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 NBC’s
Hannibal was cancelled two years ago but Bryan Fuller has an idea for season
four. He talked with Mick Garris on his podcast Post Mortem and revealed he was
hopeful but doesn’t think it will happen: “It was very likely that there
wouldn’t be a fourth season, because I felt like we were running out of rope and
NBC had kept us on the air for three years with numbers that nobody would have
kept us on the air for. So I’m very grateful for those three years, but I felt
like it would be shocking if we got a fourth season and we didn’t…yet. I have
had conversations with executive producer Martha De Laurentiis, Mads
Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy. We’re all excited about the prospect of returning to
the story. There’s some hurdles to get through. The rights revert back to Martha
in September I believe and then it’s a matter of do we do it with Gaumont, the
production company of Hannibal? I just had a great idea for season four… There’s
an interesting next chapter in the relationship between Will Graham and Hannibal
Lecter that would be fascinating to unpack. I’ve shared it with the gentlemen
and they’re both keen on it. There’s a whole storyline that I want to do with
Katie Isabelle’s character Margot Verger, who we know is mother of the Verger
heir and in control of the Verger meat packing industry. I wanted her to be like
Joan Crawford at Pepsi saying “Don’t F–k with me fellas” and just humanize all
of the Verger meat packing plants and turn them over to PETA approved… That
would definitely be marbled through the season, Margot Verger taking down the
meat industry as a hot, powerful lesbian.” Both Netflix and Amazon turned down
picking the series up but Fuller says De Laurentiis is working on making season
four a possibility. |
