Bryan Fuller is bringing the twisted mind of Hannibal Lecter to the small screen.
The Pushing Daisies creator is developing Hannibal, a one-hour drama for European film studio Gaumont’s newly created American production arm, reports Deadline.

The potential series would explore the early relationship between the famed psychiatrist and his young patient, an FBI criminal profiler who is haunted by his ability to empathize with serial killers.

Fuller will write and executive produce the pilot.

Additionally, Gaumont International Television is working with Tudors creator Michael Hirst on the six-hour miniseries Madame Tussaud. Both projects will be presented to content buyers at the MIPCOM trade show next month.

http://www.tvline.com/2011/09/tvline-items-bryan-fuller-hannibal-hot-in-cleveland/#more-249426

Hannibal Lecter Series Finds Home on Television
Source: Deadline
November 7, 2011


That proposed Hannibal television series we told you about has a home.

NBC reportedly picked it up and Bryan Fuller will develop a 13-episode run executive produced by Martha De Laurentiis.



Unlike some other shows, Hannibal will not need to deal with going through the "pilot" process. Deadline says if NBC likes the first script Fuller pens, it will go right to series.

The show is said to focus on Lecter's early days and his cat-and-mouse relationship with FBI agent Will Graham.

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=21789

I loved Silence of the Lambs, and enjoyed, to a lesser extent, Hannibal. I love horror as a genre.

But I can't honestly imagine a long life for a series where the audience is (hopefully, anyway) rooting for the main character to die every week. Lecter is a cannibalistic serial killer; where do you go with that? If you kill him off, the show's over. If you let him get away with murder every week, you insert a kind of hopelessness in the viewer; evil wins, good guys die. It's an exercise in futility and despair.

One season, tops.

I won't watch a show where the guest star ends up as the main course.

I loved Silence of the Lambs, and enjoyed, to a lesser extent, Hannibal. I love horror as a genre.

But I can't honestly imagine a long life for a series where the audience is (hopefully, anyway) rooting for the main character to die every week. Lecter is a cannibalistic serial killer; where do you go with that? If you kill him off, the show's over. If you let him get away with murder every week, you insert a kind of hopelessness in the viewer; evil wins, good guys die. It's an exercise in futility and despair.

One season, tops.

What makes you think the audience will be "rooting for Hannibal to die every week"?

This day and age it's all about the anti-hero, as evidenced from shows like "The Sopranos" and "The Shield", where the show leads are not on the side of morality.

Hannibal, the character, has a pretty strong following that would be rooting for him.

I think it should be a sitcom. Hannibal's Heroes, I Love Hannibal, I Dream Of Hannibal....

His catchphrase could be "I'll eat that with some fava beans and a nice chianti."

What makes you think the audience will be "rooting for Hannibal to die every week"?

This day and age it's all about the anti-hero, as evidenced from shows like "The Sopranos" and "The Shield", where the show leads are not on the side of morality.

Hannibal, the character, has a pretty strong following that would be rooting for him.

Not sure I want to live in a world where a serial killer is "rooted for". I'm a cynic, but I haven't quite sunk so far as to think that people would be cheering on a person who routinely slaughters and eats innocent people. If they do, I'm afraid for what that says about us all.

Not sure I want to live in a world where a serial killer is "rooted for". I'm a cynic, but I haven't quite sunk so far as to think that people would be cheering on a person who routinely slaughters and eats innocent people. If they do, I'm afraid for what that says about us all.

I don't know if you've seen the film or read the novel Hannibal Rising which goes into more of Hannibal's back-story, but that reveals why people would be rooting for him when you know what happened in his past.

By the way, Hannibal does not slaughter and eat "the innocent". Of course that's up for argument but Hannibal never went after anyone for nothing and there was always a reason for why he did what he did.

How about the cops that he killed in Silence? My memory is fuzzy; I think one of them kind of tormented him but pretty sure both of them didn't.

As far as having a reason, I'll agree he had a reason for all that he did. Of course, that could be said of just about everyone on the planet throughout history. The question is whether or not the reason is a 'good' one.

Haven't seen or read Hannibal Rising. I did watch and enjoy Hannibal...where they were indeed positioning him toward being more sympathetic. It's a free world and artists are and should be completely free to explore whatever moral arenas they wish, I just get very uncomfortable with the modern focus on and sympathy with behavior that requires incredible logistical and philosophical somersaults in order to make them protagonists instead of antagonists. I remember a similar discussion about Agent Krycek from the X Files, where people tried to defend him despite his countless acts of violence and brutality and betrayal. I said he was a "great character, but a terrible person." And I'd say the same of Lecter.

How about the cops that he killed in Silence? My memory is fuzzy; I think one of them kind of tormented him but pretty sure both of them didn't.

As far as having a reason, I'll agree he had a reason for all that he did. Of course, that could be said of just about everyone on the planet throughout history. The question is whether or not the reason is a 'good' one.

The two cops just had the misfortune of being assigned to guard him. They didn't really torment him but they did make some snide remarks at him.

Hannibal wanted to escape and rid himself of being Dr. Chilton's prisoner, who did torment him.

I'd like to watch this show, but I'm having an old friend for dinner. :lol:




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We were always bullish on this one. Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal project just got a direct-to-series order. NBC has picked up 13 episodes of the thriller TV series based on Thomas Harris’ classic cannibal serial killer.

Logline: “One-hour contemporary thriller series featuring the classic characters from Thomas Harris’ novel Red Dragon – FBI agent Will Graham and his mentor Dr. Hannibal Lecter – who are re-introduced at the beginning of their budding relationship.”

So that includes some new information. Fuller is focusing on damaged FBI profiler Graham instead of Clarice Starling (popularized by Jodie Foster in Silence of the Lambs). Graham is the agent who captured Lecter when the psychiatrist was on his killing/eating spree.

The first question is who will play Lecter — a part that one could argue is either a dream role, or a thankless gig considering the inevitable comparisons to Anthony Hopkins’ Oscar-winning take on the character. Another question: How much will NBC push the envelope with the original tale’s gory content?

Fuller’s other buzzed-about NBC project, a modernized dramatic reboot of The Munsters, was recently pushed back.

Also today: NBC gave a pilot order to Notorious from Friday Night Lights writer Liz Heldens (the project is no relation to the Hitchcock film… if anything it sounds a tad like ABC’s Revenge).

The logline: “An opulent soap in which a female detective returns undercover to the wealthy family she grew up in – as the maid’s daughter – to solve the murder of the notorious heiress who was once her closest friend.”

http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/02/14/nbc-hannibal-series-order/#more-75351

British actor Hugh Dancy is set as one of the two leads in Hannibal, NBC’s 13-episode series from Gaumont International Television, written and executive produced by Bryan Fuller and executive produced by Martha DeLaurentiis. The project is described as a contemporary thriller series featuring the classic characters from Thomas Harris’ novel Red Dragon – FBI agent Will Graham (Dancy) and his mentor Dr. Hannibal Lecter – who are re-introduced at the beginning of their budding relationship. Dancy recently recurred on the Showtime comedy series The Big C.

http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/

Mads Mikkelsen, hot off winning the Best Actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival for The Hunt and scoring the villain role in Thor 2, has been cast as the title character in NBC’s upcoming drama series Hannibal. In his U.S. TV debut, Danish-born Mikkelsen will star opposite Hugh Dancy in the 13-episode series from Gaumont International Television, written and executive produced by Bryan Fuller and executive produced by Martha DeLaurentiis. The project is described as a contemporary thriller featuring the classic characters from Thomas Harris’ novel Red Dragon – FBI agent Will Graham (Dancy) and his mentor Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Mikkelsen) — who are re-introduced at the beginning of their budding relationship. Graham is a gifted criminal profiler on the hunt for a serial killer with the FBI who enlists the help of Dr. Lecter, one of the premier psychiatric minds in the country, with no clue about his darker side. The role was made famous by Anthony Hopkins, who won an Oscar for Silence Of The Lambs.

Mikkelsen, repped by UTA and Denmark’s Art Management, has been on a villainous streak, having also played the bad guy in the James Bond film Casino Royale. Hannibal is executive produced by Fuller, De Laurentis, Sara Colleton, Jesse Alexander and Katie O’Connell. David Slade is directing/executive producing the pilot.

http://www.deadline.com/2012/06/mads-mikkelsen-to-play-hannibal-lecter-in-nbc-series-hannibal/#more-281642