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. And while Goosebumps skewed to the younger teen market, Fear Street was aimed at older teens, and was markedly adult and more violent.
Fear Street was still very successful, with over 80 million books sold. Kyle Killen wrote the first one, which Janiak and her partner Phil Graziadei will tackle.Ĭhernin Entertainment, the shingle behind Fox’s War for the Planet of the Apes, is producing.įear Street was a scare-filled book series that Stine began prior to his wild success of his Goosebumps series.
Zak Olkewicz ( Lights Out) is working on the second script, while Silka Luisa is working on the third. One thing she is already doing is overseeing a writers room of sorts to coordinate the penning of stories that take place in different time periods. Fox would not comment on the release plan, but some sources are excited about the forward-thinking nature of it and the studio’s seeming boldness to embrace it.Īs for Janiak, it offers the budding filmmaker a franchise over which she will get a certain amount of stewardship.
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