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‘Goosebumps’: New Live-Action TV Series Lands at Disney Plus (EXCLUSIVE)

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The brand new “Goosebumps” TV collection has been picked up by Disney Plus, Selection has discovered solely.

The brand new collection model of the beloved R.L. Stine books was first reported as being within the works in April 2020. Disney Plus has given the present a 10-episode order.

The collection follows a gaggle of 5 excessive schoolers who unleash supernatural forces upon their city and should all work collectively – due to and regardless of their friendships, rivalries, and pasts with one another – so as to reserve it, studying a lot about their very own mother and father’ teenage secrets and techniques within the course of.

Nick Stoller and Rob Letterman function writers and government producers on the present, with Stoller government producing through Stoller International Options. Letterman can even direct the primary episode. Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty of Unique Movie, Conor Welch of Stoller International Options, and Iole Lucchese and Caitlin Friedman of Scholastic Leisure are additionally government producing. Sony Photos Tv Studios will produce. Unique Movie and Stoller International Options are presently beneath TV general offers with Sony.

Moritz was a producer on the 2 latest “Goosebumps” function movies, which have been launched in 2015 and 2018. Letterman directed the primary movie. Collectively, each of the flicks grossed over $250 million.

Printed by Scholastic, “Goosebumps” is among the best-selling e book collection of all time. Greater than 400 million English-language copies of the books are actually in print, plus worldwide editions in 32 languages. There are actually greater than 200 “Goosebumps” books in whole, together with the principle e book collection in addition to varied spinoffs and associated e book collection.

The Disney Plus present is now the second live-action “Goosebumps” collection to make it to air. The primary model aired for 4 seasons and 74 episodes between 1996 and 1998. That present was an episodic anthology, with every episode primarily based on a unique “Goosebumps” e book. That is additionally the second R.L. Stine collection to be ordered at Disney Plus. The streamer beforehand ordered a collection adaptation of Stine’s “Simply Past” graphic novels. The present debuted its eight-episode first season in October 2021.

Supply: Selection