SPOILER ALERT: Last week’s Season 2 finale of NBC’s Hannibal cut deep. A little too deep for some cast members. Now the show’s executive producer, Bryan Fuller is opening up about the finale as well as what is in store for Mads Mikkelsen and the cast in Season 3.
Hannibal developer Bryan Fuller recently spoke to spoke to TV Line about last week’s bloody season finale:
“I felt like it was a fated conclusion to the story that we have been telling: Inasmuch as we were trying to garner sympathy for the devil, you also have to respect the devil--or else you’re going to end up gutted on the floor.”
Fuller also opened up about the death of the stag and what that means for Hannibal and Will:
“We wanted separation between the finality of Hannibal Lecter walking out to the rain, having it wash over him, and cleanse him, and leaving this experience behind--an experience that has been beautiful but also demonstrative of his own weakness. He’s shedding it all. And we wanted that fade to black on the stag, the stag heaving its last breath, to be emblematic that this is the end of this chapter of the Hannibal/Will Graham relationship. The stag was symbolic of Hannibal and Will, and Will’s attraction to Hannibal, because it first showed up after he was exposed to Hannibal’s murder scene, with the raven and the severed stag head and the girl impaled on the antlers.The stag had to heave a sigh, go to black.”
Fuller teased that we have seen a scene from Season 3, with the stag scene being the last one in Season 2:
“This is the end of Season 2, and essentially, after credits, that scene on the airplane is the first scene of Season 3. And the fun thing about the Season 3 opener is that we’re going to get into the specifics of exactly why Bedelia is in that chair, how she came to be in that chair, how it was actually an intriguing, smart decision for her, as opposed to Hannibal Lecter hijacking her and kidnapping her. I think she is absolutely where she has chosen to be, and how she made that choice is the hinge of Episode 1, Season 3.”
