We can barely breathe between TV remakes, reboots and comeback announcements these days and lo, here comes another in the form of the 1999 cult classic 'Cruel Intentions'.
Yup, the film that sexually awakened many a millennial and set Reese Witherspoon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Selma Blair on the path to stardom is getting the TV treatment and the original movie writer-director Roger Kumble, along with Cruel Intentions The Musical creators Jordan Ross and Lindsey Rosin are involved, E! News has confirmed today.
According to Variety, the plot will center around the 16-year-old son of Phillippe and Witherspoon's characters named Bash Casey who "Upon finding his late father’s journal, learns of the family legacy he didn’t know existed. In search of answers, he trades his small-town Kansas upbringing for a scholarship to the prestigious Brighton Preparatory Academy in San Francisco and soon finds himself in a world of sex, money, power and corruption he never could have imagined."
If we're being honest, the premise sounds like a bit balls to us, and we've all seen what happened with MTV's adaptation of Scream for TV so the bar is low as are our expectations. But hopefully with Kumble's involvement we'll get something of substance and not another Cruel Intentions 2 or 3 (which you should never, ever set your eyes on).
Via E!
