As The CW’s Lost Boys series continues to amass its cast, now comes word on some further new additions for the small-screen take on a major genre favourite.
Via Deadline, Flesh and Bone’s Sarah Hay, Camping’s Cheyenne Haynes and Bella and the Bulldogs’ Haley Tju have landed series regular roles on the show; the pictured-to-your-left duo of Haynes and Tju playing Liza and Cassie Frog.
If you remember, the show has gender-swapped the movie franchise’s Frog Brothers for the Frog Sisters. Similarly, the series will introduce a character called Mollie that will be loosely based on the Star character of the first film. And it’s Mollie that Sarah Hay is playing.
Already on board for The Lost Boys are Tyler Posey, Kiele Sanchez, Medallion Rahimi and Dakota Shapiro, with Twilight’s Catherine Hardwicke to direct the pilot episode.
The official word on The CW’s small-screen take on The Lost Boys reads:
After the sudden death of their father, brothers Michael and Sam Emerson move to Santa Carla with their mother, Lucy, who hopes to start anew in the town where she grew up. But the brothers soon find themselves being drawn deeper and deeper into the seductive world of Santa Carla’s eternally beautiful and youthful undead.
From director Joel Schumacher, The Lost Boys is a ‘87 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.
