Director Andre Ovredal is intending to adapt several of Stephen Gammell’s illustrations from the horror book series to the screen in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Now, producer Guillermo del Toro has explained to Fandango how the film faithfully recreates the memorable illustrations from the anthologies.
“What we wanted was to try to emulate with the creatures, the black and white feeling of the illustrations in the book,” del Toro told Fandango. “So we knew we wanted them drained of color. You know? We tried to make them parchment yellow, sort of nicotine yellow and white. So we went for the desaturation in the pictures, all of them. And obviously you light them differently.”
SEE ALSO: Read our review of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark here
.@RealGDT walks us through how they got the look of the #ScaryStoriesMovie monsters to so closely resemble the iconic drawings. pic.twitter.com/QsbzrYbOlQ
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In Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, it’s 1968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind…but seemingly far removed from the unrest in the cities is the small town of Mill Valley where for generations, the shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large. It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has transcended time-stories that have a way of becoming all too real for a group of teenagers who discover Sarah’s terrifying tome.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is set to be released on 9th August in the United States and 23rd August in the UK.
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