Deadline have exclusively revealed Emily Rudd and McCabe Slye are on board Leigh Janiak’s Fear Street trilogy for Fox.
Rudd will play the older sister of Sadie Sink’s character. Slye will take on two roles: He plays Bobby Slater, described as a Springsteen-ish burnout who works at a summer camp, and in the 1966-set third film, he plays Mad Thomas, a creepy local drunk who stokes the town’s hysteria.
The pair will be joining Ashley Zukerman, Fred Hechinger, Julia Rehwald, Jeremy Ford, Kiana Madeira, Olivia Welch and Banjamin Flores Jr. for Janiak’s Fear Street movie trilogy.
The films, which will be directed by Janiak, are based on the Fear Street novels by R.L. Stein.
Writer and Director Alex Ross Perry,was earlier attached to helm the Fear Street 2 sequel.
Fear Street was a scare-filled book series that Stine began prior to the wild success of his Goosebumpsseries and was aimed at older teens (and was also markedly adult and more violent). The stories were set in the fictional town of Shadyside, Ohio, spanned different times periods in the 1980s and 1990s and featured new sets of characters, although some occasionally made appearances in other books, giving them a kind of universe dimension.
Chernin Entertainment will produce the film projects, with Jason Young overseeing for 20th Century Fox.
