There have been a lot of discontented grumblings about the idea of moving the character of Hannibal Lecter from film to TV, but it was certainly positive when Bryan Fuller (Dead Like Me, Pushing Daisies) signed on to oversee the show and Mads Mikkelsen came onboard to play Hannibal.
Now the first stills from Hannibal have arrived, via scans from the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly. They show Mikkelsen taking to the role with relish, Hugh Dancy as Will Graham, and Laurence Fishburne as Jack Crawford. The show is a prequel to the other Hannibal stories, looking at how Graham worked with psychiatrist Lecter before he discovered the doctor was actually a serial killing cannibal. Fuller has said he wants to look at how the two men are two sides of the same coin.
The show is expected to debut in the US early next year and should come to the UK not long afterwards.
