Earlier this year, The CW ordered a pilot based on the 1987 vampire classic THE LOST BOYS. TWILIGHT director Catherine Hardwicke took the helm, working from a script written by Heather Mitchell, and a cast was hired to play variations on the characters we first met in the LOST BOYS film more than thirty years ago.
Kiele Sanchez played single mother Lucy in the pilot, with Tyler Posey and Rio Mangini as her sons Michael and Sam. Del Zamora took on the role of Lucy's cantankerous father Frank. The Frog brothers from the movie became the Frog sisters for the show, with Cheyenne Haynes and Haley Tju playing Liza and Cassie Frog. Dakota Shapiro played the immortal vampire David, and the Star character from the film was sort of split into two different characters: one was Mollie, played by Sarah Hay, who travels with "her eternally 8-year-old son, Laddie", and the other was David's girlfriend Stella, played by Medalion Rahimi.
A couple months ago, we heard that The CW wasn't satisfied with the pilot and wanted it reworked and reshot. The report at that time said the new pilot "could feature recastings"… and now we know that it will definitely will feature recastings, in a major way.
The only actors who are being kept on board for the second attempt at the pilot are Medalion Rahimi as Stella and Dakota Shapiro as David. (That's Rahimi and Shapiro pictured above, in different projects.) The new pilot is expected to go into production by the end of the year, after every other role has been recast.
Mitchell's pilot script has a synopsis very reminiscent of the original film:
In The Lost Boys reboot, 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.
Mitchell serves as an executive producer on the pilot with Rob Thomas and Dan Etheridge of Spondoolie, as well as Mike Karz and Bill Bindley of Gulfstream. Spondoolie's Rebecca Franko and Gulfstream's Juliana Janes are producing.