It seems like down-home family values still have a place in modern cinema, as evidenced by Paramount Pictures green-lighting a Little House on the Prairie movie. The “Martha Marcy May Marlene” helmer has not done another feature film since the 2011 indie drama but he remained active in producing some projects and directing several episodes of Netflix’s “Southcliffe”.
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The nine-book story first began in 1932 with the publication of “Little House in the Big Woods”, recalling Wilder’s own recollections of growing up with her family in a log cabin in 1871. The Golden Globe-nominated show starred the late Michael Landon as the patriarch Charles Ingalls with Melissa Gilbert starring as his daughter Laura Ingalls. The name was changed in the final season, after Landon left, to Little House: A New Beginning.
No new actors have been announced yet, reports Today.
Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote the novels that begat the TV series. “It’s a classic of children’s literature and a beloved TV show”. “The books would make a much, much better movie (or series of movies) and they’ve never really been done right”.
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Mary Pauline Mahaydik posted, “While the film certainly won’t be as great as the series; I’m looking forward to seeing it and wonder why a film of some sort hasn’t been done earlier”.
