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The One Gruesome “Hannibal” Death Scene That NBC Did Not Allow
While they may have cancelled the show after just three seasons, one has to commend NBC for even allowing “Hannibal” to go on for that long. Despite the ratings never being all that impressive, the network stuck with the show for three seasons, allowing some of the most insane carnage we’ve ever seen on the small screen.
But NBC wasn’t on board with *everything* the writers dreamed up.
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, creator Bryan Fuller just revealed the Season 1 death scene that the network didn’t go for. In Episode 11 of the first season, titled “Rôti,” Dr. Abel Gideon (Eddie Izzard) gives psychiatrist Paul Carruthers a “Colombian necktie,” slitting his throat and pulling his tongue through the gaping wound.
But that wasn’t the originally scripted death for Carruthers.
EW explains, “Originally the plan was for Gideon to lure tabloid blogger Freddie Lounds to a psychiatrist’s office, where she would flip a light switch, unwittingly activating a ceiling fan that was attached to an incision in the living doctor’s abdomen.”
“[It] essentially disembowels him by spinning the fan, all in one fell swoop,” Fuller told the site, “That was the only one where NBC was like, ‘I just don’t know how you’re going to do it.’ We would have pushed back if we also hadn’t been told that financially we didn’t know how we could afford to produce such a gag, because you have intestines swinging around a ceiling fan.”
EW was even provided with a gory illustration of the unfilmed death scene!
While you wait for Alien: Romulus, the folks over at Devilworks have cooked up their own slice of “mockbuster” fun with Alien Hunt, and we’re debuting the trailer here on BD this morning.
This brand-new sci-fi horror from director Aaron Mirtes (The Bigfoot Trap, Painted in Blood) is set for its US premiere on May 14, and you can find it on digital thanks to Devilworks.
You can exclusively watch the official trailer for Alien Hunt below, which looks to combine elements of Alien and Predator. This particular “mockbuster” has very little interest in hiding its inspirations, with the alien designs plucked straight out of H.R. Giger’s beautiful brain. Hey, if you’re going to pull from other movies, might as well take from the all-time greats!
In Alien Hunt, “On a hunting trip in the wilderness, a group of siblings discovers an abandoned military outpost on their land, but is it what it seems?
“Their trip takes a sinister turn when they find themselves facing off against a relentless army of extra-terrestrial beings. Suddenly, the hunters become the hunted.
“The formidable squad of alien soldiers will stop at nothing to wipe out the enemy and in an all-out, brutal battle for survival, it’s kill or be killed in Alien Hunt.”
Barron Boedecker (Escape Pod, The Bigfoot Trap), Brent Bentley (The Perfect In-Laws, Haunt Season), Deiondre Teagle (The Visitor, Painted in Blood, Death Ranch), Chelsey Fuller (The Bigfoot Trap, The Silent Natural), Jesse Santoyo (A Nashville Country Christmas, Potter’s Ground), and Adam Pietripaoli (The Bigfoot Trap, The OctoGames) star.
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