Christopher Pike‘s 1994 novel The Midnight Club is becoming a Netflix series, Variety reports tonight, with Mike Flanagan (“Haunting of Hill House,” Doctor Sleep) as co-creator!
Flanagan will adapt the book alongside Leah Fong (“Once Upon a Time”), and Flanagan will also executive produce via Intrepid Pictures along with Intrepid’s Trevor Macy.
Fong will executive produce as well, along with Julia Bicknell. Attached writers at this time include Elan Gale, James Flanagan, and Chinaka Hodge.
The book “takes place at Rotterdam Home, a hospice for terminally ill teenagers. A group of patients begin to gather together at midnight to share scary stories. They eventually make a pact that whichever of them dies first will contact the others from beyond the grave.”
Variety notes, “Sources say that the series would also incorporate other Pike works.”
Mike Flanagan tweeted tonight, “I began brainstorming an adaptation of The Midnight Club as a teenager, so this is a dream come true. It’s an honor to introduce a new generation of young horror fans to the world of Christopher Pike.” Flanagan is also currently working on both “The Haunting of Bly Manor” and brand new series “Midnight Mass” for Netflix.
