Half pint is about to grow to be complete once more: Netflix revealed Wednesday that it’s rebooting Little Home on the Prairie, the ’70s drama that has loved a surprising resurgence on Peacock lately.
Rebecca Sonnenshine (The Boys, Vampire Diaries, Archive 81) will function showrunner and government producer on what Netflix is describing as a “reimagining” of the sequence based mostly on the e book sequence by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Different EPs are Pleasure Gorman Wettels for Pleasure Coalition, Dana Fox, Susanna Fogel and Journey Pleasant for Pleasant Household Productions — who’s been pushing for a reboot for years.
“It has been a long-held dream of mine to hold on my father’s legacy and adapt Wilder’s basic American tales for a twenty first century viewers in a method that brings collectively followers of each the books and the unique tv sequence,” mentioned Pleasant in an announcement. “I’m thrilled by our proficient inventive crew led by Rebecca Sonnenshine who’re bringing these beloved tales about household, group, and survival to longtime followers and new generations.”
“I fell deeply in love with these books once I was 5 years outdated,” added Sonnenshine. “They impressed me to grow to be a author and a filmmaker, and I’m honored and thrilled to be adapting these tales for a brand new world viewers with Netflix.”
The brand new model from CBS Studios and Nameless Content material Studios is predicted to comply with Charles, his spouse Caroline and their daughters Laura and Mary as they go away Wisconsin to settle in Independence, KS. There will probably be Osage characters, as the primary season relies on the e book Little Home on the Prairie.
Pleasant, whose dad, Ed, purchased TV and film rights to the Wilder novels that led to the NBC drama in 1974, first offered the rights for a reboot in 2020 to Paramount TV Studios and Nameless Content material. “Followers are desirous to see Little Home on the Prairie come again to the display, and we agree the time is true,” Pleasant instructed EW on the time. “We really feel optimistic that it will occur.”
Up till that the purpose, there had been surprisingly few efforts to mud off the Michael Landon starrer for up to date audiences, aside from a forgettable miniseries that aired as a part of The Great World of Disney in 2005, and a touring stage musical that ran from 2008-2010. However curiosity within the franchise by no means waned: reruns of the 1974-1983 sequence proceed to air worldwide, whereas Peacock final yr noticed the sequence rack up 13.3 billion minutes of viewing time.
Final March, Simi Valley hosted a three-day Little Home on the Prairie Forged Reunion and Competition. Hundreds packed Rancho Santa Susana Park to listen to Melissa Gilbert, Karen Grassle, Alison Arngrim (Nellie Oleson), Bonnie Bartlett (Grace Edwards), Dean Butler (Almanzo Wilder) and Linwood Boomer (Adam Kendall) reminisce concerning the outdated days. There was additionally a mini-exhibit of Little Home artifacts, like copies of outdated scripts, set stills, Little Home-inspired lunch containers, and a ’70s Panavision digicam that’s just like the kind utilized by the present. There was even a shirtless photograph of Landon establishing a shot.
“The present evokes a lot emotion in individuals and made all people really feel,” Gilbert instructed the group. “So once they see us, they’ve the feels, after which the leftover feels from 50 years in the past. Now they’re feeling it once more by means of youngsters and grandchildren. There’s this continuity and sense of household. This can be a big household reunion.”
