HANNIBAL Season 2 Updates: David Bowie Cast in Pivotal Role? Bryan Fuller Explains Will Graham's Fate for 2014's Return on NBC

Season 2 of NBC's critically acclaimed series Hannibal is set to return to the screen in 2014, and it looks like showrunner Bryan Fuller has some big ideas for the show's next chapter. The season 1 finale was definitely one of the biggest cliffhangers on television, so there are certainly tons of questions in regards to characters Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) and agent Will Graham (Hugh Dancy). Recent reports have us that some back-story might be involved in the next season, and a big name is being eyed to help tell it.

"We have reached out to David Bowie to see if he's interested and available," Fuller revealed to E! News. "We would love for him to play Hannibal's uncle, who is a character from the literature and in the books."

In Thomas Harris' novel, "Hannibal Rising," Hannibal's uncle, Count Robert Lecter, adopts his teenage nephew before being killed by Nazis. Though this story might not fit into the modern take that "Hannibal" has given the stories, Fuller explained that "since our timeline is a little more present, there's a little bit of J.J. Abrams-style alternate universe storytelling where he could still be alive."

Bowie has yet to give the show an answer, but Fuller and the rest of the crew are hopeful.

Uncle Robert might be have some involvement in the second season, but who else should we be looking forward to seeing? Clearly, Robert Lecter would add to Hannibal's story, but what about Graham? We last saw Will Graham in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Luckily, Fuller shared some hopes for a character involved in this facility in season 2.

"I would love to bring in Chi McBride, if he's available," Fuller said of the character Barney, an orderly at the facility.

In terms of the second season and how Fuller and his team are planning to approach it, he says that he will not be relying on the literature as much as he did in season one. "We're going to see Will Graham institutionalized and what we know from 'Red Dragon,' the backstory that is given, which is very, very thin, explains that Will Graham was so psychologically compromised from investigating the Minnesota case that he had to be institutionalized. And that's sort of one sentence that we can do quite a bit with," Fuller explained.