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Red Dragon
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I've read actually I've read Red Dragon. Red Dragon has um who are the actors in it? The detectives.
Jason Calacanis · This Week in Startups · Jul 2026 The best things said about it
If this Bible John is the same person as Peter Tobin what's morbidly fascinating here is that we may be able to trace the evolution the increasing sophistication of a serial killer sort of similar to The Red Dragon cases mentioned in the Hannibal Lecter series.
Oh, that's my favorite of the book Red Dragon adapted for TV with the characters from Hannibal. So the first two seasons are sort of prequel and then season 3 is Red Dragon.
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Red Dragon by Thomas Harris is a psychological thriller novel that introduces the notorious serial killer Hannibal Lecter and follows the hunt for a murderer known as the Tooth Fairy. On an episode of This Week in Startups, Lon Harris brought up the novel while discussing how the television series Hannibal adapted its story, noting that the show dedicated its third season to covering Red Dragon. Jason Calacanis also mentioned on the same podcast that he had read the book while the speakers debated its various film and television adaptations. Separately, Ben Bowlin referenced the novel on Stuff They Don't Want You To Know, using it to draw a literary comparison. Bowlin compared the potential evolution and increasing sophistication of real-life suspect Peter Tobin to the fictional Red Dragon cases featured in the Hannibal Lecter series. The podcast discussions highlight the enduring cultural footprint of Harris's work, exploring both its direct screen adaptations and its thematic resonance in discussions of true crime and criminal psychology.
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Ben Bowlin if this Bible John is the same person as Peter Tobin what's morbidly fascinating here is that we may be abl… 1
“if this Bible John is the same person as Peter Tobin what's morbidly fascinating here is that we may be able to trace the evolution the increasing sophistication of a serial killer sort of similar to The Red Dragon cases mentioned in the Hannibal Lecter series”
Jason Calacanis I've read actually I've read Red Dragon. Red Dragon has um who are the actors in it? The detectives. 1
“I've read actually I've read Red Dragon. Red Dragon has um who are the actors in it? The detectives.”
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“Oh, that's my favorite of the book Red Dragon adapted for TV with the characters from Hannibal. So the first two seasons are sort of prequel and then season 3 is Red Dragon”
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“I love Manhunter, which like a man-made, which takes Red Dragon and gives it a new ending, which some people really don't like, but some people also absolutely know as the ending of Red Dragon.”
“Sort of uh similar to The Red Dragon cases uh mentioned in the Hannibal Lecter series”
“they redid it it's red dragon the novel so Brett Brett Ratner remade the movie years later with Ed Norton but this was the original version with William Peterson”
“of course he's famous for Silence of the Lambs but he was first introduced in Harris's second novel red dragon”