In the wake of the success of his two “The Haunting” series and “Midnight Mass,” beloved modern horror filmmaking icon Mike Flanagan has officially set up his fifth Netflix event series – and it’s a doozy.
Flanagan and his Intrepid Pictures label will adapt multiple works of Edgar Allan Poe within the framework of a new event series adaptation of Poe’s famed short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” for the streamer.
Flanagan created the series and serves as an executive producer alongside Trevor Macy with Netflix ordering eight episodes. Flanagan will also direct four episodes of the series with Michael Fimognari handling the other four.
Fimognari and Emmy Grinwis will also executive produce the work which, like “Midnight Mass,” will be standalone and unlinked to the other works.
Both “The Haunting of Hill House” and “The Haunting of Bly Manor” similarly used elements of multiple works of authors Shirley Jackson and Henry James respectively within adaptations of their novels “The Haunting of Hill House” and “The Turn of the Screw”.
“Midnight Mass” was an original work, though payed homage to Stephen King’s “Salem’s Lot” and “Revival”. Flanagan previously adapted King’s “Gerald’s Game” and “Doctor Sleep” into films.
What other Poe works might be incorporated into the series here is unclear, but there’s no shortage of famed tales from “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Pit and the Pendulum” to “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Telltale Heart”.
Flanagan recently completed production on his fourth Netflix series “The Midnight Club” based on the Christopher Pike young adult novel.
Source: Variety
