Sony announces Dylan Minnette and Jack Black will star in the upcoming Goosebumps movie...
Goosebumps are being raised again. R.L. Stine’s slightly spooky stories for Scholastic students is coming to the big screen. Sony announced that Dylan Minnette was been cast in Sony Pictures’ upcoming film adaptation of the widely loved Goosebumps books. Minnette joins Jack Black, winner of many Kids’ Choice Awards.
Minnette will play Zach Cooper, a kid who moves with his family from New York to Greendale, Maryland, where things aren’t quite as ideal as they seem. First off, he lives next to a R.L. Stine, who will be played by Black. Stine’s got secrets, scary secrets. Stine’s got demons in his mind. The writer also has a ventriloquist’s dummy named Slappy. Stine’s niece Hannah, played by Odeya Rush, goes to Zach for help cramming those demons back into Stine’s mind.
The Goosebumps movie will be directed by Rob Letterman, who also directed Gulliver’s Travels which starred Jack Black. The screenplay is written by Darren Lemke and Mike White.
Minnette just finished shooting Alexander And The Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day with Steve Carell for the Mouse.
Remember the Goosebumps tv show? Those were fun times, weren't they? Let's hope that the Goosebumps movie is more of the same, although the casting choice does have us thinking that the movie might be in trouble...
SOURCE: Deadline
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