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It’s hard to believe that “Hannibal” is really dead, especially in an age with streaming services producing fan-service like there’s no tomorrow.
While Amazon and Netflix have both passed, star Hugh Dancy is keeping hope alive for the millions of “Fannibals.”
Collider spoke with Dancy, who has moved on to star in Hulu’s creepy new cult series, “The Path.”
In the interview, Dancy spoke about what show creator Bryan Fuller has in mind for the potential continuation of the story:
“Bryan [Fuller] pitched it to me … well, he, described to me in an overview with what he wanted to do with the 4th season, had there been an interest, and it was really fantastic. It was a complete restart, without describing it — because who knows, God knows, maybe some way we may be able to do it in the future — but it took us back to the first season in a very unexpected way, and made total sense of that cliffhanger ending; it seemed justified. It was born out of a part of one of the books so it was still coming out of that universe, but it wasn’t the Clarice / ‘Silence of the Lambs’ storyline.”
When I asked specifically if there would be a chance to explore that story, Dancy admitted, “I just think if I keep saying that it will happen!” But, as previously reported, everyone’s so busy it’s probably going to take years for a revival.
“Honestly, the fans were better informed than I was about a lot of stuff, but all I can say is that Bryan is very busy, Mads is busy, I’m busy right now, but I know that all of us would happily come back in the future.”
Dancy also spoke to the possibility of the series continuing as a feature film.
“The answer is I don’t know. I think we’d all be happy to return in some capacity, and the idea of a movie is really interesting. Obviously, one of the things that we did with the show, that Bryan did really, was very languorous, very image-rich storytelling, so how to fit that into a movie, I’m not sure. But the version of the season he described to me … I just know I’d like for it to happen.”
When “Hannibal” was first announced the very idea of touching on the “Silence of the Lambs” arc made me sick to my stomach. Now, “Hannibal” has become its own beast, one that’s so vastly different than the films that it now feels as if we’ve all been robbed of a true finale.
I desperately want to see “Silence of the Lambs realized in Bryan Fuller’s universe with Mads and Hugh, and of course whomever they would cast as Clarice Starling (Fuller has previous mentioned Ellen Page as his ideal casting).
