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If R.L. Stine was dead, I'd imagine there'd be some sort of "rolling in his grave" going on. And not in the zombie-rising-from-the-dead sort of way that he'd obviously approved of. But R.L. Stine is not dead. He's very much alive - and yet, the man who wrote EVERY SINGLE Goosebumps book - is not writing the movie. Seems borderline criminal - especially since he's alive - but I'll move past that.

Larry Karaszewski and Scott Alexander have lined up to write the film and I can't help but wonder if they'll take an existing Goosebumps story and expand upon it (because let's be honest the damned things take 15 minutes to read despite being about 70 pages long). I was a reader of Goosebumps, it was fun pulp in between books of actual substance - and I can say I'd be more than just a little curious to see the movie if they adapted a pre-existing book. But if they're just going to write a kiddy horror story and slap the Goosebumps name on it - count me out.

After all the Goosebumps series had some pretty good plots (for what they were) and I'd be interested in seeing some of them if they took on film form.

But wait - didn't we already see all the live Goosebumps we'll ever need to see thanks to that awful Saturday Morning Goosebumps TV show? We can only hope the film version will have a bigger budget. After all, it's the first Goosebumps movie not heading straight to DVD (as of yet, but let's be honest, if it turns out to be a steaming pile of poop we all know it's fate).

Karaszewski and Alexander are best known for their penmanship on Ed Wood, Man on the Moon and The People vs. Larry Flynt, the latter of which earned them a Golden Globe. Other credits include 1408 and Ripley's Believe It or Not. The pair are repped by Endeavor.

Did you see those first three movies? Ed Wood. Man on the Moon. The People vs. Larry Flynt. My god, these guys are writing a children's horror movie? At least there will be lots of gratuitous sex - if their past filmography has anything to say about it.

(Yes, I'm more than aware they penned the rather good 1408 from last year, but that's not nearly as fun to talk about. Just think the Goosebumps Ventriloquist dummy goes nuts a la Andy Kaufman and launches his own porno mag where he subsequently dies of an overdose. I don't know what dummies can overdose on - varnish maybe.)