NBC Buys Hannibal Series From Bryan Larger & Gaumont Worldwide Television

EXCLUSIVE: In the first U.S. purchase, lately released L.A.-based indie studio Gaumont Worldwide Television provides hourlong drama Hannibal at NBC. Written and executive created by Bryan Larger and executive created by Martha P Laurentiis, the project, in line with the legendary literary and film character Hannibal Lecter, was bought by NBC preemptively. It marks a reunion between your network and GIT Boss Katie O’Connell, who formerly offered as NBC mind of drama. Larger is creating a script against a 13-episode commitment, and therefore the project won’t undergo an airplane pilot stage but right to series if NBC brass such as the script. The network includes a short window after receiving Larger’s script to get it. Inside a model much like that for NBC’s midseason drama series The Firm, GIT, the U.S. arm of French film studio Gaumont, will fund the possibility series by a mixture of a U.S network license fee and worldwide sales. The project was come to MIPCOM recently, and numerous worldwide deals happen to be within the works. I hear that Larger, a highly-known foodie as evidenced by his previous series Pushing Daisies, loved the dark, sick side of Hannibal, who has a tendency to feast on his sufferers. (Who are able to your investment line: “I ate his liver with a few fava beans along with a nice chianti”?) P Laurentiis — that has created the Hannibal Lecter features Hannibal, Red-colored Dragon and Hannibal Rising — and CAA introduced the privileges to GIT, which opened up its doorways at the outset of September. O’Connell introduced in Larger, with whom she'd were built with a lengthy relationship returning towards the time she was at NBC and WME-repped Larger done the network’s drama Heroes. (O’Connell also invest in Larger’s Pushing Daisies, which ultimately visited ABC.)