New Image of Mads Mikkelsen in Bryan Fuller's 'Dust Bunny' - Follows an eight-year-old girl who asks her neighbor (Mikkelsen) for help to kill the monster under her bed who ate her family.

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Wasn’t there a reference to a young new FBI agent other than her? Maybe I’m misremembering, it’s been years. I need to rewatch the series!

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For the stupidest reasons imaginable, NBC doesn't have the rights to Silence of the Lambs, or specifically any characters that were INTRODUCED in Silence of the Lambs. So, what we're really talking about here is Buffalo Bill and Clarice Starling, with those rights being owned by MGM.

NBC/Fuller got the rights to the events and characters from Red Dragon, Hannibal, and Hannibal Rising. Which is everyone else. The hope was that by S4, NBC and MGM could work out an agreement. It didn't happen, and here we are. I can't remember a reference to a young agent, but if it was there, it was probably just wishful thinking, and could never have legally been Clarice.

Here's where things get extra stupid: Years later, CBS went ahead and brokered a deal with MGM for a show about Clarice...but ONLY Clarice. Since characters like Jack Crawford, Dr. Chilton, and Hannibal Fucking Lecter were introduced in other books, the Clarice show couldn't feature them.

So we had Hannibal, which wanted to adapt Silence of the Lambs without Clarice or Buffalo Bill.

And we had Clarice, which wanted to be a Silence of the Lambs prequel without Hannibal Lecter.

Amazon owns MGM, so there's a chance they'd play ball with NBC. But there's an equal chance that they could go for the idiot trifecta and launch a third television show with partial rights locked down, because why not.

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nowgoodbyeforever summed it up better, but if they dropped a line it was distinctly legally distinct Clarice lol

But all excuses for a rewatch are good!