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The Lost Boys Co-Screenwriter Says Warner Bros. Wanted “Brutal” Rewrites to Peter Pan-Inspired Script

James Jeremias initially envisioned the film as a horror version of J.M. Barrie's story, questioning, what if the reason Peter Pan "came out at night, could fly and didn't grow up was because he was a vampire?"

In an interview with The Guardian for the publication’s “How We Made” series, Jeremias, a former grip turned screenwriter who wrote the Joel Schumacher film alongside Janice Fischer, recalled that after reading Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire, he was particularly struck by Claudia being frozen in time in the body of a 5-year-old for eternity. But the script I read was nothing like the magical movie it would become after rewrites and production, and I had no interest in teenage vampire films,” he told The Guardian. At the time, he said the film was originally written about two young brothers living in Santa Cruz with their divorced mom, who meet the child leader of a vampire gang before befriending the Frog brothers, who were written as “identical twin 8-year-old vampire-hunting boy scouts.” Instead of lustful teenagers, the cast was meant to focus on preteens.

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