Bryan Fuller making Hannibal Lecter series!

[Enterprise is Great]

Fishburn officially cast

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Bryan Fuller Taps Wonderfalls' Caroline Dhavernas as Female Lead

We hear that the actress will play a series regular named Dr. Alana “Al” Bloom, a psychiatric protege of Hannibal Lecter’s who teaches psychology at Georgetown University and is consulting with the FBI on criminal profiling when she introduces her mentor to Laurence Fishburne’s Jack Crawford.

 

[flipjack]

Bryan Fuller Taps Wonderfalls' Caroline Dhavernas as Female Lead

We hear that the actress will play a series regular named Dr. Alana “Al” Bloom, a psychiatric protege of Hannibal Lecter’s who teaches psychology at Georgetown University and is consulting with the FBI on criminal profiling when she introduces her mentor to Laurence Fishburne’s Jack Crawford.

Sold! I'm in!

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Ok, this is a odd crossover Hannibal and Wonderfalls: http://tvline.com/2012/09/27/chelan-simmons-hannibal/

Bryan Fuller, the man behind both NBC’s gruesome mid-season drama and the 2004 Fox cult hit Wonderfalls, announced Thursday via Twitter that Chelan Simmons would bring her chirpy ‘falls character — Gretchen Speck-Horowitz — to his new project.

“THRILLED to be working again with @ChelanLSimmons and TICKLED her character is crossing over to #Hannibal,” the writer and executive producer tweeted, along with a photo of Simmons.

 

[Captaindemotion]

^So if this is true, presumably this series won't be set within the movie continuity? Or would this character have been kicking around in the 1970s or 80s?!

 

[Enterprise is Great]

I think that the show is set in the present day.

 

[Saul]

^So if this is true, presumably this series won't be set within the movie continuity? Or would this character have been kicking around in the 1970s or 80s?!

I think not as the plan seems to be to deal with the events of 'Red Dragon' around season 3 or 4.

 

[Brikar99]

^So if this is true, presumably this series won't be set within the movie continuity? Or would this character have been kicking around in the 1970s or 80s?!

I think not as the plan seems to be to deal with the events of 'Red Dragon' around season 3 or 4.

I hope it's good enough and popular enough to make it that far.

 

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Pushing Daisies' Ellen Greene Joins Cast of NBC's Hannibal

Greene will take on the recurring role of Mrs. Komeda, a novelist and member of Boston’s cultural elite. She’s also a pal of the titular cannibal, Dr. Lecter (played by Casino Royale‘s Mads Mikkelsen) which – we assume – should protect her from becoming his lunch.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Hannibal poster:

 

[Brikar99]

I'd like to get that poster without the headshots in it.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Huh. NBC may be overestmating the notoriety of the "Hannibal" name on its own. The character never made it into pop culture awareness except through Silence of the Lambs. The spinoff movies are certainly out of popular awareness by now, if they ever broke through beyond a niche audince to begin with. So without Jodie Foster or at least some similar character (Caroline Dhavernas?) will the public make the connection solely by that poster (or ads etc based on it?)

All that poster says to me is, it's a crime show with three male characters. Silence of the Lambs is a story focused on a young woman and an older man. Hannibal is that guy with the elephants.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Gina Torres to recurr on Hannibal

Gina Torres is joining NBC’s contemporary Hannibal Lecter series as the wife of Laurence Fishburne’s G-Man Jack Crawford, TVLine has learned exclusively.

Torres — who will juggle the recurring gig with her full-time job on USA Network’s Suits — previously worked with Hannibal exec producer Bryan Fuller: She played beautiful grifter Lila Robinson in Fuller’s Pushing Daisies. The actress also has a connection to onscreen spouse Fishburne — she’s married to him!

 

[Captaindemotion]

Gina playing Lawrence's wife, huh? Wonder if she'll find that a stretch...

 

[Captaindemotion]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=96391

Here are 8 photos, some reasonably graphic. The clothes and cars would seem to suggest that, like the Psycho prequel, it's not going to be set in the timeline of the source material (which would have put this in the 1970s or 1980s, Psycho in the 1950s) but in the modern day.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Gillian Anderson to appear

Ten years after the end of The X-Files, star Gillian Anderson is returning to U.S. broadcast TV on the upcoming NBC thriller Hannibal, Entertainment Weekly reports.

Anderson, 44, will play Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier, the therapist of Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen), in a multi-episode arc.

 

[Aeronef]

This could very easily be crap.

But given the acting talent involved, I am allowing myself a modest amount of hope.

 

[barnaclelapse]

What a terrible idea for a TV series. I mean, I don't have any idea on how it could possibly be sustainable.

And the thing is... it feels like an old idea... we've had 4 movies... and only one of them was really good. And Silence was SUCH a classic, and... I don't know.

It could be good, but, what a shadow to have to stand in.

This is how I'm feeling about the series, too.

I just don't see the need for this. I certainly get the reason. I just don't see the need, and I'm honestly not that excited about this.