Red Dragon (2002)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 2002
Running Times:  
Format: Technicolor 35mm
Ratio:
Sound: DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Dino De Laurentiis Productions / Scott Free Productions/Universal Pictures
Executive Producer: Andrew Z. Davis
Producers: Dino De Laurentiis, Martha De Laurentiis
Associate Producers: Terry Needham, James M. Freitag
Production Coordinator: Jennifer Conroy
Assistant Production Coordinator: Matthew Hirsch
Unit Production Manager: JoAnn Perritano

SCRIPT
Script: Ted Tally
Novel: Thomas Harris

DIRECTION
Director: Brett Ratner
2nd Unit Directors: Conrad E. Palmisano, Kristi Zea
1st Assistant Director: James M. Freitag
2nd Assistant Director: Jonathan McGarry
2nd 2nd Assistant Director: Bac DeLorme

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Dante Spinotti
Camera Operator: Duane Manwiller
B Camera Operator: Duane Manwiller
Assistant Camera: Glenn Brown
Key Rigging Grip: Donald Reynolds Jr
Rigging Grip: Jeff Andrus
Best Boy Rigger: Steve Hastings
Camera Intern: Niles Roth

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Mark Helfrich
1st Assistant Editor: Laura Steiger
Assistant Editor: Peggy Eghbalian
Apprentice Editor: Oliver Streuli

MUSIC
Music: Danny Elfman
Music Scoring Mixer: Dennis S. Sands
Music Editor: Ellen Segal
Assistant Music Editor: Shie Rozow
Preview Music Editor: Charles Martin Inouye

SOUND
Sound Designer: Craig Henighan
Production Sound Mixer: Kim H. Ornitz
Boom Operator: Mychal Smith
2nd Boom Operator: Bud Raymond
Sound Effects Editors: Christopher Assells, Jon Title
Supervising Sound Editors: Per Hallberg, Gregory King
1st Assistant Sound Editor: Tony Negrete
Assistant Sound Editor: Philip D. Morrill
Foley Recording Mixer: Don White

COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up Department Head: Julie Pearce
Costume Designer: Betsy Heimann
Assistant Costume Designer: Autumn Saville

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Coordinator: Ken Pepiot

VISUAL EFFECTS
Digital Compositor: Ted Andre

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Kristi Zea
Art Director: Steve Saklad
Coordinating Set Decorator: Anne Clements
Set Decorator: Karen O'Hara
Props: Chela Fiorini
Art Department Coordinator: Patti McNulty
Art Department Coordinator (Baltimore): Linda Griffis
Graphic Designer: Steven Samanen
Art Department Assistant: Leslie Stevens

OTHER CREW
Production Accountant: Nicole Furia
2nd Unit Accountant: Lisa Furia
1st Assistant Accountant: Eric Layne
Assistant Accountant: Laura Tiz
Payroll Accountant: Richard Castro
Accounting Clerk: Jennifer Tamez
Production Assistants: David W. Dale, Josh Gallegos
Key Set Production Assistant: Keith Potter
Set Production Assistant: David Honaker
Production Office Assistant: Josh Slates
Production Secretary: Arron Turnbull
Assistant to Director: David Steiman
Transportation Coordinator: Ted Moser
Transportation Office Coordinator: Mark Dobrogowski
Transportation Captain (Maryland): Michael Luckeroth
Unit Publicist: Guy Adan
Marine Coordinator: Tom Bahr
Dialect Coach for Ralph Fiennes and Emily Watson: Judy Dickerson
Asset Coordinator: Michael A. Heath
Craft Service (Florida): Marc H. Katz

LOCATIONS
Locations: Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Birmingham, Alabama, USA; Central Library, Pasadena, California, USA; Chicago, Illinois, USA; Los Angeles, California, USA; Marathon, Florida, USA; Memphis, Tennessee, USA; New York City, New York, USA; Pensacola Bay, Florida, USA; Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Studio: Universal Studios, Universal City, California, USA
Location Manager: William Bowling
2nd Unit Location Manager (Washington D.C.): Joseph Martin
Assistant Location Manager: Yoshi Enoki Jr
Location Scout: Joseph Martin

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Conrad E. Palmisano
Stunts: Mary Albee, Bruce Paul Barbour, Gary Baxley, Joey Box, Eddie Braun, Blaise Corrigan, Phil Culotta, Alex Daniels, Tanner Gill, Keii Johnston, Steve Kelso, Barbara Anne Klein, Steven Lambert, Kurt D. Lott, Brad Martin, Pee Wee Piemonte, Rick Sawaya, Monica Staggs, Dick Ziker
Stunt Drivers: Blaise Corrigan, Ned Corrigan, Douglas Crosby, Jeffrey Lee Gibson, Ted Moser
Utility Stunts: Harry Wowchuk

CASTING
Casting: Francine Maisler
Casting Assistant: Pamela Lynn Thomas
Casting Associate: Michele Short

CAST
Anthony Hopkins (Hannibal Lecter)
Edward Norton (Will Graham)
Ralph Fiennes (Francis Dolarhyde)
Harvey Keitel (Jack Crawford)
Emily Watson (Reba McClane)
Mary-Louise Parker (Molly Graham)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Freddy Lounds)
Anthony Heald (Dr Frederick Chilton)
Ken Leung (Lloyd Bowman)
Frankie Faison (Barney)
Tyler Patrick Jones (Josh Graham)
Lalo Schifrin (conductor)
Tim Wheater (flautist)
John Rubinstein, David Doty, Brenda Strong, Robert Curtis-Brown, Mary Anne McGarry, Veronica De Laurentiis, Patty Malcolm (uncredited) (dinner guests)
Tom Verica (Charles Leeds)
Marguerite MacIntyre (Valerie Leeds)
Tommy Curtis (Billy Leeds)
Jordan Gruber (Sean Leeds)
Morgan Gruber (Susie Leeds)
Michael Cavanaugh (forensic dentist)
Madison Mason (police commissioner)
Bill Duke (police chief)
Katie Rich (woman detective)
Cliff Dorfman, Phillip B. Fahey (cops)
Elizabeth Dennehy (Beverly)
Stanley Anderson (Jimmy)
Richard Pelzman (locksmith)
Dwier Brown (Mr Jacobi)
Grace Stephens, Lucy Stephens, Kevin Bashor (Jacobi children)
Azura Skye (bookseller)
William Lucking (Byron Metcalf)
Alex D. Linz (voice of young Dolarhide)
Andreana Weiner (Dr Bloom's secretary)
Jeanine Jackson (Dr Hassler)
Mark Moses (father in video)
Kyra Helfrich (child in video)
Alex Berliner (photographer)
Gianni Russo (newsie)
Al Brown (Tattler guard)
Christopher Curry (Mr Fisk)
Tanya Newbould (Chromalux secretary)
Edward Nickerson (FBI agent)
Terence Rowley (superintendent)
Frank Bruynbroek (chef)
Hillary Straney (museum secretary)
Conrad E. Palmisano (deputy in car)
Robert Randolph Caton (museum patron)
Ellen Burstyn (voice of Mrs Dolarhyde (uncredited))
Norman Fessler (driver (uncredited))
Aaron Michael Lacey (TV cameraman (uncredited))
Luke Barnett (photo double for Edward Norton)
Ward Shrake (photo double for Philip Seymour Hoffman)

PLOT SUMMARY

Retired FBI profiler Will Graham is called back to duty to help in the search for the serial killer known only as The Tooth Fairy who is preying on entire families on a lunar cycle. But to get close to the Tooth Fairy, he has to question his old nemesis, the notorious serial killer he helped to track down and imprison - Dr Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter, who may have an agenda all his own...

Argentina
Theatrical Distributor: UIP

Italy
Theatrical Distributor: UIP

Netherlands
Theatrical Distributor: UIP Netherlands

USA
Theatrical Distributors: Dino De Laurentiis Productions / MCA-Universal Pictures/MGM/United International Pictures

USA
Rating: R (for violence, grisly images, language, some nudity and sexuality)

2002
Total Film Magazine, UK
Films of 2002 - Number 12

2002
January
7: USA - filming begins

October
4: USA - theatrical release
11: UK - theatrical release
17: Argentina - theatrical release
18: Brazil, Iceland, South Korea - theatrical release
23: Belgium - theatrical release
24: Australia - theatrical release
25: Denmark, Greece, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain - theatrical release
30: France - theatrical release
31: Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary - theatrical release

November
1: Finland, Sweden, Turkey - theatrical release
7: Netherlands, New Zealand - theatrical release
28: Russia - theatrical release

2003
February
1: Japan - theatrical release

How It All Began!

FBI Agent Will Graham Is About to Enter the Mind of a Killer. He Must First Let Hannibal Lecter Inside His Head.

Before the Silence, there was the Dragon

Before the Silence

Meet Hannibal Lecter For The First Time

To understand the origin of evil, you must go back to the beginning.

The First And Most Terrifying Chapter In The Hannibal Lecter Trilogy

Dragon rouge - French title
Röd drake - Swedish title
A Vörös sárkány - Hungarian title

REMAKE OF
Manhunter (1986)

PREQUEL TO
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Hannibal (2001)

MAGAZINES

Empire no.160 (October 2002) pp.44-46, 48, 50, 53 (UK)
illustrated article, interviews with Anthony Hopkins, Ed Norton and Ralph Fiennes (The cannibal run by Ian Nathan)

Total Film no.72 (January 2003) pp.6; 38; 78 (UK)
letter; question and answer; short review

blindness, book into film, cannibalism, cannibals, dentures, families, fbi, kidnapping, offender profilers, prequels, psychiatric hospitals, psychologists, remakes, serial killers, tattoos

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008