Disney+ has announced Emmy Award-nominated actor and director David Schwimmer and actress Ana Ortiz will lead the cast of the next season of “Goosebumps.”
The Details
From Disney Branded Television and produced by Sony Pictures Television, the new season of the anthology series features a brand-new story, setting, and cast based upon R.L Stine’s worldwide bestselling Scholastic series, which has over 400 million books in print across 32 languages.
Season 2 will follow teenage siblings Devin and Cece, fraternal twins adjusting to life with their recently divorced dad, Anthony. When the duo discovers a threat stirring, they quickly realize that dark secrets are among them, triggering a chain of events that unravel a profound mystery.
As they delve into the unknown, Devin, Cece and their friends Alex, CJ and Frankie, find themselves entangled in the chilling tale of four teenagers who mysteriously vanished in 1994.
Schwimmer (“Friends”) will portray Anthony, a former botany professor and divorced parent of teenage twins whose world takes a tumultuous turn as he juggles the responsibilities of overseeing an aging parent while having his kids for the summer.
Ortiz (“Love, Victor”) joins as Jen, a dedicated police detective who remains rooted in her Brooklyn neighborhood after experiencing a tragic event that involved her friends in adolescence.
Also cast for season two are Sam McCarthy (“Dead to Me”) and Jayden Bartels (“Side Hustle”) as fraternal twins Devin and Cece, respectively; Elijah Cooper (“That Girl Lay Lay”) as CJ; Galilea La Salvia (“Party Down”) as Frankie; and Francesca Noel (“R#J”) as Alex.
The 10-episode season one, starring Justin Long and Rachael Harris, is available to binge on Disney+.