech Republic

Veronika dropped us a line to let us know the new Young Hannibal starts filming next week in Czech Republic. Gaspard Ulliel will portray one of the the young Hannibal Lecters and Gong Li will play Lady Murasaki, the Japanese woman who teaches cultural sophistication to the young Hannibal. Peter Webber will direct the fifth installment of the Lecter franchise scripted by The Silence of the Lambs author Thomas Harris. 

The movie will be set in 1940s in Europe and centers on Lecter's childhood in Lithuania through a period in Paris to his arrival in the US. The story will be about "the creation of a monster" and involve complicated casting. The movie requires actors for playing a 5-, a 14-and a 20-year-old Hannibal Lecter. Producer Dino De Laurentiis believes, that an English accent will better to convey the personality of the Lithuanian-born Lecter, than an American would. We also will get to see Mischa Lecter (Hannibal's sister).

After the young Hannibal escapes from an orphanage and runs away to Paris, he takes refuge at the home of his uncle. His wife, Lady Murasaki, becomes the sociopath's teacher. This prequel will also show how Lecter grew fond of the taste of human flesh.