Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Guillermo del Toro has confirmed that product on theScary Stories to distinguish in the Darkmovie adaptation will get underway later this workweek . TrollhunterandThe Autopsy of Jane Doefilmmaker André Øvredal will be serving as director on the project , which is based on a script that del Toro cowrote .
While del Toro has been modernise theScary Storiesmovie since 2016 , the big filmdom take on Alvin Schwartz ’s best - selling spooky stories collections ( which were published in the 1980s and other ' 90s ) has been in development since as far back as 2013 . write yoke Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton ( theSawfranchise ) , as well as Tim Burton ’s frequent screenwriter John August ( braggy Fish , Frankenweenie ) were among the creatives to work on the projection before del Toro became attached , with the intention of potentially helming it ( in addition to authorship and acquire ) . Thetask of direct at last went to Øvredalinstead , yet del Toro remains very much actively involved in the movie ’s growth .
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In a reception to a fan interrogative posted on hisTwitteraccount , del Toro confirmed thatScary Storiesbegins filming in Toronto"in a few day " . This mostly lines up with a report published byGWWearlier this calendar month that claimedScary Storieswould start product in Toronto by Monday , August 27 and reason out around the end of October . While Lionsgate has yet to set an prescribed release escort for the plastic film , it ’s safe to assume at this point that it ’s aiming for a former summertime or fall 2019 theatrical bow ( peradventure close to Halloween , to take advantage of the uptick in need for horror - flavour entertainment ) .
Scary Storieswill reportedly be establish on a book that del Toro cowrote with Dan and Kevin Hageman ( his collaborators on the Netflix fantasy seriesTrollhunters- no relation to Øvredal ’s likewise titled find - footage movie ) . consort to a logline released for the film , Scary Storiesfollows a group of teenagers"who must work out the mystery surrounding sudden and macabre deaths in their small town" . GWW ’s aforementioned report further claims that the movie takes place near either the late ' 60s or early ' LXX and sport two leads : Stella ( a youthful woman being bullyrag on Halloween night ) and Ramon Morales ( a young Latin American man fleeing the Vietnam War draft ) .
strike these details are correct , Scary Storiesmay watch over the firstGoosebumpsmovie ’s example and comprise constituent of Schwartz ’s short floor collection , without stringently adapting any one single tale . However , it will probably be far less meta than that R.L. Stine version ( a movie that in reality makes Stine and hisGoosebumpsnovels primal aspects of its story ) and possibly a whole lot creepier , much like Schwartz ’s books and their outre blackened - and - livid instance by Stephen Gammell before it . Either room , the combination of Øvredal , del Toro , andScary Storiessounds terrific and it ’s nice to know that , with filming about to get afoot , more information should be arrive ( very ) soon .
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We will bring you additional details onScary Stories to evidence in the Darkas they become available .
Source : Guillermo del Toro , GWW
