Amazingly, R.L. Stine‘s series of horror books have never been adapted for the movie. That’s all about to change with Goosebumps, which looks to be a somewhat meta approach to Stine’s long-running series of books with Jack Black stepping into a highly fictionalized version of the real life author. Goosebumps is directed by Rob Letterman, who worked with Black on his last film Gulliver’s Travels, with a screenplay by Darren Lemke working off a story by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, writers of Ed Wood. Goosebumps hopes to blur the line between reality and fiction when it opens on October 16th, 2015.
The official synopsis for Goosebumps (English and Spanish):
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, and makes a quick friend in Champ (Ryan Lee). But every silver lining has a cloud, and Zach’s comes when he learns that Hannah’s mysterious dad is in fact R.L. Stine (Jack Black), the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series. As Zach starts learning about the strange family next door, he soon discovers that Stine holds a dangerous secret: the creatures that his stories made famous are real, and Stine protects his readers by keeping them locked up in their books. When Stine’s creations are unintentionally released from their manuscripts, Zach’s life takes a turn for the weird. In a crazy night of adventure, it’s up to Zach, Hannah, Champ, and Stine to team up and get all of these figments of Stine’s imagination – including Slappy the Dummy, the girl with the haunted mask, the gnomes and many more – back in the books where they belong to save the town.
Molesto por tener que mudarse de una gran ciudad a un pueblo, el adolescente Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette) descubre el lado positivo de las cosas cuando conoce a una bella muchacha, Hannah (Odeya Rush), quien vive exactamente puerta de por medio, y además se hace amigo rapidamente de Champ (Ryan Lee). Pero aún las cosas positivas tienen desventajas, y Zach lo descubre cuando se entera que el misterioso padre de Hannah es el mismísimo R.L. Stine (Jack Black), el autor de la serie de best-sellers Goosebumps. A medida que Zach empieza a aprender cosas sobre la extraña familia que vive en la casa de al lado, pronto descubre que Stine esconde un peligroso secreto: las criaturas que sus historias hicieron famosas son reales, y Stine proteje a sus lectores al mantenerlos encerrados en sus
libros. Cuando las creaciones de Stine son liberadas por error de sus manuscritos, la vida de Zach da un vuelco aún más extraño. En una alocada noche de aventuras, dependerá de Zach, Hannah, Champ, y Stine el unirse para volver a meter a todos esos productos de la imaginación de Stine, entre ellos Slappy el muñeco viviente, la chica con la máscara maldita, los gnomos y muchos más, otra vez en los libros, el sitio en el que pertenecen, para poder salvar al pueblo.
