By Jamie RubyNBC's new series
Hannibal premieres tomorrow night. The story follows Hannibal Lector (Mads Mikkelsen) in his early years, when he was known as a brilliant psychiatrist working for the FBI. He works to help criminal profiler Will Graham, played by Hugh Dancy, as he often steps too far into the minds of serial killers, not knowing he is working with one.
In preparation for the premiere, executive producer and writer, Bryan Fuller, and star, Hugh Dancy, talked to the digital media about what's to come on the series.
Fuller talked to SciFi Vision about their approach to taking the series beyond a crime procedural. "Our approach was, how can we tell a slightly more heightened quality of serial killer tale each week to honor the style and the genre that Thomas Harris has really kind of created in and of himself, which you look at Francis Dolarhyde in Red Dragon who is a man who is looking to evolve outside of like the simplicity of his life that was corrupted by various abuses to a God-like being that existed inside of him.
"Or, Buffalo Bill who was a man who was looking to transform into a woman and the horrible deeds that he did to craft the human suit out of real live females.
"There is a sort of purple operatic quality to those style of murders that we tried to respect and kind of give more than a crime procedural that is so completely grounded in reality and actually...gives you something a little more grand than what you would see on other crime procedural shows."