Bryan Fuller Wants Zendaya to Play Clarice Starling in SILENCE OF THE LAMBS Reboot

More Hannibal has been something fans have craved for a decade now. It’s been 10 years since the incredible show concluded, but Fannibals (and basically anyone with taste) are still hungry for more. But what form would more Hannibal take? If you ask Bryan Fuller, the answer is an ever-changing prospect. But currently, Fuller reveals he’d like to see more Hannibal take the form of a Silence of the Lambs limited series with Zendaya playing Clarice against Mads Mikkelsen’s Hannibal Lecter. Hey, we stan.NBC/Warner Bros.

Fuller shared, “My dream project is to do a limited series of Silence of the Lambs with Mads and Zendaya as Clarice Starling. If I could put anything out into the universe, I would put that into the universe.”

Okay, relax, relax. RELAX. I hear you. I feel you. I see you. I am you. Hugh Dancy’s Will Graham would ABSOLUTELY have a place in a Hannibal follow-up Silence of the Lambs series that has Zendaya playing Clarice. Just because Fuller did not say Hugh Dancy’s name in his vision of the limited series does not mean Will Graham would not be a part of it. Fuller has said on countless occasions that Will Graham and Hugh Dancy would absolutely feature in any future plans involving Hannibal. And there is literally no reason to imagine that changing.

Casting Zendaya as Clarice in a Silence of the Lambs follow-up, when she is much closer to the age of Kacey Rohl than anyone else on Hannibal. (Rohl played Abigail Hobbs on the series, Will and Hannibal’s ill-fated surrogate daughter), actually implies exactly how Will could fit into the narrative. Hannigram is very much on the menu, as Fuller has shared with Nerdist before. It stands to reason that Will Graham and Hannibal would be love interests in a Silence of the Lambs mini-series follow-up, with Zendaya’s Clarice filling the role of yet another one of Hannibal’s stand-ins for his lost sister, Mischa.

Regardless of the semantics, I think we could all agree that seeing Mads Mikkelsen and Zendaya in a scene together would blow all of our minds. And seeing more Hannibal might course-correct the trajectory of the universe as we know it. In Bryan Fuller, we trust.

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