Netflix is formally creating a Little Home On the Prairie reboot of NBC’s traditional Nineteen Seventies Western drama, which was based mostly on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s best-selling e book sequence of the identical identify.
“The reimagining will focus on Charles, his spouse Caroline and their daughters Laura and Mary as they go away Wisconsin to settle in Independence, KS. There shall be Osage characters, as the primary season is predicated on the e book Little Home on the Prairie,” reads the logline.
Who’s concerned within the Little Home On the Prairie reboot?
The Little Home On the Prairie reboot shall be govt produced by showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine (The Boys, Vampire Diaries), whose love for the unique e book sequence impressed her to turn into a author and a filmmaker. The undertaking will even be govt produced by Pleasure Gorman Wettels for Pleasure Coalition, Dana Fox, Susanna Fogel and Journey Pleasant for Pleasant Household Productions. The latter’s father, former NBC govt Ed Pleasant, was the one who acquired the movie and TV rights to the Wilder’s novel sequence in 1972.
“It has been a long-held dream of mine to hold on my father’s legacy and adapt Wilder’s traditional American tales for a twenty first century viewers in a method that brings collectively followers of each the books and the unique tv sequence,” Pleasant in a press release. “I’m thrilled by our gifted inventive group led by Rebecca Sonnenshine who’re bringing these beloved tales about household, group, and survival to longtime followers and new generations.”
The unique present was developed by Blanche Hanalis, with Ed Pleasant govt producing. It starred Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Lindsay Sidney Greenbush, and extra. The drama ran on-air for 9 seasons from 1974-1983.
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