Twentieth Century Fox was happy enough with their Goosebumps film that they’re already developing a sequel. Now, they’re targeting another R.L. Stine title: “Fear Street”.
This tracking board is reporting that Honeymoon filmmaker Leigh Janiak has been hired to write and direct the feature based on R.L. Stine’s beloved series of books.
THR adds this bombshell: Janiak is writing three different scripts that could be shot back-to-back-to-back and be released one month after another!
The plan has been described by one insider as “binge-ing movies.”
Fear Street takes place in the fictional city of Shadyside, Ohio. Some stories feature the kind of supernatural activity found in Stine’s Goosebumps series, but most of the Fear Street books are simply murder mysteries that offer more violence than Goosebumps.
Horror-loving teenagers have devoured Stine’s series of scary stories for more than 25 years, explains the site. There are at least 100 titles in the Fear Street series, which has sold nearly 100 million copies worldwide. Stine began writing the Fear Street books in 1989, even before he launched the younger-skewing Goosebumps series, which has been adapted for both film and television.
Janiak is also developing te remake of The Craft at Sony. She also directed multiple episodes of MTV’s Scream, as well as an episode of Robert Kirkman’s Cinemax series Outcast.
