Tim Burton, director of Batman and Alice in the Wonderland, almost produced a Goosebumps film based on the successful novel under the same title in the mid-1990s. Due to creative differences, the movie didn’t hit movie theaters until 2015.
Seven months after Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween was released, the book’s creator R.L. Stine revealed this week that he had made communications with Burton in the ‘90s to produce a film for the book. The book had already made a deal with Fox but the communications broke down when he met Burton.
“We had a movie deal to do a Goosebumps movie, and I can’t tell you what it was. It was like the height of Goosebumps, back in ’94, ’95, around here and we actually had a deal with Fox to do a movie,” Stine said. “We had a big meeting (with Burton) and I thought, ‘Ohm that’ll be great. Tim Burton and Goosebumps. It’ll be great.’ And we had a nice meeting with him, and we had a great time and we talked about what we should do, and then nothing happened.”
Stine managed to get a deal for the movie in 2014 and it was released in August 2015, months before its scheduled due date in 2016.
