According to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix’s Little House on the Prairie remake adds more cast members to the upcoming drama series. The series recently added Alice Halsey (Night Court, Lessons in Chemistry) to play Laura Ingalls in the series and quickly announced who else will be joining her in the cast. Netflix has added Luke Bracey (The November Man, The Best of Me), Crosby Fitzgerald (Palm Royale, The First Lady) and Skywalker Hughes (Joe Pickett, Ordinary Angels) as other members of the Ingalls family.
As per The Hollywood Reporter, Bracey will take on the role of Charles Ingalls, the patriarch of the family. Fitzgerald will be playing Caroline, Charles’ wife and the mother of Mary, played by Hughes and Laura. CBS Studios and Anonymous Content Studio are producing Little House, based on the semi-autobiographical novels by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Farmer Boy, The Long Winter). The novels by Wilder were also the basis of the original series that aired from 1974 to 1983 , which starred Melissa Gilbert (Little House: Bless All the Dear Children) as Laura, Michael Landon (I Was A Teenage Werewolf) as Charles, Karen Grassle (Wyatt Earp) as Caroline and Melissa Sue Anderson (Happy Birthday to Me) as Mary.
The new series is being adapted by Rebecca Sonnenshine (The Vampire Diaries, The Boys) who will also serve as showrunner for the series. The Hollywood Reporter, when Netflix ordered the series back in Januar, Sonnenshine said she, “fell deeply in love with these books when I was five years old. They inspired me to become a writer and a filmmaker, and I am honored and thrilled to be adapting these stories for a new global audience with Netflix.”
Sonnenshine executive produces with Joy Gorman Wettels (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, The Meddler) of Joy Coalition, Trip Friendly (Little House on the Prairie: The Legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder) for Friendly Family Productions, Dana Fox (How to Be Single, Wicked) and Susanna Fogel (The Spy Who Dumped Me, Booksmart). Sarah Adina Smith (Lessons in Chemistry, Birds of Paradise) is set to direct the first episode.
The Netflix adaptation of Little House on the Prairie has yet to announce an official premiere date.