Fear Street director wants to create the horror MCU

If you’ve watched Netflix Fear street trilogy and thought “This is more like a TV show”, you are not alone. On the one hand, Vulture agrees. For another, Fear street Director Leigh Janiak sees the future of TV shows for the franchise. She wants to see the RL Stine-iverse develop just like the MCU. Speaking to IndieWire, Janiak said, “One of the things I talked about before I got hired was that we have the potential here to create a Marvel horror, where you can have slasher killers from a lot of different eras. . “

Horror ran through the franchise before it got cool, with the Universal Monsters appearing in each other’s works. what Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein, otherwise the horror comedy Avengers? And then you have the different versus: Freddy versus Jason, Alien versus Predator, Mummy versus upsetting CGI The Rock. Universal actually tried to do Marvel horror with the Dark Universe. This idea failed with the premiere of Tom Cruise’s Star Persona Against Genre Cinema Conventions.

What Fear street a more Universal is the start of a trilogy. We already understand the global myth. Janiak already knows what she wants to do next: “I really started to get excited about a 50s slasher movie,” she said. “It’s just cool to think about the different eras and what’s possible as a horror fan.”