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Sony Pictures is so confident that Jack Black’s upcoming film Goosebumps is going to be a box office success that they’re already preparing to make the sequel. The first film isn’t set to be released in theaters until October 16th, but they are obviously banking on it being a successful franchise.
The movie is based on the popular children’s horror stories written by R.L. Stine, which have quite a huge following. A lot of kids grew up on those books, and many of them, who are older now, seem really excited about this movie coming out.
The movie looks like it will provide some decent entertainment, especially for the kids, but I wish that they would have done one adaptation per book instead of cramming all of the monsters into one movie. If Sony Pictures had done it that way, they would have had an even stronger film franchise that could bring in even more money. I think the fans would have much rather seen something like that, but it looks like they’ll settle for what they’re getting.
According to The Tracking Board, the studio is also on the hunt for a writer to script the sequel, which is obviously in the early stages of development. If the first movie bombs, though, I’m sure the studio will cancel any plans that they have come up with for this sequel.
Here’s the synopsis for the upcoming film:
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.
Are you excited about the prospect of Goosebumps becoming an adventure horror film franchise?
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