Caroline Dharvernas, who played the lead in Bryan Fuller’s acclaimed comedy-fantasy Fox series “Wonderfalls,” will re-join Fuller for “Hannibal,” the NBC prequel to “Red Dragon” and “The Silence of the Lambs.”
Dharvernas will play a psychology professor who consults for the FBI division charged with profiling serial murderers.
We don’t know yet whether Dharvernas plays FBI forensic psychologist Dr. Alana Bloom – a “Starbucking” of Dr. Alan Bloom from Thomas Harris’ “Red Dragon” novel, which introduced Hannibal Lecter to the world. (The book’s Alan Bloom was renamed Sydney Bloom and played by Paul Perri in 1986’s “Manhunter,” the first movie based on “Red Dragon.”)
“Hannibal,” expected to arrive on NBC early next year, will focus on two characters of Harris’ “Red Dragon” – star FBI profiler Will Graham and psychoanalyst/closet serial killer Hannibal Lecter – in the early days when they worked together solving serial murders.
Denmark native Mads Mikkelson (“Casino Royale”) will inherit the role played by Brian Cox in “Manhunter” and Anthony Hopkins in “Silence of the Lambs,” “Red Dragon” and the 2001 movie “Hannibal.”
Hugh Dancy (“Our Idiot Brother,” “The Big C”) will play Graham. “CSI” refugee William Petersen played Graham in “Manhunter”; Ed Norton played Graham in the 2002 “Red Dragon” remake.
FBI profiling chief Jack Crawford – played by Dennis Farina in “Manhunter,” Scott Glenn in “Silence of the Lambs,” and Harvey Keitel in “Red Dragon” – will be played in NBC’s “Hannibal” by another “CSI” refugee, Laurence Fishburne.
Still to be cast is blogger Fredricka Lounds, based on “Red Dragon” tabloid reporter Freddie Lounds (played by “Avatar’s” Stephen Lang in “Manhunter” and Phillip Seymour Hoffman in 2002’s “Red Dragon”).
Fuller, who wrote the “Hannibal” pilot and will serve as the series’ showrunner, wrote for “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and “Star Trek: Voyager” before he created “Dead Like Me,” “Wonderfalls” and “Pushing Daisies.”
Find Deadline’s story on the matter here.
