Because Jodie Foster communicates a queerness about her, and Anthony Hopkins, in his kind of dandified effeteness in playing Hannibal Lecter, there was a queer quality as well. And I did find, because Hannibal Lecter is such a dandy, Silence of the Lambs struck me as such a queer film. That’s interesting, because I guess that’s the definition of campiness! There is a certain unintentionality with camp. I’m not sure how deliberate the campiness is in his novels, if you know what I mean. So really, my goal for the show was to give the audience the feeling that they’re reading Thomas Harris’ writing cinematically, and to provide those kind of sumptuous and really strange images to support how Thomas Harris wrote stories, which I found really lurid and delicious. And Thomas Harris’ writing style is so purple and effusive, and the way he strings together words is very seductive for me. Is there anything to that?įor me, it really did start not just with Hannibal, but Red Dragon. Your show just fully embraced everything about that book that made people uncomfortable, and then multiplied it. One of the things that I always loved about your take on Hannibal is it seemed like it dove into and was inspired, at least in part, by the actual book Hannibal, the one where Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter become a couple. Showrunner Bryan Fuller (who also worked on American Gods and Star Trek: Discovery) has moved on to feature films (“I flirt every once in a while with returning to television, but there’s something so peaceful about being able to write at home with the dogs and not have to battle over budgets,” he says), but would make an exception for more Hannibal. Hannibal‘s arrival on Netflix earlier this year, which sparked tweets from viewers thrilled with what they thought was a brand-new show, has only increased the speculation. Over the past five years, the show’s creators and cast have repeatedly teased the possibility of one more season. The unlikely bond between Will Graham ( Hugh Dancy) and elegant monster Hannibal Lecter ( Mads Mikkelsen) took on unabashedly romantic overtones as the seasons progressed, and Season Three ended with the men wrapped in a deadly embrace, in a cliffhanger that involved an actual cliff. But it never really went away, thanks in part to its still-obsessed online fan base (Fannibals, of course), and the fact that its ending didn’t fully feel like one.
The oft-surreal, delightfully sickening, camp-drenched serial-killer drama Hannibal, one of the most adventurous network television shows ever made, went off the air in 2015 after three seasons.
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