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Bryan Fuller To Bring Back Amazing Stories
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Former Hannibal Showrunner Fuller to Resurrect Anthology Series
According to Entertainment Weekly, for aficionados of the sadly cancelled Hannibal, rejoice because showrunner Bryan Fuller will be returning to NBC. However, those same fans may want to hold off cracking open the chianti, because Fuller will not bringing back the charismatic killer for a fourth season. Instead, Fuller will be bringing audiences a new updated version of Amazing Stories, which was originally created and produced by Steven Spielberg back in the 1980s (who will not be involved in this new version).
Not only will Fuller write the pilot script of the updated anthology series, but he will also serve as executive producer of the hour-long series which originally aired in 1985 for two seasons, and focused on telling bizarre, fantastic and supernatural tales. The series would change between the science fiction, horror and fantasy genre on a weekly basis due to each episode being self-contained.
Fuller will be a busy man indeed because, along with Amazing Stories, he will also serve as showrunner for the Starz series, American Gods, which is based on the novel by Neil Gaiman.
The series will be produced by Universal while along with Fuller, the show will also have Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank helm the project as executive producers. Their credits include Under The Dome and Extant, respectively. This will be the first project Fuller has done for NBC since the cancellation of Hannibal.
With the recent success of series such as Fargo, True Detective and American Horror Story, anthology series have experienced a little bit of a resurgence. Amazing Stories will differ solely because each weekly episode will be a different story (like the original series).
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