Mike Flanagan is taking his talents to Amazon Prime Video after inking an overall deal with the studio on the same day Netflix cancelled his series “The Midnight Club”…
Mike Flanagan, Trevor Macy and their company Intrepid Pictures have inked an overall development deal with Amazon Studios following the conclusion of their most recent contract with Netflix.
The production company best known for series such as “The Haunting of Hill House,” “The Haunting of Bly Manor” and “Midnight Mass,” had become synonymous with the previous partnership with Netflix after the studio got behind what they called the “Flanaverse.”
Now those ties have been severed after Flanagan and company started shopping around for a new deal and ultimately landed with Amazon Studios.
“Amazon is a studio that we have long admired,” Flanagan and Macy said in a joint statement. “Their commitment to engaging in groundbreaking series and content aligns with the ethos of what we have built at Intrepid. We are looking forward to working with the entire Amazon team as we bring our brand of genre productions to the service and audiences around the globe.”
Flanagan has become one of the most important voices in horror with his numerous series as well as past films such as “Hush” and “Doctor Sleep” — an adaptation of the Stephen King novel that served as a direct sequel to “The Shining.”
On the same day that Flanagan and his production company announced the deal, Netflix opted to cancel his latest series “The Midnight Club” after only one season on the streaming service.
Based on teen-horror books by Christopher Pike, “The Midnight Club” centered around a group of terminally ill children who gathered together every night to terrify each other with scary stories while something supernatural was seemingly happening all around them. The first season of the show ended on a cliffhanger with Flanagan previously teasing that he definitely planned for future seasons but now that won’t happen.
While Flanagan and his production company are moving to Amazon, there will still be one last series headed to Netflix with his adaptation of “The Fall of the House of Usher,” which is based upon the short story of the same name from Edgar Allen Poe.
