Bryan Fuller says new Silence of the Lambs series won’t impact Hannibal S4

We let you guys know over the weekend that there is a sequel series to THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS coming to CBS called CLARICE. And today we hear from Bryan Fuller that he doesn’t think this new series impacts the potential fourth season of HANNIBAL.

He tweets:

I tried many times to work with MGM to include Clarice into our Hannibal story. They ultimately told us they had their own plans for Clarice and they didn't need Hannibal to tell her story. Don’t think this impacts a potential #HANNIBAL S4 as we never had Clarice rights.

HANNIBAL followed:

Will Graham has a unique way of thinking that allows him to empathize with anyone, including psychopaths. But while helping the FBI pursue a particularly complicated serial killer, he decides he could use some help and enlists the brilliant psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter. The two form a partnership and it seems that there is no villain they can't catch together, but Lecter harbors a dark secret. His own brilliant mind has gone to the dark side and he has more in common with the criminals they hunt than Will could possibly imagine.

Meanwhile, CLARICE hails from writers and executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet and is said to be set in 1993, a year after the events of THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and is 

a deep dive into the untold personal story of Starling as she returns to the field to pursue serial murderers and sexual predators while navigating the high stakes political world of Washington, D.C.

Kurtzman will executive produce with Heather Kadin and Aaron Baiers co-executive producing. MGM And CBS Television Studios are the studios.