There’s going to be “a tonne of wonderful surprises.”
The Haunting of Hill House creator Mike Flanagan has told how it had been “a real joy” working on the second season of the Netflix anthology series.
The Haunting of Hill House premiered on Netflix last year, before a second season – The Haunting of Bly Manor – was confirmed in early 2019.
The second season of the show will be inspired mostly by Henry James’ The Turn of The Screw – although, as Flanagan told DigitalSpy, it won’t be solely limited to that story.
“Well, you know, the most exciting thing about Bly Manor, for me, is in the way that we got to expand on the Shirley Jackson universe in season one,” he said, ahead of the launch of his upcoming movie Doctor Sleep.
“While season two is inspired mostly by The Turn of the Screw, which has been adapted so many times, we also were able to mine the rest of Henry James’s ghost stories to fill out the season.”
And while he didn’t give too much else away, Flanagan promised there would be “a tonne of wonderful surprises” in season two, coming from some of James’ stories that haven’t been adapted before.
“But they all thematically fit together really nicely,” he added.
“So it’s been a real joy crafting the narrative of this season. And I think if people liked season one, there’s going to be a lot more to like in the second season.”
