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The “Lost Boys” pilot that Rob Thomas (“Veronica Mars”, “iZombie”) has been trying to get going for the last few years hasn’t gone yet… but both and he and Warner Bros TV seem determined to make it happen.
Thomas is no longer writing the project, simply producing – and he doesn’t much give a damn, he just wants to see it come to fruition.
The TV vet is currently on his third go-round on the proposed series – a small-screen take on Joel Schumacher’s 1987 movie – and this latest take will more resemble the original film, the TV wunderkind tells Deadline :
It’s been four years that I have been playing around with Lost Boys, trying to get it made.
Two years ago, I wrote a very outside-the-box version of it. The network didn’t want to go that far outside the box. So fortunately, the writer who is working on it right now, Heather Mitchell, loves the original movie and is eager to make the series look a little bit more like the original Lost Boys. It’s two human brothers showing up in this California beach town with the amusement park and a vampire infestation. It’s going to have a lot in common with the movie.
I had a way I wanted to do it that was exciting to me. Once the network didn’t want to do it, I was eager to give them the version they would like to put on the air, usually that’s just smart television producing. I think it would’ve been very hard for me but I love that she is doing it, I love that she is a big enough fan of the movie that she wants to keep it a lot more recognizable.
Rather than starting completely from scratch, the network has opted to keep a couple of players from the previously-shoot “Lost Boys” pilot for the new take : Medalion Rahimi and Dakota Shapiro.
