Carl Ellsworth

Carl Ellsworth to Write Feature Adaptation of R.L. Stine’s GOOSEBUMPS

by Jason Barr    Posted: September 15th, 2010 at 9:43 pm

The fifth grader in me just hit the jackpot.  Screenwriter Carl Ellsworth (Disturbia) has agreed to a deal with Columbia Pictures to write a live-action feature adaptation of the R.L. Stine book series Goosebumps.  Per Risky Business, Neal Moritz will produce (through his Original Film label) the Ellsworth adaptation for Columbia, who hopes to create a potential “family-driven franchise” of live-action films based on the material.  Columbia first purchased the rights to Goosebumps in 2008 and, at that time, writers Larry Karaszewski and Scott Alexander (1408) tried their hand at adapting the material to no avail.  As for Ellsworth, in addition to Disturbia, his writing credits date all the way back to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series where he penned a single episode.  Recently, he has written films such as Red Eye, The Last House on the Left remake, as well as the upcoming remake of Red Dawn.

For a Goosebumps fun fact as well as my take on the adaptation, hit the jump.

Shia LaBeouf Won’t Be THE LAST MAN

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: June 9th, 2009 at 2:17 pm

In a recent interview with Wizard Magazine, Shia LaBeouf has taken himself out of the running for the role of leading (and only) man in the planned adaptation of Brian K. Vaughn and Pia Guerra’s  brilliant comic series “Y: The Last Man”.  LaBeouf tells Wizard, “You take Sam and you put a monkey on his shoulder.  I don’t know if it’s that big a differential. It seems like he’s the ordinary guy in an extraordinary situation again.”  I understand that LaBeouf doesn’t want to be pigeonholed and do roles that seem repetitive but I’ll say that A) The dramatic material in playing Yorick would far exceed anything that could come out of a “Transformers” movie; and B) if that’s his new criteria for judging which films he will and won’t do, he’s basically ruled out about two-thirds of all Hollywood movies.

LaBeouf continues, “I’m not willing to make that movie currently, and may be too old to play the role by the time it does come around.”  Clearly not a lot of faith in director D.J. Caruso and writer Carl Ellsworth to make it happen in the near-future and with Caruso currently in negotiations on Masi Oka’s “The Defenders”, it looks like we won’t be seeing the adventures of Yorick Brown and Ampersand any time soon.

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