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1:15 am - 06/11/2008
Columbia Pictures has acquired rights from Scholastic Media to bring R.L. Stine's young-adult "Goosebumps" series to the bigscreen.
"Goosebumps" has never been adapted for the bigscreen, despite selling 300 million books -- a young-adult feat second only to Scholastic's "Harry Potter" series.
Scholastic's Deborah Forte is producing alongside Neal Moritz via his Sony-based Original Film banner.
"Numerous people have tried to bring 'Goosebumps' to the bigscreen, but luckily Scholastic never found the right fit," said Moritz, who is better known for producing action fare such as "The Fast and the Furious" films, though he has the young-adult project "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" in development at Sony. "I've been a huge fan of the property for a long time. I met with Deborah several times and convinced her that Original and Sony were the best place to take it."
Sony and Scholastic see the property as a potential franchise.
"The time is ripe for doing a movie," said Forte, who dubbed "Goosebumps" the original "safe scare" property. "The first generation of 'Goosebumps' fans are in their early 20s now."
Studio is fast-tracking the project and is focusing on finding a writer.
Moritz said they likely will cast unknown child actors and then pepper the film with well-known thesps in supporting roles, much like Warner did with the "Harry Potter" franchise.
First published in 1992, the original "Goosebumps" series comprises more than 50 books and has been published in 32 languages. Stine's "Goosebumps HorrorLand" books -- a new 12-book series that feature characters from the original series such as Slappy the Dummy, the Haunted Mask and the Mummy -- hit shelves last month. In the fall, Scholastic Interactive will launch a "Goosebumps" videogame.
The series also spawned a live-action TV show that aired on the Fox Kids Network in the 1990s. Episodes of that series returned to the small screen last year on Cartoon Network.
Matt Tolmach, co-president of Columbia, called the franchise "a truly global brand that excites kids everywhere." He added, "With so much rich source material available to us, we expect to deliver a film that will chill and thrill fans of this unique family-friendly franchise."
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viewer's beware, you're in for a scare!!!
Stine gives Columbia 'Goosebumps'
Studio acquires Scholastic's young-adult series
Studio acquires Scholastic's young-adult series
Columbia Pictures has acquired rights from Scholastic Media to bring R.L. Stine's young-adult "Goosebumps" series to the bigscreen.
"Goosebumps" has never been adapted for the bigscreen, despite selling 300 million books -- a young-adult feat second only to Scholastic's "Harry Potter" series.
Scholastic's Deborah Forte is producing alongside Neal Moritz via his Sony-based Original Film banner.
"Numerous people have tried to bring 'Goosebumps' to the bigscreen, but luckily Scholastic never found the right fit," said Moritz, who is better known for producing action fare such as "The Fast and the Furious" films, though he has the young-adult project "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" in development at Sony. "I've been a huge fan of the property for a long time. I met with Deborah several times and convinced her that Original and Sony were the best place to take it."
Sony and Scholastic see the property as a potential franchise.
"The time is ripe for doing a movie," said Forte, who dubbed "Goosebumps" the original "safe scare" property. "The first generation of 'Goosebumps' fans are in their early 20s now."
Studio is fast-tracking the project and is focusing on finding a writer.
Moritz said they likely will cast unknown child actors and then pepper the film with well-known thesps in supporting roles, much like Warner did with the "Harry Potter" franchise.
First published in 1992, the original "Goosebumps" series comprises more than 50 books and has been published in 32 languages. Stine's "Goosebumps HorrorLand" books -- a new 12-book series that feature characters from the original series such as Slappy the Dummy, the Haunted Mask and the Mummy -- hit shelves last month. In the fall, Scholastic Interactive will launch a "Goosebumps" videogame.
The series also spawned a live-action TV show that aired on the Fox Kids Network in the 1990s. Episodes of that series returned to the small screen last year on Cartoon Network.
Matt Tolmach, co-president of Columbia, called the franchise "a truly global brand that excites kids everywhere." He added, "With so much rich source material available to us, we expect to deliver a film that will chill and thrill fans of this unique family-friendly franchise."
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dummy didn't listen to the blue alien thing so lmao his fault
i've been toying with the idea of re-reading them tbh.
Tobias/Rachel OTP!
By the way, totally regret being a Sonic fan when I was younger.
But, in all honesty, I owned ALL the Animorphs books. Couldn't say the same for Goosebumps.
But then again, Animorphs kind of started sucking after a while.
That episode scared the crap out of me.
I question my eight-year-old tastes.
I liked Goosebumps, too, though. I watched all the reruns Cartoon Network put on this past October :-D
chills
I watched this movie so many fucking times with my cousins.
My friend was in an episode. House of No Return, I believe. He was one of the members of Danger, Inc.
And I remember being so jealous that my classmate's sister was an extra in this episode.
i wish i had kept it now
Very cool.
It had Jeff Goldblum in it, lol.
I always kept bookmarks on the last page, in case I died or something
i wanted him to choose his destiny with me.
You'd like that, wouldnt you
I'm going to poke you in the eyes
eye
i hated when you did the chosing though and after like 2 different page turns you got some shit like, "You turn a corner and see a boat filled with people waiting to rescuse you. An hour later you're in your mom's arms. CONGRATULATIONS!" uhm no, i wanted the happy ending after being chased by the zombie, averting death, and falling off a cliff, thank you very much.
I did that with the Carmen San Diego books though cause it would always be like "you got robbed" and I'd be like fuck!!
and an ~xtreme sports one where you were a skateboarder tryin to make it big
The deaths were such a bummer too! 'Cause they were so blunt!
"Oh no! You were wrong! Fluffy the vampire dog bit you anyway and now you're a vampire. But hey, at least you still have that best friend who has run around this town with you all though the story to suck on!"
Hahaha!
Edited at 2008-06-11 05:26 am (UTC)
I need Rocko in my life stat!
I can't wait for this shit
I'M SO EXCITED FOR YOU
GOOSEBUMPS=THE NEW TWILIGHT
The time they had the show, the one about the Halloween mask that attached to the girl's face freaked me out.