Fans of Silence of the Lambs will notice one key character missing from CBS new hour-long series Clarice, and he goes by the name of Hannibal Lecter.Reporters at the CBS Winter Tour asked about the elephant in the virtual room; the notion being that the rights holders of Hannibal, The Dino De Laurentiis Company, wouldn’t clear his use in the upcoming series.
Meanwhile, MGM, a producer on the CBS series, holds the rights to all the characters from the 1991 film, including Clarice Starling, Ardelia Mapp, Paul Krendler, Buffalo Bill, and more.Still, the lack of Lector wouldn’t drain any blood from Clarice.
It was the female FBI agent alone who series co-creator and EP Jenny Lumet was always transfixed by.“I think that the character (of
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