Celebrated filmmaker Mike Flanagan has confirmed that filming has just wrapped on his “The Fall of the House of Usher” event series for Netflix and something of an end of an era for Flanagan.
Flanagan has worked many times with Netflix following his movies “Hush,” “Before I Wake” and the Stephen King adaptation “Gerald’s Game”. He then created the Atlanta-shot event series “The Haunting of Hill House” for the streamer which became a major critical and commercial success.
From there, he and his Intrepid Pictures banner setup shop in Vancouver as part of a major Netflix overall deal. Over the past three years they’ve pumped out four more TV series for Netflix starring many of his regulars including Rahul Kohli, Henry Thomas, Kate Siegel, Carla Gugino, Annabeth Gish, T-Nia Miller, Samantha Sloyan, Zach Gilford, Carl Lumbly and more.
Two of those have aired to great success – “The Haunting of Bly Manor” and “Midnight Mass”. The third, “The Midnight Club,” is coming this October. ‘Usher’ marks the fourth, and from the sounds of it the final series to be shot in Vancouver for now. Flanagan says in a series of tweets:
“A few minutes ago we wrapped production on THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, closing a huge chapter of my life. I’ve worked in Vancouver almost nonstop since BLY MANOR in 2019. We made 4 series in 3 years, only taking a short break for the COVID lockdown in early 2020.
BLY MANOR, MIDNIGHT MASS, MIDNIGHT CLUB & HOUSE OF USHER were each profoundly challenging. Three of those shows were produced during the pandemic, amid ever-shifting safety protocols designed to keep our huge casts and crews safe.
Its been a privilege to work with some wonderful collaborators, actors, directors, storytellers, crew, family and friends for so long, over THIRTY-FOUR EPISODES of television – the most difficult and rewarding work of my life.
This isn’t closing the book entirely on the ‘Vancouver Era’ of
@intrepid, I’m sure we’ll be back, but it does feel like the end of a very specific chapter. The world has changed profoundly since BLY prep began, and so many of us went through so much together.”
“The Fall of the House of Usher” will adapt multiple works of Edgar Allan Poe into a narrative series. It’s expected to arrive on screens sometime in 2023 but no specific date has yet been set. Flanagan is next tied to an adaptation of the comic “Something Is Killing the Children”.
Source: Twitter
