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Bryan Fuller Says A New Not-Comic-Book PUSHING DAISIES Project Is In The Works!! Plus New Details On NBC's HANNIBAL And MOCKINGBIRD LANE!!
“There is another ‘Pushing Daisies' project that is not a comic and that is not a miniseries that we’re working on,” “Daisies” mastermind Bryan Fuller told a Comic Con audience this weekend.
So a Broadway musical?
Or a theme-park ride?
He hopes to make a announcement soon.
Fuller, for those just joining us, is the fellow who wrote for “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and “Star Trek: Voyager” before he went on to create “Dead Like Me,” “Wonderfalls,” and “Pushing Daisies” -- and script all the best episodes of “Heroes.”
Fuller was at Comic Con to promote “Hannibal,” the new NBC series he’s writing and producing that follows the pre-incarceration crime-fighting career of Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the fictional serial killer made famous via the novels-turned-movies “Red Dragon” and “The Silence of the Lambs.” “Season 1 is the bromance [between FBI special agent Will Graham and Lecter], and Season 2 is the horrible breakup,” said Fuller. The events of Thomas Harris’ 1981 Lecter novel “Red Dragon” (originally filmed as the 1986 William Peterson thriller “Manhunter”) would form the basis of season four.
Fuller was also plugging his “Munsters” reboot pilot “Mockingbird Lane,” which looks more likely to go to series now that NBC has ordered additional scripts for the project. “It is a darker version of Pushing Daisies,” Fuller told the crowd. He also said the original “Phantom of the Opera” set on the Universal backlot was repurposed as Grandpa’s dungeon lair.
Find all of TVLine’s story on the event here.

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If it is a raging success they won't stretch the premise ridiculously? Hmm
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That show was another victim of the writing strike! That was a freaking excellent show, and I wish it could've stayed on.
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July 16, 2012, 5:34 p.m. CST
...attempts to re-cast the roles are futile and just sad.
by Uncle Stan
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July 16, 2012, 5:36 p.m. CST
Season two the horrible break up? Doesn't Graham just arrest him as soon as he figures he is a killer?
by FreeBeer
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it seems different enough and not trying to be the orginal, although on the link the pic looks like Jerry O Connel's Herman doesn't have makeup on. Agreed Munsters was great because of Fred Gwen and Al Lewish but I am desperate for some universal monster tv shows
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comedy duo greats of all time
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July 16, 2012, 7:34 p.m. CST
THIS IS NOT CANON!! THIS IS NOT CANON!!! THIS IS NOT CANON!!!!
by Queefer Sutherland
When Graham discovers Lecter is a murderer, Lecter guts him Graham shoots him. Lecter is caputred!!! So now he escapes and goes on the lamb? (sorry about that.) THAT'S FUCKING STUPID AND IT IS NOT NOT NOT CANON! DO YOU HEAR ME YOU MOTHERFUCKERS?!?!?! NOT CANON!!!!!!!! Fuck you assholes. This is going to tank!!!!!!
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I really don't care all that much. Both sound pretty stupid. I loved Dead Like Me, but Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies were a little too precious for me. Pushing Daisies was pretty much a copy of Amélie's style. I DID like DS9. Hated Voyager and really hated Heroes. So, based on his track record with me, I'm not so hopeful about either of these. I'll check them out at least once.
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July 16, 2012, 8:41 p.m. CST
well he implied that Red Dragon would be the basis for season four
by saintsaucey
So that is four seasons.
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I agree - the show worked because its cast worked, but could the same not be said of the Addams Family or Batman or Star Trek? The prior attempts to reboot the Munsters failed because they tried to do the same thing with the same characters but a different cast. This looks to shake up the tone and format of the show and try a new approach to the characters. The odds are it won't work (simply because the odds are heavily against any show), but the pedigree of those involved is enough for me to give it a chance.
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Reading comprehension fail.
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Reading comprehension fail.
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and hope this Munsters project is as good (Jerry O'Connel?!). But for me, Wonderfalls remains Fuller's high water mark.
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If Season 1 is the bromance, season 2 the break-up, season 4 the novel, what is season 3? Will we have a season where Hannibal is just plain ole incarcerated?
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July 16, 2012, 11:39 p.m. CST
If your showrunner uses the word "bromance" without irony...
by MCVamp
...expect hackery of the highest order.
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Completely ignored by this site even though it was about a town full of geeks... it was attacked and murdered, producers were told to film one last episode and piss off. It had a good run but I'll never understand why it didn't get any attention here...
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July 17, 2012, 1:37 a.m. CST
altoandando it was a procedural with season long arcs..herc doesnt do talkbacks for those. and the ratings were still strong
by walt
go ask comcast why a show making money had to be canceled. almost everyone here watched the show, in one manner or another
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July 17, 2012, 1:44 a.m. CST
most amazing thing about fuller. for a gay man, he has an amazing eye for female talent.
by walt
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I was commenting on the fact that they're trying to make a show based on Will Graham having asked Lecter for advice a couple of times. As it happens in the novel, you'd maybe get a season out of it if you stretched it to breaking point. Reeling off your proposed seasons in advance just shows that you're going to go way off-canon, which is what I expected. Either Graham doesn't catch Hobbs in the first season (which means that there is a Killing-esque anticlimax, or they're going to make up whole other stories, in which case just make another police procedural and don't drag Lecter into it) or the whole second season is going to be an extreme slo-mo shot of Lecter gutting Graham.<P> No, I didn't read it as 'we're only going to do two seasons'; I read it as 'we're going to ride this franchise until the wheels come off and then maybe a season or two more'. Can't tell if your comprehension failed or you're trying to be laconically cunty.
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July 17, 2012, 10:14 a.m. CST
If it's not 2 hours of Anna Friel and Kristin Chenoweth exploring each other, then I pass
by Uncle Pooky
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July 17, 2012, 10:26 a.m. CST
Didn`t they already reboot the Munsters and wasn`t it terrible ?
by higgledyhiggles
We went to sleep <cough>-ty years ago and we woke up with a brand new show.
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No musical numbers? No whimsical narration? Sad. I enjoyed those elements. Personally I was more of an Addams Family fan. Fuller has a talent for making the most absurd premises plausible and entertaining.
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The Munsters were a more working class family that happened to be monsters, and felt they were pretty much like everyone else on the block. They weren't trying to be weird, they just happened to be, unlike the Addams.
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I would have checked out Mockingbird Lane until they cast him. I loved Wonderfalls and liked Pushing Daisies, but I can't get over this casting. He's terrible. Obnoxious even.
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I loved Wonderfalls. Bought the DVD set so I could see the eps Fox never ran. Great story and characters. Pushing Daisies is my favorite, however. It's like Tim Burton finally got some really good acid...and spiked the cast's Kool-Aid. Fuller went so many places with that show; life, death, love, family, honor, loyalty...and that's scratching the surface. I still miss this show. As for Heroes, it was only good when Fuller was driving. Went to hell without. So much promise and it was mostly wasted. The S1 ender pretty much did it for me. Looking forward to anything Fuller helms.
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July 17, 2012, 3:20 p.m. CST
Thought Eureka was already cancelled? Anyways, never liked it. God concept, poorly executed
by FreeBeer
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.. did they give the show another season and then yank it from under them or something? After a reprieve? That would be pretty messed up. OR... were they filming the last season and they didn't let them actually finish it? That would suck as well.
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The allusion being to a corpse underground fertilizing flower seed and "pushing" the blooms up to the surface. I always wondered why the title of that show was so effed up. Was it effed up on purpose? If so, for WHAT purpose?
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July 20, 2012, 2:04 p.m. CST
Let's keep going: Season 5 would be "Silence of the Lambs", Season 7 would be "Hannibal", and Season 8 would tie it all up with the long awaited Graham-Clarice team-up! :)
by MrMysteryGuest
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