The first official Goosebumps photo from Disney+’s forthcoming TV adaptation of R.L. Stine’s bestselling novel series has been revealed.
The photo features the first look at the horror comedy’s main cast as they portray high school friends who accidentally unleash supernatural entities. According to The Wrap, the coming-of-age series will be available for streaming this coming October.
Who’s Involved in Goosebumps?
Disney+’s Goosebumps series is created and executive produced by Nick Stoller and Rob Letterman, who previously directed the first Goosebumps film in 2015. It stars Justin Long as Nathan Bratt, Miles McKenna as James, Will Price as Jeff, Ana Yi Puig as Isabella, Zack Morris as Isaiah, Isa Briones as Jane, Rachael Harris as Nora, and Rob Huebel as Colin.
“The horror comedy 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 in the process,” reads the synopsis.
The adaptation is executive produced by Kevin Murphy, Neal H. Moritz, Pavun Shetty, Conor Welch, Erin O’Malley, Iole Lucchese, Caitlin Friedman, Julia Ruchman, James Eagan, and Nick Adams, with Murphy also serving as showrunner. It hails from Sony Pictures Television and Disney Branded Television.
This marks as the second official live-action Goosebumps series to air. The first series premiered lasted for four seasons from 1996 to 1998. The initial series was an anthology, with each episode taking a different R.L. Stine book and turning it into its own episode, with some books spanning multiple episodes.
