"Hannibal" season 4 will not happen and some fans have probably accepted the NBC horror series' fate.
However, this latest interview from series creator Bryan Fuller after the third season's finale might only make fans revive their hate towards the fact that it has been canceled.
Fuller's plans for "Hannibal" season 4 is basically the "Silence of the Lambs" arc. This means that aside from Clarice Sterling, it will also use the creepy Buffalo Bill (portrayed in the movie by Ted Levine) who is considered one of the scariest fictional villains.
Fuller said he already has concrete plans had "Hannibal" season 4 got a green light. What's more awesome about it is the actor he selected to play Buffalo Bill is someone he thinks is perfect for the role.
"I would love to cast Lee Pace as Buffalo Bill. His first, most notable, award-winning career move was playing a transgendered person [in 2003's A Soldier's Girl], and I think it would be fascinating to return him to that side of his acting skill," Fuller said in an interview with Crave Online after "Hannibal" season 3 finale.
Fuller also revealed that he and Pace have been in contacts about his possible role ever since the second season.
"Many, many, many times. Every season. We constantly asked Lee but he was always so busy, because he was making 'Guardians of the Galaxy' and 'Halt and Catch Fire' and the 'Hobbit' films. So his dance card was full but we kept on asking," he explained.
"We had talked about him playing Francis Dolarhyde, and it was something that we were sort of hanging in the balance, to see if Halt and Catch Fire would have another season. So he wasn't available. But I think it worked out amazingly well for us. [Laughs.]"
As for Clarice Sterling, he is thinking of Ellen Page to become the recipient of the iconic role first portrayed in film by Jodie Foster.
"Well, there's a couple of ways to go," he said.
"There's the Ellen Page way, which I think would be fantastic and more kind of in line with the Clarice that we all know. But I know I would also like to explore who Clarice would be from a different racial background. There's something about being poor and white in the South but there's something else about being poor and black in the South, and I think it could be the necessary gateway into the character, to make Clarice as much our own signature character as we tried to make Will Graham."
