Elmo's Fire, so he was given some latitude.
In the 2004 documentary The Lost Boys: A Retrospective, Schumacher says he met with Patric every day for six weeks before the actor finally came onboard. "And I was like, 'That's going to not work in spades.'" Patric didn't get it either and kept resisting Schumacher's overtures. Let's take all of these standard rules of vampire lore and let's squeeze them through almost like a big, gaudy '80s teen sex comedy - or sex drama, right?" he said in the 2019 documentary In Search of Darkness. When confused studio execs asked Schumacher if he was making a horror or a comedy, he'd simply say, "Yes."Īlex Winter, who played Marko in the film, said at first "it was impossible to see it working. With Schumacher at the helm, The Lost Boys was transformed into a vampire story for a new generation, dotted with frisky young people, groan-y jokes and MTV-ready songs. Watch the 'Destroy All Vampires' Scene From 'The Lost Boys "There were no wild teenagers on motorcycles."
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"What he wanted to do was quite different, which was sort of a cutesy, G-rated movie aimed at young kids," Schumacher told Venice magazine in 1999. The concept was set aside when original director Richard Donner left to focus on Lethal Weapon, though Donner retained an executive producer credit on the film. Since Peter Pan had been one of my all-time favorite stories, I thought, 'What if the reason Peter Pan came out at night and never grew up and could fly was because he was a vampire?'" "I had read Anne Rice's Interview With the Vampire," first-time screenwriter James Jeremias later told Empire, "and in that there was a 200-year-old vampire trapped in the body of a 12-year-old girl.
Sutherland's character was even going to be named Peter. The main characters were to have been " Goonies-type 5th-6th grade kid vampires," according to the DVD commentary for the film. If the underlying theme of male bonding while resisting the notion of growing up sounds familiar, that's because The Lost Boys grew out of an earlier script idea based on J.M.