Hannibal closed out season 2 in a pool of blood, but those that manage to patch themselves up after Dr. Lecter's brutal attack will be thrust into an even darker third season.

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Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne) will be one of these lucky "Mizumono" survivors. Although Laurence is set to star in ABC's black-ish, the man behind the FBI agent will also make room in his schedule for a bit of cannibal hunting.

"It won't be a thing where I have to travel that much. I'll do the 'Black-ish' work at the beginning of the season in August/September, and then I think the 'Hannibal' season begins at some time in October, and I'll just go and do that," Fishburne told Zap2It.

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Fishburne has yet to see any scripts for the third season, but the actor knows the general direction in which the NBC physiological thriller is heading.

"It will be very different, and it will be very dark," Fishburne explained. "I just know that [series creator] Bryan [Fuller] is working on something, and he's got some ideas. Generally speaking, I trust him to do something and to come up with something really interesting,"

Find out more when Hannibal returns to NBC in 2015. Click the video below to see Jack's last bloody fight with the good doctor.

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