News Hannibal Bryan Fuller Says If You Didn’t Like Hannibal Season 3, You Probably Won’t Like His Season 4 Idea Can someone please just give Bryan Fuller what he wants already? By Molly Templeton | Published on November 21, 2025 Screenshot: Dino de Laurentiis Company/ Living Dead Guy Productions Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Dino de Laurentiis Company/ Living Dead Guy Productions It’s been a full decade since Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal went off the air, but fans—and Fuller—have never given up hope that the gang may someday be reunited and the series return to life. In 2024, star Mads Mikkelsen said, “It’s no secret that all of us who were part of the cast and Bryan, we all want to go back.” In 2022, Fuller himself said that “everyone would love to return if we had the opportunity.” That everyone includes both stars, Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy, and much of the rest of the incredible cast as well. (Put Caroline Dhavernas back on American TV, please!) Recently, though, Fuller has gotten more specific. In September, he talked about wanting to make Silence of the Lambs with Zendaya in the Clarice Starling role—and with Mikkelsen playing Hannibal Lecter again. As Bloody Disgusting reports, Fuller has a lot more to say on the topic in an upcoming episode of the Horror Queers podcast. As is so often the case, it turns out that one big roadblock against making more Hannibal is the rights to the material. “Right now, it’s a little complicated since Martha de Laurentiis’ passing,” Fuller says. “The rights are in the process of reversion to Thomas Harris. MGM/Amazon has some. They’re all being navigated in a way that is going to be a little trickier to iron out now. They’re in process, and I keep on touching base and trying to encourage folks to get back together.” It sounds like part of his interest in Silence of the Lambs is that it may be more clearly available; Fuller says that a Lambs adaptation “may be free of certain obligations to include Gaumont [International Television], who is the studio on Hannibal. You can’t copyright a performance, you know? So there are things that we’re trying to figure out if we can get away with that would make it an easier path that might shake the possibilities loose of things that we might be hindered from doing at this point, given the status of the rights.” But he does have a plan for a fourth season of Hannibal—though he’s understandably somewhat vague about it. Fuller says he was “frustrated” with the show’s first season, which “felt a little more like traditional television.” “I thought Season 2 was better,” he says. “Season 3, I was like, ‘Okay, this is what we should be doing. This is what I want to be doing. This is the type of storytelling that I think the show can do. And there are a lot of people who don’t like Season 3, and I was like, ‘Well then, you really don’t want a Season 4, because that’s it.’ If you’re not down with Season 3, then you’re not going to be grooving on the plan for Season 4 because it’s following that arc.” The show’s third season is, like the rest of Hannibal, complicated, psychological, strange, and more of all of these things than previous seasons. It tackles Thomas Harris’s Red Dragon and ends in such a way that some people might wonder how it would be possible to continue the story at all. (It wouldn’t be the first time someone on this show seemed dead, only to have been artfully pushed to the brink of death, but not over it, by Hannibal.) An Entertainment Weekly review of the final season’s premiere episode gives a pretty solid impression of the whole thing: “The sumptuous cinematography, the abstract imagery, the fluid editing, the jazzy-industrial score, and the deeply felt minimalism of Mads Mikkelsen’s performance work together to create an effect so rich, it’s like mainlining crème brûlée with your eyes.” Please, Bryan Fuller and assorted rights holders and network execs, we would like another serving. In the meantime, Fuller’s film Dust Bunny—which stars Mikkelsen—premieres December 12th.[end-mark] The post Bryan Fuller Says If You Didn’t Like <i>Hannibal</i> Season 3, You Probably Won’t Like His Season 4 Idea appeared first on Reactor.