90's children's horror fictional novel series will have film adaptation. "Goosebumps" movie release date is set for August 7, 2015.
"Goosebumps" also had its TV adaptation which was released on October 27, 1995. Its final episode aired on November 16, 1998
"Goosebumps" movie is one of the upcoming movies of "Monsters vs. Aliens" director, Rob Letterman, aside from "Captain Underpants."
The movie adaptation storyline, as described by CinemaBlend, reads:
"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."
According to the same source, the estimated budget of this movie amounts to $85,000,000.
"The School Of Rock" actor, Jack Black will play the role of R.L. Stine. His other upcoming movie which is also set to premiere in 2015 is "Kung Fu Panda 3" where he voice casts the character named Po.
Other casts of "Goosebumps" movie are Odeya Rush as Hannah, Halston Sage, Dylan Minnette as Zach Cooper, Amy Ryan, Ken Marino as Coach Carr, Jillian Bell, Ryan Lee, Ella Wahlestedt as Anna, Jared Sandler as Student 2, Kumail Nanjiani as Foreman, Timothy Simons, Karan Soni as Mr. Rooney, Amanda Lund as Officer Brooks and Steven Krueger as Davidson.
