Manhunter was the first film to feature serial killer Hannibal Lecter .
This was not the first adaptation of a Harris novel for the screen�the 1975 novel Black Sunday , a story of a terrorist attack on the Super Bowl , was made into a film in 1977�but it was the first film to feature serial killer Hannibal Lecter , who would later appear in The Silence of the Lambs , Hannibal , Red Dragon , Hannibal Rising , and the 2013 television series Hannibal .
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