Guillermo Del Toro has been working on developing this series for quite some time. ‘Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark’ was the Oscar-wininng directors favourite book growing up as a teenager and now he has the opportunity to bring it to life on the big screen.
Without further ado, here is the trailer for the 1981 novel from writer Alvin Schwartz and artist Stephen Gammell.
Del Toro explained his reasoning for keeping the film PG-13 and developing such a passion for the series (Per THR):
To bring the film to life, Del Toro assembled a team and handpicked Trollhunter filmmaker André Øvredal to direct Scary Stories. There are dozens of stories in the series, but Del Toro and his fellow screenwriters did what he described as an American Idol-style showdown, in which they chose the best five or six to be presented in the film, which has a story by Del Toro and Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan, with a screenplay by Dan Hageman & Kevin Hageman.
“This is not an anthology movie,” said Øvredal. “It is a cohesive, two-hour feature with one story, where everything is weaved together to be part of that story.”
The film debuts in theatres on August 9th.
