Warning Graphic Content & Hannibal Spoilers: In the novel Red Dragon, Francis Dolarhyde A.K.A The Tooth Fairy, A.K.A. The Great Red Dragon, is a vicious killer who puts his victims through horrific acts of violence involving rape and necrophilia. However, fans of NBC Hannibal can fell to watch Season 3, without fear of triggers. According to show boss, Bryan Fuller, the series will be sticking to its ban on rape scenes.
Recently, Hannibal executive producer Bryan Fuller spoke with Entertainment Weekly about the writer's conscious decision to avoid rape scenes:
“It’s one of the things on the show that we really wanted to avoid. They’re ubiquitous on television, and there’s an entire series [NBC’s Law & Order: SVU] that’s about rape. It was challenging approaching the Red Dragon story because the crimes that Francis Dolarhyde commits [in the novel] include the horrible raping of corpses, and near-corpses.In crafting the story arc of the Red Dragon, it became a challenge on how to keep true to the novel but deemphasize the exploitive qualities of woman being raped.”
Despite the source material, Fuller is determined to stay true to his word and maintain the ban on rape:
“That was one of the big challenges in terms of how do we keep our promise [to not tell rape stories] to our audience--which is largely female--and also service the novel. It became a tricky matter of de emphasizing women being targeted, and making more pronounced the crimes against the victim’s family as a whole. We didn’t wanna glorify it--well, not ‘glorify,’ because I don’t think any of the crime procedural shows are actually ‘glorifying’ rape. But it is certainly explored so frequently that it rarely feels genuine.”
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Hannibal Season 3 returns to NBC on Thursday June 4.
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