{"id":16268,"date":"2015-03-06T15:58:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T23:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=16268"},"modified":"2023-01-19T16:17:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T00:17:02","slug":"hannibal-season-3-premiere-date-and-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/hannibal-season-3-premiere-date-and-poster\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bloody Escapades of Dr. Lecter Continue in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready, Fannibals, we&#8217;ve got some news for you! Season 3 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=Hannibal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Hannibal<\/strong><\/em><\/a> officially has a premiere date as well as a new poster, which you can see below.<\/p>\n<p>NBC&#8217;s <em>Hannibal<\/em> is a show that doesn&#8217;t hold back &#8211; the shocks are as real as the blood. It&#8217;s gorgeously filmed and performed, making it one of the most sophisticated &#8211; but also horrifying &#8211; television series on air right now.<\/p>\n<p>The fans are passionate and Season 3 is already shaping up to be quite the wild ride. Bryan Fuller, the creator of the show, tweeted the official poster as well as the premiere date:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>TUCK IN <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HannibalReturnsJune4?src=hash\">#HannibalReturnsJune4<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GillianA\">@GillianA<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/Pq51nbTBCa\" class=\"broken_link\">pic.twitter.com\/Pq51nbTBCa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bryan Fuller (@BryanFuller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BryanFuller\/status\/573957006345682944\">March 6, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t believe what happened at the end of Season 2, you&#8217;re probably extremely anxious for the new season to start. June 4th seems ages away but just wait until we get trailers and more hints from Fuller and the cast.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the cast, it&#8217;s certainly growing in this upcoming season! Here&#8217;s the breakdown of new characters.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Richard Armitage<\/strong> (<em>The Hobbit<\/em>, <em>Robin Hood<\/em>) will play Francis Dolarhyde a.k.a. The Tooth Fairy, from the book <em>Red Dragon<\/em>.<br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>Joe Anderson<\/strong> (<em>Across the Universe<\/em>) will play the now paralyzed Mason Verger, previously played by Michael Pitt in the show.<br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>Rutina Wesley<\/strong> (<em>True Blood<\/em>) will play Reba McClane, a blind woman who has an interesting relationship with Dolarhyde, completely unaware of his true nature.<br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>Zachary Quinto<\/strong> (<em>Heroes<\/em>, <em>Star Trek<\/em>) will play a patient of Dr. Maurier (Gillian Anderson, who has been upgraded to season regular).<br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>Tao Okamoto<\/strong> (<em>The Wolverine<\/em>) will play Chiyoh, the maid of Lady Murasaki, Hannibal&#8217;s Japanese aunt.<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s not enough to excite you, I don&#8217;t know what is!<\/p>\n<p>Are you excited for <em>Hannibal<\/em> to return, Fannibals? What are you most looking forward to? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready, Fannibals, we&#8217;ve got some news for you! Season 3 of Hannibal officially has a premiere date as well as a new poster, which you can see below. NBC&#8217;s Hannibal is a show that doesn&#8217;t hold back &#8211; the shocks are as real as the blood. It&#8217;s gorgeously filmed and performed, making it one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,109],"tags":[2268,3145,112,602,2270,2269,2272,2271],"yst_prominent_words":[8639,13714,18171,16688,18167,6388,8147,18172,18170,18169,18168,8998,7666,7467,6808,18166,8613,10171,6017,12934],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16268"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68586,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16268\/revisions\/68586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16268"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}