{"id":142915,"date":"2025-11-20T04:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T04:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/142915\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T04:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T04:49:07","slug":"bryan-fuller-gives-update-on-hannibal-season-4-everbody-wants-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/142915\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Fuller Gives Update on ‘Hannibal’ Season 4; “Everbody Wants to Return”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fans of\u00a0Bryan Fuller\u2019s<\/a> short-lived NBC series \u201cHannibal\u201d remain as hungry as ever for a revival of the series, and the series creator is keeping that hunger alive with a small update.<\/p>\n

Speaking with The Horror Queers<\/a> podcast ahead of Fuller\u2019s Dust Bunny<\/a> release, in theaters on\u00a0December 12, the filmmaker revealed that rights to the IP are the biggest barrier to season 4.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody wants to return. Hugh [Dancy], and Mads [Mikkelsen], definitely. But also Lawrence Fishburne, Katie Isabelle, Caroline Dhavernas, Lara Jean Chorostecki, Aaron Abrams, and Scott [Thompson] all want to come back to the story. Right now, it\u2019s a little complicated since Martha de Laurentiis\u2018 passing.<\/p>\n

The rights are in the process of reversion to Thomas Harris. MGM\/Amazon has some. They\u2019re all being navigated in a way that is going to be a little trickier to iron out now. They\u2019re in process, and I keep on touching base and trying to encourage folks to get back together.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for what that would look like, Fuller has a clear plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve talked a little bit about wanting to do a\u00a0The Silence of the Lambs adaptation, which may be free of certain obligations to include Gaumont [International Television], who is the studio on\u00a0Hannibal. You can\u2019t copyright a performance, you know? So there are things that we\u2019re trying to figure out if we can get away with that would make it an easier path that might shake the possibilities loose of things that we might be hindered from doing at this point, given the status of the rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2018The Silence of the Lambs\u2019<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting that Fuller very recently mentioned his desire to tackle The Silence of the Lambs, with Zendaya as Clarice Starling<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fuller expands further, \u201cI know exactly what season 4 of\u00a0Hannibal\u00a0is, and I was frustrated with Season 1. That felt a little more like traditional television to me. There was a lot more \u2018murder mystery of the week\u2019 crime procedural kind of things. I was not necessarily drawn to that as an audience member, but I thought Season 2 was better. Season 3, I was like, \u2018Okay, this\u00a0is what we should be doing.\u00a0This is what I want to be doing. This is the type of storytelling that I think the show can do. And there are a lot of people who don\u2019t like Season 3, and I was like, \u2018Well then, you\u00a0really\u00a0don\u2019t want a Season 4, because that\u2019s it.\u2019 If you\u2019re not down with Season 3, then you\u2019re not going to be grooving on the plan for Season 4 because it\u2019s following that arc.\u201d<\/p>\n

Creator Bryan Fuller has been keeping the hope alive for the return of \u201cHannibal\u201d ever since NBC pulled the plug back in 2015, and it sounds like he\u2019s not alone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The filmmaker reunites with Hannibal Lecter actor\u00a0Mads Mikkelsen on the gateway genre movie Dust Bunny next month. Stay tuned for more on The Horror Queers\u2019<\/a> upcoming chat with Fuller.<\/p>\n

Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to get a new episode every Wednesday. You can subscribe on\u00a0iTunes\/Apple Podcasts<\/a>,\u00a0Stitcher<\/a>,\u00a0Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0iHeartRadio<\/a>,\u00a0SoundCloud<\/a>,\u00a0TuneIn<\/a>,\u00a0Amazon Music<\/a>, and\u00a0RSS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Mads Mikkelsen as Hannibal Lecter in \u201cHannibal\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans of\u00a0Bryan Fuller\u2019s short-lived NBC series \u201cHannibal\u201d remain as hungry as ever for a revival of the series,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[4852,4853,146,4854,85,46,9308,411],"class_list":["post-142915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bryan-fuller","tag-dust-bunny","tag-entertainment","tag-hannibal","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mads-mikkelsen","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}