John August Latest Writer To Adapt ‘Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark’ Movie
CBS Films has been trying to crack the popular children’s book series,Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, for a while. Originally, they brought onSawwriters Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Meltonto pen a script. Evidently their take wasn’t what the company wanted. CBS has now gone back to square one and hired a writer who knows a little something about blending the tones that made these books so popular.John August, writer ofGo, Charlie’s Angels, Big Fish, Corpse Bride and Frankenweenie,has been hired to write a new script for the scary series of short stories. Read more about theScary Stories To Tell In The Darkmovie below.
Deadlinebroke the news of August coming aboard theScary Stories To Tell In The Darkmovie.
The series, which was originally written byAlvin Schwartz, began in 1981 withScary Stories to Tell in the Dark.That lead to a sequelMore Scary Stories to Tell in the Darkin 1984 followed byScary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bonesin 1991. The series has sold a collective seven million plus copies across the world.
According to Deadline, August is going directly to the source material for his script so it’s a total rewrit of whatever Dunstan and Melton came up with. Now, that might seem odd as the books are basically unrelated short story collections, but there are obviously smart takes on something like that. For example, Sony’s 2015Goosebumpsmovie turned the author into the main character, allowing all of the books to be used in various different ways. That’s not to say August will go a similar route, but he’s a writer who brings fresh takes to material as some prestige to the role.
Once August’s script is done, a director will be hired so CBS Films seems pretty high on this take on the material, wahtever it is. Are you excited for aScary Stories To Tell In The Darkmovie.
