Goosebumps gets a movie!

A couple of days ago I was reading on Empire Magazine's website that the famous children's horror stories by R.L Stein is having plans drawn up as we speak on getting it's own film.

These stories I used to read when I was little and I used to watch the series that was made from these boks, I really don't know why these books weren't made into a film before as everything was there for any studio chiefs to look at and see the material was worthy of a film as the stories were so imaginative...well I thought so at least!

According to The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision blog Darren Lemke, who directed 'Jack The Giant Killer':

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/jackthegiantkiller/

This as you can guess from the title is the 21st Century twist on yet another children's fairytale....but I just thought a lot of times you can see a theme or a pattern emerge from the world of cinema,-.i.e this month the running theme this month on cinemas has been either bringing old films back such as 'Star Wars:The Phantom Menace 3D', 'Beauty and the Beast 3D', 'Lion King 3D' or bringing them back into cinemas and putting a new twist on it such as 'Olivia Twisted', 'Snow White and The Huntsman', 'Mirror Mirror', 'Jack and the Giant Killer'...and last but not finally 'Beastly', understandably the powers that be immediatly brought back the original movie back but just 3Ded it...which I think they should have done in the first place as with other things that you don't mess around with there must have been a huge piece of red tape around this movie saying 'Mess With This At Your Own Doom!', I can imagine now that the director of 'Beastly' has been known as the one who messed with a masterpiece of film...if you have watched 'Mamma Mia' then I'm sorry for the pun but it wasn't done on purpose, and now forever has a black mark to his name.

But I guess you could have really called this moment of 'Beastly' s short cinematic life a abandon ship and run for the lifeboats quick moment as of the spped in which it was decided to put the original film back into cinemas-.

Anyhew...'Jack The Giant Killer' will be gracing our cinema screens on June 15th 2012. I have just read the synopsis of this film and to my mind this film has just been Hollywoodised within an inch of it's life as from the trailer the magic beans are just glossed over and there is no cow either speak of or see. The story for this film is this:

Nicholas Hoult who you will no doubt recognise from Skins plays Jack the farmboy opens up a gateway between our world and the ferous world of giants, thus unsettling a centuries old peace that was between humans and giants. This leads to the giants wanting the land that they lost all those centuries ago back and they are prepared to cause an all out war in an attempt to get it back. This leads to Jack having to 'fight the battle of his life' to stop them as well as fighting to protect the people, the kingdom and...what Hollywood film wouldn't be complete without, Jack has to fight in order to win the love of a pretty princess.

Is closing in on a deal to write this script for Colombia Pictures who will be trying to adapt these wonderfully spine chillingly good stories from the pages of the original books to the big silver screen.

Producing this film will be Neal Moritz from Original Film along with Deborah Forte from Scholastic Entertainment.

Back in May 2008 Columbia Pictures bought the rights to more than 50 of these ghoulishly brilliant books of R.L Stein, but Lemke isn't the only writer that has been on this under the radar project as several other writers have come and gone without anyone associated to this getting any closer to finding a story that fits this film and that can also make this one movie a dead cert for moviegoers to really love and enjoy,(the number of moviegoers to this one film always translates into money and ergo if this one film gets enough money generated off the back of this then there may be a sequel or it may even blow up to be as big or if not bigger as the Twilight saga, but then again it all comes down to there being an amazing story).