Goosebumps Trailer: ‘Murder Nepo Babies’ Face a Possessed Justin Long in Disney+ Series Adaptation — WATCH
Justin Long moves into a very haunted house in the first trailer for Disney+’s Goosebumps.
The streamer released the first footage from the R.L. Stine adaptation on Thursday, which introduces the Barbarian star as Nathan Bratt, a schoolteacher who develops a terrifying connection to a decades-old supernatural murder. Before long, Nathan finds himself possessed by an otherworldly spirit. Could it be the ghost of Harold Biddle?
The new Goosebumps follows five high schoolers (aka the “murder nepo babies”) as they embark on “a shadowy and twisted journey to investigate the tragic passing” of the aforementioned Harold Biddle. Along the way, they’ll unearth “dark secrets from their parents’ past.”
In addition to Long, the cast includes Rachael Harris (Lucifer), Zack Morris (EastEnders), Isa Briones (Star Trek: Picard), Miles McKenna (Guilty Party), Ana Yi Puig (Gossip Girl) and Will Price (The Equalizer).
Goosebumps premieres Friday, Oct. 13 on Disney+ and Hulu, with its first five episodes. That same night, the first two episodes will air on Freeform as part of its annual “31 Night of Halloween” lineup. The remaining five installments will be exclusive to Disney+ and Hulu, and unspool on a weekly basis.
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Goosebumps was previously adapted for the small screen (as an anthology series, which ran for four seasons on YTV and Fox Family between 1995 and 1998) and the big screen (with Jack Black playing Stine in a pair of movies released in 2015 and 2018). Per Disney+, the new show “draws on elements” from the following five books: “Say Cheese and Die,” “The Haunted Mask,” “The Cuckoo Clock of Doom,” “Go Eat Worms” and “Night of the Living Dummy.”
Watch the trailer above, then hit the comments and tell us if you’ll be sampling the new Goosebumps.
