"Little House on the Prairie" fans have something new to look forward to. It appears as if Laura Ingalls and her family's story will come to life once again in a reboot of the original series that aired on NBC from 1974 to 1983.
Paramount TV Studios and Anonymous Content have teamed up to develop a one-hour dramatic series adaptation of "Little House on the Prairie," Entertainment Weekly reported. At the helm of the project is Trip Friendly, who will serve as executive producer for the reboot. Friendly's father, Ed, held rights to the autobiographical novels but later sold them to NBC.
Since then, Friendly has been trying to revive the hit series. Things looked promising when Sony developed plans for a "Little House on the Prairie" movie in 2012, but the plans fell through after Sony chairman Amy Pascal left the studio in 2015. Friendly recently said a reboot was looking promising.
"Fans are eager to see Little House on the Prairie come back to the screen, and we agree the time is right," he told EW. "We feel optimistic that this will happen."
No writer is attached to the reboot and it is still too soon for a cast to be revealed but former cast member Alison Arngrim told the outlet she was willing to make a cameo in the film.
"I’m just the right age to play Mrs. Oleson," she said. "I’m totally there. I have no shame."
At the moment it does not appear as if Melissa Gilbert will return to the show. The 56-year-old revealed on Instagram last month that she is recovering from her fourth spinal surgery, which was successful.
"Dr [Robert] Bray was able to remove all the old hardware, shave off bone spurs causing numbness in my right hand and, and, and, he was able to give me the artificial disc!!!" she captioned a photo of herself smiling in a hospital bed. "So now I focus on recovery and remaining Covid free."
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