'Goosebumps' Throws A Schwim Party For R. L. Stine’s Birthday; Reveals Season 2 Subtitle
'Goosebumps' Throws A Schwim Party For R. L. Stine’s Birthday; Reveals Season 2 Subtitle
Viewer beware, David Schwimmer is there
It was another slappy birthday for Goosebumps author R. L. Stine, who turned 82 on Tuesday, October 8. To celebrate, Disney+ and Hulu released a teaser trailer for the second season of their Goosebumps series, the second television adaptation of the beloved books which is a more American Horror Story-esque seasonal anthology rather than the Twilight Zone-style episodic anthology of the first series from the ‘90s.
Goosebumps’s eight-episode second season is subtitled The Vanishing and indeed will continue its shared release on the now-semi-merged Disney-owned streamers on January 10, 2025. The season follows twins Cece and Devin Brewer, played by Jayden Bartels and Sam McCarthy, sent to spend the summer in Gravesend, Brooklyn with their divorced father, former botany professor Anthony Brewer, played by David Schwimmer, who has immersed himself in science and mystery. “They seem to join with a host,” he says in the teaser’s voiceover as he appears onscreen, framed in a splashing black liquid that is evidently the brewing threat. Draw all the Venom comparisons you wish, but considering the beloved Monster Blood is one of the stories that the season will incorporate, we probably have our answer. “It’s for the greater good.” Cece, Devin and their friends quickly realize that dark secrets rest, starting a chain of events that reveal the chilling mystery of four teenagers who mysteriously vanished in 1994.
Also starring are Ana Ortiz as Jen, a hardworking police detective who has stayed in her Brooklyn neighborhood after experiencing a tragic event as a teenager with her friends, as well as Stony Blyden, Elijah Cooper as CJ; Galilea La Salvia as Frankie, and Francesca Noel as Alex, The Vanishing’s story will also adapt Stay Out of the Basement, which is where the Brewer name and dad come from, The Haunted Car, The Girl Who Cried Monster, The Ghost Next Door and Welcome to Camp Nightmare. The series was developed by Nicholas Stoller and Rob Letterman, and Hilary Winston is showrunner. Together, they serve as executive producers with Neal H. Moritz, Scholastic Entertainment’s Iole Lucchese and Caitlin Friedman, Pavun Shetty, Conor Welch, Erin O’Malley, Karl Frankenfield and James Eagan.
Letterman and Winston are set to accompany the cast (however many actually make it, it’s subject to change) to New York Comic-Con for a panel on Sunday, October 20 from 2:30-3:30 PM on the main stage called “Goosebumps: New Mysteries, New Cast, Same Thrills", where they share a never-before-seen sneak peek and discuss the new mysteries to come. It is one of two Sunday panels set to be livestreamed on Popverse, ReedPop’s pop culture news site, ReedPop’s YouTube channels and NYCC, Screenrant, Collider, CBR, The Illuminerdi and Nerdist’s social channels, along with Grimsburg. Disney is also bringing Futurama, Phineas and Ferb, The Simpsons and What We Do in the Shadows to the convention, which starts October 17.
Sources: Deadline, Press release via The Futon Critic, Variety