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‘Lost Boys’ Director Joel Schumacher Wanted Drew Barrymore and Rosanna Arquette for His ‘Lost Girls’ Spinoff
Before Warner Bros. produced two direct-to-disc sequels to the coming-of-age vampire classic, The Lost Boys director Joel Schumacher had discussed a spinoff that would put a female spin on the material.
“There’s always been a desire at Warner Bros to do a sequel,” Schumacher told Empire Magazine back in 2000, “and I always felt there was no sequel to Lost Boys because, of course, the Lost Boys are all dead, and unlike Friday The 13th and Halloween and Freddy Krueger, we’re not going to bring them all back from the dead.
“So what I suggested to them was that they do [The] Lost Girls, because I thought girl vampires on motorcycles would be sexy and funny and something that I’d like to see.”
At the time, Schumacher explained that Warners was actively working on that spinoff, however, he wouldn’t return to direct. Even so, he would have executive produced and, in a more recent interview, reveals he had envisioned Scream‘s Drew Barrymore and Rosanna Arquette (Crash) as “gorgeous teenage biker chicks who are vampires.”
In fact, he reveals talks had continued through 2007, prior to the release of the direct-to-video sequels that brought Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander back as the “Frog Brothers” from the 1987 original.
Talk of a female-led spinoff came up again several years ago when Feldman expressed his displeasure in the concept, referencing Ghostbusters.
Schumacher did have one other pitch, a prequel that would have been set around the 1906 earthquake. “I said you could have horses, it could be quite exciting.”
For now, we’ll have to settle for CW’s forthcoming series that had been reworking its pilot prior to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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