Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Sequel in the Works at Paramount – Den of Geek UK

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark capitalized last year on the classic 1980s literary horror franchise responsible for generational childhood trauma with a feature film thathaving earned $105.8 million worldwidemay not have set the box office scene on fire, but certainly provided a big enough bang for its studios budgetary buck. Consequently, sequel plans are now moving forward.

The creative band is getting back together for the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark sequel movie, with director Andr vredal and writers Dan Hageman and Kevin Hageman set to return. Additionally, Guillermo del Torowho worked on the first films screenplay after vacating the directors chairwill return to develop the story on which the script will be based. The untitled sequel will be co-financed by Paramount Pictures and eOne, with the former handling distribution. This is a slight pipeline change from the previous movie, which eOne co-produced with CBS Films, which was absorbed intoParamounts parent companyViacom back in December 2019.

No official plot details were revealed about Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark 2 upon its green light. However, it wouldnt be outrageous to speculate that the sequel will continue the narrative strategy of the first film, which adapted the literary source materialthe trilogy of nightmarishly-illustrated childrens horror tales by author Alvin Schwartzin a meta manner, showing the stories as having come from a cursed book whose supernatural manifestations are attackingand disappearingteenagers in a Pennsylvania small town in 1968. Indeed, with the first film having covered classic stories such as Harold, The Big Toe and The Red Spot, the sequel could keep the iconic urban legends/ghost stories coming with representations of yet-to-be-adapted stories such as The Thing, The Hook and High Beams.

Likewise, no casting news was divulged about the Scary Stories sequel. Yet, with the first film having centered on Zoe Collettis protagonist, Stella Nicholls, and even concluded with the open-ended, sequel-accommodating idea that she may yet have a way to rescue her disappeared friends, it seems like a given that the star will return here. Colletti was joined in the first films cast of kids by Michael Garza, Austin Abrams, Gabriel Rush, Austin Zajur and Natalie Ganzhorn. The supporting cast of adults consisted of notables such as Dean Norris, Gil Bellows and Lorraine Toussaint.

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