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CW’s “The Lost Boys” Pilot Finds Vampire Lead and New Michael!
Branden Cook (“Industry”), Lincoln Younes (“Grand Hotel”) and Ruby Cruz (“Castle Rock”) have been cast as leads in “The Lost Boys”, the CW’s retooled pilot based on the 1987 Warner Bros. movie, reports Deadline.
In “The Lost Boys”, when a mother and her gen z sons, one played by Cook, pictured below, 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.
- Cook plays Garrett, the older of the two brothers, who have moved with their mom to the North Carolina seaside community. The site notes that he is a version of the Michael character in the movie, which was played by Jason Patric.
- Younes, above, plays Benjamin, the charismatic leader of the gang of vampires in the North Carolina seaside town. It is a version of the David character played in the movie by Kiefer Sutherland.
- Cruz plays Elsie, a version of Jami Gertz’s character Star in the movie, who she sparks with the new guy in town, Garrett (Cook).
The series is written by Heather Mitchell & Rob Thomas and will be directed by Marcos Siega.
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“I’m the Grim Reaper” – Sam Raimi Teams with ’10 Cloverfield Lane’ Writers on Gory, Funny Webtoon Adaptation
The Wattpad/Webtoons and Grave Weaver-created series “I’m the Grim Reaper” is nearing its 200th episode, and it’s also getting a new TV series adaptation with talented names behind it. Deadline reports that celebrated filmmaker Sam Raimi is teaming up with 10 Cloverfield Lane scribes Josh Campbell & Matt Stuecken on the new series.
The series follows “Scarlet, a young woman who wakes up in the ninth circle of hell with no idea how she got there. Satan offers to send Scarlet back to Earth if she’ll work as his reaper. But it doesn’t take long for Scarlet to realize that Satan’s offer is even worse than she feared.”
The story is said to fit perfectly into “Raimi’s wheelhouse, striking a deft balance between scares, gore and humor.”
Sam Raimi and Zainab Azizi will executive produce the series with Weaver, who’ll also team on the development process. Raimi may be most known for his Spider-Man and Evil Dead movies, but the filmmaker has been busy behind the scenes producing. More recently, Raimi produced this week’s action brawler Boy Kills World and last year’s 65, with Don’t Move on the way.
The “I’m the Grim Reaper” webtoon launched in 2019, delving into the humor and horrors of reaping souls in Hell. That it’s on the cusp of airing its 200th episode means no shortage of story and mythology for Campbell and Stuecken to pull from.
Stay tuned for additional details on this new series as they arrive.
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