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Mike Flanagan, creator of Midnight Mass and The Haunting of Hill House, says he wants to make a horror movie set in the Star Wars universe.
According to Midnight Mass creator Mike Flanagan, Star Wars needs a horror movie.
“Got woken up by the earthquake this morning, sat there for a few minutes just thinking, ‘I’d really love to make a horror movie in the Star Wars universe…,'” Flanagan wrote on Twitter.
Got woken up by the earthquake this morning, sat there for a few minutes just thinking “I’d really love to make a horror movie in the STAR WARS universe…”
— Mike Flanagan (@flanaganfilm) October 24, 2021
A modern master of horror, Flanagan’s most recent horror series Midnight Mass premiered on Netflix in September. He is also the mind behind Netflix shows like The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor, as well as the films Doctor Sleep, Hush, Gerald’s Game and Oculus. Rahul Kohli, who also starred in Midnight Mass and Bly Manor, responded to Flanagan’s tweet saying, “You’ve been reading my diary,” along with a drawing of a zombified Storm Trooper.
While Flanagan did not elaborate further on what a Star Wars horror film would entail, he would not be the first tell a horror story set in this universe. Joe Schreiber published his horror novel Death Troopers in 2009, which tells the story of a group of survivors boarding an abandoned Star Destroyer in the middle of space — but, as with most scary stories, the spaceship isn’t as abandoned as it seems. Schreiber published a sequel to the novel, Red Harvest, in 2010.
While Flanagan might not be telling any scary stories about a galaxy far, far away any time soon, he is already developing another horror series for Netflix. Flanagan will executive produce and direct four episodes of a limited series titled The Fall of the House of Usher, named for the 1839 Edgar Allen Poe short story of the same name. The original Gothic horror story follows an unnamed narrator traveling to help their friend, Roderick Usher, at his crumbling estate in the countryside, only to uncover the dark and disturbing secrets hiding within its walls.
Similar to Flanagan’s The Haunting of Bly Manor, which adapts several short stories by Henry James, The Fall of the House of Usher will adapt multiple of Poe’s works, starting with the titular one. Like Midnight Mass, House of Usher will be a standalone series, not a third installment in Flanagan’s Haunting anthology.
“If the stars align in such a way that we decide to go back into the Haunting world, it would have to be so much on that track that we’ve set up,” said Flanagan in a previous interview regarding a potential Haunting Season 3. “It would have to be with the right piece of IP, it would have to be with the right ghost-centric story, and it would have to really fit with Bly [Manor] and Hill House.”
Flanagan’s horror series, including Midnight Mass, are now streaming on Netflix.
Source: Twitter
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