Netflix’s “Fear Street” film trilogy has now completed its three-week run to excellent reviews (84%, 89% & 93% respectively on Rotten Tomatoes), along with seemingly being quite popular with the subscriber base.
In the wake of all the good news, director Leigh Janiak spoke with Indiewire about these coming-of-age horror films and was asked about the future of the franchise.
She teases there are more Shadyside stories left to tell and there are grander expansion plans they could pursue should the fans support and respond to the idea:
“One of the exciting things about ‘Fear Street’ is the fact that the universe is big and allows for a lot of space. One of the things that I talked about before I was hired was that we have a potential here to create a horror Marvel [Cinematic Universe], where you can have slasher killers from lots of different eras.
You have the canon of our main mythology that’s built around the fact that the devil lives in Shadyside, so there’s also room for everything else. I think that my hope is that audiences like it enough that we can start building out [more], we can think about what another trilogy would be, what stand-alones would be, what TV would be.
I don’t even think about it like TV or movies exactly anymore. That’s the great thing about Netflix and about what ‘Fear Street’ is, which is kind of a hybrid new thing. I’m excited about the possibility of what else can happen.”
The three films, shot back-to-back over a six month period, are an adaptation of R.L. Stine’s best-selling horror series with each set in a different time period – 1994, 1978, and 1666. All three are now available to stream on Netflix.
Janiak is keeping busy as she recently became attached to direct two episodes of HBO Max’s eight-episode series adaptation of the true-crime docuseries “The Staircase”. Antonio Campos is directing the remaining six.
