FEAR STREET Director Teases A Scary MCU-style Universe of Slashers
Leigh Janiak wants to keep Fear Street alive! But how? In an interview with IndieWire, the director behind the Fear Street trilogy talks about more stand-alone films, a tv series, and even an MCU-style interconnected universe of slashers from different eras!
Spoilers ahead…
The smartest move for any fledging cinematic universe is to employ a buzzy end-credit tag sequence. Marvel may have brought these into fashion, but we were sure glad as hell to see Leigh Janiak implement the narrative device into her recent slasher-horror trilogy.
By the end of Fear Street Part 3: 1666, things are looking brighter for Sunnyvale. Deena (Kiana Madeira), Sam (Olivia Scott Welch), Martin (Darrell Britt-Gibson), Josh (Benjamin Flores Jr.), and Constance (Gillian Jacobs) have officially smudged the darkness out of their town. Have they possibly achieved a happy ending to the surprisingly brutal teen horror anthology? Don’t count on it. That end-of-credits sequence opened the door for more terror and mayhem down the line…
When speaking with IndieWire, Janiak teased fans with her ideas for keeping Fear Street alive. She isn’t just interested in stand-alone films. Instead, the filmmaker has much bigger plans.
This is what she had to say:
One of the exciting things about Fear Street is the fact that the universe is big and allows for a lot of space. One of the things that I talked about before I was hired was that we have a potential here to create a horror Marvel [Cinematic Universe], where you can have slasher killers from lots of different eras. You have the canon of our main mythology that’s built around the fact that the devil lives in Shadyside, so there’s also room for everything else.
I think that my hope is that audiences like it enough that we can start building out [more], we can think about what another trilogy would be, what stand-alones would be, what TV would be. I don’t even think about it like TV or movies exactly anymore. That’s the great thing about Netflix and about what Fear Street is, which is kind of a hybrid new thing. I’m excited about the possibility of what else can happen.
You can catch Fear Street Part 1: 1994, Fear Street Part 2: 1978, and Fear Street Part 3: 1666 all streaming on Netflix right now.
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