Goosebumps

[jed]

I'm a huge fan of "Goosebumps"....read the books as a kid. Looking forward to this.

But Jack Black does not resemble R.L.STINE at all.

I hope they use stories from...."The Haunted Mask", "Welcome to Dead House", "Go eat worms", "Be Careful what you wish for", "Say Cheese and die", "Monster Blood", "One day at Horrorland", "Stay out of the basement", "Welcome to camp nightmare", "Calling all creeps", "The cuckoo clock of doom", "It came from beneath the sink" and etc......

 

[TheVileOne]

I'm a huge fan of "Goosebumps"....read the books as a kid. Looking forward to this.

But Jack Black does not resemble R.L.STINE at all.

I hope they use stories from...."The Haunted Mask", "Welcome to Dead House", "Go eat worms", "Be Careful what you wish for", "Say Cheese and die", "Monster Blood", "One day at Horrorland", "Stay out of the basement", "Welcome to camp nightmare", "Calling all creeps", "The cuckoo clock of doom", "It came from beneath the sink" and etc......

Well it's not the real R.L. Stine, plus do many actors resemble the real-life characters they play?

 

[mclay18]

That's not the point. The fact that the director AND the star of Gulliver's Travels is doing Goosebumps says something about the direction Sony's going with this: Not good.

It could overcome that negative and be a fun little film... but yeesh. Not liking how it's shaping up at all.

 

[Octoberist]

It's going to be a farce. Be prepared.

 

[Wandi]

It's going to be a farce. Be prepared.

"Viewer beware, You're in for a crappy movie." :P

 

[mclay18]

Sony Pictures will release Goosebumps on March 23, 2016.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/sonys-goosebumps-gets-release-date-683763

Would've thought they'd release it October 2015...

 

[Supernova]

Goosebumps was a phase for kids at the time who are in there late 20's early 30's now. Is there really an audience anymore for this thing, Especially if it looks hammy?

 

[Drizzle]

Goosebumps was a phase for kids at the time who are in there late 20's early 30's now. Is there really an audience anymore for this thing, Especially if it looks hammy?

It certainly doesn't have the same nostalgia factor that Transformers, TMNT, or even Power Rangers would. At least with those, there were toys and games and stuff. I liked Goosebumps in the second grade. But I haven't even given them a thought in over 15 years. They ended in the 90s too and there was never a revival period, as far as I know. But they were written purely for grade schoolers. There's nothing worthwhile in any of those books for anyone over the age of 10. The TV show was fairly entertaining, but it's not like that was anything groundbreaking either.

 

[Majik1387]

I know they sometimes rerun it on some of the kid channels, and during October, ABC Family sometimes have a marathon of Goosebumps and other R.L. Stine material, but I don't see this making much bank.

 

[Rodrigo90]

I'm 23 and purchased all the Give Yourself books a few months ago

 

[MrMaooz]

I've had enough of your juvenile behaviors, Roddy.

 

[Lencho01]

Official ‘Goosebumps’ Synopsis Reveals Meta Storyline

In Goosebumps, upset about moving from a big city to a small town, teenager Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette) finds a silver lining when he meets the beautiful girl, Hannah (Odeya Rush), living right next door. But every silver lining has a cloud, and Zach’s comes when he learns that Hannah has a mysterious dad who is revealed to be R. L. Stine (Jack Black), the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series. It turns out that there is a reason why Stine is so strange… he is a prisoner of his own imagination – the monsters that his books made famous are real, and Stine protects his readers by keeping them locked up in their books. When Zach unintentionally unleashes the monsters from their manuscripts and they begin to terrorize the town, it’s suddenly up to Stine, Zach, and Hannah to get all of them back in the books where they belong.

 

[Rodrigo90]

I like it....

 

[terry78]

I admit it does sound pretty cool to actually see all the classic creatures from the series running around.

 

[Donut]

It does sound cool but eh Jack Black. Was he the only one willing to do it or something

 

[EssayM]

Idk...the monsters running around could be cool, but that plotline is just full of kids-movie cliches. I think Spiderwick Chronicles and Epic had almost the exact same storyline, and that's not a lead you want to follow.

And Jack Black...he has his moments, but almost none of them were under the director of Shark Tale (the one truly awful Dreamworks film) and Gulliver's Travels.

I dunno, maybe it'll be decent, but right now it looks pretty forgettable.

 

[Wheels]

The GA won't care but this is kind of weird since Bob Stine has appeared a few times to introduce episodes of the show. He even has an autobiography.

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/goosebumps-release-date-smurfs-reboot-august-2016/

Moved up to next summer.

 

[mclay18]

EDIT: Ninja'd.

 

[MrMaooz]

 

[Sawyer]

God this is going to have so much typical Jack Black humor, I can feel it...

 

[Rodrigo90]

It's just the one expression

 

[MrMaooz]

God this is going to have so much typical Jack Black humor, I can feel it...

Let's just hope it's School of Rock quality.

 

[Wheels]

Surprised Jack is sporting the black coat and glasses. I thought they'd go more outlandish with the look.

 

[Rodrigo90]

His personality just doesn't match that look.

It's like sticking Batman in a pink leotard