Bryan Fuller's new Hannibal TV series has already been given a 13-episode first season order from NBC. We now have new details on what you can expect from the upcoming series, including seven planned seasons, how Hannibal will be portrayed, and what to expect from future seasons.
Here are some of the more interesting items from a recent interview EW conducted with Fuller:
- The first two seasons will be based on the Red Dragon novel.
- The series will involve "Lecter teaming to solve crimes with empathic FBI profiler Will Graham... For the first time, viewers will spend quality time with Lecter while he’s at large and before the world knows his secrets, working side by side with a similarly brilliant man who is destined to catch him."
- Fuller mentions that his Hannibal won't be the same we've seen in the movies: “There is a cheery disposition to our Hannibal. He’s not being telegraphed as a villain. If the audience didn’t know who he was, they wouldn’t see him coming. What we have is Alfred Hitchcock’s principle of suspense — show the audience the bomb under the table and let them sweat when it’s going to go boom. So the audience knows who Hannibal is so we don’t have to overplay his villainy. We get to subvert his legacy and give the audience twists and turns.”
- EW describes the show as a "crime procedural featuring two very smart investigators — but one of them is a serial killer". They also say that the show format will change once it is discovered who Hannibal really is.
- Seven seasons are planned: “Doing a cable model on network television gives us the opportunity not to dally in our storytelling because we have a lot of real estate to cover... I pitched a seven-season arc including stories from various [Thomas Harris] books.”
The big news that we're waiting on is who will be cast in the role of Hannibal Lecter. It has already been announced that David Slade (30 Days of Night, Eclipse) will be directing the pilot episode and Hugh Dancy has been cast as FBI agent Will Graham.
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