Patrick Wilson is no stranger to the horror genre, having starred in the likes of three Conjuring movies and three Insidious movies (one of which he directed), among other things – but I never would have predicted that his name would be attached to a stage musical adaptation of Joel Schumacher’s 1987 vampire classic The Lost Boys (watch it HERE). Especially not as a producer. But producing a The Lost Boys stage musical is exactly what Wilson is doing, according to Deadline.
Wilson and fellow producers James Carpinello and Marcus Chait are teaming up with It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia writer/executive producer David Hornsby, Parade director Michael Arden, and the pop rock band The Rescues to make this stage musical happen, through a special arrangement with Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures. Hornsby will be writing the book with Broadway actor Chris Hoch, while The Rescues provide the music and Ethan Popp (Tina: The Tina Turner Musical) serves as Music Supervisor.
Deadline notes that no information is available on casting or a production timeline.
A few years ago, we heard that Gerard “G Tom Mac” McMahon – the musician behind the song “Cry Little Sister” – was working on a stage musical version of The Lost Boys, but apparently that project has nothing to do with the one Wilson and his collaborators are developing.
Scripted by Janice Fischer, Jeffrey Boam, and James Jeremias, The Lost Boys has the following synopsis: Teenage brothers Michael and Sam move with their mother to a small town in northern California. While the younger Sam meets a pair of kindred spirits in geeky comic-book nerds Edward and Alan, the angst-ridden Michael soon falls for Star — who turns out to be in thrall to David, leader of a local gang of vampires. Sam and his new friends must save Michael and Star from the undead.
The film stars Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest, Corey Feldman, Jamison Newlander, Jami Gertz, Kiefer Sutherland, Edward Herrmann, Bernard Hughes, Brooke McCarter, Billy Wirth, Alex Winter, and Chance Michael Corbitt, with an unforgettable appearance by Tim Cappello.
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