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Mike Flanagan is a director who has proved himself as the master of horrors countless times. With iconic and notable series likeThe Haunting of Hill Houseand movies likeDoctor Sleep,there is no doubt that any person who knows how to handle horror (other than James Wan) is Mike Flanagan.
Talking about horror franchises and upcoming projects, the director revealed that there is one iconic franchise that he’d like to revive. Talking about the classic 1984 franchise, Mike Flanagan revealed that he wants to rebootA Nightmare on Elm Streetbut no one knows who has the rights for the film!
Mike Flanagan Wants To RebootA Nightmare on Elm Street
With Johnny Depp and several other notable actors starring in the 1984 film,A Nightmare on Elm Streetbecame a cult-classic film that spawned a franchise. Adding several movies that were deemed average compared to the original.
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Mike Flanagan, having proved himself countless times, is heavily interested in rebooting the franchise from scratch. In an episode of theScript Apartpodcast, the director mentioned the one franchise that he’d like to revive but there’s just one complication. No one knows who has the rights to the 1984 film.
“One of the [franchises] on my list forever has been ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’. Boy, that would be fun. I have a whole take for it that I worked out a couple of years ago and my understanding is the rights situation for that title is so fraught, no one knows who controls it really, and no one knows who to pitch.”
With the recent release of Flanagan’sThe Fall of the House of Usher,it seems that the director may also get to work on Stephen King’s magnum opus,The Dark Tower.
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Mike Flanagan Wants To Work OnThe Dark Tower
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Back in 2017, Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey starred in the filmThe Dark Tower.Based on Stephen King’s one of the most ambitious novels yet, the film failed spectacularly. Mike Flanagan later revealed in an interview withDeadlinethat he would also like to take a hand at the novels.
“I wrote a pilot, we view it as a as a series that’s going at least five seasons. And having lived with this project as long as I have, I have an enormous amount of it worked out in my brain. But I have a pilot script I’m thrilled with and a very detailed outline for the first season and a broader outline for the subsequent seasons.”
Flanagan’s ideas reached Stephen King as he also gave approval via X (formerly Twitter). It seems that Mike Flanagan will pretty soon find himself busy bringingThe Dark Towernovels to a live-action series. Flanagan’s latest drama miniseriesThe Fall of the House of Usheris currently available to stream on Netflix.
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
