Things are getting spooky in Whistler Olympic Park this week...
According to a tweet from Vancouver film industry tracker Hollywood North Buzz (a.k.a. @yvrshoots), filming for the upcoming Disney+ series Goosebumps, based on R.L. Stine's iconic books of the same name, was seen taking place in Whistler's Callaghan Valley last week.
Disney+'s #Goosebumps series filming at Whistler Olympic Park last night.
— Hollywood North Buzz (@yvrshoots) February 17, 2023
Thanks @aembree. https://t.co/umsSI9ZP2C
A spokesperson for the 2010 legacy venue confirmed filming is ongoing, but said the production does not affect any of the park's Nordic skiing and snowshoe offerings, or any of its other public operations.
"There are no trail or road closures, they are just set up [and] shooting in one section of one of the parking lots actually (there is still plenty of parking available)," the spokesperson noted in an email. She said the crew will only be onsite for a fairly short period, with filming getting underway last week and due to wrap up at WOP on Friday.
According to reports from Variety, the streaming giant ordered 10 episodes of the horror-comedy series last year. The magazine said the series will follow "a group of five high schoolers who unleash supernatural forces upon their town and must all work together—thanks to and in spite of their friendships, rivalries, and pasts with each other—in order to save it, learning much about their own parents’ teenage secrets in the process."
The magazine reported in October that actor Justin Long had been cast as a series regular, due to play a schoolteacher "who develops a terrifying connection to a decades-old supernatural murder."
Hollywood North Buzz previously confirmed the series, written and produced by Nick Stoller and Rob Letterman, was scheduled to film in Vancouver from mid-October until the end of March.
Long, for his part, took to Instagram last week to show how he was celebrating Valentine's Day on set in the snowy Sea to Sky corridor.
A premiere date for Goosebumps has not yet been announced.
