Starting off i would like to point out that the recent 2013
series ‘Hannibal ’
is more a re-imagination of the fates of the original Red Dragon novel’s
characters. The timeline is set before the events of the first novel and many
of the character’s defining traits have been altered. For example Freddie
Lounds has become a woman in her 20’s, dr. Bloom has also had a gender change
of the same magnitude, becoming from a male doctor in his 50’s to a female
doctor in her 30’s and Jack Crawford is now black and about 15 years younger.
There are plays of the different evens in the red dragon novel in the series,
freddie lounds being tracked down by a serial killer trying to make her write
the story the way he sees it, not unlike Dollarhyde, there’s also an episode
that mentions the local opera becoming better after the disappearance,
presumably by Hannibal’s hand, of one of the opera’s members. By the end of the
series though the timeline of events has been severly altered compared to both
the original movie and novel so i will disregard the tv series in my
comparrison for now.
