Netflix is headed back to Fear Street with another R.L. Stine adaptation, and the streamer has announced the cast for the latest film in the growing horror franchise. We learned earlier this year that a fourth film in the series was finally happening and that it would adapt Stine’s 1992 novel Prom Queen. Now we know who is headed to Shadyside for these blood-soaked shenanigans at a high school dance.
As was first reported by Bloody Disgusting, the cast includes India Fowler (The Nevers, Safe), Suzanna Son (Red Rocket, The Idol), Fina Strazza (Paper Girls, Above the Shadows), David Iacono (The Summer I Turned Pretty, Cinnamon), Ella Rubin (The Idea of You, The Girl from Plainville), Chris Klein (Sweet Magnolias, American Pie), Lili Taylor (The Haunting, The Conjuring) and Katherine Waterston (Alien: Covenant, Perry Mason). That’s quite the ensemble! What’s more, Matt Palmer (Calibre) has been tapped to direct the film. As for what it’s about? The official synopsis reads as follows:
“Welcome back to Shadyside. In this next installment of the blood-soaked Fear Street franchise, prom season at Shadyside High is underway and the school’s wolfpack of It Girls is busy with its usual sweet and vicious campaigns for the crown. But when a gutsy outsider is unexpectedly nominated to the court, and the other girls start mysteriously disappearing, the class of ’88 is suddenly in for one hell of a prom night.”
FEAR STREET: PROM QUEEN IS COMING 🩸 India Fowler, Suzanna Son, Fina Strazza, David Iacono, Ella Rubin, Chris Klein, Lili Taylor and Katherine Waterston are set to join us in Shadyside for one hell of a prom night.
Set in 1988, prom season is underway and the It Girls are… pic.twitter.com/QJBD8PG4lg
— Netflix (@netflix) March 26, 2024
Palmer penned the screenplay with Donald McLeary. Yvonne Bernard, Joan Waricha, Caroline Pitofsky and Jane Stine are on board as executive producers, with Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping and Kori Adelson serving as producers.
Netflix previously released a trilogy of Fear Street movies in the summer of 2021. Fear Street: Part One – 1994, Fear Street: Part Two – 1978 and Fear Street: Part Three – 1666 were all directed by Leigh Janiak and all released within weeks of one another. The films were originally produced by Fox with the idea being to release them in theaters, but Netflix ended up scooping up the rights. It worked out pretty well for them, in the end.
This film has been in the works for some time. At one point, a new entry in the series was being developed by Chloe Okuno (Watcher). Whether or not that one went by the wayside remains to be seen. But there are more than 50 books in the series, so Netflix has no shortage of material to pull from should they decide to do more beyond this upcoming installment.
Fear Street: Prom Queen does not currently have a release date.
