The upcoming Goosebumps series that’s in the works at Disney+ has added a litany of new cast members, including Justin Long as a series regular, according to a recent report from Variety.
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Long will join the series alongside Ana Yi Puig (Senior), Miles McKenna (Good Girls Get High), and Will Price (The Equalizer), all four of whom have joined the show as series regulars. Long — who recently starred in the horror film Barbarian — will appear in the series as Nathan Bratt, a new schoolteacher who develops a “terrifying connection” to an old, supernatural murder.
Meanwhile, Puig will play Isabella, a smart and naturally shy woman. McKenna will play James, a class clown who loves the spotlight that comes with it. Finally, Price has been cast as Jeff, a rebellious skateboarder who is still grappling with his daredevil father’s death.
“The series follows 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,” reads the official synopsis for the series.
This will be the second official live-action Goosebumps series to air. The first series premiered in 1996 and ran for four seasons and 74 episodes before concluding in 1998. The initial series was an anthology, with each episode taking a different R.L. Stine Goosebumps book and turning it into its own episode, with some books spanning multiple episodes. For Stine, this will be the second series he’s done with Disney+, as the company just recently released a series based on his Just Beyond graphic novels in October 2021.
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Nick Stoller and Rob Letterman will serve as writers for the live-action series, as well as executive producing it. Neal H. Mortiz, Pavun Shetty, Conor Welch, Iole Lucchese, and Caitlin Friedman are also attached to the project as executive producers. Letterman is set to direct the first episode of the series and also directed the first Goosebumps film in 2015.
