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Columbia Gets GOOSEBUMPS

Columbia Pictures has picked up the rights to the GOOSEBUMPS series by R.L. Stine.

First published in 1992, the original GOOSEBUMPS series is made up of more than 50 books and has been published in 32 languages. The GOOSEBUMPS HORRORLAND books -- a new 12-book series that feature characters from the original series such as Slappy the Dummy, the Haunted Mask and the Mummy -- hit shelves last month. In the fall, Scholastic Interactive will launch a GOOSEBUMPS videogame.  The book series also spawned a live-action TV show that aired on the Fox Kids Network in the 1990s. Episodes of that series returned to the small screen last year on Cartoon Network.
The series also inspired two board games produced by Milton Bradley, TERROR IN THE GRAVEYARD and ESCAPE FROM HORRORLAND, a 1996 PC game produced by DreamWorks Interactive also entitled, GOOSEBUMPS: ESCAPE FROM HORRORLAND like Milton Bradley's board game and another book-based PC game entitled ATTACK OF THE MUTANT.

The primary protagonist(s) of a GOOSEBUMPS story is often situated in a remote location or somehow isolated from typical societal conventions. These range from a comfortable suburban area to boarding schools, foreign villages, campsites, unfamiliar relatives' homes or even oversea areas. The books in the series usually feature semi-homogenous plot structures with normal kids being, frequently indirectly, involved in scary situations; chapters end in cliffhangers, and after the central conflict has either been or appears to have been resolved, there is often a twist ending.

No screenwriter or director is attached yet.