Just last night, CBS Films revealed to Bloody Disgusting that Zoe Colletti (Annie, “Rubicon”, “Skin”) will be starring in director André Øvredal‘s adaptation of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, which is being produced by Guillermo del Toro.
The accompanying synopsis told us that the adaptation of the “most terrifying book series of all time” follows a group of teens who must solve the mystery surrounding a wave of spectacularly horrific deaths in their small town.”
Colletti will play a character named Stella Michaels, we’re told, but Collider has much more Intel on the film’s direction, which takes place on Halloween in which the ghost of a woman terrorizes children:
“Stella Michaels (Colletti) is a young girl still haunted by her mother’s disappearance on Halloween night — an incident that she suspects her father knows more about than he lets on. Years later, Stella and her friends are involved in a Halloween prank gone wrong. But are they really at fault, or was it the work of a vengeful spirit — a female ghost who uses her scary stories to come after the teens when they begin to investigate the disappearance of several children?”
Those who have read the script say that the film will feature the human scarecrow from “Harold” and the girl who has spiders crawl out of her face in “The Red Spot,” both of which appeared in Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones.”
Update: We’re told that it’s possible the above is from a previous draft, with CBS Films also claiming that the aforementioned story is inaccurate.
Kevin Hageman and Dan Hageman (LEGO Movie, Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia) co-wrote the screenplay with Academy Award-winner Guillermo del Toro and Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan (The Collector, Saw IV-VII, Feast, Piranha 3D) from the bestselling trilogy of books by Alvin Schwartz.
The film is being produced by Guillermo del Toro as well as Sean Daniel and Jason Brown of Hivemind along with Academy Award-winner J. Miles Dale and Elizabeth Grave.
Scary Stories is expected to release in 2019.
