Goosebumps LiveAction TV Show In The Works From Movie Producer

Goosebumps Live-Action TV Show In The Works From Movie Producer

Sony TV and Scholastic are joining forces on a new live-action Goosebumps TV show with Neal H. Moritz (who produced the Goosebumps movies).

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Goosebumps LiveAction TV Show In The Works From Movie Producer

Sony TV and Scholastic are joining forces with Goosebumps movie producer Neal H. Moritz for a new live-action series based on the franchise. Created by R.L. Stine, the original run of Goosebumps books were published in the 1990s and became hugely popular with their target demographic of horror-loving kids. In addition to various spinoffs, the novels were adapted into a TV show which aired for four seasons from 1995-98. Much like its source material, the Goosebumps TV series is an anthology of supernatural horror stories both about and meant for children.

The property eventually made the leap to the big screen with 2015’s Goosebumps, a live-action movie starring Jack Black as a fictional version of Stine who teams up with some kids to save the day when the creatures from his various books escape into the real world. Black would go on to (briefly) reprise his role as Stine in a less successful, but still profitable, followup titled Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween three years later. Now, however, it appears the franchise is heading back to television.

Scholastic Entertainment has confirmed to Screen Rant that Moritz (who produced both of the Goosebumps movies) is working with them and Sony Pictures Television on a new live-action Goosebumps TV series. It’s still early days, though, so additional details about the show will be revealed at a later time.

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Reading between the lines, it seems the new Goosebumps live-action series will exist separate from the continuity of the films. In fairness, the movies were already pretty loosely connected; in fact, Black as Stine is the only lead actor to appear in both of them. Beyond that, there was a significant drop-off at the box office between the original Goosebumps and Happy Halloween ($158 million vs. $93 million), and the latter was only successful thanks to its slim $35 million budget. Between that and the ’90s Goosebumps TV series gaining a new lease on life thanks to people streaming it on services like Netflix, it’s not too surprising to learn the property is going back to television.

In fact, many fans would probably argue Goosebumps is better fit for TV anyway. The anthology format of Stine’s source material makes it a natural match for the small screen, as the ’90s show illustrated. Not to mention, after the original Goosebumps movie brought the most famous monsters from Stine’s books together for (basically) a massive crossover, there wasn’t really anywhere Happy Halloween could go without rehashing much of the first film’s plot to diminished returns. Hopefully, by returning to the anthology approach, this new TV show will find a way to recapture and re-imagine the spoopy fun of Stine’s literature for a new generation (and, with a little luck, some older Goosebumps fanatics along the way).

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