20th Century Fox’s Fear Street trilogy just got some serious indie cred. Alex Ross Perry, writer and director of Queen of Earth and the upcoming festival hit Her Smell, has signed on to direct the second installment in the upcoming film trilogy inspired by R.L. Stine‘s teen horror book series of the same name.
Per THR, “Set in 1978, Fear Street 2 portrays Camp Nightwing divided by campers and counselors from Sunnyvale and, when local horrors come alive, everyone must band together to solve a terrifying mystery before it’s too late.” Camp Nightwing was the setting for the 12th Fear Street book, Lights Out, though this synopsis is too vague to tell if they’ll be sticking to that story.
The trilogy is inspired by the horror book series Stine launched before his career skyrocketed with the similar, but aged-down horror series for kids, Goosebumps. Fear Street had Stine’s knack for unconventional scares and sharp sense of humor, but aimed at an older teen audience, they were darker, more violent horror tales set in the fictional town of Shadyside, Ohio where all kinds of nightmares lie in wait.
Production on Fear Street 2 is expected to begin this summer in Atlanta.
via Collider