Fresh off “Midnight Mass,” Netflix has announced today the first casting for the Mike Flanagan-directed “The Fall of the House of Usher,” a new series based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe!
The limited series from Intrepid Pictures is “based on multiple works from Poe,” and will be headlined by Dracula, Masters of the Universe and The Box‘s Frank Langella, with Carla Gugino (“Gerald’s Game, “The Haunting of Hill House”), Mary McDonnell, Carl Lumbly (Doctor Sleep), and the great Mark Hamill, as well as a huge ensemble cast with additional notes from Flanagan below:
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“Headlining this incredible ensemble, leading this extraordinary cast as Roderick Usher, the towering patriarch of the Usher dynasty… is the legendary FRANK LANGELLA
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Also front and center, reuniting with Intrepid for our fourth project together, my dear friend and invaluable collaborator, the one and only… CARLA GUGINO.
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As Madeline Usher, Roderick’s twin sister and the hidden hand of the Usher dynasty, we are thrilled to welcome the graceful, powerful, incomparable… MARY MCDONNELL.
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As Poe’s legendary investigator C. Auguste Dupin, we are so honored to welcome back one of my favorite past collaborators, the extraordinary… CARL LUMBLY.
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And a new addition to the dark worlds of Intrepid and of Edgar Allan Poe, playing a character surprisingly at home in the shadows, we are thrilled to welcome… the iconic MARK HAMILL.”
8 episodes have been ordered. Flanagan and Michael Fimognari will each direct four episodes.
“The Fall of the House of Usher” marks the fifth series for Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy at Netflix under their Intrepid Pictures overall deal, including: the fan-beloved “The Haunting of” series – “The Haunting of Hill House” and “The Haunting of Bly Manor”; the recently launched and critically-lauded “Midnight Mass,” and the upcoming “The Midnight Club.”
Executive producers include Flanagan, Trevor Macy, Emmy Grinwis and Michael Fimognari.
Carla Gugino in Netflix’s Gerald’s Game