R.L. Stine Reveals New FEAR STREET Movie Will Adapt THE PROM QUEEN
Netflix is officially moving forward with the development of a new Fear Street horror film, and R.L. Stine has revealed that the movie will be an adaptation of his book, “The Prom Queen.” Stein made the announcement on X, saying:
“Movie News: I can finally announce that a new Fear Street movie is about to go into production for Netflix. It’s based on my Fear Street book, The Prom Queen. Good news!”
For those of you not familiar with the story, here’s the description of The Prom Queen book: “A spring night…soft moonlight…five beautiful Prom Queen candidates…dancing couples at the Shadyside High prom — these should be the ingredients for romance. But stir in one brutal murder — then another, and another — and the recipe quickly turns to horror. Lizzie McVay realizes that someone is murdering the five Prom Queen candidates one by one — and that she may be next on the list! Can she stop the murderer before the dance is over — for good?”
This will be the fourth Fear Street film adapted from the book series. The first three films were a trilogy that consisted of Fear Street Part One: 1994, Fear Street Part Two: 1978, and Fear Street Part Three: 1666. Those were all fun horror movies and they were directed by Leigh Janiak.
The three films were based on Stine’s novels that were set in the town of Shadyside. The original series lasted for 51 novels. The three movies were released over the course of three weeks, and they tell one killer story about the sinister history of the town of Shadyside.
The director of the films previously talked about how she hoped these first movies would be the start of a Marvel-style horror cinematic universe. She said:
“One of the exciting things about ‘Fear Street’ is the fact that the universe is big and allows for a lot of space. One of the things that I talked about before I was hired was that we have a potential here to create a horror Marvel [Cinematic Universe], where you can have slasher killers from lots of different eras. You have the canon of our main mythology that’s built around the fact that the devil lives in Shadyside, so there’s also room for everything else.
“I think that my hope is that audiences like it enough that we can start building out [more], we can think about what another trilogy would be, what stand-alones would be, what TV would be. I don’t even think about it like TV or movies exactly anymore. That’s the great thing about Netflix and about what ‘Fear Street’ is, which is kind of a hybrid new thing. I’m excited about the possibility of what else can happen.”
There’s no word if Leigh Janiak will be back to direct the film, but it would make sense if she did return. Regardless, I hope this next Fear Street movie ends up being good!