Image via Netflix Flanagan never shot a cut-away or a reverse shot of Steven's face. "This basically set the tone of how we’d tell ghost stories throughout the show….a great ghost story is an immersive monologue.” “Saidah had to basically deliver a ghost story," Flanagan says. Walker ( Saidah Arrika Ekulona) tells Steven the story of her dead husband's ghost is extended on the Blu-ray. The first actor cast in the show was Michiel Huisman to play Steven Crain.“She looked like an evil Smurf," Flanagan notes. The Bent-Neck Lady in that moment is actually Victoria Pedretti, painted dark, dark blue.The first moment where the Bent-Neck Lady leans over young Nell Crain ( Violet McGraw) was part of Flanagan’s initial pitch to Amblin and Paramount.Flanagan on one of a few frustrations with horror: “One of the things that bugs me about the genre is you meet these characters and you don’t see what their life is like before the supernatural elements came into play.”.
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Flanagan fought for the longer take, because "the bed scene was setting a table for an aesthetic choice throughout the series to let things play out in one shot.".The scene in the pilot where Hugh Crain (Henry Thomas) gets back into bed with Olivia (Carla Gugino)was “drastically truncated for what aired.” In the extended edition, the have a sweet, lengthy discussion about parenthood and their children.Shirley Crain is named for the author, Shirley Jackson, while Steven Crain is for Steven Spielberg, “whose love for this material is one of the reasons I was brought in at all," Flanagan says.What if we started there? What if we saw the escape in the pilot and the meat of the show was about the aftermath? Even decades later, what being a child in a haunted house could to to a person, or to a family?” “We see what happens when a family lives in a haunted house, which is always building up to their escape. He found his way in when he decided to "remix" the material into a story that focused first on family.I loved the titled, I loved the book, but I had no idea how you could stretch it out to ten hours.” Image via Netflix Flanagan's first reaction to the project during a general meeting with Amblin was that the source material already fit perfectly into a feature film format with Robert Wise's The Haunting.
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