Sutherland Talks Lost Boys

Posted by bob in Films, News on August 17th, 2008

During the promotion for Mirrors, Kiefer Sutherland also talked about his association with The Lost Boys. He told ShockTilYouDrop, “There were great [follow-up] ideas. Joel [Schumacher] had one that was a prequel dating back all the way to the earthquake in San Francisco. The one we talk about in the original.”

“The whole thing I found interesting was that once you were a vampire you go back to that youthful state,” he said. “The prequel was always going to follow David when he was mortal before he got sucked into the earthquake and got turned. That was Joel’s idea and I thought that was really cool. But apparently Joel was really busy, Warner Bros. was really busy and it didn’t happen.”

As for his non-participation in the recently release direct-to-DVD sequel, Sutherland was emphatic. “No, absolutely not. Lost Boys was a massive part of my life, it still is. You can’t crap on that. And I’m not going to go out and do a cameo in a DVD release sequel. Why they never talked to Joel Schumacher in the past 15 years about doing a proper sequel… If you’re not going to embrace what you’re coming from in its original state…look, it was hard enough for me to do Young Guns 2 which I ended up thinking - because we were all better - was a better film.”