One of the book’s early fans was Flanagan, but back then the eventual force behind the Netflix hits The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and Midnight Mass was just another of Pike’s voracious teen readers. They also make a shared promise: If/when any of them die, they will return in some way to prove there is life beyond the one being cut short. In 1994, Pike first published the book about a group of terminally ill teenagers in hospice care who gather every night to exchange frightening stories.

His new Netflix series, based on a book by YA novelist Christopher Pike, will debut on October 7, but Flanagan’s original attempt to create was a long, strange odyssey itself, stretching all the way back to the early ’90s and involving a supposedly reclusive author and a sorrowful backstory that few have ever heard. “We were going to use it as a vehicle for Ilonka to try to come to terms with the fact that she is going to die, and to begin to trying to wrap her head around being a ghost,” he wrote, adding that the main character would have been played by Anya, who died in Season 1, to enforce the idea that “even if a character dies, as long as they’re remembered by members of the club, they live on in their stories.”Īnd that is the narrative that the series would have ended on - with Cheri telling the stories of the original cast, a story called The Midnight Club, to a new table of patients.“This is not the first time that I tried to adapt The Midnight Club,” Mike Flanagan says. The story, which Flanagan called “one of my all-time favorite Pike books,” tells the story of a teenage ghost who is trying to solve her own murder after being pushed off a balcony. There would also have been a new patient to join Brightcliffe Hospice, and Spence would have benefitted from medical advancements regarding HIV treatment to no longer be considered terminal.įlanagan also revealed that one of the stories told in the next installment would have been Christopher Pike’s Remember Me. ‘The Midnight Club’ Canceled By Netflix After One Seasonīy the end of Season 2, Amesh, Natsuki, Kevin and Ilonka would die.

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