Get ready to be scared once again: Goosebumps, the 2015 movie based on R.L. Stine’s series of best-selling pulp pre-teen horror books, is getting a sequel, and a release date has been set for January 2018.
A follow-up to family frightfest was mentined back in April, but now word comes from Exhibitor Relations that Sony have set the release date for the usually quiet first month of next year.
The creative team from the first movie – director Rob Letterman, screenwriter Darren Lemke, and producers Deborah Forte and Neal H. Moritz – will be back for the new movie. There’s no word on whether Jack Black, who played the author R.L. Stine himself, will be back – but “the hope” is he will be back.
The first movie was warmly received by critics and audiences (Empire’s review called it a “pleasant surprise”), and took a respectable-if-not-earth-shattering $150m box office take against a $58m budget. It had an even more successful run on home video – but more importantly, a legion of Goosebumps books fans eager for more. Filming is due to begin this year.
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