Netflix Developing New Standalone Fear Street Movie

The next Fear Street movie will be a standalone entry, according to Netflix Head of Film Scott Stuber. Stuber revealed in an interview with Collider that the platform is working on a standalone entry to the 2020 trilogy of films, which are in turn based on the R. L. Stine young adult horror novels. The trilogy, which released in successive months that summer, were titled Fear Street Part One: 1994, Fear Street Part Two: 1978, and Fear Street Part Three: 1666 and told one overarching story over the various time periods.

Stuber noted that they’re also looking to get more involved in developing horror projects; you can see some highlights below from the interview:

On their plans for the Fear Street franchise: “Obviously, there’s a lot of books. There’s one stand-alone that we’re working on right now that we’re once again trying to get the script right, but I like it very much, and so does the team. So I feel like if we can get that script right there would be a great kind of extension of that franchise.”

On Netflix getting more into horror: “I think there are two complexities to it; one, it’s an event right now in theaters, right? It’s a communal event that really is working theatrically, and so for us to be able to get the right stories, I think it’s imperative, and to be a little more aggressive in that space.”

On expanding the platform’s space in horror: “If you look at its history, which I love horror, I’d like us to find our own Freddy Krueger, our own Jason, our own kind of iconic horror character, and we haven’t really honed in on that yet. So the team is working hard on that because I think there’s a real opportunity there. You know, you’ve got so many great characters… Every Halloween, basically, I look and go, ‘Okay, there’s 20 great characters to pick from. We should be making those movies.’”