LOS ANGELES (The Hollywood Reporter) --- Ralph Fiennes has been cast in the title role of Universal Pictures' Red Dragon for director Brett Ratner and producers Dino and Martha De Laurentiis.

The project is scheduled to go into production next month.

Anthony Hopkins is reprising his role as psychiatrist-cannibal Hannibal Lecter for the film, which is based on Thomas Harris' 1981 best-selling crime-thriller novel of the same name. Edward Norton and Emily Watson also star (HR 8/16).

Last month, Harvey Keitel, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Mary-Louise Parker came aboard (HR 11/19).

Ted Tally adapted the screenplay, which centers on a serial killer called Red Dragon (Fiennes) who is on the loose, bringing FBI agent Will Graham (Norton) out of retirement because he has a special talent for catching such killers.

Fiennes, repped by CAA, next stars in David Cronenberg's feature "Spider." He most recently starred in "The End of the Affair," "Sunshine" and "Onegin."

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