HANNIBAL on NBC

[Wang Mandu]

Not sure. The rights to the character Clarice Starling are separate from the Hannibal books. They mentioned that they asked every year to buy or license the rights but the company kept denying them.

[How Are Mortiis Goatse?!]

According to Fuller season 4 would have continued exploring the Will/Hannibal relationship and expanded upon the brief information given in the novels about Wills downfall and descent into alcoholism, and wanted season 5 to go into Silence of the Lambs, but MGM owns the rights to the SotL story and the characters introduced in that book/film (Clarice, Buffalo Bill, Barney, etc) and won't let the show use them. In an early interview he talked about 7 seasons where 6 would be covering the Hannibal novel and 7 would be original material, but considering most of the Hannibal stuff was used in the first half of season 3 and the rights issue who knows what it would actually have looked like if it weren't cancelled.

[spacehamster]

I think the last version of his plan before the cancellation was four seasons, and the Italy stuff now ended up in season 3 because they knew they were cancelled. He basically put together the entire third season on the assumption that there wouldn't be a fourth, so I guess it's not all that bad.

[How Are Mortiis Goatse?!]

I'm fine with this show ending now. It goes full circle since the first episode of season one starts with the Dolarhyde dry run and the last season ends with the Red Dragon storyline. It's a solid fucking show with very few filler moments. I don't think I've seen a show be able to continually subvert expectations while simultaneously feeling 100% faithful to the source material. It evolves from CSI-esque police procedural into European art house thriller shot in gorgeous 2:35 black and white and feels totally right. Hannibal is definitely the best argument that so-called progressive casting can work great (Jack Crawford, Freddie Lounds, Alan/a Bloom, Reba). Hannibalisms are way more insightful and fun to listen to than Pizzolattoisms.

Since it's cancelled now it'll get a few years to gain more cult classic status (If whatever Star Wars movie Mikkelsen is cast in is well received and his character is considered awesome by the fans, it will retroactively increase the value of everything he has previously been in), there will be enough demand for a revival that they can throw enough money behind it to get the SOTL-rights, the cast will be older like they're supposed to be and it'll be all good.

[The Bill]

That song at the end... and the ending itself had a strange 70's-80's Euro horror vibe to it. Wonder if things were reshot/edited because it was cancelled, or that's how it was going to be. Still, I'm calling this the best show of the 2014-2015 TV season. Here's hoping Fargo or Evil Dead can fill its shoes for next season.

[The Real MPD]

ehh...

[spacehamster]

Fucking glorious is what that was.

[FVBTVS]

NO

[Eight Bit Alien]

HAHAHHAHAHAHA

[Eight Bit Alien]

Oh man I can't do that

[godofdeadlydeath]

Watched all 3 seasons of Hannibal back in the early pandemic days on Netflix. It was fucking great. Season 3 was a mess but a fun mess. Perfect ending.

[The Bill]

NO

I’ll give it a try, for no other reason than I have a woeful amount of new shows I actually watch.

[The Bill]

So Hannibal won’t and legally can’t be in this series.