Now, to talk about Red Dragon, will Manhunter be any influence to you?

Not at all. I mean, Manhunter was cool when it came out, but my script is written by Ted Tally, who won the Academy Award for writing Silence of the Lambs. He didn't write Manhunter or Hannibal. [This] is really inspired by the book and it's way closer to the book than Manhunter. Manhunter was kind of inspired by Red Dragon the book. Red Dragon the movie is literally an interpretation of the book. Manhunter, I think they even changed the name because it wasn't close to what the book was. It had the same characters' names and was inspired by but much different. I mean, my movie starts with the capture of Hannibal Lecter and it has scenes in it like where Dolarhyde goes to the Brooklyn Museum of Art and eats the drawing of the red dragon. And it ends more like the book. The end of Manhunter had nothing to do with the book at all.

Where does the capture scene come from? Is it an original scene for the movie?

It's told in flashbacks in the [Red Dragon] book. In my movie, it's told chronologically. I mean, you knew they capture Hannibal but you didn't really see it, so we chose to go by the book and show the events that happened preceding Jack Crawford going to ask him to come and catch the Tooth Fairy.

How complicated will it be to make Anthony Hopkins look younger?

Not very. I mean, he's on a workout regimen. He's lost 20 pounds. He's back to the weight that he was when he did Silence of the Lambs.

Is there any truth to the rumor that your effects crew will use computers to digitally de-age him?

That's a possibility but it's mostly done with lighting.

Will this be the most dramatic film you've done?

I think this is, the book especially is a much more intellectual psychological version of the trilogy, so I think it's much more dramatic. My approach to it is more like Hitchcock, which is going to show much less. There's not going to be any gore in this movie like there was in Hannibal. It's much more along the lines of Silence of the Lambs.

Where do things stand with Mason Reese?

I don't think he's happy. I owe him a part. I'm probably going to put Mason Reese in Red Dragon. He's going to be one of the guys in the cell, like the guy who threw the cum on Jodie Foster. He's going to be one of those guys. Wouldn't that be cool?

That's hilarious, but also leads to an interesting point. Do you have the same set from Silence of the Lambs?

Same cell. I even got Kriste Zea, who designed Silence of the Lambs to do my movie, so it'll be the exact same cell.

Rush Hour 2 is now available on DVD. Red Dragon will be in theaters later this year.

[Part One- Rush Hour DVD

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