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Netflix to unleash ‘The Summer of Fear’ with R.L. Stine’s Fear Street movie trilogy

August 16, 2020 by Gary Collinson

Streaming service Netflix has picked up the distribution rights to the live-action feature film trilogy based upon children’s horror author R.L. Stine’s Fear Street book series.

Originally going into production under 20th Century Fox, the three interconnected films have all been directed by Leigh Janiak (Honeymoon, Scream: The TV Series) and feature an ensemble cast that includes Kiana Madeira, Olivia Welch, Emily Rudd, Benjamin Flores Jr, Gillian Jacobs, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Ashley Zukerman, Fred Hechinger, Julia Rehwald and Jeremy Ford.

The original plan was to release the three films theatrically, but with Disney acquiring the movies as part of the Fox acquisition and the Mouse House facing a crowded release schedule as a result of cinema closures (not to mention the subject matter being outside of Disney’s traditional wheelhouse), producer Peter Chernin of Chernin Entertainment had been allowed to shop the trilogy elsewhere.

As a result, Netflix has now swooped in, with Deadline reporting that the streamer is now looking to release all three movies a month apart in the summer of 2021 as a themed event dubbed ‘The Summer of Fear’.

 

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Fear Street, netflix, R. L. Stine

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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