Date: 1st March 2001

A Longer And Gorier Hanibal?


Ridley Scott is planning to add about an hour of unused footage to Hannibal when it airs on CBS in 2003, Daily Variety reported today (Thursday).

Jim Griffiths, president of worldwide TV distribution for MGM, told the trade paper that Scott will, in effect, be offering his first theatrical cut of the movie. The question of whether the longer version will actually air -- or if indeed the shorter version will be aired uncut -- is still a matter of speculation. It was also not clear whether the longer version would be released theatrically in advance of the TV broadcast. Variety said that CBS retains the option to run its own edited version of the movie.

Source: Studio Briefing