Sony Reveals Synopsis for GOOSEBUMPS Film

Sony has unveiled the first synopsis for the upcoming movie adaptation of the popular R.L. Stine book series Goosebumps.  The film stars Jack Black as Stine, who, as it turns out, writes the Goosebumps books in order to keep the monsters locked up within their pages.  Dylan Minnette plays the unsuspecting kid who inadvertently unleashes them into the world.  The film also features Amy Ryan, Jillian Bell, Odeya Rush, Ken Marino, and Ryan Lee.

Filming is officially underway with Gulliver’s Travels director Rob Letterman at the helm.  Goosebumps has a release date of March 23, 2016, hit the jump for the full synopsis.
 

In Goosebumps, upset about moving from a big city to a small town, teenager Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette) finds a silver lining when he meets the beautiful girl, Hannah (Odeya Rush), living right next door. But every silver lining has a cloud, and Zach’s comes when he learns that Hannah has a mysterious dad who is revealed to be R. L. Stine (Jack Black), the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series. It turns out that there is a reason why Stine is so strange… he is a prisoner of his own imagination – the monsters that his books made famous are real, and Stine protects his readers by keeping them locked up in their books. When Zach unintentionally unleashes the monsters from their manuscripts and they begin to terrorize the town, it’s suddenly up to Stine, Zach, and Hannah to get all of them back in the books where they belong.