‘Little House on the Prairie’ Showrunner on the Spirit of the Netflix Adaptation and Its Parallels With ‘The Boys’: “America Is a Myth-Maker”
‘Little House on the Prairie’ Showrunner on the Spirit of the Netflix Adaptation and Its Parallels With ‘The Boys’: “America Is a Myth-Maker” With Laura...
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- ‘Little House on the Prairie’ Showrunner on the Spirit of the Netflix Adaptation and Its Parallels With ‘The Boys’: “America Is a Myth-Maker” With Laura Ingalls Wilder's tale of survival on the American frontier continuing to resonate — and spur debates — with audiences over the years, Rebecca Sonnenshine is ready to offer her take on the classic and details her series rollout plan: "We're gonna go book by book." Some stories refuse to stay on the page.
- “It’s about the myth of America and the stories we tell ourselves.” Alongside reading Wilder’s book series, essays and columns, Sonnenshine read a more recent take on Wilder’s life — Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser — as part of her research for the series.
- It’s an endless, fascinating cycle to re-examine where we were then in relation to where we are now.” The Netflix imagining, which premiered on July 9 and stars Alice Halsey as Laura; Skywalker Hughes as Laura’s older sister, Mary; and Luke Bracey and Crosby Fitzgerald as Pa and Ma Ingalls, largely follows the events of Little House on the Prairie, though it sprinkles in key aspects of Wilder’s first book, Little House in the Big Woods.
- There’s just not quite enough,” she explains of the decision to start with the third book in Wilder’s Little House series.
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‘Little House on the Prairie’ Showrunner on the Spirit of the Netflix Adaptation and Its Parallels With ‘The Boys’: “America Is a Myth-Maker” With Laura Ingalls Wilder's tale of survival on the American frontier continuing to resonate — and spur debates — with audiences over the years, Rebecca Sonnenshine is ready to offer her take on the classic and details her series rollout plan: "We're gonna go book by book." Some stories refuse to stay on the page. “It’s about the myth of America and the stories we tell ourselves.” Alongside reading Wilder’s book series, essays and columns, Sonnenshine read a more recent take on Wilder’s life — Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser — as part of her research for the series. It’s an endless, fascinating cycle to re-examine where we were then in relation to where we are now.” The Netflix imagining, which premiered on July 9 and stars Alice Halsey as Laura; Skywalker Hughes as Laura’s older sister, Mary; and Luke Bracey and Crosby Fitzgerald as Pa and Ma Ingalls, largely follows the events of Little House on the Prairie, though it sprinkles in key aspects of Wilder’s first book, Little House in the Big...