When we agreed to do The Midnight Club, the entire company was very different. As part of a lot of the changes that happened at Netflix over the last few years, we noticed in particular that the strategy with which they roll out new shows has undergone a lot of change. Of course you always want a show that you designed to be ongoing to go on. How did you both feel about the cancellation? Was it unexpected was it a response to you leaving?įLANAGAN: Oh, no, I don’t think was a response to us leaving. I think it was definitely inevitable that you’re going to look around.ĭEADLINE: Shortly after Deadline announced your new deal with Amazon Studios, word got out that your latest series at Netflix, The Midnight Club, has been canceled, prompting you, Mike, to reveal your Season 2 plans with fans on social media. It’s amazing how much has changed the whole town feels completely different since then. I don’t think we were feeling as strongly for the last year for sure, but the last couple of years really. We’ve noticed changes in our relationship with them - not all bad but we’re in a different place, and we felt earlier this year that we should look around for somebody on whose service our stuff might be a better fit.įLANAGAN: When we came to Netflix, Cindy Holland was still heading it - I think we felt a real alignment in our priorities. And, they’re exploring how they’re going to respond to that as a company. TREVOR MACY: We’ve had some success with Netflix but they’ve had quite a year. Given how much change everything’s gone through in the last few years, we were feeling like there might be a better fit for us, and we’re very much feeling like Amazon is that. So, as this year started and we knew we were coming up to the end of it, we thought it would be very prudent to stick our heads out, look around and see what else may be there for us. MIKE FLANAGAN: I think it’s safe to say that a lot has changed in the industry and Netflix in the four years since we started our deal. The two also talk about their development plans under the Amazon Studios deal, genres beyond horror they would like to expand into, current Prime Video series they admire, as well as a desire to return to features (not part of the Amazon deal) after shifting their attention to TV for the past six years.ĭEADLINE: Talk about the decision to make a change, to meet with other studios and ultimately move to Amazon Studios after years at Netflix? They address the cancellation of their most recent Netflix series, The Midnight Club, which came shortly after their new Amazon deal was announced, and tout their final Netflix show, the upcoming limited series The Fall of the House of Usher, an Edgar Allan Poe adaptation whose lead was recast with Bruce Greenwood halfway through production when original star Frank Langella was fired after a misconduct investigation. In the interview, Flanagan and Macy also speak about their tenure at Netflix that spanned a regime change as well as a reset after the streamer’s stock plunge in the spring, the decision to look for a new TV home and landing at Amazon Studios. Attempts by multiple studios to bring The Dark Tower to the screen as a film/TV adaptation over the past decade and a half have resulted in the 2017 Sony/MRC/Imagine movie starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey, followed by an Amazon/MRC pilot, written by Glen Mazzara, which didn’t go forward.įlanagan and Macy, who carved the rights to The Dark Tower out of their Netflix and Amazon Studios overall deals, are taking on the famous property having previously done two feature adaptations of King books, 2019’s Doctor Sleep and 2017 Gerald’s Game (based on the 2013 novel and the 1992 suspense tome, respectively), both directed and written/co-written by Flanagan.
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