Huge 90s cult movie to be adapted for Amazon series as they release first trailer
A CULT classic movie from the 90s is being adapted for television on Prime Video – with the first trailer released.
The original film featured an all-star cast including Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon.
The streaming giant have unveiled the first trailer for its new Cruel Intentions series.
Eight episodes will be dropping worldwide on November 21.
The show follows elite students at Manchester College, a Washington, D.C.-adjacent university.
In particular, two step-siblings, Caroline Merteuil (Sarah Catherine Hook) and Lucien Belmont (Zac Burgess).
The ruthless duo are determined to stay on top of their college’s cutthroat social hierarchy.
However, Caroline and Lucien find themselves in hot water after a hazing incident goes horribly wrong.
The ever resourceful pair are willing to do whatever’s necessary to preserve their power.
Whether that entails playing games, manipulation or seduction.
Savannah Lee Smith, Sara Silver, John Harlan Kim, Khobe Clarke, Sean Patrick Thomas and Brooke Lena Johnson are also set to star.
Thomas, who played Ronald Clifford in the film, takes on the new role of Professor Chadwick.
Meanwhile, the movie itself was a retelling of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’s 1782 novel Dangerous Liasions.
Its writer-director Roger Kumble serves as an executive producer on the series.
Although this time around, the showrunners, writers and executive producers are Phoebe Fisher and Sara Goodman.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, the pair discussed their vision for bringing Cruel Intentions to television.
“Part of the conversation was: How do we stay true to everything we loved about the movie but put it in a world that we haven’t necessarily seen before?”, Goodman told the outlet.
Fisher added: “We talked a lot about what the peek behind the curtain of a rarefied world that we hadn’t seen before could be, where it felt like it had its own social hierarchy.”
The series is produced by Sony Pictures Television, Amazon MGM Studios, and Original Film.
Cruel Intentions will launch on November 21 on Prime Video.