[TV] Hannibal

[CeeKay]

NBC is apparently looking to replicate Dexter, this time with Hannibal Lecter.  Bryan Fuller is producing.  they liked the script enough that they're skipping the pilot:

The project is described as a 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. The project was bought by NBC preemptively in November with a script against a 13-episode commitment, meaning that the project wouldn’t go through a pilot stage but straight to series if NBC brass liked the script.

[hepcat]

I'm actually getting excited about this one.  I hope it can live up to the hype. 

[CeeKay]

a bit on Fuller's plans:

Hannibal will also be unusual because it’s planned as a 13-episode-per-season show. So though the drama won’t rush Hannibal’s story, it also won’t feel like its padded with throwaway episodes either.

“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,” Fuller says. “I pitched a seven-season arc including stories from various [Thomas Harris] books.”

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.

[hepcat]

For the first time, viewers will spend quality time with Lecter while he’s at large and before the world knows his secrets,

partial episode guide released:

S01E01:  Hannibal tries to find quality auto insurance at an affordable price.

S01E02:  Lecter, sick of Comcast's pricing, tries Time Warner.

S01E03: Laundry day in the Lecter household!

[CeeKay]

Meet the good doctor:



more pics here.

[metallicorphan]

Lawrence Fishburne 

[CeeKay]

This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you.... stop trying to gnaw on my hand Hannibal.

[CeeKay]

2 minute trailer.

[Soulchilde]

Still not sure how I feel about this series.  I read the novels and I imagine they will need to change somethings to make it fit for TV like the changes to Walking Dead.   I'll tune in, but I don't have high hopes