It was never truly alive the begin with, but the cancellation reaper has no mercy. The much-hyped planned reboot of the 1999 movie Cruel Intentions has been pre-cancelled, Deadline reports:
The options on the cast in the pilot, toplined by Sarah Michelle Gellar, are up next week and won’t be renewed. While the current incarnation of Cruel Intentions is dead, I hear producing studio Sony TV might redevelop the idea.
Originally developed and ordered to pilot by NBC last season, the network in May left the project in contention, and the options on the cast were extended by Sony in June. Over the summer, the network considered Cruel Intentions as a possible original series for the long-in-the-works NBCUniversal OTT service. But with the latter nowhere near reality, a summer run remained the sole viable scenario at NBC. That involved adjusting the budget of the project. Lengthy on-and-off discussions between the network and Sony did not result in a deal, and at the end of October, NBC passed on the pilot. Over the past two months, Sony TV shopped it to other outlets. I hear there might be interest in a new take on the premise.
Will Cruel Intentions be redeveloped over the cancellation reaper’s dead body? Stay tuned for any developments…
RIP.
Oh My! says
.. it’s not like the movies were good.. the FIRST ONE only got noticed due to the incest twist in it… the 3 or 4 that followed went pretty-much straight to video didn’t they? That’s how bad those were. What’s next a tv series based on Adam Sander’s Jack & Jilll? Have they run out of 1980s tv series to remake so they are searching for really bad 90s films to convert to TV series?