Mike Flanagan’s Edgar Allan Poe Netflix Show Adds Mark Hamill and More

Netflix’s grasp of horror is teaming again up with a number of of his regulars—and Luke Skywalker, too. Mike Flanagan, govt producer-writer-director on Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and Midnight Mass, is on the point of shoot his newest horror present for Netflix: The Fall of the House of Usher, based mostly on the work by Edgar Allan Poe. And at this time Flanagan introduced the primary members of his forged: Frank Langella, Carla Gugino, Mary McDonnell, Carl Lumbly, and Mark Hamill.

“This miniseries is a modern remix of some of the most iconic works of Edgar Allan Poe,” Flanagan stated on Twitter. “To tell this epic tale of greed, horror, and tragedy, we have assembled the largest ensemble cast in the history of Intrepid Pictures [the company Flanagan runs with his partner, Trevor Macy].”

Langella, a Tony–profitable legend who infamously performed Skeletor within the Masters of the Universe film, is Roderick Usher, “the towering patriarch of the Usher dynasty.” Gugino, a Flanagan common additionally identified for her work in Watchmen, is enjoying a job Flanagan describes as “front and center,” so probably the unnamed narrator. Mary McDonnell, of Independence Day and Battlestar Galactica fame, will play Roderick’s twin sister Madeline Usher. Carl Lumbly, lately seen on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, is C. Auguste Dupin, considered one of Poe’s well-known investigator characters, and Hamill, finest identified for some sequence referred to as… Star Wars?… is enjoying “a character surprisingly at home in the shadows.”

Plus, that is simply the primary wave of the “largest ensemble cast” in Flanagan’s historical past, with extra names coming quickly. The director tweeted “We have MANY more names to share, and will unveil the next wave tomorrow, right here at 10am PST. Some familiar faces, some new ones, all incredible performers coming together to bring the world of Poe to life as it’s never been seen before. Cannot wait to tell you more!” As for extra methods Usher could be totally different from Flanagan’s different in style Netflix reveals (together with the upcoming Midnight Club), he lately stated the next: “It is an explosion… it’s rock and roll, over the top and just violent and insane and horrific.” And with this forged? We can’t wait.

There’s no launch date but for The Fall of the House of Usher however fall or winter 2022 looks as if an honest guess.

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