Bryan Fuller: There is no expiration date for the return of Hannibal

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Four years have passed since the Hannibal television series was cancelled at NBC, but the show's creator Bryan Fuller is still keeping the hope that the show will continue somewhere else alive. It was in the contracts that Fuller and executive producer Martha De Laurentiis couldn't try to revive the show until two years after its cancellation… but with another two years having passed since Hannibal became fair game, some fans are starting to feel like it's never coming back.

Fuller recently took to his Twitter account to assure one fan that the passage of time doesn't mean we've seen the last of his version of Hannibal Lecter. Fuller said, 

No one has given up! I've made it clear I want to do it, the cast wants to do it and Martha wants to do it. We just need a network or a streaming service that wants to do it, too. I don't feel there's a clock on it or an expiration date for the idea. We just need someone to bite.

As Fuller mentioned, the show's stars Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy are on board to reprise the roles of Lecter and criminal profiler Will Graham if/when another season happens. In fact, Mikkelsen just said back in January that "there's always new hope" and "everybody who was involved in it would gladly pick up the glove again".

Inspired by the Thomas Harris novels that previously served as the basis of the films MANHUNTER, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, HANNIBAL, RED DRAGON, and HANNIBAL RISING, Hannibal had the following synopsis: 

Gifted criminal profiler 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.

It's surprising to me that no network or streaming service has decided to pick up Hannibal yet, but hopefully we'll be hearing a positive announcement about it one of these days.