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The CW’s highly-pumped “Lost Boys” pilot won’t be gnawing on any coaxial cables this year. According to Deadline, the small-screen take on Joel Schumacher’s 80’s classic has be sent back to the workshop, losing what was assumed to be a guaranteed spot on the network’s fall schedule.
This one had been in development for several years, finally inching forward when a take by writer Heather Mitchell got the brass’s attention. Unfortunately, while the network loved the script, the pilot didn’t come together as hoped – as such, they’re going to re-shoot some of it. Expect a few of the actors to be recast as a result.
It’s likely we won’t see the series, should it get the greenlight next time around, before fall 2020.
Catherine Hardwicke directed the pilot, which featured (among others) Tyler Posey of “Teen Wolf” fame.
Here’s the synopsis for “The Lost Boys” :
After 25 years away from home, Lucy Emerson (who is at the end of her financial rope) returns home to the small California beach town of Santa Carla, to live with her father Frank and teach at the local high school. But Lucy either doesn’t know or doesn’t share the town’s big secret with her two sons, Michael and Sam: Santa Carla has a nest of vampires secreted inside the city limits, and they are getting hungrier by the day.
