"That's why they call it the super oven!" If those words ring a nostalgic bell, then you may have grown up in the era of Creepy Crawlers, the bug-centric twist on the Easy-Bake Oven that found new life in the vibrant ’90s, and may find new life once again now that Paramount Players has acquired the film rights to the popular toy line.
Variety reports that Paramount Players acquired movie rights to Creepy Crawlers, the toy line that allows kids to make their own bugs, insects, and otherworldly creatures and characters (including the Creeple Peeple and Eeeks) with metal moulds and a "super oven."
Originally launched by Mattel in the mid-’60s, Creepy Crawlers resurfaced in the early ’90s by ToyMax, introducing the bug-making baker to a new generation of kids who consumed seemingly endless hours of Saturday morning cartoons, commercials, and sugary cereals. The toy line was even adapted to the screen as an animated TV series that ran from 1994–1996 and was produced by Saban Entertainment (the studio behind Power Rangers).
It's not yet known who will write or direct the new Creepy Crawlers feature film, but Neal H. Moritz (2015's Goosebumps and this year's Goosebumps: Haunted Halloween), Marc Gurvitz, and Toby Ascher are on board as producers, with Stephen Berman executive producing. The movie is expected to be based on "the classic toy molds of all sorts of creepy and slimy bugs," according to Variety.
Paramount Players is also tapping into the deep well of ’90s nostalgia with an Are You Afraid of the Dark? movie that is being written by IT: Chapter Two screenwriter Gary Dauberman, and is slated for an October 11th, 2019 release. What would you like to see in a Creepy Crawlers movie? Let us know in the comments below!
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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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