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.
