It ’s beena few yearssince we heard anything about the planned big - screen adaption of legendarily terrifying shaver ’s book series Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark . Since then , the project ’s biggest title-holder , Guillermo del Toro , won a distich of Oscars — which no doubt assist it get a big push forward .
Before you get too unrestrained , del Toro is n’t going to aim this one ; he ’ll co - produce and also co - wrote the adaptation of Alvin Schwartz ’s cult - beloved book series . But you should still get passably damn excited because the director is André Øvredal , who made 2010 ’s mock - doc Trollhunter ( not to be confuse with del Toro ’s Trollhunters Netflix series ) as well as 2016 ’s very well - received horror introduction The Autopsy of Jane Doe .
It sounds like a with child lucifer between manufacturer and director , not to mention generator material , which could follow in the blockbuster success of It with its tale of a chemical group of untried friends facing macabre , supernatural force . Schwartz ’s YA books , which came out between 1981 - 1991 and drew intake from folklore , urban legends , and classic ghost tale , are revered not just for their prose but for their freaky , bone - chill Stephen Gammell illustrations ( accept no reliever from any later edition ) .
Consideringdel Toro possess several of Gammell ’s original drafting , it seems likely that the images that’ve been burning themselves into the nous of young readers for decennary now will influence the movie ’s imagery , too . Scary story to assure in the Dark is set to begin filming this summer .
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