‘Fear Street’ Trilogy Cast Adds ‘Stranger Things’ Star Sadie Sink
Sadie Sinkis jumping out of one spooky franchise and into another. TheStranger Thingsactress has joined the cast of theFear Streettrilogy, adapted fromR.L. Stine’s book series.Leigh Janiak, director of indie horror filmHoneymoon, is set to helm all three entries in the trilogy. Unlike theGoosebumpsseries by R.L. Stine, theFear Streetbooks were geared towards an older, teen audience – and the films likely will be as well.Deadlinebroke the news about Sadie Sink joining theFear Streettrilogy cast, but there no details about her character…yet. Sink joins previously announced cast members Kiana Madeira, Olivia Welch, Benjamin Flores Jr., Ashley Zukerman, Fred Hechinger, Julia Rehwald, and Jeremy Ford, who will presumably appear in all three of the films being directed by Liegh Janiak.
TheFear Streettrilogy has gone through fits and starts on its way to the screen. Recently, it was announced that Janiak was going to direct parts 1 and 3 of the trilogy, with Alex Ross Perry directing part 2. Now, Perry is out, and Janiak will direct all three films. The filmmaker wrote the script for the first movie, and oversaw a writers' room for the entire trilogy.Stranger Thingswriter Kate Trefry was also involved.
In February,wordbroke that the trilogy would follow “gay teenagers trying to navigate their rocky relationship when they’re targeted by the crazy horrors of their small town, Shadyside. Each actress will be playing two different characters — one in the mid-’90s, and one in the 1600s, when gay women faced even greater adversity and repercussions — and they’re both slated to appear in all three films.” The Deadline news doesn’t mention this storyline at all, so it’s not clear if it’s still being used, or if it was just a rumor.
R.L. Stine launched hisFear Streetseries in 1989. The books are set in the city of Shadyside, following teenagers who are usually much older than the characters in Stine’sGoosebumpsbooks. The stories in the books deal with both the paranormal, as well as murder mysteries involving human antagonists. UnlikeGoosebumps, which skewed towards preteen readers, theFear Streetbooks were darker and more violent, containing the type of blood and gore that would never pop-up in aGoosebumpsbook.
The original plan for theFear Streettrilogy was to shoot all three films back-to-back, and then release them back-to-back one month after another. This appears to still be the case. The first film is expected to arrive inJune 2020.
