The third season of NBC's 'Hannibal' plans to arrive in a big way tonight and IGN recently got to sit down with showrunner Bryan Fuller to speak on the upcoming season.

As we know the season will now take a huge turn with Hannibal now on the run with his psychiatrist/love interest Bedelia. There was also some huge cliffhangers at the end of season two that left us all questioning who survived the serial killer's farewell.

Fuller first begins with speaking on how this season's tone is unlike any other:

"This was kind of the season that the first two seasons earned in that we could go into a purely character-driven story format. We only filmed five days in Florence and everything else we found in Toronto and built in Toronto. It was fascinating to shift the story so dramatically. I was getting so sick of those FBI sets. I was like, 'Enough with the concrete brutalism! Let's get to Italy.' [Laughs] It was just a shot in the arm to do something completely different and take the show from a crime procedural and fully immerse it into this romantic horror genre that was perhaps a little Hammer and perhaps a little more soap operatic and thoughtful than what we were doing when we were using the crime procedural as a backbone to how we were telling stories. Really it was also an opportunity for Hannibal to be honest and direct about who he is for the first time. There was a certain amount of opacity in the first two seasons that slowly became clearer and clearer at the end of the second season. Now, everybody's cards are on the table and that allows us to have a greater honesty for character interactions moving forward."

He addresses the situation with the surviving characters next.

"The fun is just because you see a character doesn't mean the character is alive. In the scope of our series and the way we tell stories, there's a certain fun in subverting those expectations in a really creative way but there's also the opportunity to reimagine and redefine everybody that was at that house at the end of Season 2 and their invitations to the 'Red Dinner' and to be able to change everyone up considerably. That was really exciting because those who did survive that night have to be changed from what they experienced and what was revealed to them. That was a great opportunity in the writers room to really be able to advance characters because of their trauma in a way that we wouldn't necessarily have the motivation to. So... am I answering the question? [Laughs]"

'Hannibal' returns to NBC tonight June 4.