NEW YORK, April 30 (UPI) -- Film and theater star Patrick Wilson says he grew up loving Joel Schumacher's classic 1987 vampire film, The Lost Boys, but he really started thinking about how to bring the story to the stage when there was renewed interest in the movie during the COVID-19 pandemic lock-downs of 2020-21.
"There are probably people here, maybe close to my age, that were teenagers, the age of the Frog brothers at the time [the movie came out]," Wilson, 52, recently told the crowd at New York Comic Con.
"When this movie came out, it really changed the whole way that we just viewed vampires and how cool it became and what it really meant to be an outsider, right?" the actor added.
"Because a lot of us that were teens during that time, if you felt different than everybody else, this was kind of the movie [for you] that hit the horror, the comedy, the melodrama and, of course, they just looked so damn cool."
A stage musical based on the movie -- and produced by Wilson and his life-long friends James Carpinello and Marcus Chait -- opened on Broadway Sunday.
