Stine adaptation, set in 1994, 1978, and 1666, will terrorize Netflix viewers in July.
“I love the slasher movie, but we’ve done that, right?”
It’s not a traditional sequel model."
Julia Rehwald, Fred Hechinger, and Kiana Madeira in ‘Fear Street Part 1: 1994’.Netflix
“It was so many night shoots,” the director says, laughing, ofFear Street’s production.
“Luckily, I am a night person and not a morning person.
Otherwise, I think I would have died.”
Ted Sutherland and Sadie Sink in ‘Fear Street Part 2: 1978’.Netflix
Inspired by, but much gnarlier than,R.L.
That kind of necessitated that our characters weren’t the football player or the cheerleader.
They don’t fit that mold."
Leigh Janiak (far right) directs Ted Sutherland and Sadie Sink on the set of ‘Fear Street Part 2’.Jessica Miglio/Netflix
So Janiak turned to an unexpected influence:Terrence Malick’s Pocahontas storyThe New World.
“It’s got this gorgeous world that’s just spoiled and turns rotten,” she says.
“That was the big inspiration for us.”
