The younger-skewing network has opted to roll development on its high-profile adaptations of Charmed and The Lost Boys to next season, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
With little room on its schedule, the network is sticking with six pilot orders this season — even with last year. While neither The Lost Boys nor Charmed were among the orders, both hail from important producers to the network in Rob Thomas (iZombie) and Jennie Snyder Urman (Jane the Virgin).
Sources say the Charmed draft — penned by Jane the Virgin writers Jessica O'Toole and Amy Rardin — didn't come in the way the network had hoped and that Urman, who remains busy wrapping up the third season of the Gina Rodriguez critical darling didn't have the proper time to commit to it this season. Urman will take on a larger role in retooling Charmed for next season once she's out of the woods on showrunning Jane.
Thomas will remain on board to pen the script and exec produce via his Spondoolie Productions banner alongside frequent collaborators Danielle Stokydk and Dan Etheridge. Gulfstream's Juliana Janes, Mike Kartz and Bill Bindley also will exec produce after the production company came up with the idea to remake the feature film that starred Sutherland, Jason Patric, Jami Gertz, Corey Haim and Corey Feldman.
Thomas will continue to hone Lost Boys with production on season three of iZombie having already wrapped. (The series, like all of The CW's midseason entries, has not yet been renewed for the 2017-18 broadcast season.)
The decision to roll genre plays Lost Boys and Charmed to the next development season could be seen as good thing for The Vampire Diaries spinoff The Originals. With the flagship series wrapping its run this season, the spinoff remains on the bubble as it awaits word on a potential fifth season pickup.
With little room on its schedule, the network is sticking with six pilot orders this season — even with last year. While neither The Lost Boys nor Charmed were among the orders, both hail from important producers to the network in Rob Thomas (iZombie) and Jennie Snyder Urman (Jane the Virgin).
Sources say the Charmed draft — penned by Jane the Virgin writers Jessica O'Toole and Amy Rardin — didn't come in the way the network had hoped and that Urman, who remains busy wrapping up the third season of the Gina Rodriguez critical darling didn't have the proper time to commit to it this season. Urman will take on a larger role in retooling Charmed for next season once she's out of the woods on showrunning Jane.
Thomas will remain on board to pen the script and exec produce via his Spondoolie Productions banner alongside frequent collaborators Danielle Stokydk and Dan Etheridge. Gulfstream's Juliana Janes, Mike Kartz and Bill Bindley also will exec produce after the production company came up with the idea to remake the feature film that starred Sutherland, Jason Patric, Jami Gertz, Corey Haim and Corey Feldman.
Thomas will continue to hone Lost Boys with production on season three of iZombie having already wrapped. (The series, like all of The CW's midseason entries, has not yet been renewed for the 2017-18 broadcast season.)
The decision to roll genre plays Lost Boys and Charmed to the next development season could be seen as good thing for The Vampire Diaries spinoff The Originals. With the flagship series wrapping its run this season, the spinoff remains on the bubble as it awaits word on a potential fifth season pickup.
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