R L Stine's Goosebumps - The Movie

[The Mothman]

was an avid fan of both the books and the show back in the day.

[Odin]

Interesting! I hope this turns out well...

I was also a huge fan of the Goosebumps books, I read the entire first series, had a cardboard cut-out of Curly, glow in the dark Goosebumps boxers, pogs, hologram cards, and various other merchandise.

I found it harder to find the "Give yourself Goosebumps" books, but I read which ever ones I could get my hands on.

I lost interest in the books when "Series 2000" came out though.
I think I was just too old for them by then.

[DeVuL]

I dig it... I used to read those damned books all the time! Gives me something to do with my little sister anyhow! *smile*

[SodaGirl]

I will definitely watch it for nostalgia, the same reason I pop in my "Are Your Afraid of the Dark" DVDs from time to time. I loved Goosebumps and still have a lot of the books buried somewhere in the basement!

[creepycrawler23]

How are they gonna do this? Goosebumps is a series of individual sci-fi/horror short novels. What's the movie gonna be about? There must be hundreds of those books.

I'm glad. My kids love the books and the movies. I know I did when I was younger.

[_____V_____]

Chances are, if you were born in the last 30 years, you’ve either heard of or read one of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books. The series, which features horror stories for kids, contains over 150 books which have sold over 300 million copies worldwide. The only bigger young adult publishing franchise is Harry Potter.

Columbia Pictures picked up the film rights in 2008 and have just announced a screenwriter to kick-start the book series as a potential live-action franchise: Carl Ellsworth, the writer behind Disturbia, Red Eye and The Last House On the Left remake.

It’ll be produced by Neal Moritz of Original Film and Deborah Forte of Scholastic Entertainment, who currently publishes the books.

The Goosebumps series began publishing in 1992 and has spawned several video games, board games, a television show and much more. It’s an incredibly lucrative franchise with a very well-known brand name so there’s no doubt that Columbia would love this to be the start of a franchise.

The main question that comes to mind is, with such an enormous amount of source material, what will Ellsworth use to come up with the first story? There already is a script out there - when Columbia originally picked up the rights, Larry Karaszewski and Scott Alexander wrote a treatment - but in the Hollywood Reporter piece that broke the news, it doesn’t say if that script will be used.

Will the Goosebumps series be the next Harry Potter? Probably not. But the potential is endless. With book titles like Welcome to Camp Nightmare, One Day At Horrorland, The Cuckoo Clock of Doom, It Came From Beneath the Sink and on and on, it would be hard to keep fans out of the theater.

[Weapon X]

Looking forward to this.

[Posher778]

I would like to see the book about the wicked snowman put into a live action. That one scared me as a kid. Or the mudmen.

[fortunato]

I would love to see One Day at Horrorland. Or The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight. Or Welcome to Dead House...haha.

I still wish Rod had gotten the bid on this one. His pitch was awesome.