Who Owns the Rights to Hannibal, and Could There Be a Movie? Bryan Fuller Explains
317Back in 2013, Bryan Fuller developed a TV series for NBC, based on the characters in Thomas Harris' thriller novels, about an FBI profiler, Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) and his serial killer psychiatrist with a taste for human flesh, Hannibal Lector (Mads Mikkelsen), who had long, philosophical conversations that were low-key about how badly they wanted to kiss. It ran for three seasons, never won a major Emmy, and was unceremoniously canceled in 2015. I'm still mad about it, as are many Hannibal fans, who continue to hope for a revival of some kind. With the series celebrating its 15th anniversary and heading to Netflix, Collider's Steve Weintraub sat down with Fuller and Dancy to see just what would have to happen to get Hannibal back on the air.
First off, it's a rights issue, according to Fuller.
"Martha De Laurentiis controls the rights for the Hannibal character. [Gaumont International Television], who produced the Hannibal series that we worked on, has the rights to those characters and those situations. So if we want to continue telling the tales we were telling, Gaumont needs to be involved, Martha De Laurentiis needs to be involved. Then of course we need a network to platform us."
But should literally anybody come knocking with a green light, Fuller is raring to go. Personal conversations have taken place about the very hypothetical direction Hannibal could go and it sounds like Fuller is dying to put them into action.
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