Possibly the most imaginative and fantastic cinematic experience I had with any 2025 movie release, Bryan Fuller's Dust Bunny mashes up a family-friendly monster story with kinetic action sequences, but is really about the off-kilter relationship between a frightened young girl and her hitman neighbor. Everything about it feels like it's meant to be seen on the big screen, which is why it's so bananas that it's debuting nine years after Fuller and his Hannibal star Mads Mikkelsen first agreed to reteam for it.
In the film, which hits theatersw on December 12, Mikkelsen portrays a very skilled assassin with a target on his back, the kind of person who doesn't have time to save a young girl claiming the monster under her bed ate her parents. (Spoilers: it did.) It's a role that requires both physical prowess on top of emotional depth, and with enough charisma to make the guardian-damsel dynamic feel authentic. So it says something about the actor's abilities that Bryan Fuller wrote the script specifically for him.
