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Hannibal Season 3 Promo Trailer/Casting/News - S1/S2/some S3 spoilers

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UrbanRats

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Did Neil Marshall direct any Hannibal episodes before? I love most of his movies, and i thought he did a great job on Game of Thrones.
 
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Funky Papa said:
Not that I know of. As a huge fan of him, seeing his name attached to Hannibal is... Interesting.
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Gigantic battle scene for season 3 confirmed.

I caught the last 30 minutes or so of the Brett Ratner directed Red Dragon over the weekend, and it got me super hyped to see what Fuller and co do. There is room for some insane stuff in the climax(es) of that story.
 
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ezekial45

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Not sure how I feel about this season having both Hannibal in Italy and Red Dragon storylines, since I felt the RD could have an entire season on its own, but I still have faith that it will be great.
 
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ezekial45 said:
Not sure how I feel about this season having both Hannibal in Italy and Red Dragon storylines, since I felt the RD could have an entire season on its own, but I still have faith that it will be great.
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I used to think similarly, until it occurred to me that Michael Mann managed to make a really damned good adaptation of Red Dragon in just about 2 hours, without really leaving too much stuff out.

Even if Red Dragon only gets 5-6 hours total to work with - that's still a LOT of time to adapt that story and really flesh (heh) it out in a way we've never seen before.
 
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BobbyRoberts said:
I used to think similarly, until it occurred to me that Michael Mann managed to make a really damned good adaptation of Red Dragon in just about 2 hours, without really leaving too much stuff out.

Even if Red Dragon only gets 5-6 hours total to work with - that's still a LOT of time to adapt that story and really flesh (heh) it out in a way we've never seen before.
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Yup I've made that point previously that even half a season devoted to the Red Dragon story is considerably more than either of the two film adaptations, and they both managed to tell rather complete versions of the story.
 
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ezekial45

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BobbyRoberts said:
I used to think similarly, until it occurred to me that Michael Mann managed to make a really damned good adaptation of Red Dragon in just about 2 hours, without really leaving too much stuff out.

Even if Red Dragon only gets 5-6 hours total to work with - that's still a LOT of time to adapt that story and really flesh (heh) it out in a way we've never seen before.
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Oh yeah, I agree. But one of the best things about this show is that they were able to flesh out minor characters and references into large storylines (the Hobbs', for example).

I'm definitely looking forward to seeing how it turns out, and regardless, this will definitely be the most fleshed out adaptation of Red Dragon we've ever had. So I'm very much looking forward to it.
 
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-griffy- said:
Yup I've made that point previously that even half a season devoted to the Red Dragon story is considerably more than either of the two film adaptations, and they both managed to tell rather complete versions of the story.
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Heh. Maybe by "it occurred to me" I meant "I read griffy's post and absorbed it so thoroughly I thought I thought it."
 
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Bryan Fuller serves up 11 delicious new spoilers for Hannibal season 3 (h/t to A Serious Man)

Nothing too juicy--just general storyline/character information.

1) We'll get a little 007-style action in the early episodes.

"I love Ridley Scott's Hannibal, I just think it's such a fun, gruesome movie that kind of harkens back to Hammer films, and it's Hannibal as James Bond," Fuller enthused. "There's qualities of that that we wanted to bring to the first chapter of the third season, which is the Italy-based material."

We're guessing the motorbike and leathers will play a role here.

2) The season premiere 'Antipasto' is all about Bedelia Du Maurier and her years-long relationship with Hannibal Lecter.

"It really does feel like 'What are we watching?' Will Graham isn't in it, none of the other familiar characters are in it, it's just Hannibal and Bedelia and their history over three different periods of time."

3) ... But even in Florence with Bedelia, Hannibal's still pining for the one who got away.

"In that first episode all about Bedelia and Hannibal, there's just a hint of 'Wouldn't this be better if it were me and Will Graham?' in terms of Hannibal thinking that, and what he misses. Because Bedelia will always be Hannibal's psychiatrist, she'll never be necessarily as intimate and passionate in her relationship with Hannibal as Will and Hannibal are."

4) The rumors are true – we're dropping the cuisine-based episode titles for the second half of season three.

Episodes eight through thirteen will all be named after William Blake's series of Great Red Dragon Paintings, depicting scenes from the biblical Book of Revelation. Clued-up Fannibals will know that in the Harris canon, serial killer Francis Dolarhyde is obsessed with this series of paintings, which give his murderous alternate personality its name.

And we've got specifics. Episode eight is 'The Great Red Dragon...', episode nine is '...And the Woman Clothed in Sun', episode ten is '...And the Woman Clothed with the Sun', and episode eleven is '...And the Beast from the Sea'.

Fuller didn't name episodes twelve and thirteen, but going by this pattern we're guessing that twelve and thirteen will be named 'And the Number of the Beast Is...' and '...666' respectively.

5) Worried about Will's dogs? So are we. But fear not – Fuller confirmed that somebody has been taking care of them while Will and everyone he knows are recuperating from the massacre: "We indicate who is taking care of them, without overly answering it... it is addressed in some way."

6) Richard Armitage's Dolarhyde will be treated more like a third lead character than a supporting player in the season's second chapter.

"He is in the show almost as much as Hugh and Mads are in the second half of the season," Fuller revealed. "So we really spend a lot of time with Dolarhyde, in a way that neither of the movies have had the real estate to."

7) Dolarhyde's story will be a true tragedy, developed with more painful psychological depth than season two's gleefully sadistic Mason Verger.

"A lot of what we see with Dolarhyde is just him alone in a room struggling with his insanity. I wanted the audience to be so confused with this character because we get to know him, and we get to see this man who is suffering, from his mind eating him alive from the inside out."

8) Between her troubled patient history and her increasingly treacherous relationship with Hannibal, comedy hasn't been high on the agenda thus far for Bedelia. That's all about to change, in episode six specifically.

"Gillian has quite a big role in the first half of the season, and she's hilarious. There's one episode in particular where she is laugh-out-loud funny, and I can't wait for people to see that because she's just a delight."

9) Hannibal and Will's reunion will be bittersweet, emphasis unexpectedly on sweet.

"There's a scene that is so touching, when they're finally reunited and able to have a conversation. Mads and Hugh and their friendship are such amazing assets to the show, and you see all of that. It's like 'It's really good to see you, but this is a terrible situation that we're in, and you're actually a terrible person, but I've found a way to forgive you in the way you forgive a shark for being a shark'."

So that "I forgive you" we saw from Will in the season three trailer? Probably genuine.

10) Gore-hounds (and gore-phobes) should look out for episodes seven and twelve in particular – those are where Fuller hints that the "freakiest stuff" lies. One scene in episode twelve involving Dolarhyde was so intense that it drew gasps from the crew during filming.

"It's one bit in particular that's from the books, and we see it probably more graphically on our show than you have in any of the movies.

"When we did that scene, you're supposed to be silent when you're watching, but the entire crew gasped and shrieked. So you're watching the dailies and you're seeing this horrible thing happen, and you just hear all these gasps coming from behind the camera, and it's so much fun! It's so disturbing that it affected the crew."

11) If you want to get a sense for how a fourth season of Hannibal would look, pay very close attention to the first seven episodes of season three.

"It felt like a breath of fresh air not being in Quantico, and not having FBI scenes talking about the murder clues. It was so liberating that if we do get a fourth season, there's going to be a lot more of that than there will be anything FBI-oriented. It will probably be our most serialised season thus far, and the first half of season three was really an experiment of 'does this work on our show?' As an audience member and Fannibal, I loved it."
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Summer Haze

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I'm so ready for this. I finished season 2 a couple of days ago and it was amazing. Easily some of the best TV I've watched in a long while.
 
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Leona Lewis

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Based on that, Ep. 12 has to be the one where
Dolarhyde kills Freddie.

I am simply not ready. This show makes me squeamish like no other.
 
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AoM

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Leona Lewis said:
Based on that, Ep. 12 has to be the one where
Dolarhyde kills Freddie.

I am simply not ready. This show makes me squeamish like no other.
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Which makes me wonder whether the RD storyline will stretch into S4 (assuming there is one) because if that's happening in ep. 12 and there are only 13 episodes...
 
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It seems like NBC is actually going to play up the Gilliam Anderson/David Duchovny angle. Don't have the link handy, but there was a promo poster on Facebook the other day.
 
Weapxn

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AoM said:
Which makes me wonder whether the RD storyline will stretch into S4 (assuming there is one) because if that's happening in ep. 12 and there are only 13 episodes...
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Agreed. If 3x12 is
Freddie
, then that means there's still what...half of the Red Dragon story to go?

EDIT: I wonder if it they'll save the
burning wheelchair for Ep 13 and that the Ep 12 grossness is just the lip eating
.
 
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really? more than that guy in that animal suit killing people?
I loved mason, he was by far my favourite character of season 2
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Well, I was also just incredibly annoyed anytime Michael Pitt opened his mouth. But yeah, the suit guy was dumb too, forgot about him.
 
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How many seasons is Bryan Fuller planning for now? I know that it was originally 7 seasons, but I think I remember reading that he combined his original plans for seasons 2 and 3 into the season 2 that we got last year, which would make it 6 seasons total.

But since he's doing (half of?) Red Dragon this year, which was his original plan for season 4, that means that season 4 will most likely be a combo of his original season 4 plan plus his season 5 plan? So is the goal now 5 seasons total?
 
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Anton Sugar

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RatskyWatsky said:
How many seasons is Bryan Fuller planning for now? I know that it was originally 7 seasons, but I think I remember reading that he combined his original plans for seasons 2 and 3 into the season 2 that we got last year, which would make it 6 seasons total.

But since he's doing (half of?) Red Dragon this year, which was his original plan for season 4, that means that season 4 will most likely be a combo of his original season 4 plan plus his season 5 plan? So is the goal now 5 seasons total?
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I think he's gone on record to say the original plan was 7 seasons, but it's shorter now. He may have specified 6 seasons, I can't find it.
 
Weapxn

Weapxn

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For some reason I thought the plan turned into 5 seasons, although I'm too lazy to try and find a source for that.
 
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icarus-daedelus said:
They've already done that in season 2 as well with the introduction of the Vergers. If I remember correctly, Fuller intended for the final season to be all original material anyway.
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Yeah, he wanted to do
Hannibal and Clarice on the run. He wanted to find a way to work Will Graham back into it, too, for the ultimate love triangle.
 
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So is this show actually good? I loved Bron/Broen and thought S1 of The Fall was very good, had issues with The Killing even though I ended up watching it through. Will I like this? Is more of a procedural or an overarching storyline like the shows I mentioned?
 
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FunkyPajamas said:
So is this show actually good? I loved Bron/Broen and thought S1 of The Fall was very good, had issues with The Killing even though I ended up watching it through. Will I like this? Is more of a procedural or an overarching storyline like the shows I mentioned?
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Yeah, this show is pretty excellent. It's my favorite of last year.

It's definitely got an overarching story, but there are some procedural elements to it. The first season gets a bit heavy on the 'case of the week' formula, but the second season breaks away from it. Even when it is procedural, it still ties back to the core story.

Defiantly give it a watch.
 
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ezekial45 said:
Yeah, this show is pretty excellent. It's my favorite of last year.

It's definitely got an overarching story, but there are some procedural elements to it. The first season gets a bit heavy on the 'case of the week' formula, but the second season breaks away from it. Even when it is procedural, it still ties back to the core story.

Defiantly give it a watch.
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Nice, thanks!
 
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FunkyPajamas said:
So is this show actually good? I loved Bron/Broen and thought S1 of The Fall was very good, had issues with The Killing even though I ended up watching it through. Will I like this? Is more of a procedural or an overarching storyline like the shows I mentioned?
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No, it isn't good, it's wonderful. Nothing else on television is as exquisitely photographed or acted. Each episode, particularly in season 1, usually has a case of the week to be solved, but the show also has an overarching storyline that runs throughout the whole show and gets stronger in season 2. Which is not to say that the cases themselves are poorly done, by any means; they're sort of these grotesque, artful murder pieces that help to set the dark and surreal tone of the show.

Downsides: this has slightly less Gillian Anderson in it than The Fall does, but with the coming of season 3 that may very well change!
 
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FunkyPajamas said:
Oh my, that's high praise. Will definitely check this. Thank you!
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Haha, I wasn't sure whether I would be overselling it or not, but those are my genuine feelings. It's a pretty special TV show. It's also probably worth noting that both seasons are available for streaming on Amazon Prime in the US, if you have that.
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Lawwddddd help me, too much excitement

Gonna rewatch season 1 & 2 before this drops
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That's what I've been doing! June 4th is so close and yet still so far away...
 
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FunkyPajamas said:
So is this show actually good?
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Just more fuel on the fire i guess, but Hannibal is the best TV show airing right now, for me, after Knick and Rectify.
A sights and sounds tour de force, with some great performances.
The writing isn't always perfect, but it more than makes up for it.

It "owned" all these iconic characters with so much identity, that i can't really see them in any other fashion anymore, to be honest.
 
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I can't get over how good the Will/Hannibal relationship is. Its so fucked yet sincere. I just need more of this show in my life.
 
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