Reese Witherspoon's 1999 cult film "Cruel Intentions" will have a sequel TV series on NBC.
According to Deadline, NBC is not redoing but making a follow-up show to the classic film, which starred Witherspoon, Ryan Phillippe and Sarah Michelle Gellar. The storyline of the "Cruel Intentions" sequel will revolve around Bash Casey, the son of Annette Hargrove (Witherspoon) and Sebastian Valmont (Phillippe).
Set in present day, the drama series follows the story of 16-year-old Bash. One day he stumbles upon his late father's journal and finds out his family legacy, which was kept from him all his life. Wanting to learn more about his identity, he leaves his hometown Kansas and heads to San Francisco for a scholarship at the famed Brighton Preparatory Academy. There he gets sucked into a life of money, power, corruption and sex. These are the same four themes dominant in the film.
Richard Kumble, the writer-director of "Cruel Intentions," is set to pen the script for the pilot of the TV series alongside Lindsay Rosin and Jordan Ross, creators of the stage play version of the film, titled "The Unauthorized Musical Parody of Cruel Intentions." Neal H. Moritz, the producer of the movie, will co-produce the first episode with the three writers and Pavun Shetty of Original Film.
The 1999 surprise hit is a contemporary version of the novel by Choderlos de Laclos titled "Les Liaisons Dangereuses." The book has been immortalized in many different genres, such as the stage, film, radio and ballet.
This is not the first time "Cruel Intentions" gets a follow-up version. A second film, "Cruel Intentions 2," which is actually a prequel, was released straight to video in 2000. This Amy Adams starrer was originally planned to be a television series but was cancelled by FOX before it even aired.
Another straight-to-video sequel, "Cruel Intentions 3," was released in 2004 but failed to pick up followers because the story and characters are not connected to the previous films in the series.
