It’s a match made in… well, not heaven, but certainly one sort of afterlife. ‘Veronica Mars’ creator Rob Thomas is to helm a decades-spanning tv version of vamp classic ‘The Lost Boys’…
The next project for Thomas looks to be a television version of that classic 1987 vampire movie The Lost Boys for The CW. The original film starred the likes of Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Patric, Jamie Gertz, Corey Haim and Corey Feldman. It told the tale of a single-parent family trying to start over again in the hometown of the mother’s own elderly father. Unfortunately her two sons quickly begin to realise that all is not well in the enclave… and that the young gang causing trouble in the area aren’t just malcontents but fully-fledged vampires – and their happy to recruit!
Rather than just being a straight-forward adaptation, the ambitious idea is for the series to run for seven seasons with each season covering a decade, tracing the lineage and implications of the vampires. Each season would refocus on a new set of circumstances and human characters, but possibly informed by the last – the young vampires remaining the only constant of sorts. Rob Thomas will pen the pilot episode that sets up the template. It will begin in the ‘Summer of Love‘ at the end of the 1960s, though ‘love’ might not be the dominate emotion.
The project continues the currently popular format of taking big-screen successes and reformatting them for the television schedules. The new television landscape is littered with examples due to debut in September and October (or as mi-season replacements) such as Lethal Weapon, Taken, The Exorcist and Training Day. There’s no news as yet on when The Lost Boys, still in script-stage discussions, would debut…
