Yeah baby!! NBC has ordered direct to series an hourlong that will examine the early relationship shared by serial killer Hannibal Lecter and FBI profiler Will Graham.
Bryan Fuller, creator of “Dead Like Me,” “Wonderfalls” and “Pushing Daisies,” wrote the pilot that sold it.
Graham was the troubled hero of “Red Dragon,” Thomas Harris’ first Lecter novel, which was made into Michael Mann’s excellent 1986 thriller “Manhunter” (starring Brian Cox as Hannibal Lecktor) and Brett Ratner’s rather less accomplished 2002 Anthony Hopkins remake.
The “Red Dragon” novel begins long after Graham captured Lecter. The new series would presumably deal with Graham hanging out with Lecter when the two collaborated on cases. Or perhaps afterwards, as Graham worked to hunt Hannibal The Cannibal down.
“CSI” icon William Petersen played Graham in the 1986 movie; Edward Norton stepped into the role for the remake.
“The Silence of the Lambs,” which depicts (among many other things) Lecter’s escape, was the Graham-free sequel to “Red Dragon.”
Martha De Laurentiis, a member of the filmmaking clan behind all five Lecter movies, is producing the series as well.
Find all of Deadline’s story on the matter here.
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