After quite a while in development where moviemakers were trying to work out how to translate the massive success of RL Stine’s books onto the screen, despite the fact it’s essentially an anthology with all sorts of different stories.
However now they hope they’ve got it right and have released our first look at Jack Black as Stine in the Goosebumps movie.
In EW Black says in his take on Stine, “Even though I’m playing a real person, this is obviously a fictionalized version of his life and nothing that happens in this movie actually happened to him, other than him writing all the books. So I felt like, I was just going to approach it as a character, doing what I thought was most dramatically interesting and right for what was needed. I also got to meet R.L. and he’s a really great guy. Really smart and funny and sweet. But I made [the character] more of a sort of curmudgeonly dark, brooding beast master. So from the very beginning, I was taking liberties. I think he’s cool with it though. [Laughs] He’s been on set and he actually did a little cameo. He saw what I was doing and he was digging it. Or at least he pretended like he was digging it.”
The plot revolves around Stine’s teenage neighbour bringing the author’s most creepy creations to life, and its up to the author’s daughter Hannah to capture the monsters that are running amok.
Don’t expect to see it for a while though, as it’s not due out until August 7th, 2015.
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