The First Look at The Strangers: Chapter 1

The current plot synopsis for Chapter 1 is: “Madelaine Petsch stars as a young woman on a road trip with her fiancé (Froy Gutierrez). But when they stop at a remote vacation rental in the woods, they become the prey of a vicious gang of masked strangers who attack without warning or reason, and must use courage and cunning to survive one long, terrifying night.”

Courtney explained the motivation to create the new trilogy and just how the plans came to light: “A friend of mine called me and said he had the rights to do more Strangers movies, and he asked if I wanted to remake [it]”. As for the script, it was written in the style of one movie and it was 288 pages long. Renny admitted to being taken aback when the script was given to him.

“I called Courtney after I read it in about nine hours, and he explained there was a plan to go much deeper than just a reboot”, he said. “And I begged to do it. I wanted to do it for the fans, and for the new generation that perhaps had not seen the original.”

“We looked at the original movie for inspiration, and the sequel. We wanted to reboot the original and pay homage to it, and ended up with the 288-page script that Renny always reminds me of”, Courtney added. So the script, by design, was written the way it was so that it could be broken up into three movies. As for the time frame of the film, they three span only a few days. On the time frame, Harlin stated: “The very first scene of the second film follows the very last scene in the first movie, and the first scene in the third film follows the last scene in Chapter Two”.