Goosebumps is returning to television.
Scholastic Entertainment and Sony Pictures Television announced Tuesday that they are collaborating on a new live-action series to be produced by Original Film’s Neal H. Mortiz, who produced the two recent feature films.
Goosebumps was previously produced as a horror anthology television series in the 1990s.
The franchise, based on the bestselling book series by author R.L. Stine, later made the leap to the big screen with a pair of films featuring Jack Black as a fictionalized version of Stine.
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“I loved making the Goosebumps movies and can’t wait to bring even more of R. L. Stine’s incredible stories to life through a high-end television series that speaks to both adults and kids alike,” Moritz said in a statement.
No word yet on when production will begin.
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In our positive review of 2015’s Goosebumps, we said the film “does not require such generation-specific fandom in order to be enjoyed, and is in fact an all-inclusive monster romp that’s fun and spooky and just a little bit touching too.”
We were less enamored with its 2018 sequel, Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween, which we deemed “in far too much of a hurry – and perhaps too eager to be widely accessible – to be actually scary or wholly effective.”
Deadline first broke the news of the new series.
Source: IGN.com New Goosebumps Live-Action TV Series in Development