Slappy the Dummy, Monster Blood, the HorrorLand clan: these are just a few antagonists from R. L. Stine's popular Goosebumps book series that may still send a nostalgic shiver down your spine. Though we don't know for certain which creatures will appear in the upcoming Goosebumps movie, there's a good chance we'll find out during Comic-Con, as a panel featuring clips of the monster creation process for the Goosebumps film has been announced, with Jack Black as one of the guests.
Columbia Pictures will have a Goosebumps movie panel at the Hilton Bayfront’s Indigo Ballroom on Thursday, July 24th from 12:30pm - 1:30pm with director Rob Letterman and the actor who will portray R. L. Stine: Jack Black. According to Deadline, the two panelists, who have previously collaborated on Shark Tale and Gulliver’s Travels, will reveal clips of the monster-making process.
Originally slated for a 2016 release, we recently reported that Goosebumps will now be released on August 7th, 2015. The cast includes Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush, Timothy Simons, Amanda Lund, Amy Ryan, Jillian Bell, Ryan Lee, and Ken Marino.
“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.”
Rob Letterman directs the film from a screenplay by Darren Lemke and Mike White, and a story by Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski and Darren Lemke, based on the Goosebumps book series written by R. L. Stine. The producers are Neal H. Moritz and Deborah Forte, with Bill Bannerman and Tania Landau as Executive Producers.
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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