'Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark' sequel in the works with Andre Øvredal returning to direct
Get ready for even more Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark!
Awesome news! The studio gods at eOne and Paramount have greenlit a sequel to Andre Øvredal's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
Sources confirm Øvredal and 2019's writers - Dan Hageman and Kevin Hageman - are returning to tell a new chapter in the Stories saga. Unfortunately, plot details are being kept under wraps. So it’s anyone’s guess as to whether or not the sequel will delve any deeper into Sarah Bellows (Kathleen Pollard) tortured journey within the small town of Mill Valley. But given the meta-ness of 2019's film, we know there are plenty more Scary Stories to tell, and those stories are tied to Sarah's untold collection of horror shorts written of course in real life by Alvin Schwartz.
Øvredal's 2019 Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark could perhaps best be categorized as perfect YA horror. It pairs perfectly alongside M. Night's The Visit and it’s one of the harder PG-13’s since Gore Verbinski’s The Ring. And much like Ovredal's Autopsy of Jane Doe, Stories superbly unleashes a bounty of scares plucked from all three volumes of Schwartz's celebrated collections including characters and folklore from ’The Big Toe’, ‘The Dream,’ ‘The Red Spot,’ and ‘What Do You Come For?’.
But perhaps where Stories hits the hardest is the film's backdrop. America was a scary place in 1968. The uncertainty of the election, the Vietnam Conflict, and of course Hollywood's true-life horrors as seen in '69's Tate-LaBianca murders. Legit scary times for all Americans, especially America's youth.
Source: Deadline
