Thomas Harris’ fiendish flesh-eater Hannibal Lecter is to make the transition from the silver-screen to the small screen via writer Bryan Fuller and US network NBC with HANNIBAL. The new series will air from the 4th April and will chart the good doctor’s early relationship as serial-killer-catching colleague to FBI profiler Will Graham. An obsessive and clever agent with a troubled psyche, who is unaware his respected assistant hides a stomach-churing secret all of his own.
While we’ve had each of Harris’ Lecter novels adapted for the big-screen, the original show will fit in between HANNIBAL RISING and RED DRAGON. It features Mad Mikklesen as the chianti-guzzling psychopath, Hugh Dancy as Graham and Laurence Fishburne as FBI cheif Jack Crawford (previously played by Dennis Farina in MANHUNTER, Scott Glenn in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and Harvey Keitel in RED DRAGON). David Slade directed the pilot episode.
Check out this ‘making of’ featurette and new claret-covered still.
Source: NBC
