How many Lost Boys movies are there? The count, plus the reboot that's been stuck in development since 2021
There are three Lost Boys movies. I know. Say it with me: three.
There's the one everyone means — Joel Schumacher's 1987 mullets-and-saxophone masterpiece with Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Patric, and the two Coreys — and then there are the two direct-to-video sequels that fans treat like a family secret: Lost Boys: The Tribe (2008) and Lost Boys: The Thirst (2010).
The count, itemized
- The Lost Boys (1987). Santa Carla, vampire bikers, the greatest shirtless saxophone performance ever committed to film. Untouchable.
- Lost Boys: The Tribe (2008). Twenty-one years later, a budget the size of a boardwalk churro, and Corey Feldman's Edgar Frog as the connective tissue. Fans were not kind, and honestly, fans were not wrong.
- Lost Boys: The Thirst (2010). Feldman got more creative say, Jamison Newlander's Alan Frog came back, the Frog Brothers reunited, and the ending teased a werewolf-hunting fourth movie that never, ever happened.
Feldman has been openly campaigning for a proper send-off for years. "I'd still like to do a final one that's done the right way," he said — big budget, whole cast, a sequel rather than a reboot. Warner Bros. heard him and did the exact opposite.
About that reboot
The studio has been trying to resurrect this thing for the better part of a decade. First came the CW era: multiple pilots, a Rob Thomas version, gender-flipped Frog Sisters, recasts, reshoots, and ultimately no series. Then, in September 2021, Warner Bros. announced a theatrical reboot with a genuinely enviable package: Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place) and Jaeden Martell (It) starring, Randy McKinnon writing, Jonathan Entwistle — the guy behind The End of the F***ing World — directing. A modern-day reimagining. Exciting! Announced! And then—
Nothing. Five years, zero casting additions, zero production dates, zero frames of footage. The reboot has been "in the works" since 2021 the way I've been "learning French" since 2019.
The circumstantial evidence isn't encouraging either: Entwistle went off and directed an entirely different legacy revival (Karate Kid: Legends, in theaters last year) while his vampire project sat in a drawer. Jupe and Martell have both aged out of the exact teen-heartthrob window the original weaponized so well — which, given the franchise's whole "sleep all day, party all night, never grow old" thing, is bleakly funny.
So: three movies, one dead CW show, one reboot in suspended animation, and one Corey Feldman still holding out for the finale he was promised in 2010. The vampires never age. Development hell, it turns out, doesn't either.
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