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tenordas said
Not to take anything away from the book or the series, but that's not true. Red Dragon was written 15 years before Mind Hunter, and Silence of the Lambs 7 years before it. Also, both the original film version of Red Dragon (Manhunter - 1986) and Silence of the Lambs (1991) were made before the Mind HUnter was published in 1995.

Sorry, I had it somewhat wrong.

They were not based on the book, per say, but the characters Will Graham and more specifically Jack Crawford were based on John Douglas who wrote the book.

From Wikipedia:

Jack Crawford, a major character in the Thomas Harris novels Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs, was directly based on Douglas.[3] Crawford was played by Dennis Farina in the film Manhunter, by Scott Glenn in the film The Silence of the Lambs, by Harvey Keitel in the 2002 Red Dragon, and by Laurence Fishburne in the 2013 NBC series Hannibal.

According to Bryan Fuller, creator of Hannibal, the series' version of Will Graham is based in part on Douglas, namely in the character suffering a severe case of autoimmune encephalitis throughout the first season.

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