On July 9, “The Boys” writer and “Archive 81” creator Rebecca Sonnenshine fulfills a dream she’s had since she was 10 years old, with the debut of her “Little House on the Prairie” adaptation on Netflix.
A lifelong Laura Ingalls Wilder fan, Sonnenshine — who recently had success with the word-of-mouth blockbuster “The Housemaid” — pitched the streamer and show producers hard when she found out a “Little House” reboot was in the works. She landed the job not in spite of her work on supernatural, horror and genre series like “The Vampire Diaries,” but because of it.
“I think they were a little skeptical, but also had been thinking, ‘Oh, maybe we should look for a genre writer to give this some shape,'” Sonnenshine tells Variety. “And at the end of the meeting, the producers are like, ‘Wow, you know a lot about “Little House on the Prairie!”‘ Yes, I do, I know a lot about it. I didn’t even have to reread the books. That’s how much they’re in my brain. I can just talk about them.”
Skywalker Hughes as Mary Ingalls, Crosby Fitzgerald as Caroline Ingalls, Alice Halsey as Laura Ingalls, Luke Bracey as Charles Ingalls in “Little House on the Prairie”
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