Fans of R.L. Stine’sGoosebumpsbooks and movies will be pleased to see a new TV series based on the prolific author’s horror books for children is coming to Disney+. With the book series being the basis for Jack Black’s 2015Goosebumpsmovie, and its 2018 sequel, which both took creatures from a number of Stine’s books and combined them in one story that featured Black as the author, fans can now look forward to another brand new take on the much loved stories of the biggest name in childhood nightmares.
R. L. Stinehas written over 200 books under theGoosebumpsbanner, having expandedfrom the original 62 novelsreleased between 1992 and 1997 to include a number of spinoffs and linked stories that have continued to terrify young and old readers for almost three decades and have seen over 400 million copies sold. Having already been adapted into a successful TV show in the 1990s by Fox, there have been rumors of a new series being in production for the last two years, with Stine himself teasing that a director had been found last year.
In news reported byVariety, a new 10-episode series has been ordered and will head to Disney+, with Nick Stoller and Rob Letterman writing the series and Neal H. Moritz serving as executive producer. Although the series is not expected to have any direct ties to the two movies, the team behind it certainly has connections to the Jack Black films with Letterman having directed the 2015 outing and Moritz producing on both.
According to the small amount of details known so far, the series will focus on five high school kids who find their town under threat from supernatural forces that they have unleashed. While it may not be linked to the 2015 movie, the concept sounds very similar.
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R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps Has Already Been A Hit and Disney Will Want To Follow Suit
It took well over a decade forGoosebumpsto make it to the big screen, after being originally discussed as a Tim Burton project as far back as 1998, but when it arrived the 2015 movie was a reasonable hit both at the box office and with audiences.Goosebumps: Haunted Halloweenarrived three years later without any of the original movie cast and without Letterman as director, but financially the film did well thanks to having around half the budget of the first film, although its reviews left something to be desired.
Along with the movies and the 90s TV series, R.L. Stine’sFear Streetseries of young adult novels were also adapted as an R-rated trilogy of movies for Netflix, which all gained some high praise and proved to be a crowd-pleaser when they were released across three weeks in July 2021. While Disney+’sGoosebumpsseries will be definitely aimed at a young teen market rather than the adult audiences ofFear Street, there will be a high expectation on the series to bring in similar praise when makes its likely debut in 2023.
