The Midnight Club has informed its ultimate story. The supernatural thriller has been cancelled at Netflix, mere hours after it was reported that sequence co-creator Mike Flanagan, together with Trevor Macy, has signed a manufacturing deal — through their Intrepid Pictures — with Amazon Studios.
The Wrap was first to report the information.
Based on Christopher Pike’s 1994 novel — and co-created by The Haunting of Bly Manor vets Flanagan and Leah Fong — The Midnight Club premiered Oct. 7 and adopted eight ailing youngsters who reside at Brightcliffe Hospice, described within the present as “a place for terminal teenagers to transition on their own terms.” But upon arriving at Brightcliffe and assembly her sick friends, thyroid most cancers affected person Ilonka is welcomed into the titular membership, which meets at midnight to inform sinister tales and search for indicators of the supernatural.
Flanagan mentioned at an October press occasion, “We most likely gained’t know for an additional month or so what Netflix desires to do, however [The Midnight Club] was very a lot designed to proceed.
“Pike has 80 books, so we have a lot of incredible material to pull from,” he defined. (*2*)
Some of the sequence’ most gaping mysteries included the key behind Dr. Stanton’s situation (is she terminal, herself?) and doable (possible?) connection to the Paragon cult; what’s actually occurring with Shasta (aka Julia Jayne); and why the constructing’s authentic homeowners — Stanley and Vera Freelan — are seemingly haunting the hallways of Brightcliffe.
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