See video: Lifetime’s ‘Flowers in the Attic’ Extended Trailer Redefines BromanceĪs a teenager, I experienced the book like Cathy.
I have kids now, so I’m looking at it from a totally different point of view and it holds up in almost a more poignant way. And I hadn’t had the experience before this of looking back on a book like that. It was one of the few books that everyone passed around. Michele Weiss: It’s one of the few books that I remember from being a teenager. TheWrap: What was it like revisiting “Flowers in the Attic” to make the movie? Locked in the attic of the huge manor home, the children reenact their mother’s sins as they try to cope with the cruelty of their imprisonment. The children are then forced to answer to their mother’s sins at the hands of their grandmother ( Ellen Burstyn). “Flowers in the Attic” stars Heather Graham as Corrine, who returns to her parents’ home with her four children after her husband dies tragically. Weiss hopes that the older actors in “Flowers” can return, but says Kiernan Shipka and Mason Dye are too young to for the roles of Cathy and Christopher, respectively. “Petals on the Wind” will be set in the 1970s in the South. It’s going to be Cathy and Christopher 10 years older, trying to get along with their lives, also caught up in feelings of resentment and revenge on Corinne.”Īlso read: ‘Flowers in the Attic’ Sequel ‘Petals on the Wind’ Planned at Lifetime So, one of the challenges for us is to contain that story in a contained timeframe and I think we’ve figured out how to do it. “There’s a lot of storylines, it takes place over a longer period of time. “With ‘Petals,’ it’s kind of more out in the world,” she continued. “It really lends itself to an adaptation that way.” “What’s great about adapting ‘Flowers’ is that it’s so contained,” Weiss told TheWrap. Andrews novel, “Flowers in the Attic,” premiering Saturday at 8/7c.Įxecutive producer Michele Weiss says that the sequel, based on Andrews’ novel “Petals on the Wind,” presented a whole set of challenges that they didn’t have on the first installment.
Without knowing how well it would do, Lifetime recently announced that it’s already developing the sequel to its movie based on the V.C.
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