Disney Releases Trailer For Upcoming 'Goosebumps' Series

TV & Film

Sep 16

R.L. Stine’s popular line of spooky children’s books is getting a new live-action series, which will be released exclusively on the D+ and Hulu streaming services, appropriately enough on Friday, October 13 of this year.

The series will feature a group of five teenagers who investigate the passing of a teenager, Harold Biddle, three decades ago and in the process begin to uncover dark secrets of their parents’ past. The series will feature elements of Goosebumps stories such as The Haunted Mask, Say Cheese and Die, The Cuckoo Clock of Doom, Go Eat Worms, and Night of the Living Dummy. The series’ principal cast includes Justin Long, Isa Briones, Rachael Harris, Zack Morris, Miles McKenna, Anna Yui Puig, and Will Price.

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The show is created by Disney Branded Television and Sony Pictures Television. Nicholas Stoller (The Muppets) and Rob Letterman (Pokémon Detective Pikachu) developed the series and serve as executive producers, alongside Hilary Winston (Community), Neal H. Moritz (Fast & Furious franchise), Scholastic Entertainment’s Iole Lucchese (Clifford the Big Red Dog), Pavun Shetty (The Boys), Conor Welch (Platonic), Scholastic Entertainment’s Caitlin Friedman (Stillwater), Erin O’Malley (New Girl) and Kevin Murphy (Desperate Housewives). James Eagan (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) and Nick Adams (BoJack Horseman) serve as co-executive producers.

This will not be the first adaptation of R.L. Stines’ Goosebumps material. There was a previous live-action TV series that ran from 1995-1998 for four seasons and 74 episodes, featuring adaptations of Stine’s most popular works, including many of the aforementioned titles. R.L. Stine even hosted the first season of the series himself. Several individual adaptations of Stine’s stories have been released on home video, shorts, audiobooks, and videogames since the 1990’s. There was even a film adaptation released in 2015 featuring popular actor Jack Black as R.L. Stine.

The first five episodes of the updated series will be released on October 13th on both D+, as part of its Hallowstream and Hulu, as part of its Huluween and then release episodes weekly. The first two episodes will also be released on Freeform on October 13th as part of its 31 Nights of Halloween.

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