Guys, "produce" is a broad term, doesn't necessarily mean she'll be too hands-on. For example people like Kathleen Kennedy running Lucasfilm, or Michael Bay at Platinum Dunes, are heavily involved in a direct sense, but a lot aren't. Especially executive producers, like Stan Lee on the Marvel films, who have nothing whatsoever to do with them creatively or financially, it's a formality credit due to their connection to the business side of things. I've never seen her name before so not familiar with her in the slightest, but it's a strong possibility she's just the one signing off on it to be explored, the suit/executive.
Her biggest movie on her resume, The Golden Compass, was actually pretty solid, liked that a lot for what it was. But she's listed on imdb as one of ten producers on that, so I sort of get the sense she'll be more of an "executive producer", more than Lee with the Marvel stuff, sounds like she's directly responsible for "pushing/greenlighting" this, but I wouldn't put too much stock on her previous children's TV stuff as tone, this could go any number of ways.
Interesting, though. And it's nothing new, Katherine & Michael announced a couple of years back that a number of studios were scouting and testing the waters with the idea.
I'm still skeptical about this though, both about it even happening (it's obviously still really really early stages, and a huge amount of movies get ditched early in the game before they actually get anywhere, go into pre-production), and whether if it does it's worth getting too excited about.
I didn't even know there was a Goosebumps movie coming out (or already came out?), so that might point toward this being a pretty low-budget under-the-radar affair. I'd guess if it does get some money behind it and actually becomes a major production, we're probably looking more at something like The Maze Runner or Percy Jackson or whatever here, that sort of 'level' of film, I'd really doubt we'll be getting some huge Harry Potter-esque investment here.
And yeah, while Universal is promising, the Scholastic involvement should be interesting to see. Katherine & Michael always sort of seemed like renegades of a sort at that company to me, their three late-90s series were pretty different in "feel' to all the other stuff Scholastic was publishing at the time for that age group. So, I don't know.
If Katherine & Michael have any significant input, and Forte's just the moneywoman, and they get a director with some guts to push things beyond the generic young-adult-movie-adaptation vibe we've seen so much of recently, this could be a winner. That's just a lot of "if"s, and seems a bit much to hope for.
