SUBMITTED BY nutteronabus

August 30, 2002 —

Ralph Fiennes has touted the new Hannibal Lecter movie as a return to the "psychological terror" of The Silence Of The Lambs. The English actor, who plays murderer Francis Dolarhyde in the new prequel, insists Red Dragon will be more like the Oscar-winning first film about the evil serial killer than its less successful sequel Hannibal.

Fiennes says, "I was quite skeptical when I first heard about the film but then I read the script and it was really good. I looked at the cast that was already in place, Edward Norton, Anthony Hopkins and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and I thought I wanted to be alongside that quality. I think the character in Red Dragon is similar to the one I played in Schindler's List, they both have similar paths. You have to enter into the way they see the world, which is weird and disturbing."