Hannibal star Mads Mikkelsen is hopeful the cancelled NBC series will return within the next few years, adding "it all depends" on creator Bryan Fuller's interest and schedule. "He is the key, the base, the heart," Mikkelsen said of Fuller, speaking with Express. "We will wait and see what happens next in his career." Despite previously stated concerns about how much enthusiasm there'll be for the series in "three or four years," Mikkelsen believes the show could easily continue a few years down the road, thanks to breaks in the original works' stories.