As television executives continue to tap the deep cinematic well for inspiration rather than risk an expensive new pilot, news arrives that Joel Schumacher’s The Lost Boys is being adapted. Hot on the heels of the currently-in-production Training Day and Westworld reboots, the 1987 teen-vampire classic is now being reimagined for a new audience.
Promising to explore the true nature of undead immortality, The Lost Boys television series will, according to Deadline, tell a singular story spanning several decades. The central vampires will remain the only constant, much like their titular inspiration from J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, against a variety of settings and alongside different supporting characters. While the tone is as yet uncertain, the show will certainly have a very different feel to other similarly themed horror series such as Being Human.
With Warner Bros. providing the spending money iZombie creator Rob Thomas has been tasked with providing the words, which perhaps gives us an insight into what to expect. While the original film remains a cult comedy-horror classic, a new, more irreverent take on the vampire myth would surely be welcomed by audiences. At least these blood-suckers won’t be mopey and sparkly.
If there is one negative it is that there is likely no possibility for any of the original cast to make a return. Ah well, we’ll always have Santa Carla…
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