(UTV | COLOMBO) – Andre Ovredal has closed a deal to return as director on the sequel to the young-skewing PG-13 horror hit “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” for eOne and Paramount Pictures.
The first film’s scribes Dan Hageman and Kevin Hageman will return to pen the script based on a story by Guillermo del Toro who produced the first film.
Based on Alvin Schwartz’s series of stories, that movie was set in 1968 in a small American town where a young girl turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that transcended time. The book is then discovered by a group of teenagers.
The first film opened in early August and grossed $105.8 million worldwide. The story for the sequel is being kept under wraps.