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I love the thought of hirsute Dutch beauty Michiel Huisman being our latest Scream Queen, don't you? Last year the
Game of Thrones hunk starred in Karyn Kusama's fantabulous film
The Invitation (which gave me
many a tossing turning night) and
his chest co-starred opposite Blake Lively (which is its own sort of nightmare) and now he's signed up to lead the cast of the new
House on Haunted Hill adaptation that Netflix is putting on.
We already told you about this project
back in April when it was announced but let us now recap --
Shirley Jackson's classic book (about a group of psychically sensitive folks camping out in a thought haunted manse) is being turned into a ten-hour series for the streamer by director Mike Flanagan. Flanagan previously made the
Ouija sequel, which was
totally shockingly decent, and before this series is out he'll have released his film version of Stephen King's marvelously scary book
Gerald's Game with the
ace perfect casting of Carla Gugino in its lead.
Michiel is the first cast-member that's been announced - I believe he's playing the role that Russ Tamblyn played in
the great 1963 film and that Owen Wilson played in
the 1999 abortion, although they've changed the character's name. (I mean just look at the color schemes in those two pictures above to judge which movie worked and which one didn't.) The character is the remaining heir of the house who is behind bringing everybody in to see just how haunted it is. And I guess we'll have to wait and see if they knock his head off in the fireplace this time or not...
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