TEEN WOLF Star Tyler Posey Joins THE LOST BOYS Series and Catherine Hardwicke Is Set to Direct
The CW has started to fill the cast for their upcoming series adaptation of the classic ‘80s vampire film The Lost Boys. According to Deadline, they’ve cast former Teen Wolf star Tyler Posey in the lead role of Michael along with Kingdom actor Kiele Sanchez as Lucy. These are two of the three central characters in the series that were originally played by Jason Patric and Dianne Wiest. Also joining the cast is Medalion Rahimi (Still Star-Crossed) as Stella, “a version of the Star character played by Jami Gertz” and Dakota Shapiro (Valley of the Boom) as the vampire David, who was previously portrayed by Kiefer Sutherand.
The network has also hired Twilight and Lords of Dogtown director Catherine Hardwicke to helm the pilot episode, which was written by Heather Mitchell. This is the official synopsis that was shared along with information on the characters in the series:
The Lost Boys is set in 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, brothers Michael (Posey) and Sam Emerson move to Santa Carla with their mother, Lucy (Sanchez), 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…
Still mourning the death of her husband, Lucy (Sanchez) is forced to move back home to Santa Carla — something she’s dreaded since causing a town scandal 27 years ago, when she ditched her boyfriend to run off with another man.
It’s also explained that Lucy’s oldest son Michael is planning to attend Columbia Medical school, but those plans are “thrown off by the diagnosis that he shares the same genetic weakness that killed his father. The only thing that consoles him is the friendship he strikes up with Stella, a young woman who runs a concession stand on the Santa Carla boardwalk.”
Stella is described as “carefree and Californian” and “has an immediate spark with Michael, but she’s not single: Her boyfriend is the sexy, dangerous and immortal vampire David, who is sometimes scary and always intense. The leader of a vampire gang, he’s wildly in love with Stella, who’s the only one who can control him.”
I wanted to be excited for this show, but the fact that Posey was cast in the lead role completely killed it for me. I guess the Teen Wolf fans will be the ones who really dive into this series.
What do you think about how this series is coming together?