Mike Flanagan Teases Undiscovered Easter Egg in Fashionable Netflix Sequence

Author/director Mike Flanagan is thought for a number of the most acclaimed horror sequence in current reminiscence, and whereas followers are normally good about recognizing all of the Easter eggs littered all through his creations, he says there’s one which has but to be found. Flanagan acquired his begin in characteristic movies with 2011’s Absentia, and from there he would go on to direct just a few extra well-received horror films earlier than diving into the works of Stephen King with 2017’s Gerald’s Sport for Netflix. The 46-year-old filMMAker continued his relationship with the streamer following the success of the movie, creating quite a lot of sequence primarily based on basic literary works reminiscent of The Haunting of Hill Home, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and The Fall of the Home of Usher.

As per TV Line, Flanagan just lately made an look on the ‘E-book to Script to Display’ panel on the ATX TV ComPetition in Austin, Texas, and spoke in regards to the many articles on the web that break down all of the Easter eggs that may be discovered in his numerous streaming choices. Whereas he says that these items are normally fairly good, there’s nonetheless one egg in The Fall of the Home of Usher that eagle-eyed followers have but to find. Take a look at his feedback beneath.

“There’s something we put in that sometime, I would like somebody to organically see it.
There’s a second in Usher that nobody’s ever [noticed]
. And folks put these articles the place they had been breaking down all of the Edgar Allan Poe references which had been actually, there was one or two in there that I used to be like, ‘Oh, actually? Yeah, completely. We labored actually arduous on that.’
There’s one particularly that none of these articles caught
.”

There have been as many as 14 or extra Easter eggs that followers have managed to identify in The Fall of the Home of Usher to this point, however Flanagan isn’t giving up what has but to be discovered. He says that “sometime” it’s certain to be noticed, however he doesn’t wish to spoil the enjoyable.

Mike Flanagan’s Submit-Netflix Period is in Full Swing

Following the success of his first two characteristic movies, Absentia (2011), and Oculus (2013), Mike Flanagan started a fruitful partnership with Netflix, releasing Hush, and Earlier than I Wake on the streaming platform in 2016. He would comply with these up with Gerald’s Sport in 2017, and the TV sequence The Haunting of Hill Home in 2018. Its unbelievable reception was sufficient to earn Flanagan and his producing associate, Trevor Macy, a multi-year take care of Netflix for quite a lot of TV exhibits, which formally concluded with the discharge of The Fall of the Home of Usher in 2023.

Now, Flanagan and Macy have entered into a brand new take care of Prime Video which can see them proceed to develop quite a lot of tasks for Amazon, and whereas their first outing has but to be formally introduced, Flanagan has been tapped to direct the following adaptation of Stephen King’s The Darkish Tower, a sequence that previously he has known as his “dream mission.” There’s no phrase on if/when the sequence would possibly debut on Prime Video, as it’s nonetheless within the early phases of improvement.

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Nonetheless, Flanagan is as busy as ever, and is at the moment in post-production on his subsequent movie, which is an adaptation of the Stephen King story, The Lifetime of Chuck. The author/director has additionally signed on to create the following movie in The Exorcist franchise for Blumhouse, following the departure of director David Gordon Inexperienced after the catastrophe that was The Exorcist: Believer. Flanagan’s ‘radical new take’ on the sequence will probably be an all-new story, and never a sequel to the 2023 movie.