After filming and scrapping a pilot for a show based on THE LOST BOYS last year, The CW is about to go into production on a second version of a Lost Boys pilot. While last year's pilot kept most of the character names from the original film, this time the names are different. Last week we learned that Branden Cook, Lincoln Younes, and Ruby Cruz will be playing the pilot's versions of the Michael, David, and Star characters, who have been renamed Garrett, Benjamin, and Elsie. Now it has been announced who will be playing the story's single mother character.
Garrett's mother is named Jackie and will be played by Rochelle Aytes. This character was named Lucy and played by Dianne Wiest in the movie. Genre fans may remember Aytes as one of Anna Paquin's friends from the werewolf segment of TRICK 'R TREAT. She has also appeared on the TV series version of The Purge.
Written by Heather Mitchell and Rob Thomas, this take on a Lost Boys pilot begins when
a mother, Jackie (Aytes) and her Gen Z sons, Garrett (Branden Cook) and Levi, move to the seaside town where she grew up. They discover there’s a sinister reason the local cool kids sleep all day, party all night, never grow up and never get old. Family bonds are tested as the brothers find themselves on opposite sides of a mythological struggle.
Aytes’ Jackie, the single mother of Garrett and Levi, has just moved back to the North Carolina seaside town she abandoned more than 20 years ago. Now she’s returning to take over her dad’s bed and breakfast, and perhaps, rekindle an old high school flame.
Marcos Siega is directing the pilot and will be executive producing the show with Mitchell, Thomas, Dan Etheridge, Mike Karz, and Bill Bindley. Rebecca Franko and Juliana Janes are producing.