“I think he treats his protagonists with more respect than a lot of YA authors do today. “And it still does, by the way,” Flanagan’s Intrepid Pictures producing partner, Trevor Macy, added. And that was something that separated Pike from his contemporaries.” So while there was always a sense of bearing that younger audience in mind, we were also very careful not to condescend to them or to try to police the places the show would go. And one of the things that my contemporaries and I loved about the books was that he wasn’t sugarcoating things. “He didn’t pull his punches with violence, with heavy things that kids are really thinking about: intense bullying, suicide, sex, drugs - all of that was fair game in the Pike world. “But the other thing, though - and this is something I learned from Pike - was that he always included themes in his books that felt very adult,” Flanagan continued. “And Netflix ended up optioning a pile of Christopher Pike’s stuff - 28 books.”

“He agreed to let me take a shot with the show and the pitch was, we’ll do ‘The Midnight Club’ - but the stories the kids tell will be other Christopher Pike books, and he really liked that idea,” Flanagan told a group of reporters at a “Midnight Club” press conference last week.

While Netflix has not yet renewed “Midnight Club” for a second season, Flanagan has a plan for multiple seasons of the series, which follows the teens as they live out the end of their short lives at the hospice and share scary stories to help them cope with the inevitable, all while supernatural forces loom around them.

At a recent media conference Flanagan, along with his producing partner Trevor Macy, also had unsurprisingly good things to say about our guy: Flanagan talks Pike, Midnight Club's futureĪccording to Variety, Mike Flanagan promises answers to the show's dangling questions, even if the show isn't renewed.

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