Then, in early 2016, Guillermo del Toro signed on to direct the film, subsequently hiring the Hageman brothers to write a new draft of the screenplay.
Del Toro, who is also producing, co-wrote the screenplay with Daniel and Kevin Hageman (The LEGO Movie).
It’s understandable if your immediate reaction to that headline was an eye roll — we’d all but given up hope for Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, which was first announced over two years ago.
Since then, del Toro has accumulated a handful of potential projects, stepped away from a blockbuster sequel, and won an Oscar for a romantic period drama about a mute woman and a fish-man.