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AUg 29, 2007


Today, word trickles in from the casting dept., that ‘The Lost Boys’ themselves have been cast.

Joining Angus Sutherland’s pack of surfing bloodsuckers will be Kyle Cassie (“Devour”), Shaun Sipos (“The Grudge 2”) and Merwin Mondesir (“Godsend”). They’ll be the ones keen to turn young siblings in trouble, Tad Hilgenbrink and Autumn Reeser, into creatures of the night.

Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander are reprising their roles from the first film – and yes, despite reports that Corey Haim is having some working visa issues, he’s still very much a part of the film. The producers are going to work him into the film somehow… because, he is an “integral” part of the film. So yes, he'll still be in it.

Feldman tells MTV that he’s super excited about “The Lost Boys 2 : The Tribe” because the script is super and he has a pivotal role.

"Warner Bros. has further developed the script — they brought on a great writer [Hans Rodionoff, who] came up with a great story line," Feldman said, a Cheshire grin stretching across his face. "And in that script they have included [me], Corey Haim and Jamison Newlander as featured parts in the film. [In] the script, as it is today, I am one of the leads. My involvement is very close to what my involvement was in the first one. So I'm pretty much scattered throughout.”

Feldman says the script is similar to that of the first film.

"Once again, you have a fish-out-of-water story of two young folks who move into a new town to visit their relatives and find themselves caught up with a bunch of bloodsuckers," Feldman discussed of the flick's setup. "I really like the script because of the fact that 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."

In the film, Feldman’s reprising his role as vampire-killing character Edgar Frog – who he says hasn’t changed a bit since the 1987 original, only his circumstances have.

"[Edgar] was always an outcast, but [here] his close-knit family have drifted apart. They've had a major problem, and because of that problem, Edgar today is working alone," he continued. "[The film is] about him trying to still carry the torch as it were, without the aid and assistance of his partners. That leaves him in an even lonelier and even more delicate place than he was in the first film being the outsider that he already was."