Goosebumps: Rachael Harris joins cast of live-action Disney+ series

Author R.L. Stine has heard talk that the Goosebumps film series that began with the 2015 movie and continued with the 2018 sequel Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween might continue – but while we wait to hear if there’s going to be a Goosebumps 3, we’re getting a live-action Goosebumps TV series on the Disney+ streaming service. Variety reports that Rachael Harris (Lucifer) has signed on for a role in the series, joining previously announced cast members Ana Yi Puig (Senior Year), Miles McKenna (Nocturne), Will Price (The Equalizer), Justin Long (Tusk), Zack Morris (EastEnders), and Isa Briones (Star Trek: Picard).

This Goosebumps series is said to be influenced by five of Stine’s most popular Goosebumps books and will center on

a group of five high schoolers who unleash supernatural forces upon their town and must all work together — thanks to and in spite of their friendships, rivalries and pasts with each other — in order to save it, learning much about their own parents’ teenage secrets in the process.

Ana Yi Puig will be playing Isabella, who is “smart and naturally shy with an overwhelming sense of responsibility.” McKenna’s character is James, “the class clown who loves the spotlight and hails from one of the wealthiest families in Port Lawrence.” Price is Jeff, “the rebellious skateboarder who is grappling with the untimely death of his daredevil father.” Long’s character is Nathan Bratt, “the new schoolteacher who develops a terrifying connection to a decades-old supernatural murder.” Morris is taking on the role of Isaiah, “a popular star football player whose financial struggles at home, has him and his family banking on his athleticism to secure him a full ride to college.” Briones is playing Jane, who “typically has her head in a book, causing her classmates to think she is a snob but she is just laser focused on her writing and creating a life that is interesting enough for a memoir.”

Harris’s character is Nora, “Jeff’s mother and an unassuming waitress at a local café that dabbles in sorcery.”

Rob Letterman, who directed the first Goosebumps movie, created this series with Nick Stoller, and Kevin Murphy serves as showrunner. Stoller is executive producing the show through his company Stoller Global Solutions. Letterman and Murphy are also executive producing Goosebumps alongside Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty of Original Film, Conor Welch of Stoller Global Solutions, Erin O’Malley, and Iole Lucchese and Caitlin Friedman of Scholastic Entertainment. Julia Ruchman, James Eagan, and Nick Adams are writing and co-executive producing. The show is coming to us from Sony Pictures Television Studios.

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