Here are five new revelations about the upcoming series.
The shows 1993 setting is significant
Clarice picks up one year after the events in Demme’s film.
‘Dont silence me, dont marginalize me’ all that vocabulary didnt exist, Lumet adds.
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We wanted to make it as tough on her as possible.
But Hannibal is, legally speaking, He Who Shall Not Be Named.
“Im still trying to understand how the rights are divided, Kurtzman says.
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Its a more expanded, nuanced, complicated, and topical version of a serial killer.
Similarly, the series will explore the white gaze via Starling’s FBI colleague Ardelia Mapp.
“There’s no ‘black best friend’ thing going on here, that would be intolerable to us.
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Catherine Martin is a strange, fun-house-mirror version of Clarice, Kurtzman says.
They both shared this hell experience, but have been marked in different ways.
Whereas Clarice is running from the fear and the pain, psychologically, Catherine is still in that well.
So she is like a truth-teller.
Adds Lumet: “The dog also represented warmth, and light and freedom.
The only warmth she had in this stone room.
What does that mean?
Here is the show’s teaser trailer:
Claricepremieres Feb. 11 on CBS.
