Return of the Frogs

When meating new people that you consider to be prospective future friend or even partners, theres is always good to have a good strategy planned out to easy rule out if you are compatible to save all the hassle of having to end the relationship on the basis of "inconsiderable differences" after a couple of years. There are several good ways to go about this involving gathering information about the persons taste in music, food, feeling about domestic animals and so forth. As a personal preference, I try to get a good feel for how they prefer their vampires.

Usually people are divided up into two pretty homogenous groups mirroring their respective vampire preferences. The first group likes their vampires sexually ambiguous and with sophisticated gentlemanly mannerisms alá Anne Rice, the type more commonly refered to as the "dirty goth vampire-person". As a general warning, this group is to be avoided at all costs. The other group likes their vampires driving badass 80's dirtbikes, listening to cheezy glamrock, rocking flannels and bandanas, I will herby refer to this group of people as the "salt of the earth" (TBH, there are a bunch of other subgroups within the vampire community like the awesome japbike-riding half-vampire with machineguns etc, but it kinda takes away from the argument so lets just leave it at this..)

This of course leads us up to the newly announced follow-up to the movie "The Lost Boys" - "Lost Boys: The Tribe". Another out-of-the-box vampire teen slasher having nothing in common to the original but the title, praying on the lowest common denominator in nostalgia you might think. Well, maybe not.

Once again the story tells the epic tale of two young folks who move into a new town to visit their relatives and find themselves caught up with a bunch of bloodsuckers. Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander are once again the the vampire slaying Frog Brothers, Edgar and Alan and Sutherlands brother Angus serves as the leader of the Vampire pack. Corey Feldman was quoted with saying "I really like the script because it is very close and very true to the structure of the original film — same kind of scares, same kind of laughs, same kind of relationships". If you need more assurance, just look at the leaked pictures from the shoot, looks like the original down to the bandana and flannel, you could be fooled into thinking it was 1987 again if it hadn't been for Feldmans romperstomper tribal on the neck..

And as you see above, we don't just get one Corey for our hard earned money, "The Two Coreys", Corey Feldman and Corey Haim has both been confirmed for roles in the follow-up. And while the producers for obvious reasons couldn't get Keifer Sutherland to reprise his role as the vampire leader, being a pretty 'tight' budget movie and all, they got the next best thing, his brother ANGUS SUTHERLAND, previously and only seen in "Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay".

Originally there was some problems in getting "The two Coreys" together for the project, Only Feldman was originally intended for a role, but after a youtube clip from their show "The two Coreys" where Haim became emotional after Feldman told him that he turned down a part in Lost Boys 2, because Haim was not offered a role, both was eventually offered roles. It just goes to show what a nice guy Feldman is. Good for him on scoring the role I say. God knows the late eighties and nineties hasn't been kind to Corey who's done everything from docusoaps, releasing an album with his own music as well as being a laughing stock in a Swedish humour program. Plus perhaps suffered the ultimate of betraials, where he was abandoned by once-friend Michael Jackson and a group of kids during a visit to Manhattan.. Fellow child star Mccauley Culkin seems like the posterboy for integrity and good career choices in comparison. So lets hope for some vindication and a return to their former glory for the two Coreys in the late 00's with general Coreymania all around!

There seems to be someone over at Warner who likes me also appreciate his 80's nostaligia (not nostaligia in the trivial ironic sense, but nostalgia because the movies was awesome in their own right!) as there is also (allegedly) plans for a "Goonies 2", "Gremlins 3" and a "New Jack City 2"!

The bad(?)news are, that they're all sorting under Warners sub-division "Warner Premiere", the somewhat new entity sorting under WB's umbrella, solely set on producing straight-to-dvd movies, so think rookie directors and low budgets. All-in-all perhaps not an all bad thing, if there are enthusiastic people involved, and without the pressure of having to make a killing at the box(dvd)office, hopefully we will see something really great in line with the original, fingers crossed.