Jodie Foster, with the offer of reprising her academy awarding winning role, and Jon Demme (director of Silence of the lambs) walked away from the Hannibal after disagreements with author (Harris) over the character directions.

I did not like Hannibal either and I think that many stars in Hollywood would have turned it down after reading the script. That's what Hollywood always overlooks - once you pump out one bad sequel (eg, Ocean's Twelve 2004), fewer people will even consider seeing the next sequel, unless it receives almost unanimous critical acclaim.

People who thought Hannibal was terrible (and there's no shortage of them) are likely to turn their nose up at any further sequels or prequels. 3) This followed an awful sequel: Hannibal. So a third Hannibal film was always going to be an uphill battle. Some are so terrible that they can actually tarnish the memory of the original (eg.

In fact, this situation has been made worse due to the fact that many of the sequels made are shockingly bad (eg, the American Pie sequels, the Highlander sequels). People are usually happy to see the 'part 2' but beyond that, you're usually down to loyalists. The problem with the Hollywood pumping out an absurd number of sequels and prequels (even when the original film was terrible to begin with) is that it alters the public's attitude towards them. 2) This was the third film in the series. The different dimension they bring to the investigation is enough, by itself, to distinguish them beyond comparison. However, I find it difficult to compare the films, largely because Will Graham (Norton) is completely different to Clarice Starling (Foster). This was a fantastic film, but it slipped under many people's radar for three reasons: 1) The critics said (and rightly so) that it is not as good as the Silence of the Lambs.

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