Hannibal (film) realized that Zaillian was "exorcising the 600 pages of the book. He was distilling through discussion what he was gonna finally do ... Frankly I could have just made it." It was unclear if Jodie Foster (Clarice Starling) and Anthony Hopkins (Hannibal Lecter) would reprise their respective roles for which they won Academy Awards in "The Silence of the Lambs" (best actress/actor). It became apparent that the producers and the studio could do without one of the original "stars" and would go on to find a replacement. The withdrawal of both Foster and Hopkins could possibly have been terminal for
Ruben Garcia Jr. (FBI agent) Ruben Garcia Jr. (FBI agent) Ruben Garcia Jr. (born August 15, 1951) is a former Executive Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Garcia was born to Mexican-American parents, Cecilia and Ruben Garcia in Brownfield, the seat of Terry County in West Texas near Lubbock. After graduation from Brownfield High School, Garcia subsequently earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, where he excelled in baseball as an All-American pitcher for the Red Raiders. After a short lived career with the Kansas City Royals baseball organization, Garcia joined the FBI as a Special Agent