Tim Burton Almost Made A ‘Goosebumps’ Movie In The ’90s, But ‘Superman Lives’ Got In The Way
By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 18, 2018 1:30 pm EST
Why didn’t the Burton-produced Goosebumps movie ever get off the ground? It seems that Burton’s infamous, never-made Superman Lives, a film the filmmaker worked on for years, with Nicolas Cage set to star as the Man of Steel, might be to blame:
When I was younger, I was a huge fan of Goosebumps and Burton’s work, so if this film had happened, I probably would’ve lost my freakin’ mind. Alas, it was not to be. Burton would go on to turn into something of a parody of himself, and Stine would continue to pump out books at an alarming rate. In 2015, Rob Letterman helmed a Goosebumps movie, which was surprisingly entertaining. But now I’ll always wonder how the Tim Burton Goosebumps might have turned out.
“He got involved in some Superman project (Superman Lives, starring Nicolas Cage) that also never happened. He was going to do Superman, and then we never heard from him again. That was the end of it. I think we were going to do a new story, but use some of the elements. But we never got that far, you know? It’s very strange. I don’t know. People couldn’t figure out for a long time which story to do, what should we do. And then Goosebumps wasn’t as popular, and then it came back.”
