What goes well with a nice chianti and fava beans? David Bowie, apparently!
An offer has been made for Bowie to appear on season two of Hannibal, showrunner Bryan Fuller tells E! News exclusively.
"We have reached out to David Bowie to see if he's interested and available," Fuller reveals. "We would love for him to play Hannibal's uncle, who is a character from the literature and in the books."
Fuller explains "we don't have an answer yet," but is hopeful Bowie can join the NBC series, which resumes production in August in Toronto.
Hannibal's uncle, Count Robert Lecter, was killed by Nazis in the books, but "Since our timeline is a little more present, there's a little bit of J.J. Abrams-style alternate universe storytelling where he could still be alive," Fuller explains.
Another pivotal role in season two will be that of Barney, an orderly at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, where Will Grant (Hugh Dancy) will be kept captive. "That will be some fun stunt casting," says Fuller. "I would love to bring in Chi McBride, if he's available. There are so many great actors I would love to work with."
Not much of season two will be taken from the literature, according to Fuller. "We're going to see Will Graham [Dancy] institutionalized and what we know from Red Dragon, the backstory that is given, which is very, very thin, explains that Will Graham was so psychologically compromised from investigating the Minnesota case that he had to be institutionalized. And that's sort of one sentence that we can do quite a bit with. As you can see from the first season, we held true to that backstory in a very faithful way, but obviously we took huge liberties in how we interpreted that one sentence. So right now, for season two, we are in fresh territory with a chapter that hasn't even been written by Thomas Harris. It's exciting."
Source: E!Online
An offer has been made for Bowie to appear on season two of Hannibal, showrunner Bryan Fuller tells E! News exclusively.
"We have reached out to David Bowie to see if he's interested and available," Fuller reveals. "We would love for him to play Hannibal's uncle, who is a character from the literature and in the books."
Fuller explains "we don't have an answer yet," but is hopeful Bowie can join the NBC series, which resumes production in August in Toronto.
Hannibal's uncle, Count Robert Lecter, was killed by Nazis in the books, but "Since our timeline is a little more present, there's a little bit of J.J. Abrams-style alternate universe storytelling where he could still be alive," Fuller explains.
Another pivotal role in season two will be that of Barney, an orderly at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, where Will Grant (Hugh Dancy) will be kept captive. "That will be some fun stunt casting," says Fuller. "I would love to bring in Chi McBride, if he's available. There are so many great actors I would love to work with."
Not much of season two will be taken from the literature, according to Fuller. "We're going to see Will Graham [Dancy] institutionalized and what we know from Red Dragon, the backstory that is given, which is very, very thin, explains that Will Graham was so psychologically compromised from investigating the Minnesota case that he had to be institutionalized. And that's sort of one sentence that we can do quite a bit with. As you can see from the first season, we held true to that backstory in a very faithful way, but obviously we took huge liberties in how we interpreted that one sentence. So right now, for season two, we are in fresh territory with a chapter that hasn't even been written by Thomas Harris. It's exciting."
Source: E!Online
That would be incredible. Bowie!! Oh I hope we see Chi as well, he was so good in Pushing Daisies.
ReplyDeleteI need this casting to happen- I'd love Bowie to play Hannibal's uncle! And Chi McBride would be awesome as Barney!
ReplyDeleteSeason two sounds awesome lol
ReplyDeleteOh uncle Davie,haha i can see it now!
ReplyDeletethis could be a very intriguing bit of casting if he accepts...
ReplyDeleteHe was pretty awesomesauce in Labyrinth. Please sing (or have muppet trolls).
ReplyDeleteYou remind me of the babe.
ReplyDeleteThe babe with the power?
ReplyDeleteWhat power?
ReplyDeleteLOL
ReplyDeleteInteresting! I could see Bowie as Hannibals uncle.
ReplyDeleteAnd I love that we are getting snippets from season 2 allready. Hopefully it will air in January or at least not as late as this year.
"there's a little bit of J.J. Abrams-style alternate universe storytelling where he could still be alive,"
ReplyDeleteIt's no wonder I like your show :)
Hmmm The Bowie thing I read before, which would be cool, but Collider recently interviewed him and he said he may be bringing "Hannibal" Characters into the fold, his issue is that he has to pay a ton for SOTL characters, which he hopes he can work something out in season 4.
“We are able to use any character that originated in Red Dragon. We have access to characters in the book Hannibal. There are a few characters from that book like Mason and Margot Verger that we want to use in the second season of Hannibal, and we’re negotiating right now character rights to use them. We would have to pay a fee per episode. The Silence of the Lambs characters are owned by MGM. That’s where it gets more tricky. “
http://collider.com/hannibal-season-2-news-bryan-fuller-red-dragon/
Honestly, I am sad a little about Robert Lecter, because Hannibal and Lady Marasuki (It's evident by the Japanese titles that her influence is there for season 2 and because her name is also a famous femal writer's, she no doubt is menat to contrast Du Maurier) cheat on him, because their relationship in Hannibal Rising makes sense due to the continual losses.-Additionally, he better find some way to keep Mischa's story and Hannibal's revenge story relatively the same, even though now he can't use the unique back drop of the war for it.
The irony is that David Bowie's name is David ROBERT Jones! :)
ReplyDeleteI think he would be great at playing his Uncle, but I'm a little skeptical of how they will make certain things from Hannibal's past work, especially when there would be no point in using characters from "Hannibal Rising", except to expose Hannibal and his past to the audience (or to others). -And it's this past that makes the Gothic (horror romance) story of Clarice and Hannibal work so well in "Hannibal".
He would be a GREAT Barney! :D
ReplyDeleteOh man i forgot that was his name! I'm glad your re-reading it,i won't have to worry about not remembering details,ha!
ReplyDeleteBowie is very subtle choice, very NICE.
ReplyDeleteeven saying Hannibal season 2, feels good to me, but the wait is unbearable.
ReplyDeleteAwesome points DarthLocke4, Thank you.
ReplyDeleteBowie showing up would be heavenly!
ReplyDeleteAll I need now is Lee Pace in this and I can die happy.
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