Hannibal casted.

By Farina August 29, 2000 2:03 PM

Casting for the upcoming sequel of Silence of the Lambs has been completed.?Hannibal includes Julianne Moore, Anthony Hopkins, Gary Oldman and a pack of menacing looking pigs.?Yes, a pack of menacing looking pigs.?

For those who are already acquainted with Thomas Harris? best-selling novel, the sequel features a pack flesh eating pigs that Southerner Mason Verger lets loose on Hannibal Lecter in the name of vengeance.?According to Entertainment Weekly, animal wrangler Sled Reynolds auditioned 6,000 hogs, looking for trainable swine with a menacing countenance.?In the end, a Canadian rancher can be proud of his 15 mean-looking swine but a Russian rancher boars all.?

?They really don?t attack ? they?re just trained to go grab stuff,? Reynolds states.??I mean if they?re crazy, how do you work around them?? Hopefully Hannibal won?t turn out to be a bad episode of When Animals Attack.?