Look! It’s Mads Mikkelsen as Hannibal Lecter!

26 October 2012 Rob Buckley US TV 2 Comments

In case you don’t know, NBC and Bryan Fuller – the man responsible for Pushing Daisies, many of the best episodes of Heroes and the forthcoming failed reboot of The Munsters, Mockingbird Lane – is working on Hannibal, a prequel to both Silence of the Lambs and one of my favourite movies, Manhunter, in which everyone’s favourite cannibal serial killer Hannibal Lecter/Lecktor pals around with his future nemesis, Will Graham, solving crimes for the FBI.

Starring Mads Mikkelsen from Casino Royale as Hannibal Lecter, Hugh Dancy as Will Graham, Laurence Fishburne as Graham’s boss Jack Crawford and Gina Torres as Crawford’s wife, it’s due next year and here are some of the first pictures from it. I’m not sure about Hannibal’s dress sense – maybe it’s set in the 70s? – but it’s exciting to see him all the same.

Mads Mikkelsen as Hannibal Lecter

Mads Mikkelsen as Hannibal Lecter

Laurence Fishburne and Hugh Dancy in Hannibal

James Dancy as Will Graham in Hannbial

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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