Queer Horror Series ‘Fear Street’ Is Getting A Movie Adaptation

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2024-01-18
09:00

The author of the queer favorite ‘Fear Street’ series confirmed that one of his works is getting a movie adaptation!

Author R. L. Stine announced on X (formerly Twitter) that his work ‘The Prom Queen’, the fifteenth book in the ‘Fear Street’ series, will be turned into a movie on Netflix.

“Movie News: I can finally announce that a new Fear Street movie is about to go into production for Netflix. It’s based on my Fear Street book, The Prom Queen. Good news!” Stine posted with the cover photo of the book first published in 1992.

Movie News: I can finally announce that a new Fear Street movie is about to go into production for Netflix. It's based on my Fear Street book, The Prom Queen. Good news! pic.twitter.com/lgKvhDFV5F

— R.L. Stine (@RL_Stine) January 13, 2024

‘The Prom Queen’ tells the story of Lizzie McVay, a teenage high school student who realizes that the five ‘Prom Queen’ candidates of her school are getting murdered one by one. She then decides to try and stop the killer before the dance is over.

As of writing time, there has been no name attached to the project, although there has been speculation that the director of the ‘Fear Street’ trilogy, Leigh Janiak, could possibly be the one working on ‘The Prom Queen’, too.

In an interview with Collider in 2021, she said that she had ideas for ‘Fear Street’, even believing that this could be the “MCU” of horror films.

“One of the things that I talked about before I was hired was that we have a potential here to create a horror Marvel, where you can have slasher killers from lots of different eras,” she said.

The ‘Fear Street’ film trilogy, first shown also on Netflix in 2021, was praised for its “spine-chilling script” and “candid approach to queer representation.” Upon the release of all three parts of the series, the film was named Netflix’s most-watched movie globally.

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