Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Guillermo del Toro and André Øvredal's adaptation of Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell's SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK hits theaters near you starting TODAY! And already we hear that Ovredal would love to make a sequel.

Andre Ovredal: 

We have five proper stories evolved into the movie and then there are tons of little nuggets from other stories and stuff throughout the movie. There are over a hundred stories in these books, so obviously there is so much room to develop another movie, and also, we left some trails at the end of the movie, too. Hopefully, if the audience embraces the movie, that's all we know, days before the release, that's what we're just sitting and hoping for, is that people will embrace it and then, if they want more, of course, I'd love to.

And since we're here, he also talked a bit about his upcoming adaptation of Stephen King's (or rather Richard Bachman's) THE LONG WALK, saying:

What I find so amazing about that one is that it's a challenge, an incredible challenge for a director because I have nothing to hide behind. It's actors, a camera, and the dialogue of the script. It's just a walk and talk, and I've got to create suspense and intensity and the performances have to be great. So, to me, it's a really huge challenge and I can't wait to do it because it's breaking new ground for me.

SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK is directed by André Øvredal from a screenplay written by Dan Hageman & Kevin Hageman based on a screen story by Del Toro and Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan based on the series by Alvin Schwartz. Del Toro, Sean Daniel, Jason F. Brown, J. Miles Dal, and Elizabeth Grave produce. The film stars Zoe Colletti, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush, Austin Abrams, Dean Norris, Gil Bellows, Lorraine Toussaint, Austin Zajur, and Natalie Ganzhorn. CBS Films, Lionsgate and eOne released the movie in theaters everywhere TODAY!

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