Is a Third Season of 'The Haunting' Anthology Series on the Way?
Netflix has just dropped The Haunting of Bly Manor, the follow-up to The Haunting of Hill House. Featuring much of the same cast, the horror anthology's second season is based on Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. But will The Haunting be back for a third season?
The streaming platform has yet to officially renew the series, but here's everything we know so far of a potential third season.
Season 2 might provide some clues about Season 3.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the show's creator, Make Flanagan, opened up about the connections between The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor.
"There's not a narrative connection, but there are little Easter eggs, for sure, not only in small details but in moments of dialogue and in some of the ideas from Hill House," Flanagan explained. "There are definitely going to be things that will set off that little dopamine rush that those kind of connections create. But it's not a direct connection from a story point of view."
As the second season of the anthology series refers to the first, and also features some of the same cast members, it's easy to assume that a third season would continue both traditions.
Season 3 would be another "literary remix."
Flanagan's producing partner, Trevor Macy, told Vanity Fair of The Haunting of Bly Manor, "The process is the same, in that it's a literary remix," he shared. "You want to update the story, you want to find whatever fertile ground for elevating the character that you can in the source material, but we obviously took some liberties in updating it with a more modern setting."
It seems likely that a third season would take the same approach in adapting a classic horror novel, but telling the story in an original way.
The series is about "haunted spaces and haunted people."
Flanagan told Vanity Fair, "At its foundation, the Haunting series is very much about haunted spaces and haunted people. The way we make those things dance together is really going to be what's uniform about Hill House and Bly."
If Netflix does give The Haunting Season 3 the green light, you can probably bet that its episodes will focus on a new creepy mystery and the damaged characters tangled up in it.
Watch this space for news about The Haunting Season 3.
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