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.
