Yup. Totally didn’t see this coming.
I mean, c’mon, Sony! You HAD to ruin the Goosebumps franchise, too? Just get sold off already!
But ranting aside, yes, everything that I feared in my last post about the upcoming sequel to the 2015 film Goosebumps is happening, because why not? None of the cast of the original film is coming back, not even Jack Black’s voice role as Slappy. Instead, puppeteer Avery Jones is taking full control of the role, and Sonny, Sam and Sarah are completely replacing the human cast in a new story that appears to be mostly disconnected from the first film. Because you know, you got to have that self-contained format that works way better for television instead of establishing a story arc that’s more suited for film.
The whole thing is just a disaster. I didn’t want to make a new post about what’s officially titled Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (that is the final title, right?) until it was absolutely confirmed that the original cast wasn’t returning with the release of the first trailer, but here we are. It’s time to look at what has happened with this film since my last post, do an analysis of the trailer, and determine whether or not Sony has truly laid waste to yet another franchise (and worse, indirectly kill that Animorphs movie).
I know we’re still trying to get over this scare, but hang in there – it’s time to get to it.
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