As he continues to work on quite a lot of different tasks for the streamer, The Haunting creator Mike Flanagan addresses the Netflix horror anthology present’s potential return. Flanagan first launched the franchise with 2018’s The Haunting of Hill Home, a reimagining of Shirley Jackson’s novel of the identical identify, with Flanagan’s sequence centered on the Crane household as they grapple with a loss within the household, in addition to their haunted previous. He would observe it up with 2020’s The Haunting of Bly Manor, based totally on Henry James’ The Flip of the Screw a few younger American au pair who’s employed to care for 2 kids on the titular haunted mansion.
Each The Haunting installments have scored widespread acclaim from critics, with reward directed in direction of each exhibits’ writing, route, ambiance and performances from its ensemble casts. Although The Haunting of Bly Manor was seen by some as a slight step down, because of its lack of scares compared to Hill Home, the present’s continued success left many eager for a 3rd installment within the horror anthology sequence, one thing that has but to return as Flanagan has gone on to concentrate on different tasks. Now, the artistic behind The Haunting is sharing his ideas on the place it might go subsequent.
Whereas showing at a current press occasion for The Midnight Membership, by way of TVLine, Mike Flanagan opened up in regards to the potential way forward for The Haunting franchise. The creator/director admitted that he hadn’t considered the sequence shortly, as he is directed his focus to different tasks, however notes the horror anthology’s return is not fully off the desk. See what Flanagan shared beneath:
That is the primary time that’s ever crossed my thoughts! Our factor with the Haunting is that we at all times needed it to be based totally on a bit of basic horror literature, and ideally one thing that has been tailored earlier than that we are able to do one thing totally different with. After we consider the Haunting, we take into consideration authors like [Edgar Allan] Poe and [Charles] Dickens, contemporaries which might be extra within the Henry James, Shirley Jackson world. The opposite standards with it’s that it has to primarily be about ghosts. That query got here up with The Fall of the Home of Usher as a result of that was based mostly on Poe. It’s simply not a ghost story, and so, there’s no haunting there. [The Midnight Club] was at all times its personal factor. What makes The Haunting The Haunting, and if and the way we might re-approach it’s one thing we speak about fairly steadily as a result of we’ve at all times left that door open. [But] we don’t need to do it simply to do it.
Mike Flanagan’s Profitable Netflix Partnership Defined
Flanagan and Netflix have loved a really profitable partnership even previous to The Haunting of Hill Home‘s premiere, with the streaming platform having acquired his residence invasion thriller Hush simply previous to its South by Southwest premiere, with the movie happening to attain widespread acclaim. The horror style vet would reunite with Netflix the next yr with an adaptation of Stephen King’s Gerald’s Sport, which equally scored largely favorable critiques, earlier than happening to launch The Haunting franchise and writing and directing his acclaimed miniseries Midnight Mass. Flanagan’s ongoing relationship with Netflix even led to him and Intrepid Photos accomplice Trevor Macy inking a first-look cope with the streamer.
Although Flanagan’s feedback appear to level in direction of his having moved on from the franchise, his word that there are nonetheless frequent discussions about extra of The Haunting is bound to return as a hopeful one for followers of the Netflix horror anthology. As he notes above, there have been some ideas about his upcoming miniseries, The Fall of the Home of Usher, being set inside the anthology, although his emotions on not eager to power it speaks volumes to his take care of each properties. Whereas audiences await particulars on The Haunting‘s potential return, they’ll head to Netflix to meet up with Flanagan’s newest horror sequence The Midnight Membership, for which he additionally hopes will get a season 2 renewal.
Supply: TVLine
