Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy are packing their bags at Netflix. The duo behind series like The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manner, midnight fairand last The Midnight Club are leaving the streamer for Amazon Studios, where they recently signed a new deal.
As part of the new exclusive, multi-year agreement, the filmmaker couple will create new television projects for the streamer under their Intrepid Pictures label meeting. In a joint statement, Flanagan and Macy said they had “long admired” Amazon Studios.
“Their commitment to groundbreaking series and content is consistent with the ethos of what we have built at Intrepid. We look forward to working with the entire Amazon team as we bring our brand of genre productions to the service and to audiences around the world,” he said, per Deadline.
Celebrating the deal, Vernon Sanders, head of global television at Amazon Studies, said the pair were “remarkable at telling immersive, compelling stories that masterfully engage audiences from start to finish.”
Sanders added, “We are excited to welcome her to Amazon Studios and look forward to our global customers experiencing her cross-genre creativity.”
Flanagan and Macy’s television deal with Netflix was announced in 2019, which Netflix said made “their prolific seven-year partnership” in a official press release.
Despite their Amazon deal, the two still have a few upcoming projects on their list at Netflix, with one, The Fall of the House of Usher, now in post-production. The limited series is based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe and is set to premiere in 2023.
Per The Hollywood ReporterThe show will star Flanagan and Macy’s frequent collaborators Zach Gilford, Rahul Kohli and Samantha Sloyan, along with Mark Hamill, Bruce Greenwood and Carla Gugino.
The second is an adaptation by Christopher Pikes (The Midnight Club Author) The transition period announced in April 2021 and acquired by Universal, meeting reports.
