The Lost Girls is a movie project that both intrigues me and horrifies me. On one hand, The Lost Boys was cool and, if handled correctly, a story following a similar pack of vampires that are female could be very cool. Add in the sensual element that sometimes surrounds vampirism in stories and you’ve got a hell of an audience. At the same time, direct to video sequels seldom fare well. Of course, I don’t have to worry about any of that, because the Lost Girls making news today has nothing to do with Vampires, Coreys, or Joel Schumacher.
Instead the movie being discussed today is Lost Girls - you’ll notice the absence of the “The” at the front. Lost Girls is an adaptation of the teen thriller novel Bad Girls which has been picked up by MTV, who has hired Holly Brix to pen. That’s right – the screenplay hasn’t even been written and the project’s title has changed. Especially odd since MTV is part of the publisher on the novel as well. You’d think they’d have changed the title back then.
Brix is a relatively new player in Hollywood - other than a 2004 movie I’ve never heard of (The Warrior Class) and three scripts currently in production (according to The Hollywood Reporter).
Bad Girls, and therefore by extension Lost Girls, is about a group of snooty teen troublemakers at a reform school who go on a nature hike where things turn dangerous and they have to fight for their lives. Kind of like Descent, except on a trail instead of in a cave, and without the cool gore because it’s for teens.
Kind of makes you wish it was about female vampires, doesn’t it?
