

Even if Clarice must go Lecter-less for complicated rights reasons, his presence will undoubtedly be felt.īut some entries in the larger Lecter-verse evaporate on impact. Hannibal Lecter, the cannibalistic serial killer introduced in the 1981 Thomas Harris novel Red Dragon and made famous by the Oscar-winning turn by Anthony Hopkins.


It's only the latest attempt, following the cult NBC series, also titled Hannibal, that aired from 2013 to 2015, to tap into the endless curiosity surrounding the world of Dr. During the Super Bowl this past weekend, the broadcast was filled with advertisements for the new CBS series Clarice, a procedural that follows the FBI's intrepid Agent Starling played by Jodie Foster in 1991's The Silence of the Lambs. As a pop-culture phenomenon, Hannibal Lecter is always on the brain.
