Teenager Zach Cooper, upset about moving from a big city to a small town, finds a silver lining when he meets a beautiful girl, Hannah, living right next door with her mysterious dad, whom Zach learns is R.L. Stine, the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series. Zach also learns that Stine has a dangerous secret: the creatures that his stories made famous are real, and Stine protects his readers by keeping them locked up in their books. When Stine’s creations are unintentionally released from their manuscripts, it’s up to Stine, Zach and Hannah to get all of these figments of Stine’s imagination back in the books where they belong.
"I love the old Amblin movies, and the reason is that they are very grounded in the real world; all of the kids have real-world problems that real-world kids can identify with. And then something supernatural or magic or from outer space would enter that world, and it made for a compelling story. That was a big part of the tone of Goosebumps that was really important for me. The other part of it was balancing the comedy and the thrills, to make sure it didn’t get too scary for kids but still had the fun scares that the series is known for." [Rob Letterman]
Rob Letterman got his start directing the short film Los Gringos, which was accepted at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. From there, he made his feature directing debut with the Academy AwardŽ nominated animated featureShark Tale, from DreamWorks Animation, for which he was also credited as writer. Four years later, Letterman directed and co-wrote the blockbuster animated hit Monsters Vs Aliens, which was DreamWorks Animation’s first film in 3D. He followed that up with his first live action movie, Gulliver’s Travels starring Jack Black, for Twentieth Century Fox.