Friday, August 24, 2012

Picture: More Cast revealed


Hugh Dancy as Special Agent Will Graham
Mads Mikkelsen as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Laurence Fishburne as Agent Jack Crawford
Caroline Dhavernas as Alana Bloom
Hettienne Park as Beverly Katz
Aaron Abrams as Brian Zeller
Scott Thompson as Jimmy Price
Lara Jean Chorostecki as Freddie Lounds
Torianna Lee as Emily Nichols
Wayne Ward as Mr. Nichols
Sarah Evans as  Mrs. Nichols
Vladimir Jon Cubrt as Garrett Jacob Hobbs
Kacey Rohl as Abigail Hobbs

https://twitter.com/neoprod/status/239004795317415936/photo/1

Beverly Katz


Hettienne Park will recur as Beverly Katz, a bright-eyed yet weary crime scene investigator who specializes in working with fibers. She's part of a team of three who piece evidence together. When she first encounters Will  Graham she confronts the criminal profiler about his unusual role with the FBI and flags the special treatment he receives. While the duo initially clashes, their relationship could potentially become a romantic one.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/hannibal-bryan-fuller-cast-365113

The team of three may be Beverly Katz ("Hair and Fiber"), Lloyd Bowman ("Documents"), and Jimmy Price ("Latent Fingerprints").

More information, with possible spoilers from "Red Dragon": http://reddragonspoilers.blogspot.ie/search/label/Beverly%20Katz%20%28Hair%20and%20Fiber%29

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Hugh Dancy's first encounter with Hannibal

According to IMDB (and "The Hannibal Files" by Daniel O'Brien, page 210), Hugh Dancy's role as Will Graham will not be his first encounter with Hannibal, he auditioned for the role of Hannibal Lecter for the 2007 movie "Hannibal Rising": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367959/trivia

Friday, August 17, 2012

Brian Zeller


Aaron Abrams will play Brian Zeller a medical school graduate and tech geek who uses forensic evidence and clues from victims' corpses to determine how they died and who could be responsible. He's astounded by the absurdity of the serial killer's tactics and amazed with Will's insight into the killer's mind.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/hannibal-wonderfalls-caroline-dhavernas-bryan-fuller-357346


More information, with possible spoilers from "Red Dragon":  http://reddragonspoilers.blogspot.ie/search/label/Brian%20Zeller%20%28Scientific%20Analysis%29

Jack Crawford


Laurence Fishburne will play the pivotal (recurring) role of Jack Crawford, the agent-in-charge at the Behavioral Science Unit of the FBI who is tasked with tracking down a certain flesh-eating serial killer. Crawford was played by Dennis Farina in 1986 Manhunter, Scott Glenn in 1991′s Silence of the Lambs, and Harvey Keitel in 2002′s Red Dragon.

Laurence Fishburne is an iconic man who has been making his cinematic mark since Apocalypse Now and it’s a thrill not only to work with him but to see such a brilliant, sophisticated actor step into the shoes of Thomas Harris’ brilliant, sophisticated character,” said Fuller. “I cannot imagine a better cast for Hannibal than the one we’ve assembled.

http://tvline.com/2012/07/23/exclusive-laurence-fishburne-circling-hannibal/

Fishburne's Crawford is described as a tough cop who seems to have been born to hunt serial killers and lacking the type of empathy that informs the lives of both Will and Hannibal and knows he needs Will to be his bird-dog. His greatest mission is to stop sociopaths before they kill more -- even if that means sacrificing Will's psyche in the process.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/nbc-hannibal-series-notorious-290663

More information, with possible spoilers from "Red Dragon": http://reddragonspoilers.blogspot.ie/search/label/Jack%20Crawford%20%28Agent-in-charge%29

Dr. Alana Bloom

Caroline Dhavernas will play series regular Dr. Alana “Al” Bloom, a psychiatric protege of Hannibal Lecter’s who teaches psychology at Georgetown University and is consulting with the FBI on criminal profiling when she introduces her mentor to Laurence Fishburne’s Jack Crawford.

http://tvline.com/2012/08/01/hannibal-caroline-dhavernas-season-1/
 
Bloom is an academic who does her best to keep her work at a strict intellectual distance from her private life, who knows that Will is spectacularly gifted at this kind of work -- but believes he needs to keep many many firewalls between himself and the murderers he hunts. An honest, direct woman who would like to be Will's friend, she fears that Jack Crawford's recruitment of Will Graham might place Will in harm's way. She ends up coming to Langley to be Will's protector, and inadvertently falls for Jack

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/hannibal-wonderfalls-caroline-dhavernas-bryan-fuller-357346


More information, with possible spoilers from "Red Dragon":  http://reddragonspoilers.blogspot.ie/search/label/Alan%20Bloom

Freddie Lounds

Lara Jean Chorostecki has joined the cast of "Hannibal" in a role previously played by Stephen Lang in 1986′s Manhunter and Philip Seymour Hoffman in 2002′s Red Dragon, TVLine has learned exclusively. Chorostecki will portray Freddie Lounds — aka Freddy Lounds, the sleazy tabloid reporter played by Lang and Hoffman on the big screen — in NBC’s contemporary take on the characters from Thomas Harris’ Red Dragon novel. Chorostecki’s Freddie is more sophisticated in her manipulations than her male predecessors, but no less daring, making her a foil for not only Will Graham, but Hannibal Lecter and Jack Crawford, as well.

http://tvline.com/2012/08/14/hannibal-lara-jean-chorostecki/

More information, with possible spoilers from "Red Dragon": http://reddragonspoilers.blogspot.ie/search/label/Freddy%20Lounds

Hannibal Lecter

It’s before he was incarcerated, so he’s more of a peacock,” Bryan Fuller tells EW.com. “There is a cheery disposition to our Hannibal. He’s not being telegraphed as a villain. If the audience didn’t know who he was, they wouldn’t see him coming. What we have is Alfred Hitchcock’s principle of suspense — show the audience the bomb under the table and let them sweat when it’s going to go boom. So the audience knows who Hannibal is so we don’t have to overplay his villainy. We get to subvert his legacy and give the audience twists and turns.

 http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/04/19/bryan-fuller-hannibal/


Lecter does more to rattle Graham than assist him. “Uncle Jack sees you as a fragile little tea cup”, Hannibal says at one point to Graham, adding that he thinks he and the agent are actually match perfect for one another. Hannibal and Graham don’t get along, largely because Hannibal loves psychoanalyzing Graham. The Doctor loves pushing his buttons. Crawford knows how to handle Hannibal better, but he’s also being played and probed most of the time too. Lecter’s also moonlighting as a killer. The man gets about as Ethan Hunt to disguise his double life – using disguises, switching plates on cars, and so on.

http://moviehole.net/201256367exclusive-story-character-details-for-hannibal


More information, with possible spoilers from "Red Dragon": http://reddragonspoilers.blogspot.ie/search/label/Hannibal%20Lecter

Will Graham


Will Graham is almost an American version Benedict Cumberlatch’s Sherlock who is riddled with eccentricities but primed with intelligence. He is good looking, but oblivious to the admirers that surround him. He’s quite aware he’s made up of some different bits, remarking at one stage that he could even have Asperger syndrome. He has been teaching because he couldn’t handle the social requirements and, according to his colleagues, has a “fear” of almost everything.
He may find it difficult to look people in the eyes when he talks to them, but Graham can also work out the same person pretty quickly – especially those, like him, who suffer from mental disorders.
He’s not the ‘cool cat’ ladies man (in fact, this guy lives with his dog) that William Peterson played in “Manhunter” – this guy is slightly odder. Instead of designer suits and hair salons, the Graham in “Hannibal” is more likely to be spending his cash on text books.
When we first meet Graham in the pilot he’s teaching a class at Quantico, when he’s approached by special agent Jack Crawford, of the behavioural science unit, about doing some field work.

http://moviehole.net/201256367exclusive-story-character-details-for-hannibal
 
"I'm really excited about it, the script is great, really clever," Hugh Dancy told ComingSoon.net. "I've read the first episode, but it's not directly adapted because you'd begin with the backstory of Red Dragon, which is when Hannibal is still out and about and before he's even been identified as a criminal. It's all extrapolated from their little bit of backstory in the first novel. Because the source material is there, Bryan has talked me through the first season and potential second season, and it's exciting, it's good stuff."
He told them how he enjoys doing television since it allows him to spend more time developing his character. "I think the characters in this story are really going to benefit from that, because the way that Bryan is painting it as a slow and quite elaborate dance between Hannibal and Will Graham, and the way these two circle each other and lock into each other. Obviously, you can do that in a movie, but I think it works particularly well seeing a character go through a very slow degradation… it's just right for the medium."
As far as developing the character even though he still has another month of his Broadway show Venus in Fur: "I've been thinking about it and I've been reading around the area and I've talked to Bryan a few times and I've actually met a couple of people."
He continued, "What I really like about Bryan when I met him the first time is he said, 'Obviously, there's been great versions of this story told before. We're not doing that. We're doing our own version of the story - we want it to be definitive without trying to undermine anything that's come before. So, that to me is a good ballsy way to go into it and I was very impressed by that."

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/167373-exclusive-hugh-dancy-talks-about-nbcs-qhannibalq


More information, with possible spoilers from "Red Dragon": http://reddragonspoilers.blogspot.ie/search/label/Will%20Graham

Video: Bryan Fuller Comic-Con Panel


Moviehole.net: Hannibal pilot


Hannibal Pilot:

Someone is out there abducting college girls. The victims’ bodies have never been found, so there’s some hope (at least until the authorities discover the reason these girls bodies have never been found is because someone’s eaten them for breakfast) that all or some of the eight may be found alive.

Will Graham, now a teacher because of some complex mental issues (bordering on Asperger syndrome), is coaxed back into the field by the head of the behavioral science unit, Jack Crawford. Since it’s been eight months that this abductor/killer has been on the loose, and he’s just grabbed his latest victim, the feds are desperate to catch the guy.

Though Crawford’s a little worried that Graham – who has social anxieties and then some – might struggle here and there on the job, he needs his brilliance to find the killer. Graham, being able to empathize with screw loose people, is someone who can sniff out a bad guy’s motivation fairly quickly.

In this case though, Graham needs assistance – someone who can read the ‘Cannibals’ mind even better than he can. The feds recruit Dr Hannibal Lecter, a loopy but brilliant doc, who joins the former and Crawford on the case. Lecter sees it not so much as a chance to do something good for the community, but an opportunity to play with the equally unstable Graham.

http://moviehole.net/201256367exclusive-story-character-details-for-hannibal

Geekexchange.com: Bryan Fuller Interview

Hannibal will be set prior to the events of Harris’ Red Dragon.
In Red Dragon,” Bryan Fuller offers as example, “there’s five pages or so of back story where Will Graham says, ‘These are the things that happened to me in my past and this is my kind of confluence with Hannibal Lecter.’ We took those events and those references and made them a whole series. We know from the book that Will Graham was psychologically incapacitated when he captured a serial killer known as the Minnesota Shrike, Garrett Jacob Hobbs. That’s all we knew. So we got to craft what kind of killer Garrett Jacob Hobbs was, how that would have the impact on Will Graham and how that would bring Hannibal Lecter into the story in an organic way. So it’s about finding these great tent poles that exist in the book.
There are scenes in the pilot that I lifted right from Red Dragon and put in there, so it was, like, ‘Thank you, Thomas Harris.’ It was also to make sure that his DNA was in the show in a genuine, authentic and respectful way.
http://www.geekexchange.com/creating-monsters-bryan-fuller-on-mockingbird-lane-hannibal-11395.html