TV legend Bryan Fuller, known for his cult classic television series like “Pushing Daisies” and “Hannibal,” just earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Feature, for his film “Dust Bunny.” It’s somehow a surprise that the well-known TV creator just directed his first film, after spending almost three decades working in television, on series like “Dead Like Me” and “American Gods.” Now, he turns to the world of indie film, reuniting with actor Mads Mikkelsen, his Hannibal Lecter, on the dark fairy tale “Dust Bunny.”

Fuller has a thing for idioms, exploring these tropes to their most extreme ends (e.g., “pushing daisies”), and so in “Dust Bunny,” he imagines what those bits of fluff could be if our nightmares came to life. He also posits an outlandish notion: what if a

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