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Trilogy of ‘Fear Street’ Book Adaptations in the Works!

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Pictured: Leigh Janiak's 'Honeymoon'

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.

Horror movie fanatic who co-founded Bloody Disgusting in 2001. Producer on Southbound, V/H/S/2/3/94, SiREN, Under the Bed, and A Horrible Way to Die. Chicago-based. Horror, pizza and basketball connoisseur. Taco Bell daily. Franchise favs: Hellraiser, Child's Play, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Scream and Friday the 13th. Horror 365 days a year.

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Matilda Firth Joins the Cast of Director Leigh Whannell’s ‘Wolf Man’ Movie

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Pictured: Matilda Firth in 'Christmas Carole'

Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.

Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things),  Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.

The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).

Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.

Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.

Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.

In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.

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