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In Manhunter<\/em>, Will Graham (William Petersen), the FBI agent who caught Lecktor, is called out of retirement to investigate a killer of families, including consulting Lecktor for help. That killer is ultimately revealed to be Francis Dolarhyde (Tom Noonan). <\/p>\nThe final cut elaborates on Graham\u2019s tactics, too. \u201cOne of them is a deepening of the psychological base of Graham and what he\u2019s trying to accomplish which is in the Atlanta PD scene,\u201d Mann said. \u201cThere\u2019s some significant editing there. There was also a sense of what he accomplished with the family he saved at the end of the film.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some of the original cut of Manhunter <\/em>has been omitted as well. Mann did not specify lines but indicated he eliminated some of the \u201880s dialogue. \u201cThere\u2019s unfortunate lines of dialogue that I had an opportunity to excise,\u201d he said.<\/p>\nThe new 4K restoration also contains revised color grading, in collaboration with Company 3 President Stefan Sonenfeld.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe wanted to render into a visual aesthetic that is contemporary to the palette of colors it would have now,\u201d Mann said. \u201cWe started exploring what can be done with a very radical and dynamic approach to color timing using power windows and shaping things not just for a visual aesthetic, but for actual dramatic impact in terms of putting shading where shading may not have been or increasing contrast or changing the chroma.\u201d<\/p>\n
Recalling the production of the film, Mann said he wanted to use the title of the novel, but producer Dino De Laurentiis, who was involved in every Hannibal film except The Silence of the Lambs<\/em>, disagreed.<\/p>\n\u201cThis movie was originally titled Red Dragon<\/em>,\u201d Mann said. \u201cI got into a big argument with Dino De Laurentiis because he thought if it was called Red Dragon<\/em>, people would think it would be a chopsocky movie. We fought for about two, three weeks, and we ended up with Manhunter<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Red Dragon is a painting by William Blake that Dolarhyde admires. De Laurentiis redeemed himself, said Mann, by introducing him to his frequent cinematographer in what would be their first collaboration. \u201cIt was kind of a tradeoff,\u201d Mann said. \u201cI wound up with a bad title but Dino introduced me to Dante Spinotti.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cox was not the first actor considered for the role of Lecktor. Brian Dennehy was campaigning for a role, but he actually was the one who recommended Cox.<\/p>\n
\u201cBrian called me one day from New York and said, \u2018I\u2019m going to prove to you what a good friend I am. You know how much I want to do Lecktor?\u2019\u201d Mann said. \u201cI said yes. He said, \u2018Well, there\u2019s somebody better. There\u2019s an actor named Brian Cox who\u2019s in a play called Rat in the Skull<\/em>, and you\u2019ve got to go see this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\nIn Manhunter<\/em>, Lecktor is held in a facility shot on location at the High Museum in Atlanta, Ga. His bright, plain brick cell is quite a contrast from the underground cell holding Anthony Hopkins\u2019 Lecter in Silence of the Lambs.<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cHow do I emphasize the pure threat with Brian Cox\u2019s words and expression on his face?\u201d Mann said. \u201cIt was basically neutralize everything else. Make everything else be absolutely bland and white and uniform. So really all you\u2019re focusing on is his eyes and his face and his expression and then have the bars in between them so that when you\u2019re cross cutting, it\u2019s all face to face. The bars re-superimpose themselves on each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lecktor\u2019s final scene is a phone call with Graham, who is dangling his leg over a hotel room chair, while Lecktor is lying on his cell bed with his feet on the wall in socks. Mann revealed the unusual inspiration for that scene: “Pillow Talk<\/em>, Rock Hudson and Doris Day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\nMann had a far different inspiration for Manhunter<\/em>\u2019s Dolarhyde. He had corresponded with serial killer Dennis Wayne Wallace during is incarceration, and was fascinated by the way Wallace\u2019s childhood abuse made him sympathetic, but his adult crimes made him horrific.<\/p>\n\u201cA lot of the characterization of Dolarhyde isn\u2019t really from the novel,\u201d Mann said. \u201cIt\u2019s from Dennis Wayne Wallace. He had fantasized that he had a romance with a woman who was a go-go dancer at the Mellow Yellow, a disco. And that their love song was In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida<\/em> by Iron Butterfly which is where that came from. That was all in his imagination. None of this was true, but he wound up killing her boyfriend and two or three other people.\u201d<\/p>\nAs Dolarhyde, Noonan was immersed in the character. He did not meet Petersen until they filmed the climactic confrontation. After a 36-hour shoot, the co-stars had breakfast together. Mann recalled Noonan already in character when casting director Bonnie Timmerman sent him in.<\/p>\n
\u201cTom Noonan walked in,\u201d Mann said. \u201cI stood up and said, \u2018Hi, I\u2019m Michael.\u2019 He just kind of looked down, didn\u2019t look me in the eye and said, \u2018I don\u2019t want to talk. Just read.\u2019 That was it. We just read the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n
Manhunter: The Final Cut<\/em> will be released in theaters July 24.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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