“Doctor Sleep” filmmaker Mike Flanagan has debunked a rumor claiming his upcoming series “The Fall of the House of Usher,” which wrapped filming in July, has been shelved by Netflix.
Flanagan dismissed the report in a tweet as “nonsense” and says the series is “right on schedule, we’re just finishing delivering it, and it will air on Netflix later this year as planned”. He added a date will be announced soon.
Flanagan has worked many times with Netflix following his directing the films “Hush” and “Gerald’s Game” for the service. He followed those up with major limited series successes together with the likes of “The Haunting of Hill House,” “The Haunting of Bly Manor” and “Midnight Mass”.
A fourth collaboration on the younger-skewing “The Midnight Club” fared less well, with ‘Usher’ marking their final project together. Flanagan has subsequently moved shop to Amazon, where he’s developing a big-scale adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower”.
Flanagan directs four episodes of the eight-episode limited series, which adapts Edgar Allen Poe’s 1839 short story as the framework for a series that will take inspiration from multiple Poe stories. It is also said to be a wilder affair – a “giant, crazy, heavy metal riff that’s just blood-soaked and wild” than past Flanagan works. He also dubs it his tribute to the Giallo genre.
Bruce Greenwood leads a packed cast that includes Mark Hamill, Carla Gugino, Mary McDonnell, Carl Lumbly, T’nia Miller, Rahul Kohli, Kate Siegel, Henry Thomas, Samantha Sloyan, Sauriyan Sapkota, Zach Gilford, Katie Parker, Michael Trucco, Malcolm Goodwin, Crystal Balint, Kyliegh Curran, Paola Núñez, Aya Furukawa, Matt Biedel, Daniel Jun, Ruth Codd, Robert Longstreet and Annabeth Gish.
