Mike Flanagan doesn’t stop
Mike Flanagan’s new series is online from October 12th The Fall of House Usher confirms that the director is in excellent shape when it comes to continuing his work fantastic-horrible. In fact, after The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight sermons AND The midnight club, his new production for Netflix is a new success. The series is inspired by the story of the same name byEdgar Allan Poepublished in 1839, and tells this story:
The formidable Roderick (Bruce Greenwood) and Madeline Usher (Mary McDonnell) have built Fortunato Pharmaceuticals into an empire of abundance, privilege and power. But dark secrets emerge when the heirs of the Usher dynasty begin to die at the hands of a mysterious woman from their past.
Around brother and sister Usher, the cast of The Fall of House Usher includes Mark Hamill, Henry Thomas and Carla Gugino.
Inspired by a story by the master of fantasy fiction, the story of The Fall of House Usher it is not real. But Mike Flanagan, in a gesture reminiscent of the series SuccessionHowever, he wanted to give a form of reality to his series by developing them characters inspired by a real family.
The Sackler family at the origin of the Usher family
In Mike Flanagan’s series, Roderick and Madeline Usher are the heads of a pharmaceutical empire, Fortunato Pharmaceuticals. This peculiarity is not the result of chance, but is directly inspired by the Sackler family. Billionaires, they are at the head of two of the largest American pharmaceutical companies: Purdue Pharma and Mundipharma. And if the Sackler family has become known throughout the world, it is for this a terrible scandal. In fact, it is the Sackler family that produces the painkiller OxyContin. A drug at the origin of the opioid crisis in North America, which has lasted for more than twenty years and has already caused more than five hundred thousand fatal overdoses.
This theme has already been transposed into fiction, for example with the series Dopestone, and the new film by David Yates Bread pushers on Netflix also uses it in its plot. In a certain sense the media have “their” family Murdochand the pharmaceutical sector with Sackler. So, despite being pure fantasy fiction, The Fall of House Usher however, it wants to be part of a very tangible reality, proposing a family that resembles the Sackler family too much for it to be just a pure coincidence…
Source: Cine Serie
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