Many lives were left on the brink of death in the Season 2 finale of "Hannibal," but at least one character will be back again in Season 3. At the 2014 summer TV press tour, Laurence Fishburne confirmed that he will be reprising his role as Jack Crawford the NBC cult hit, in addition to filming his new ABC show "Black-ish."
"I'm not going to do a full season of 'Hannibal' this year, and I'm not going to do a full season of 'Black-ish,' which will keep me free enough for both, to have fun and to contribute as best I can," Fishburne says. "It's not a problem. It works out just fine."
"I'm not going to do a full season of 'Hannibal' this year, and I'm not going to do a full season of 'Black-ish,' which will keep me free enough for both, to have fun and to contribute as best I can," Fishburne says. "It's not a problem. It works out just fine."
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YAY! If Alana comes back, will she be paralysed?
ReplyDeleteGlad he'll be back.
ReplyDeleteOf course, in this
ReplyDeleteshow it could just as well mean coming back as a hallucination... ;-)
Glad he'll be back. I wish Will and Abigail had really died and the only one alive was Alana. It would be a bold move.
ReplyDeleteThat works out well with the story partially shifting abroad. Wonder if Alana will be back. I guess it is too early to meet Will's eventual wife Molly.
ReplyDeleteI suspect so. If she doesn't come back, I can see her death and Abigail's (this time for real) driving Will's pursuit of Hannibal in Season 3.
ReplyDeleteWill this also effect him being in Batman v Superman since that is being filmed now?
ReplyDeletefairly obvious that Jack would be back considering his role in the books, but wasn't so sure about Alana. Understandable that his role would be reduced with LF handling 2 shows....
ReplyDeleteBryan Fuller confirmed that Molly will be introduced during season 3.
ReplyDeleteProbably during the second half of the season.
IMO, Alana is dead; her fall had a definitive feeling for me because of the way it was shot: the slow motion and all the special effects and editing work on blood and water blending made it looks like a murder tableaux.
ReplyDeleteAlso the writers seemed to have lost interest in her character during season 2 judging by the quality of her scenes (she was naked most of the time during the 2nd half of the season and rarely contributed to the main plot in the 1st half). I personally can't imagine a bigger role for her next season, because all the opportunities so far to give her something interesting have been ignored by the writers.
Her character was extended from the books to create a link between Hannibal and Will but now this link is dead (as symbolized by the ravenstag's death) and their relationship will be completely different next season.
Hannibal left her die on the front of his house without even a look.
Will never got over the fact that she refused to believe in his innocence (before he attacked Hannibal) and that she never apologized unlike Jack.Thus she never was a part of his memory palace like Abigail or didn't get to rekindle her friendship with Will (like Jack did by going fishing with him). Will didn't show the same emotion at her body lying on the floor that he expressed for Abigail being cut again.
However she won Jack's forgiveness (after pushing for an investigation of his methods) by saving his life.
People are supporting the idea that she can have an interesting storyline based on guilt and regrets, but i'm not convinced. Her motivations and feelings might be good material for fanfictions but on the show it has been kept to the minimum by the writers.
So, i can't imagine a complete arc where she would only mourn the consequences of Hannibal's reveal as The Chesapeake Ripper, and not be linked to Will or Hannibal or Jack, especially if she's left disabled.
In the end, even though her story was partially canon, she's only a secondary character just like Beverly was. She has been warned three times (by Will, Chilton and Gideon) that she was expendable and that Hannibal was dangerous, and she ignored all thoses warnings because of her self rightousness. I really don't see how she can survive that: it wouldn't be logical, given Hannibal's nature and status as the ultimate evil.
Also,Bryan seems to want to have regularly changes in the cast (except the main three Hannibal, Will, Jack) and with Gillian Anderson playing a big part next season, i feel like one female lead is enough for a small show like this. Bedelia and Alana are very similar (on the professional level and in terms of history with Hannibal) although they have different personalities and motivations. It seems to me that it would be repetitive to have them both on the show.
However, Abigail was supposed to be on the plane with Hannibal before Bryan's last minute change for Bedelia/Gillian. Meaning that the writers had a complete arc for Abigail waiting for season 3. I highly doubt they would just throw away a plot that they had planned since the end of season 1.
Also Bryan's explanation about her "resurrection" followed by "her second death" looked superficial: to pretend that they already used the trick of a fake death with Chilton, Miriam and Freddie, so they decided to kill her seems a poor excuse considering their initial plan.
I believe that she will survive to meet the same fate that she had in the books: being finally ok and happy, because i have the feeling that Bryan will respect the canon on this point.
Thanks for the update.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome!
ReplyDeleteSo nobody died in the massacre except for Abigail? Part of why I thought it was a great finale was that when Hannibal walks out of that house, I thought that everyone in there was dead with an exception of maybe Will who would perhaps come back a season or two later. I have not read the book series or any movie other than Silence of the Lambs, so perhaps I had wrong expectations. Still, I have high hopes for season 3; season 2 was really brilliant.
ReplyDeleteThat makes no sense and would kill the show potentially.
ReplyDeleteWell Will has to be the guy to catch Lecter. So he couldn't leave.
ReplyDeleteAlana is the only character which is very sure dead. About Abigail I'm not sure. It seems possible that Abigail will continue Hannibal's "work" on the other side of the world. And the only character in the US who knows that Abigail killed Alana is probably Will...
ReplyDeleteBut does Will know that Abigail pushed her? Apparently he didn't see Alana's fall, she was already on the floor when he arrived.
ReplyDeleteOne other possibility could be that Hannibal and Abigail are the only ones who know how Alana died (if she dies), Alana can lose consciousness during her transport to hospital and not regain it before dying, preventing Will to learn the truth immediately. And this new secret between Hannibal and Abigail can come back later in the season to haunt her, while she had became very close of Will (and have helped to catch Hannibal like she promised in season 1).
I think Abigail will live and Alana will be left to unknown...
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