Matt Palmer Tapped to Direct ‘Fear Street: Prom Queen’ for Netflix

R.L. Stine recently confirmed that Fear Street: Prom Queen is in development at Netflix, with pre-production now underway for the movie. Matthew Palmer has been selected to direct the new feature film.

The Canadian Director’s Guild first posted about Fear Street: Prom Queen in early January 2024, and we quickly reported on everything we knew about the project and the source material.

Shortly after, R.L. Stine took to Twitter to confirm the new project, saying:

“Movie News: I can finally announce that a new Fear Street movie is about to go into production for Netflix. It’s based on my Fear Street book, The Prom Queen. Good news!”

You may recall that Above the Line first reported in December 2022 that Chloe Okuno, who was just coming off the 2022 hit Watcher, was originally attached to direct the project. This is no longer the case.

Matt Palmer (also known as Matthew Palmer) is set to direct the Fear Street movie. Palmer previously worked on the criminally underrated Netflix Original movie Calibre, released on the service back in 2018.

Palmer and Donald McLeary are the writing duo behind the new feature.

Chernin Entertainment is producing Fear Street: Prom Queen for Netflix. They are currently under an extensive overall deal with Netflix.

According to the Canadian Director’s Guild, filming is scheduled to begin on March 25th, 2024, and continue through May 10th, 2024.

It’s unclear whether the movie will be ready for release by Halloween this year. We do know that Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein will not be coming out this year, but Netflix does have a few other horror titles in store for the festive period, such as the recently acquired It’s What’s Inside, which it picked up from Sundance.

What’s on Netflix can also confirm that the new movie is set in the 1980s and is not part of the original trilogy, released in the summer of 2021, in any form.

Note: We previously wrote that Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage were due to write the movie. This information was incorrect and has been amended.

Are you looking forward to Fear Street: Prom Queen on Netflix? Let us know in the comments.