Say hello to the night…

Yes, as the headline suggests, The CW has moved to order a pilot for The Lost Boys.

Courtesy of Deadline, the network has now moved to order said pilot after having turned down just such a pilot back in 2016.

Despite turning down the Rob Thomas-penned pilot in 2016, The CW has remained keen on developing a Lost Boys series. Now, Scandal and Grey’s Anatomy’s Heather Mitchell has written a take that has ticked a whole lot of boxes for the network.

The brief, early blurb on the show reads:

Welcome to sunny seaside Santa Carla, home to a beautiful boardwalk, all the cotton candy you can eat… and a secret underworld of vampires.

After the sudden death of their father, two brothers move to Santa Carla with their mother, who hopes to start anew in the town where she grew up. But the brothers find themselves drawn deeper and deeper into the seductive world of Santa Clara’s eternally beautiful and youthful undead.

From director Joel Schumacher, The Lost Boys is a 1987 favourite of many a genre fan. Complete with a truly phenomenal soundtrack, the original movie starred Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Jamison Newlander, Dianne Wiest, Barnard Hughes, Edward Hermann, Jami Gertz, Alex Winter and, of course, Kiefer Sutherland. Oh, and a rather sax-tastic cameo from Tim Cappello.

After constant rumblings of a sequel, Lost Boys: The Tribe was finally released in 2008. A so-so effort, that picture was followed by the slightly better (but still not great) Lost Boys: The Thirst  in 2010. In The Tribe, fans got to see Corey Feldman return as Edgar Frog and a brief cameo by Corey Haim as Sam Emerson. Joining Feldman in The Thirst, fans saw Jamison Newlander back as the other Frog brother, Alan.

Since then, a Frog-driven movie has been talked about and a TV series has regularly been speculated about. As mentioned, those TV plans were seemingly shelved in 2016; only now resurfacing. Additionally, along the way we’ve had several Lost Boys-based comics and books.

Expect more on this new Lost Boys series as it continues to develop.