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In an exclusive chat with E! News, the stars of Netflix's The Midnight Club shared immoderate cardinal differences betwixt the amusement and Christopher Pike's 1994 caller of the aforesaid name.
The Midnight Club Cast Talks Spooky New Netflix Series
Much similar helium did with The Haunting of Hill House, Mike Flanagan has made immoderate originative changes for the TV adaption of Christopher Pike's 1994 caller The Midnight Club.
And the stars of Netflix's latest panic tale, retired Oct. 7, are gladsome helium did. Aya Furukawa—who you whitethorn admit from the Baby-Sitters Club reboot—confirmed to E! News that her character Natsuki, Sauriyan Sapkota's quality Amesh and Adia's Cheri didn't "actually beryllium successful the archetypal book."
But Aya teased that the caller characters weren't the lone changes fans of the caller tin expect, adding that "the amusement itself expands truthful overmuch much extracurricular of the book."
Now, earlier you get excessively acrophobic astir this adaptation, Aya assured E! News that Netflix's Midnight Club keeps "the integrity of the stories" astatine the bosom of the novel.
Iman Benson, who plays the cardinal character Ilonka, expressed a akin sentiment. First, she applauded the diverseness successful Mike's adaptation, telling E! News, "A main quality with Ilonka is that successful the publication she's described as Polish. And I'm, for sure, not Polish, which I deliberation is simply a large happening that we person specified a divers cast. We get to amusement that terminally sick kids look divers similar us."
And portion Iman noted that the group's stories successful the amusement "are precise different" and that they've enactment "their ain rotation connected it," she feels fans of the caller volition inactive bask this caller iteration of The Midnight Club.
For those unfamiliar with The Midnight Club, the caller amusement follows eight terminally-ill young adults, who each reside astatine a scenic hospice and conscionable each nighttime to archer stories. Though this whitethorn dependable similar the Midnight Society successful Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Chris Sumpter, who plays Spence, defended that this tiny similarity is arsenic acold arsenic the examination goes.
"Although successful The Midnight Club the stories are astir the biggest portion of the show," helium explained, "I deliberation there's truthful overmuch much going connected astatine the hospice."
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As Netflix teased successful their description, the young adults "make a pact that the adjacent of them to dice volition springiness the radical a motion from the beyond."
The Midnight Club besides stars Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Annarah Cymone and A Nightmare connected Elm Street's Heather Langenkamp.
Curious to larn more? The Midnight Club is present disposable to watercourse connected Netflix.
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