{"id":66893,"date":"2020-09-02T19:16:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T19:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/mike-flanagan-haunting-of-bly-manor\/"},"modified":"2020-09-02T19:16:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T19:16:37","slug":"mike-flanagan-reveals-lesson-he-learned-for-the-haunting-of-bly-manor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/09\/02\/mike-flanagan-reveals-lesson-he-learned-for-the-haunting-of-bly-manor\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Flanagan Reveals Lesson He Learned For The Haunting of Bly Manor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In October 2018, Netflix<\/strong><\/a> debuted Mike Flanagan’s\u00a0The Haunting of Hill House <\/em>to critical acclaim and renewed the show as an anthology series early the following year. The follow-up series, titled The Haunting of Bly Manor,\u00a0<\/em>will premiere on Netflix in October 2020 and Flanagan hinted at what to expect from the show during a virtual panel for Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

Based on\u00a0Shirley Jackson’s gothic horror novel of the same name,\u00a0Flanagan’s adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House\u00a0<\/em>followed the lives of the five Crain family siblings and the paranormal experiences they share. The series alternated between flashbacks depicting their childhood at Hill House and a present-day story exploring how the fateful night their family fled the mansion that continues to haunt them\u00a0as adults.\u00a0While multiple cast and crew members from\u00a0The Haunting of Hill House\u00a0<\/em>will return for\u00a0The Haunting of Bly Manor,\u00a0<\/em>the Netflix series<\/a> will not be connected to the narrative of its predecessor and is instead inspired by the horror novella The Turn of the Screw <\/em>by\u00a0Henry James.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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While James’ novella has already been adapted for the screen multiple times, most recently as a 2020 feature film titled\u00a0The Turning\u00a0<\/i>by director Floria Sigismondi, Flanagan explained that his version of the story expands on the source material. “It\u2019s not about doing a straight adaptation anymore \u2013 that\u2019s already been done. […]\u00a0We\u2019d cover two episodes, and then we\u2019d have eight episodes of filler. I need to make a 10-hour version of this,” Flanagan explained during the online conversation with fellow filmmaker\u00a0Mick Garris. As with The Haunting of Hill House<\/em>, Flanagan will combine elements of the source material with his own original ideas. “That way, I can hopefully honor the source material but do it in a way that\u2019s constantly surprising. And what I learned with\u00a0Hill House<\/em>\u00a0was that [the show] takes on a life of its own rather quickly,” he added.<\/p>\n