While it's true that several of the Star Wars movies and television shows have kept fans on the edge of their seats, the franchise has never really touched the horror genre. Famed Midnight Mass director Mike Flanagan apparently wouldn't mind changing that.
The idea that Star Wars needs a horror movie or game isn't a particularly new idea. In fact, there has been enough fan support for books like Deathtroopers and Red Harvest that there's actually been a sizable push for a Star Wars horror movie for quite a few years now. The big question is whether or not Flanagan public expressing an interest in it might finally spur the project on.
The director, who is best known to the Netflix set for The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and most recently Midnight Mass is gaining a reputation as one of the most respected directors in the horror genre. On Sunday morning, he took to Twitter and expressed his desire to take his horror chops to a galaxy far, far away. On the social media site, Flanagan said the earthquake that hit California over the weekend caused him to wake up with a startle and with a brand new idea. "I'd really love to make a horror movie in the Star Wars universe ... " he wrote.
Among the people who responded quite quickly with excitement was none other than actor Rahul Kohli. As fans of the recent Netflix horror series' know, Kohli worked with Flanagan in both Haunting of Bly Manor and Midnight Mass. He claimed Flanagan had been "reading his diary" and posted a picture from one of the more popular horror-themed Star Wars comic books.
Of course, whether or not Flanagan would like to do a horror entry into the much-beloved franchise isn't the important factor. It's whether or not Disney has an interest in taking the series in that particular direction. So far, despite years' worth of fan feedback saying they want the Star Wars universe to have an entry in that genre, there are no plans announced at the moment.
Flanagan is also someone who isn't exactly loaded up with free time. He's currently working on yet another horror mini-series for Netflix called The Midnight Club. However, that project is in post-production, so it's possible that the writer and director is going to have a little free time on his hands in the near future to do a kind of passion project.
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Source: Mike Flanagan/Twitter