Prepare to return to Shadyside at least three more times! According to Goosebumps and Fear Street novelist R.L. Stine, Netflix is currently developing three Fear Street movies, and that's in addition to the upcoming 2025 release Fear Street: Prom Queen.
Stine revealed all this to The Hollywood Reporter while promoting the second season of the Disney+ series Goosebumps, based on his other popular and long-running children's horror book series. The outlet says they reached out to Netflix for more details but that the next three Fear Street movies are believed to follow up on the 2021 trilogy of films directed by Leigh Janiak.
It's unclear if that means we'll get a brand new trilogy or one that might pick up where the post-credits scene left us at the end of Fear Street: 1666.
As for Prom Queen, the book is based on the 15th Fear Street novel of the same name and follows the prom queen candidates at Shadyside High School as they learn that a mysterious killer is murdering the nominees one by one.
R.L. Stine praises the Disney+ series: 'It’s stillGoosebumps. It’s just been elevated'
As exciting as the Fear Street update is, we're still far from seeing the new movies. Even Prom Queen doesn't have a release date yet. The good news is that new episodes of Goosebumps are streaming very soon.
Season 1 of the Disney+ series starred Justin Long and follows a group of teenagers investigating the death of a teen three decades before while also uncovering secrets about their parents and encountering haunted artifacts.
In season 2, David Schwimmer plays a divorced father of twin children staying for him during their summer break. The children stumble upon a mystery involving their dad, one of several teens who mysteriously disappeared in 1994.
Regarding the upcoming season, subtitled "The Vanishing," Stine says he watched the first two episodes and found them "terrifying." The show takes a somewhat different approach to the stories than the books aimed at middle-grade readers, roughly translating to tweens and middle schoolers. In contrast, the Disney+ series has aged up the characters to full-on teenagers, leaving more room to explore darker themes.
Stine says he was "shocked at first to see all these teenagers walking around. But what they’ve done, they’ve made it older — high school kids — and they’ve hyped up the scares as well. It’s scarier."
Apart from Schwimmer, the new season of Goosebumps also stars Ana Ortiz, Elijah M. Cooper, Sam McCarthy, Jayden Bartels, Francesca Noel, and Stony Blyden.
Stine also revealed that the one Goosebumps book he would love to see adapted is Brain Juice, though he doesn't think it'll ever happen, saying it's the one book "that nobody likes and no one's ever interested in." Awe, well now I hope we get an adaptation someday!
All eight episodes of Goosebumps: The Vanishing will begin streaming on Friday, January 10 on Disney+ and Hulu.