"It Started With Revenge"
Directed by Peter Webber
Produced by Dino De Laurentiis, Martha De Laurentiis, Tarak Ben Ammar
Screenplay by Thomas Harris
Based on "Hannibal Rising" by Thomas Harris
Starring: Gaspard Ulliel, Gong Li, Rhys Ifans, Dominic West
Music by Ilan Eshkeri, Shigeru Umebayashi
Cinematography: Ben Davis
Edited by Pietro Scalia, Valerio Bonelli
Production company: Dino De Laurentiis Company
Distributed by Momentum Pictures, The Weinstein Company, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date: 7 February 2007 (France)
Running time: 121 minutes
Country: France, United Kingdom, United States
Budget: $50 million
Box office: $82.2 million
"Hannibal Rising" is a crime thriller drama film directed by Peter Webber and adapted from Thomas Harris' novel of the same name. It's a prequel to the previous three films: Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal. It tells the story of young Hannibal Lecter who moves in with his beautiful aunt and begins plotting revenge on the barbarians responsible for his sister's death.
