Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor showrunner Mike Flanagan has weighed in on the series' potential third season.
Flanagan spoke about the idea of continuing his supernatural horror anthology show while discussing his latest Netflix horror series, Midnight Mass, with Entertainment Weekly. The first season of the show, Hill House, loosely adapted Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel of the same name, similar to how the second season, Bly Manor, re-imagined Henry James' 1989 novella The Turn of the Screw.
"One of the things that defines the Haunting anthology for me is that both of them so far are about updating and riffing on existing classic literature," said Flanagan. "Midnight Mass was always so original and important and personal, it just never felt like it was ever going to be a part of that universe."
Hill House and Bly Manor feature many of the same cast members, including Kate Siegel, Victoria Pedretti, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Henry Thomas and Carla Gugino. While The Haunting's first two seasons are not connected in terms of their stories and characters, nor do they seem to exist as part of a shared universe, Flanagan noted they both revolve around the same question: "What is a ghost?"
"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. "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."
Midnight Mass also features several actors who appeared in either Hill House and/or Bly Manor, including Siegel and Thomas, as well as Rahul Kohli, Annabeth Gish, Samantha Sloyan and more. "[Midnight Mass] always clearly existed in its own world. I think it's fun for us to bring back people we like to collaborate with, but those collaborations predate and will continue to exist long after Haunting," Flanagan added.
The first two seasons of The Haunting anthology series are streaming on Netflix. Midnight Mass will join them on the platform later this month, starting on Sept. 24.
Source: Entertainment Weekly
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