If you were a child from the 90s, or even just being alive during the decade, there is a good chance that you are very familiar with RL Stine. An entire generation has grown up in his “Gerosebumps” books and an entire generation of parents bought them for their children. But while the “Goosebumps” novels and the YTV television adaptation (not to mention the movies and the fun and nostalgic series “Goosebumps” modern) has become a cultural phenomenon and has shaped the early understanding of the horror of children, which was far from the sole contribution of Stine to the genre.
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The writer has pumped a frankly incredible quantity of books intended for several demographic data, insofar as Stephen King himself would become as wild as Jack Torrance, to compare the bibliographies. PBS put the total number of stine novels at more than 350 in 2024, but other statements reveal more than 500 books bearing the name of the author. It is delicate because, despite his protests, Stine was accused of using ghost writers, notably by the publisher Scholastic in a trial of 1999. Anyway, man was and is a writing machine, and in 2004, he produced one of his books either popular without “group flesh” in “Eye Candy”.
The novel was Stine’s third book for the adult public and follows Lindy Sampson, a 23 -year -old New Yorker who notices that men seem to be intimidated by her beauty. Her roommate suggests that he try the dating on the internet and wrote a personal ad (because it was really a prior age application) for her, which proves such a success that Lindy finds himself going out with four men at the same time. Unfortunately, things take a tour when it receives a note that is read as follows: “Don’t say no, Lindy. Keep going out with me. I’m going to spoil you if you ever say no.” Not exactly a love letter, then, but this is the kind of note that you can expect to get if you are an RL Stone protagonist. Of course, this leaves Lindy to determine which of her contenders is dangerous, so she continues to go out with them. However, his paranoia was quickly built before a big twist upset the whole test.
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All this seemed that it could make a good television program at MTV, which commissioned a series freely based on the novel in 2013. Although there were several films and television programs RL Stine, many of which were solid, the adaptation “Candy for the eyes” would be, lamentable, which is no longer popular. Consequently, it was canceled after a season (a bit like the controversial adaptation of MTV “Skins”).
The eye candy pilot was nothing like the real spectacle
TV drivers are often interesting to watch for the way they reveal a slightly different version of a program that we could have liked. The pilot “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” not made, for example, is a fascinating preview of the classic series now cult before understanding all the details. The most interesting was the fact that he included an entirely different actor in the role of Willow Rosenberg, who in the show proper was played by Alyson Hannigan but in the pilot was represented by the Riff Reve. But even the pilot “Buffy” and its version of the alternative universe of the pale final series compared to the way in which the pilot “Candy Eye” differs from the real spectacle.
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In 2013, MTV ordered the pilot based on the novel by RL Stine from a decade before. It was produced with Victoria Justice in the main role of Lindy Sampson and Harvey Guillen as his colleague George Reyes, with the support cast by Justin Martin, Lilan Bowden, Nico Tortorella and Olesya Rulin. MTV finally ordered the series pilot, with the horror Maestro Jason Blum producing, but not before completely revising the show. Consequently, the first episode was completely rebuilt, with only justice and Guillen remaining from the original distribution. The writer Emmy Grinwis and director Catherine Hardwicke also stayed on board, with Blum saying on television Critics Association in 2015 (via the deadline) that he and the crew of the series designed “Eye Candy” as a means of finding “horror in the banal”.
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When “Eye Candy” was finally created in January 2015, it seemed not only very different from the original pilot, but it was also a dramatic gap of the source material from RL Stine, having clearly been vaguely based on the book.
The eyes for the eyes were only a loose adaptation which lasted a season
When the television show “Eye Candy” finally struck the air after revised its original distribution, it did not prove to be exactly a faithful adaptation of the original novel by RL Stine. In the show, Lindy de Victoria Justice is a reformed pirate who has just been conditional and famous by venturing into the world of online meetings, by registering for the “Flirtual” application using the alias “Candy for the eyes”. Soon, however, she discovered a disaster prowler that looked at her online profile. Lindy then tries to use her technological skills to find this mysterious figure, but soon learns that they are more great than she thought. In fact, his harasser turns out to be a serial killer, encouraging Lindy and her friends to team up against them while looking for Lindy’s missing sister, Sara.
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Alongside Justice and Guillen, the series played Casey Deidrick, Kiersey Clemons and John Garet Stker, and he was filmed instead in New York. Again, however, it did not succeed too well, because MTV canceled “Eye Candy” after a single season. Justice itself confirmed the news via an April 2015 article on Twitter / X, where she wrote: “I wanted you to hear the guys first, that the casting and I received news that” The eyes for the eyes “will not come back for season 2.” The actor then praised the distribution and the program of the show, reserving a “very special thanks” for Jason Blum and the Blumhouse team. Meanwhile, TVLine reported that cancellation was simply the result of low notes.
At the time, MTV was preparing to launch his series “Scream”, which would finally take place for three seasons, and “Eye Candy”, with his poor notes, apparently was not necessary. As such, this original cast probably does not feel too bad to be replaced. Would things have been different if the show had come closer to the original book or had kept its original whole in place? It is impossible to say, but in the era of the early 2000s, nostalgia (not to mention the fact that we generally live in the news of Newstalgia), perhaps a direct adaptation could get out of it today. Otherwise, there are about 500 other RL Stine books to choose.
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