Goosebumps: The Vanishing: David Schwimmer Warns Kids to ‘Stay Out of the Basement’ in Spooky Season 2 Trailer — Watch
Move over, Justin Long: David Schwimmer is next in line to take on author R.L. Stine’s weird and wild universe of things that go bump in the night.
At New York Comic Con Sunday, Disney+ released the new trailer for the anthology’s second season, this time subtitled The Vanishing. In the new season (which premieres Friday, Jan. 10 with all eight episodes), Schwimmer plays Anthony Brewer, “a former botany professor who has immersed himself in science and mystery,” according to the official character breakdown. The new episodes will draw on elements from Stine’s “Stay Out of the Basement,” “The Haunted Car,” “Monster Blood,” “The Girl Who Cried Monster,” “The Ghost Next Door” and “Welcome to Camp Nightmare.”
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In the new footage (embedded above), a couple of kids visiting their father for the summer are warned about his one and only rule: Stay out of the basement! Cut to Schwimmer’s Anthony being taunted by a nefarious plant that embeds itself into his arm. After that, something doesn’t seem quite so right about Anthony…
Per Disney+, Goosebumps: The Vanishing “begins when twins Cece (Jayden Bartels) and Devin Brewer (Sam McCarthy) are sent to spend a summer in Gravesend, Brooklyn, with their divorced dad. A threat is stirring, and 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, Cece, Devin and their friends — Alex (Francesca Noel), CJ (Elijah M. Cooper) and Frankie (Galilea La Salvia) — find themselves entangled in the chilling tale of four teenagers who mysteriously vanished in 1994” — which, coincidentally, happens to be the same year that Friends premiered.
Rounding out the ensemble is Ana Ortiz (Ugly Betty), who plays Jen, “a dedicated police detective who remains rooted in her Brooklyn neighborhood after experiencing a tragic event that involved her friends in adolescence.”
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Season 2 bows 14 months after the release of Goosebumps’ Season 1 finale. The inaugural chapter starred Long (New Girl) and Rachael Harris (Lucifer) and borrowed elements from “Say Cheese and Die,” “The Haunted Mask,” “The Cuckoo Clock of Doom,” “Go Eat Worms” and “Night of the Living Dummy.”
Goosebumps had previously been adapted for the small screen as an episodic anthology series, which ran for four seasons on YTV and Fox Family between 1995 and 1998. More recently, Jack Black played Stine in a pair of big-screen movies: 2015’s Goosebumps and 2018’s Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween.
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