A sequel season to Netflix‘s The Haunting of Hill House is still up in the air but director Mike Flanagan (Gerald’s Game) has said that if it does happen, the sequel’s not going to be about the Crain family.
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Flanagan told Entertainment Weekly that there’s yet to be any official word from Netflix, Paramount, or Amblin on a potential sequel season so it’s still incredibly early days.
But, the director does have a couple of ideas if the sequel season gets the go ahead:
“As far as I’m concerned with this, the story of the Crain family is told. It’s done. I think that there are all sorts of different directions we could go in, with the house or with something completely different.
“I felt like the Crains have been through enough, and we left them exactly as we all wanted to remember them, those of us who worked on it… We really felt like the story demanded a certain kind of closure from us and we were happy to close the book on that family.”
Fair enough.
Cast your minds back to the final episode of the season and the remaining Crains are gathered together, seemingly at peace with themselves and with each other.
Hill House is based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Shirley Jackson. The series, set in modern times, introduces us to the beautiful Crain family. They appear to have it all and when we first meet them, they’re just moving into the house – Hill House with the intention of flipping it, making some cash, and moving on to their “forever home”.
The series switches between “then” and “now” and shows the gradual disintegration of the family as the horrors of Hill House reveals itself.
Michiel Huisman (Game of Thrones) stars as the eldest Crain sibling Steven, an author of horror series; Elizabeth Reaser (Twilight) plays second eldest Shirley, a mortician; Kate Siegel as Theodora, the middle child; and the twins Oliver Jackson-Cohen as Luke and Victoria Pedretti as Eleanor ‘Nellie’ Crain.
Carla Gugino stars as architect and the children’s mother Olivia while Timothy Hutton plays her on-screen husband and builder Hugh.
The Haunting of Hill House is available on Netflix, now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9OzG53VwIk&t=1s
Ghosts, random ghosts also appear throughout the series… just in the corner of a frame which is just peachy.
