We're one step closer to seeing Shadyside on the big screen, as 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment have hired a writer to pen their film based on Fear Street, the popular book series that R.L. Stine created before Goosebumps.
The Tracking Board reports that Kyle Killen has been hired to write the screenplay for the Fear Street film. The movie is expected to be an adaptation of the book series, although Stine himself recently revealed on Twitter that "the Fear Street movie will be an original story" and to "watch for it next year." He also mentioned that "there may be more than one Fear Street movie."
Killen has worked steadily as a writer since the early 2010s, working on the TV series Lone Star, Awake, and Mind Games, as well as writing the screenplays for the Jodie Foster-directed The Beaver, the thriller Scenic Route, and the upcoming Sinbad.
If you're a horror fan who grew up in the ’90s, there's a good chance you were at least partially raised on Stine's Fear Street books, a series aimed at giving teenagers a good scare that launched in the late ’80s before coming to a (temporary) close in the late ’90s. It was briefly resurrected in the mid-2000s as the miniseries Fear Street Nights before resuming with new novels in 2014.
In addition to the Fear Street movie, a sequel to the 2015 Goosebumps film is scheduled to haunt theaters on September 21st, 2018, via Sony Pictures.
Stay tuned to Daily Dead for more updates, and in the meantime, let us know what you would like to see in a Fear Street film.
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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