If you thought the arrest of Will Graham at the end of season 1 was a shocker, season 2 was out to leave you bleeding out, curled up on a tile floor emotionally shaken. No one was safe, everyone was dying and Hannibal was last seen on a plane with Gillian Anderson’s Dr. Du Maurier en route to France.
Rough stuff.
Fuller spoke to TV Guide about what’s to come and he said two of Thomas Harris’ novels will be felt in season 3.
Season 3 is going to be a lot of fun because it’s going to be taking a lot of disparate elements from the novel Hannibal Rising and the novel Hannibal and mashing them up together as part of the thrust of the season. It’s going to be fun to bastardize two novels into one sort of Frankenstein season. I will brace everybody right now: We’re significantly changing the Hannibal origin story from Hannibal Rising.
As usual, “The Silence of the Lambs” is the one novel they have to veer away from.
The books won’t necessarily be in sequential order. We’ll be hitting elements of each of them except Silence of the Lambs in the next season. My hope is that not only do we have a completely different Hannibal Lecter story in Season 3, but we will meet some of those great characters like Francis Dolarhyde and Lady Murasaki and weave them into the world in a unique way.
For the full interview, head over to this spot.
