‘Goosebumps’ Live Action TV Series Reboot Coming to Disney Plus

[The Deadman]

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After two movies, a brand new live-action Goosebumps TV series based on R.L. Stine’s bestselling books will bring the tales back to the small screen, we’ve learned today.

Variety reports this afternoon that Disney+ has given the green light to the new live action Goosebumps series, giving the show a 10-episode series order this week.

It sounds like the series will have a similar storyline to 2015’s hit movie, which adapted many of Stine’s iconic books in one fell swoop. Here’s the project’s plot synopsis…

“The series follows a group of five high schoolers who unleash supernatural forces upon their town and must all work together – thanks to and in spite of their friendships, rivalries, and pasts with each other – in order to save it, learning much about their own parents’ teenage secrets in the process.”

Rob Letterman, who directed the 2015 Goosebumps movie, will be directing the first episode of the Disney+ series. He’s also on board to write and executive produce.

Nick Stoller will also write and executive produce the Goosebumps TV series.

Variety adds, “Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty of Original Film, Conor Welch of Stoller Global Solutions, and Iole Lucchese and Caitlin Friedman of Scholastic Entertainment are also executive producing. Sony Pictures Television Studios will produce.”

Before the movies, Stine’s Goosebumps books were first turned into a TV series back in the 1990s, a live action project that ran for four seasons between 1995 and 1998.

[Wildcat]

Have not seen the movies but the old show was good. CN used to show reruns for Halloween.

Plot reminded a little of Disney’s show Secrets of Sulphur Springs. A family moves into an old haunted hotel/camp. The kids find a bunker that leads to the past and time travel to when their parents were kids.

I saw the first season. It was predictable but I found it interesting.

[Allio]

I’d rather a new season of the Haunting Hour

[sdp]

The live action goosebumps movies are accurate to the source material, they are fun little adventures that aren't very scary (neither are the books) but make a fun watch if you're nostalgic. They certainly aren't anything groundbreaking, if you aren't a kid or have any nostalgia for goosebumps they'll mean nothing to you.

This seems like the same idea but I think it'll be somehow more goosebumps themed with each episode dealing with a specific monster so it sounds interesting. I'll watch it, I'm sure it'll be made for a 7-10 age group like the original show. Yeah it would've been cool for the show to adapt books like the original show but people complaining online are adults who haven't read the books since they were kids and think the stories were actually ever scary but they weren't so whatever. I love goosebumps but purely based on nostalgia alone, the stories are for the most part trash.

Spoiler:

Yeah, Goosebumps always did well on Netflix so I assumed it would be there, the show had been announced a long while ago so it seemed like it already somewhere it was going to air, unsure if this Disney acquisition of the show was recent or not. I don't think Disney will allow the show to do too man crazy things, I mean Goosebumps target audience is kids 7 so it's not like it was ever going to be a "mature" show but I'm sure Disney is stricter on what can or cannot be shown.

[newfan]

When this last came up I thought it was going to be on Netflix, I may or may not see it... depending if I stop being stuburn about getting Disney +

[ZariusTwo]

[The Deadman]

I'm one episode in and I'm definifely surprised at the horror tone they were going for with this show, especially on Disney Plus.

[Allio]

Decided to start the show. Considering this is definitely trying to be like Nick’s new “Are You Afraid of The Dark?” It’ss not bad under that guise. I just wish it decided if it were either episodic or a serialized series. It’s trying to be both, but it just doesn’t allow the iconic goosebumps stuff shine through.

Still better than the films.

[ZariusTwo]