Bryan Fuller ships Hannigram

Bryan Fuller, responsible for all of your feels since Season One.

Hugh Dancy’s said in him mind, Will is near-sighted, needs the glasses for driving, etc. When he wears them in the classroom, he’s intentionally using them as a shield. Which Jack points out he’s fully aware of when he pushes Will’s glasses up his nose so he can’t use the rims as a way to avoid eye contact. 

Using glasses that way, to avoid eye contact, was something Bryan suggested based on a director he’d worked with who did the same thing. Although Bryan didn’t ever do the Jack thing to said director. 

“So it’s the cannibal we all know and love- a modern day prequel to his capture- featuring the (b)romance between Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham, a lesser known character that would be great to explore …

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Hannibal: So I sent him to jail

Will: And then I sent someone to kill him

Hannibal: And then I sent someone to kill him

Will: And then I tried to trap him

Hannibal: And then I stabbed him

Will: I tried to kill him again

Hannibal: I also tried to kill him again

Will: And then he turned himself in

Hannibal: So then I went to jail

Will: And then we killed someone together

“Nothing would please me more than Mads Mikkelsen becoming the definitive Hannibal Lecter for audiences. And that’s a very big wish, because Anthony Hopkins, those are huge shoes to fill. But it’s a new generation, and it’s a different version of the story, and I think for some members of the audience, Mads is the definitive Hannibal Lecter. He certainly is for me.” 

Geography and climate get the same hand-wavy treatment. It’s always arctic winter in Hannibal’s world, even in balmy states like Virginia. Hannibal and Will easily shuttle back and forth between Maryland and Minnesota for a case - a 20 hour drive in the real world. Will Graham sails almost 5000 miles from Maryland to Italy in a tiny sailboat. Etc.

Fuller-verse technology is as iffy as its history and geography. Cellphones exist but are used only when they don’t interfere with plots Clothes, furnishings, etc. are highly eclectic; and the social mores seem to hail more from the 19th century than the 21st, what with all the careful talking around homosexuality, which seems to remain peccatum illud horribile inter Christianos non nominandum, and the general overwrought forbiddenness and inconceivability of Hannibal’s love for Will.

In short, Fuller’s “Hannibal” is set in the present day, but in a parallel universe where it’s always winter, homosexuality is almost inconceivable yet somehow legal (even Mason resorts to an odd euphemism for his sister’s lesbian preferences), and technology is only sort of modern (Will Graham’s house has a rotary phone for a landline), but none of this matters, because Hannibal is the Devil and capable of time dilation along with all sorts of other superhuman feats.

BIG THANKS to everyone who messaged us this today – we’re still in a bit of shock and we’re incredibly happy to see our fandom’s work appreciated in such a way :)))

This once again shows how blessed we are to have our cast and crew and everyone involved with “Hannibal”. They have shown us Fannibals nothing but kindness and love over the years and we are so happy and grateful for this.

And … super excited and mortified and …. gosh.

This makes me so happy.

Big hugs to everyone involved.

Hugh didn’t only get the goodies, he also didn’t just leave them with his publicist or manager to be stored or thrown away, but he kept them (well, at least the bag 😅), and this is so very nice of him, I can’t stop grinning! He has this genuine respect for other people’s work that really warms my heart.