Goosebumps executive producers Conor Welch and Pavun Shetty discuss serializing the show, the cast, and honoring the original tone of the books.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The new Goosebumps series is based on the acclaimed young adult horror novels by R.L. Stine. The series follows a group of five high school students who begin investigating a dark secret about the town's history. As they learn more about the tragic passing of teenager Harold Biddle, which took place three decades ago, they uncover shocking truths about their parents' pasts.
It's a little bit too old for you. And I think we wanted to embrace that when we were doing the show. And we also wanted to bring in a new audience, and an adult audience too, that felt like they were seeing issues on screen that they could identify with also. So we endeavored to have a high school cast and their parents at the exact same time. And our audience hopefully are people who read the books, but are also new people who are discovering the books for the first time.
And then about halfway through, bring them together, realizing that they're being haunted by totems that probably are connected, and working together to figure out how to solve the mystery. So yeah, it was important to us to have sort of an elevated mystery that kept an audience wondering what would happen next.
I want to talk about the cast for a second because the cast for this show is absolutely incredible. It's diverse, and they're so unique. Miles McKenna, Zack Morris, Isa Briones, and Anna Yi Puig are fantastic in this. What did they bring to their roles that weren't necessarily on the page? Pavun Shetty: We lucked out with Justin. He's incredible. I had gotten to work with him before on a show called New Girl, so I knew how funny he was, and I'd obviously seen him in a lot of movies, and he's been in a lot of iconic coming-of-age comedies, but he is also been in a lot of great horror pieces, Jeepers Creepers. He was just coming off Barbarian where he was an unlikeable guy, but also was easy to follow and super compelling.
Pavun Shetty: Right. Rob Letterman who created the show also directed the first movie, and he directed the first episode here. So he is very adept at special effects, and that was particularly appropriate for this show where he has a long history with it. And he made it clear that all of the scares and all of the effects and all of the hauntings going on in the show needed to feel grounded, because for the characters who are going through real life issues, these things should feel real to them.
Pavun, you've worked on another classic horror remake with I Know What You Did Last Summer. Did that experience at all help you prepare for something like Goosebumps?
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