Deadline @ SCAD Film Festival Round-Up: ‘Cruel Intentions’ Cast Talks About Remaking A Classic; Plus ‘Agatha All Along’ & ‘Somebody Somewhere’
deadline.comDon’t worry, fans of the 1999 movie Cruel Intentions: the creators of the new adaptation for Prime haven’t forgotten to pay tribute to the classic Sarah Michelle Gellar starrer.
To help satiate the old fans while hoping to lure new ones, Showrunners Phoebe Fisher and Sarah Goodman told an audience at Deadline’s inaugural TV Sidebar as the SCAD Film Festival Saturday that they added multiple Easter eggs in the pilot to pay homage to the film.
They’ve already announced one big one: Sean Patrick Thomas, who starred as Ronald in the original, is back playing a professor in the new iteration that stars Sarah Catherine Hook (Caroline Merteuil) and Zac Burgess (Lucien Valmont) as the affluent step-siblings bent on causing mayhem.
When a hazing incident puts Caroline’s sorority in jeopardy, she enlists Lucien’s help to get the vice president’s daughter Annie (Savannah Lee Smith) to pledge her sorority.
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