The Haunting Of Hill House: season 1 stars could return for anthology series

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The Haunting Of Hill House could apparently morph into an anthology series, one of its stars has revealed, with cast members returning to play all-new characters in a different story.

Carla Gugino, who played Olivia Crain in the show’s first season, revealed this intriguing snippet of information in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.

Here’s what she said:

“[Creator] Mike Flanagan said he would be interested in the notion of an anthology, where some actors come back to play different characters. I think he feels like he has told the complete story of the Crain family. But if I was invited and I was able to, I would really love to, just because I do love to collaborate with him.”

Flanagan himself previously said this to Entertainment Weekly, sharing similar sentiments:

“I don’t want to speculate too much about season two until Netflix and Paramount and Amblin let us know if they want one. What I will say, though, is that as far as I’ve ever been concerned with this, the story of the Crain family is told. It’s done. I think that there are all sorts of different directions we could go in, with the house or with something completely different. I love the idea of an anthology as well. But to me, I felt like the Crains have been through enough, and we left them exactly as we all wanted to remember them, those of us who worked on it. We toyed with a cliffhanger ending and we toyed with other ideas, but ultimately, in the writers’ room and with the cast and everything else, we really felt like the story demanded a certain kind of closure from us and we were happy to close the book on that family.”

Nothing seems to be official yet, regarding the show’s second season, but we’ll be sure to keep you posted as we hear more.