R.L. Stine's FEAR STREET is Being Developed as Three Theatrical Films, Each One Released a Month Apart

Netflix has recently been a big hit with people binge watching entire TV series over a short amount of time. But, the question stands if it would ever work on the big screen. Well, it looks like 20th Century Fox is going to be the innovative studio who tries it out.

Fox is currently adapting R.L. Stine's Fear Street as three separate films with Leigh Janiak as a head of it all. She directed a little indie horror film called Honeymoon. The films will focus on the R.L. Stine series, which is like Goosebumps but for an older audience. They were a bit more violent. The film series is set to release just a month or so after one another instead of the usual waiting a year to release the next chapter in a trilogy or series. They hope that this new idea will have people binging the films and wanting to check them out. This is a huge risk but could be an interesting concept.

The stories in the books were set in the fictional town of Shadyside, Ohio, spanned different times periods in the 1980s and 1990s and featured new sets of characters, although some occasionally made appearances in other books, giving them a kind of universe dimension.

As mentioned before Leigh Janiak is leading a team of writers to work on the three films. She is set to direct the first with Phil Graziadei, which was written by Kyle Killen. The second script is being penned by Zak Olkewicz and the third by Silka Luisa. Whether or not the series is successful will probably be more obvious once the film is released, but this binge gimmick could be the next big things that everyone is doing in the future. Who knows?

Source: THR