We first heard an ethereal, sinister whisper {that a} live-action Goosebumps TV collection is perhaps coming to hang-out us again in 2020. But now that whisper has turn into a piercing scream of utter terror, resembling one would possibly make when menaced by a sentient ventriloquist’s dummy, which shrieks, “That live-action Goosebumps TV series is now actually happening over at Disney+!” The horror! The horror!

Variety broke the information that Disney has ordered 10 episodes of the brand new collection primarily based on the immensely prolific R.L. Stine’s immensely widespread youngsters’ horror novels of the ‘90s. While the 235 (!) books in the series were an anthology starring different children encountering different horrors—as was the first live-action TV adaptation that ran from 1995-98—it sounds like this show might be rather different:

“The series follows a group of five high schoolers who unleash supernatural forces upon their town and must all work together—thanks to and in spite of their friendships, rivalries, and pasts with each other—in order to save it, learning much about their own parents’ teenage secrets and techniques within the course of.”

There’s rather a lot happening on this description that sounds non-Goosebumps-y to me, however of these 235 books, I’ve learn roughly… hmm… lower than one in every of them, so what do I do know? Well, I do know that the collection might be executive-produced by Neal H. Moritz, who additionally did the 2015 and 2016 live-action films starring Jack Black as R.L. Stine (OK, it was extra of a cameo in the second, however no matter). Robert Letterman, who directed the primary movie and the wonderful Pokémon Detective Pikachu, and Nick Stoller, who wrote the 2 most up-to-date Muppets films, will each write and EP the present as nicely.

Did you learn the Goosebumps books as a younger’un? Any favorites you hope to see tailored (or re-adapted) for TV? Do you suppose one of many dad and mom has that sentient ventriloquist’s dummy? Feel free to scream your hopes and fears within the feedback, you recognize, when you dare.

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