Sony plans to give you Goosebumps

In Primary School your libraries had them, and now Sony plans to give cinemas Goosebumps too

 You either read them avidly, knew about a thousand people who read them constantly, or read them scared out of your mind to friends at sleep-overs (jeez we were lame as kids), the Goosebumps series was a hugely popular book series throughout our generations early years. Starting in 1992 and running until 1997, R.L Stine wrote 62 novels in the course of 5 years, getting first published with Scholastic. The books combined themes of horror, humour and the supernatural to scare and entertain readers young and old.

Deadline has reported that director Rob Letterman is currently in talks with Sony Pictures to direct a Goosebumps feature film. Letterman is already familiar with this type of young-teenage genre previously working on similar projects and more well known for movies such as Shark Tale, Monsters Vs Aliens and Gulliver's Travels.

No word yet on what the movie will consist of or how it will be shot, especially as the series itself never had a continuing plot, more of a collection of individual stories. However it has been reported that Darren Lemke has penned the most recent draft of the screenplay, having previously worked on Jack the Giant Slayer.

- Welsh 22/03/13

Sources:

• http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/03/20/goosebumps-movie-gets-monsters-director
• http://www.themarysue.com/goosebumps-movie-rob-letterman/
• http://www.hypable.com/2013/03/21/director-rob-letterman-in-talks-to-direct-goosebumps-movie-for-sony/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goosebumps