Netflix Reboots LITTLE HOUSE? Star Says Fans Need to Know This
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LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRARIE actress Alison Arngrim explained what exactly fans can expect from the upcoming Netflix “reboot” of the beloved show.
“Yes, there is a deal at Netflix,” Arngrim, who played Nellie Oleson in the original show, told Fox News Digital. “Even the people making it have said, ‘…don’t call it a reboot.’ They’re not trying to remake the ‘70s show. Everyone has said, ‘Obviously, we can’t recreate that. We don’t want to recreate that. That’s been done. Michael Landon did it, he achieved it and, boom, it’s good. We’re leaving that alone.”
“They’re going back to the books — they’re going back to the beginning,” she explained. “They’re still hiring directors and everything. It’s still very, very early, but they’re looking into the first books when Laura is a very tiny girl. They’re going back to their roots.”
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“And here’s the thing, how many times have we made Dracula?” the actress asked. “How many times have we done Frankenstein? Or ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens? These are fantastic literary properties that were remade many times, and everyone had a different take on them. Some were brilliant. Some were terrible. And yet, we still watch them.”
At the end of January, Netflix announced that “a new generation will have its own version with Netflix’s reimagining of the treasured novels.”
“I fell deeply in love with these books when I was 5 years old,” Rebecca Sonnenshine, the series’ showrunner and executive producer, told Netflix of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s book series. “They inspired me to become a writer and a filmmaker, and I am honored and thrilled to be adapting these stories for a new audience.”
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