Frank Langella Reportedly Fired from Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Usher

Frank Langella has reportedly been fired from Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Usher following an investigation into his alleged misconduct on set.

According to Deadline, Mike Flanagan’s The Fall of the House of Usher was about halfway through production when Langella was reportedly terminated from the series following an investigation into sexual harassment claims, in which Langella was allegedly accused of “making inappropriate comments to a female co-star on set during work.”

The investigation apparently determined that Langella had been “involved in unacceptable conduct” on the set of the eight-episode Netflix series based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, in which he was starring as Roderick Usher. His role will now be recast and all of the scenes that were already filmed with Langella will be reshot with a new actor.

Langella previously portrayed disgraced former U.S. President Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon. He also starred in 1979’s Dracula, 1987’s Masters of the Universe as Skeletor, FX’s The Americans, and more recently Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7. Flanagan announced in December that Langella had been cast as the patriarch of the house in his Netflix series.

Filming on the series will apparently continue with scenes that do not involve the Roderick Usher character until a new actor has been drafted into the role. Mark Hamill, Carla Gugino, Mary McDonnell, and Carl Lumbly are among the cast members that have been announced for the series, which joins several other Flanagan-helmed horror series on Netflix.

Flanagan previously adapted two other novels, turning them into The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor for Netflix. He recently followed those shows up with Midnight Mass, and he also has two other novel adaptations in the work, including 1994’s The Midnight Club and 1992’s The Season of Passage, which is said to be a horror story set on Mars.

Adele Ankers-Range is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.

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