Michael Arden

She's pretty spectacular.

And then a little brother as well.

You expanded his fluidity, which I really appreciated and loved.

Talk about making those decisions.

Well, we knew that what was acceptable for female characters in the 80s was certainly not acceptable today.

It wasn't acceptable then, but it happened.

And we wanted to give the women more agency, more depth, and more of a seat at that table position.

And more involved in the plot.

And so, spoiler alert, Lucy especially, she is the heart of this show.

She is the one trying to hold everything together.

And the fact that we get to actually give her...

agency and that she is the salvation of this family in the end having been through what many women have been through throughout history and especially at this time is a real real gift to get to do and we wanted to do the same with the character of Star who's basically like a glorified prop in the film but is now you know they're both integral to the story and with Sam I mean it's like

Joel Schumacher was really dropping hints in that film as to as to who he might be.

And it just felt important to me that that we explore his recognition and reversal of feeling like his queerness.

And when I say queerness, I mean that in like a bigger sense than his sexuality, because I don't actually think this is a story about sexuality.

It's about feeling queer, as we called it back then, that he recognizes that the thing that he has thought would be.

keep him on the outside is his greatest skill and his strongest sword.

What I love about The Lost Boys is there's kind of like, you can come in from any walk of life and find a character that you can connect with.

Well, The Lost Boys themselves exist as both fantasy and metaphor.

What do they represent to you?