The feature film version of Goosebumps, starring Jack Black as R.L. Stine, recently started filming and was originally set for an early 2016 release date. Usually, we report on movies being delayed, but fans will be happy to hear that they'll be able to see this movie much earlier than originally planned.
Goosebumps will now be released on August 7th, 2015, which puts it on the same date as Assassin's Creed from Fox. We also have word (via The Wrap) that Timothy Simons and Amanda Lund have joined the cast that includes Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush, 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.
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