Hannibal 109 Promo. And Stuff.

Oh God! Wow! I think I finally get what Hannibal is up to with Will. ( Speculations based on this promo! )

Also, according to this article - link - should NBC cancel Hannibal, there's at least one cable and possibly Amazon too who would be willing to pick the show up because it's quite cheap since it's being produced together with Gaumont and AXN. Please, please, please, let it be true. I need this show in my life! ;_;

And this is how Hugh Dancy and Mads Mikkelsen were cast:

I didn’t have who Will Graham was in mind. And then, our very first conversation with the network about who this should be was Hugh Dancy. There were three names that came up – Hugh Dancy and two other actors – and everybody said, “Let’s go to Hugh and see if he’s interested.” We just thought that he has an innate likeability and this character is very complex. Like it says in the book, “Fear makes Will Graham rude,” so he is anti-social and complicated and in his own world. You have to have somebody who has an innate likeability, otherwise they’re just going to come off like an asshole, and Hugh has that. You want to be invited into a world by an actor, and Hugh Dancy, as an actor, invites you in to the world that he’s inhabiting. So, that was a very clear, easy choice.

And based on getting Hugh, Mads was interested because they had worked together on King Arthur. They were friends. So, we sat down with Mads and pitched what the show was to him. Even in that very first meeting, he said, “So, this character is a bit like Lucifer. He sees the beauty in the world and in humanity, but is also punitive to those who don’t recognize beauty in the world and in humanity.” If you look at his performance, he is playing Lucifer, as opposed to Anthony Hopkins’ Hannibal. I don’t think any of us wanted whoever we cast as Hannibal to go anywhere near Anthony Hopkins because you would be slain. There would just be no way to live up to that. So, we had to go a different direction with Hannibal. With Mads, who has this beauty, elegance and grace, and was a dancer, as well as having played several villains in prominent movies we had somebody who was going to bring something so unique to the role. Hannibal Lecter is not American. In the books, he is Eastern European, so he is other and he is different. So, getting a foreign actor to play the role was always at the front of my mind because I wanted to have some indication that he couldn’t be American.

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Warehouse 13 Renewed & Canceled

Syfy just renewed Warehouse 13 for S5. BUT! It will be its last and it will have only 6 episodes. Source. I guess it's good that the creators will be able to give the show a proper ending. Still. I will miss Claudia and Jinksy :(

The Avengers 2

( Who does Joss Whedon want to introduce in The Avengers 2? )

There's a litte bit of a problem with the actors, though. RDJ's contract was up after IM3 and according to sources like this one - link - he refuses to come back till Marvel ups the salaries of his fellow actors too. Sources say: "He’s the only guy with real power in this situation. And balls of steel, too. He’s already sent a message that he’s not going to work for a place where they treat his colleagues like shit." Apparently, RDJ made over 50 mil. with The Avengers, but Chris Hemsworth only around 3 mil. And RDJ wants to do something about it. Cool guy!

Book #34

"Glory in Death (In Death #2)" by J.D. Robb

Rating: ♣ ♣ ♣

The book wasn't bad but I think it would've worked better as a short story. The way it was, it felt like Eve was continuously going down the wrong road, trying to fit the evidence to her theory instead of adjusting the theory itself which made her look quite biased and frankly, uncaring about how many innocent lives she destroyed in her callous perusal of the killer. She needed a real kick in the teeth to go back to the roots of the problem. And still everybody praised her as the next Jesus, Mary and Joseph of the police department.

Also, my problem is that I don't quite like Eve as a person. Okay, sometimes, I downright dislike her. I get it, she has Issues with a capital I, I get it, I really, really do. It still doesn't give her the right to be rude to people. I love Roarke - he's pretty much a Marty Stu - but Eve... I don't know, most of the time she rubs me the wrong way. Like when she ranted at Roarke, yelling at him instead of just sitting him down and actually talking to him, telling him what was going on, what the problem was. I hate that in couples.