In the film, he is portrayed by Gary Oldman, while in the TV series he is portrayed by Michael Pitt and Joe Anderson.

Mason Verger is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Thomas Harris's 1999 novel Hannibal, as well as its 2001 film adaptation and the second and third seasons of the TV series Hannibal. He delighted in the writing style of Neri Capponi, banker and emissary to Venice in the fifteenth century, and read his letters, aloud from time to time, for his own pleasure late into the night.Gary Oldman as Mason Verger in the 2001 film Hannibal Not now, the monster reflected, and turned to his great rolls of vellum and parchment manuscripts.ĭr. Should Rinaldo Pazzi join the late curator of the Palazzo Vecchio down in the damp? Should Pazzi's body be found after an apparent suicide? La Nazione would be pleased to have hounded him to death. Lecter was well aware that all the elements of epiphany were present in the policeman's head, bouncing at random with the million other things he knew. Better to have encountered him at an orchid show.ĭr. The policeman saw him at the exposition of torture instruments. Pazzi did not even have any serious interest in him regarding the curator's disappearance. Lecter looked into Rinaldo Pazzi's face at the Palazzo Vecchio, and stood close enough to smell him, he knew for certain that Pazzi suspected nothing, even though he had asked about the scar on Dr. How unfortunate that he should encounter a policeman trained at Quantico, where Hannibal Lecter was a textbook case. Lecter at all, but Pazzi's background did.

The case of Il Mostro did not interest Dr. La Nazione cited Pazzi's background and training in America, at the famous Quantico academy, and said he should have known better. 'Our profile never matched Tocca,' an FBI spokesman said. Lecter selects the Italian newspaper and reads its latest attack on Rinaldo Pazzi, prompted by an FBI disclaimer in the case of Il Mostro. And beside it, the Florence edition of La Nazione.ĭr. Bright red and blue among the dun and yellow piles of parchment and vellum is a copy of the National Tattler.

Hannibal by Thomas Harris