Little House on the Prairie is getting a reboot, courtesy of Netflix, but fans of the 1970s TV show might not have to relive iconic (and traumatic) storylines involving rapist mimes, rabid raccoons, a fire at the school for the blind, dead babies and Nellie Oleson 2.0.

That’s because the new showrunner/executive producer wants to base the series on the Laura Ingalls Wilder book series, rather than rehash the long-running television series. Then again, that showrunner is Rebecca Sonnenshine, who has worked on The Boys, Vampire Diaries, and Archive 81 so its safe to say the reimagined series will have a little bit of a dark side.

Despite being off the air for over four decades, Little House is still very popular; reruns of the series continue to air worldwide, and the show was streamed for 13.3 billion minutes of viewing time on Peacock.

In a press release, Netflix described the series as “[p]art family drama, part survival tale, and part origin story of the American West,” saying ” this fresh adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s iconic semi-autobiographical Little House books offers a kaleidoscopic view of the struggles and triumphs of those who shaped the frontier,” 

Sonnenshine issued her own statement, that 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.”

Also producing are Trip Friendly for Friendly Family Productions, Friendly is the son of Ed Friendly, who executive produced the original Little House on the Prairie series, so there may be parallels with the Melissa Gilbert/Michael Landon classic.

The Little House on the Prairie book series consists of nine volumes published between 1932 and 1943, and were set in the American Midwest in the 1870s through the 1890s. The television series ran for 204 episodes from 1974 through 1983 on the NBC network.

Plans to reboot the series have been bandied about since 2020. Trip Friendly owns the TV and movie rights to the book series, and said “It has been a long-held dream of mine to carry on my father’s legacy and adapt Wilder’s classic American stories for a 21st century audience in a way that brings together fans of both the books and the original television series,”

No details as to casting or a release date have been released yet.