The Hannibal Season 2 Blu-ray and DVD is set to be released on September 16, 2014, with the third season of NBC's gloriously gruesome horror series scheduled to return in 2015. IGN was able to sit down with series creator Bryan Fuller recently, to talk about the home video release of Season 2 as well as what we can expect from Season 3.

Finding An Audience:

Hannibal Season 2 Review

“ I think one of the things that was a huge surprise to everyone with Silence of the Lambs was that that was an Oscar-winning horror movie.

Oh, thank you.[Laughs] Yes! Me too.Well, you know, it's hard to say with television and this kind of long-form storytelling. I think the show very much has an indie movie vibe to it. It's not necessarily mainstream in its style and its pacing and its network effervescence. So I think it's a strange show for people to stumble across, and it is so designed for the audience that appreciates the thriller. It's hard to say what makes a mainstream hit and what doesn't. I think one of the things that was a huge surprise to everyone with Silence of the Lambs was that that was an Oscar-winning horror movie. It struck such a nerve with audiences that it was a very particular, special experience. It's also an amazing movie. So it's hard to say what makes a show click with a larger audience and what doesn't.

NBC on the Struggle to Get a Mainstream Audience for Hannibal

Oh yeah. Well, that's where it starts, and then it has to service character in a very specific way. So with Abel Gideon and Hannibal Lecter, they're strangely peers in a way, so it felt like there was much more to explore with those two men. And I just adore Eddie Izzard. I would love to continue to write for him in any capacity.

Which Characters Will We See in Hannibal Season 3?

“ It felt like there was a whole chapter of the Chilton/Hannibal relationship that we had yet to explore.

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Balancing Hannibal's Origins & The Red Dragon Storyline:

“ Hannibal Rising is perhaps the book that we reimagine the most for the television series.

Yeah, and we had talked about just letting him die. It was Steve Lightfoot, Martha De Laurentiis and myself talking about whether we should kill off such an iconic character in the mythology. It really came down to Raúl [Esparza, who plays Chilton] and Raúl brings such a different energy to the show. Also, it felt like there was a whole chapter of the Chilton/Hannibal relationship that we had yet to explore, so I would feel robbed as an audience member not to see and understand exactly why these two men disdain each other so much when we see their stories in the literature and in the films. They clearly have such a rich history, and I would feel robbed as an audience member if I didn't get to see some of that.Yes, yes. Exactly.[Editor's Note: Inspector Pazzi, from Hannibal, Lady Murasaki from Hannibal Rising, and Francis Dolarhyde from Red Dragon will all appear in Season 3.]"Yes" is the answer to that question. So, yes, it is going to be the person he knew as a child, and yes, it's going to be a different relationship. [Laughs]We are definitely reworking a lot of it. It's perhaps the book that we reimagine the most for the television series. We see ourselves -- and I think I may have said this to you before -- as the Thomas Harris mashup DJs, where we're spinning tracks of Silence of the Lambs and using lyrics from Hannibal Rising. So we're taking everything almost as though you mixed it in a big, delicious cookie bowl, and now we're plucking out the chocolate chips.

Warning: Spoiler for Hannibal Rising ahead...

Um... True in spirit, I would say. [Laughs] Actually, I think it'll be interesting to discuss this once you've seen the show, but I would say "truer in spirit."

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