NBC Buys Hannibal Series From Bryan Bigger & Gaumont Worldwide Television

EXCLUSIVE: Within the first U.S. purchase, recently launched L.A.-based indie studio Gaumont Worldwide Television provides hourlong drama Hannibal at NBC. Written and executive produced by Bryan Bigger and executive produced by Martha P Laurentiis, the project, good legendary literary and film character Hannibal Lecter, was bought by NBC preemptively. It marks a reunion involving the network and GIT Boss Katie O’Connell, who formerly offered as NBC mind of drama. Bigger is developing a script against a 13-episode commitment, and then the project won’t undergo an plane pilot stage but to series if NBC brass like the script. The network features a short window after receiving Bigger’s script to have it. In the model similar to that for NBC’s midseason drama series The Firm, GIT, the U.S. arm of French film studio Gaumont, will fund the chance series by a combination of a U.S network license fee and worldwide sales. The project was arrived at MIPCOM lately, and various worldwide deals are actually inside the works. I hear that Bigger, a very-known foodie as evidenced by his previous series Pushing Daisies, loved the dark, sick side of Hannibal, that has a inclination to feast on his sufferers. (Who is able to neglect the line: “I ate his liver having a couple of fava beans together with a pleasant chianti”?) P Laurentiis — which has produced the Hannibal Lecter features Hannibal, Red-colored-colored Dragon and Hannibal Rising — and CAA introduced the rights to GIT, which opened up up its entrance doors in the start of September. O’Connell introduced in Bigger, with whom she'd stood a extended relationship coming back for the time she was at NBC and WME-repped Bigger done the network’s drama Heroes. (O’Connell also purchase Bigger’s Pushing Daisies, which ultimately visited ABC.)