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The Post-Credits Scene That Was Originally Going to Be in ‘The Lost Boys’
Post-credits scenes have become increasingly common in recent years, but they’re certainly not exclusive to the present day. The earliest one I can remember was in the live action adaptation of Masters of the Universe, released in 1987. The post-credits stinger teased that Skeletor is still alive… though a sequel never followed.
As for horror movies that have had notable post-credits scenes, they include Zombieland, Curse of Chucky, Cult of Chucky, and Fede Alvarez’s remake of Evil Dead.
Another horror movie that *almost* had a post-credits tease? The Lost Boys!
Reported by io9 today, the sold out book Lost in the Shadows: The Story of The Lost Boys includes an except from the original script for The Lost Boys, laying out the gist of the post-credits scene that was ultimately axed when the budget was significantly cut. According to the book, the scene “never got past the discussion stage.”
The scene would’ve returned to the underground vampire lair, after Grandpa helps kill Max and the end credits have finished rolling across the screen…
INT. LOBBY/CAVE – NIGHT
Deserted, the CAMERA PROWLS through the Rock ‘n’ Roll ruins.
Eventually the CAMERA pushes toward the old mural painted on the lobby wall. The mural depicts a typical day on the boardwalk in the year 1900.
CAMERA MOVES CLOVER AND CLOSER TO THE MURAL
And HOLD TIGHT on one painting figure in particular. A man in a straw hat. He’s grinning broadly…and he’s most definitely Max. He’s talking to a group of young men.
Without seeing an image of the mural itself, which was never actually created, it’s hard to know what the post-credits scene would’ve hinted at, but it seems it was simply going to suggest that Max had been around for a very very long time. We can only assume that the “group of young men” depicted in the mural was to be David and the gang.
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Christopher Landon to Helm Feature Adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s ‘The Final Girl Support Group’
A new feature adaptation of author Grady Hendrix‘s slasher book The Final Girl Support Group is now on the way from Paramount Pictures, and Deadline reports that it’s found its director in Christopher Landon (Drop, Happy Death Day).
The two previously collaborated on My Best Friend’s Exorcism.
In The Final Girl Support Group, “Lynette is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.”
“But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.”
I wrote in my novel review for BD, “Hendrix puts his characters through the absolute wringer. It’s a bloody, vicious voyage for the flawed heroine, both physically and emotionally. In terms of action and horror, Support Group delivers breakneck pacing and thrills.”
Five years ago, Andy Muschietti & Barbara Muschietti (Mama, It, It Chapter Two) were attached to produce a planned series adaptation for HBO Max alongside Charlize Theron. While Theron is no longer producing, the Muschiettis remain on board under their Double Dream label.
Paramount Pictures is also developing Hendrix’s sci-fi novella, BadAsstronauts.
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