It’s Time We Stop Hoping For a “Hannibal” Revival Anytime Soon

By MrDisgusting on April 8, 2016

Hulu’s excellent new series, “The Path,” is now streaming every Wednesday.

Its biggest draw is that is stars Hugh Dancy, who broke out during his tenure on NBC’s “Hannibal,” which was abruptly canceled before its fourth season.

Creator Bryan Fuller looked for saviors in Amazon and Netflix, but ultimately it was left without a home – and millions of grieving fans.

Now that some time has passed, Dancy offers a fresh update that’s pretty much the nail in the coffin (for the time being).

Bryan [Fuller] has got plenty on his plate and everybody is busy, which is fantastic, but I think we’re in a place where we can say, “Okay, let’s see what happens in four years.” If we’re able to revisit it, maybe it would be different. I don’t know what shape it would take. I’ve said many times, and it’s completely true, that I would love that. If we were able to come back, maybe taking a few years away for it to reform itself might be the best thing that could happen for it. I certainly think it’s warranted, just by where we got to in the story. Sure, you could start a fourth season, or whatever it would be, with a big splash and see what happens when they hit the water, but I think it would be more interesting to find them a few years down the line.

It’s been reported on multiple occasions that the main cast has become so busy that an immediate reunion would be unlikely, but Dancy seems to confirm that it’s officially off the table for a few years. Could we see “Hannibal” return in the future? It sounds likely, but so far down the line that it’s probably time to release it from our minds.

Back in January Dancy teased Fuller’s plans, which include the “Silence of the Lambs” story arc:

Bryan [Fuller] pitched it to me … well, he, described to me in an overview with what he wanted to do with the 4th season, had there been an interest, and it was really fantastic. It was a complete restart, without describing it — because who knows, God knows, maybe some way we may be able to do it in the future — but it took us back to the first season in a very unexpected way, and made total sense of that cliffhanger ending; it seemed justified. It was born out of a part of one of the books so it was still coming out of that universe, but it wasn’t the Clarice / ‘Silence of the Lambs’ storyline.

The biggest shocker, though, was when executive producer Martha De Laurentiis blamed piracy for the show’s inability to continue on.