"On board the Empire""s Death Star, a gigantic Imperial space fortress, officers in a large conference room argued about the power of the rebels to threaten them (especially since the Rebels possessed a "complete technical read-out" of the station), as commander Grand Moff Tarkin (Peter Cushing), a skeletal, vicious-looking, power-mad tyrant, and Darth Vader entered the room.The hand then scrambled out of sight before driving itself straight into Terry""s chest and heart(# 2 death).Suddenly, the film returned to the Steven Spielberg-directedAustinpussyfilm from the prologue, starring Tom Cruise as Austin Powers.Hannibal Lecktor (now spelled Lecter) and Edward Norton as Will Graham.With a production budget of approximately $15 million, and box-office gross receipts of $8.6 million (domestic).The film was a box-office flop, and therefore wasn""t sequeled.This was the first film to introduce the serial killer character named Hannibal.When the film was re-released on video following the success ofThe Silence of the Lambs (1991),it was erroneously retitledRed Dragon: The Pursuit of Hannibal Lecter- both because of the different spelling of Hannibal""s last name, and because the word ""pursuit"" seemed inappropriate -- Lecktor was jailed, while the "Tooth Fairy" was being pursued.