We’re in the era of the remakes: Dead Ringers and Fatal Attraction are being turned into TV series, Disney has live action versions of Peter Pan, The Little Mermaid and Snow White coming out over the next year, Fawlty Towers is rebooting, That ’70s Show was given an update... and that’s just the beginning of the list. But we have to say, we’re not upset about it, at all.
Now the news has just dropped that Cruel Intentions, the Nineties cult classic about a bunch of rich teenagers in New York, is going to be made into a TV show. It could be to be tricky to do: the original, which was a retelling of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ 1782 novel Les Liaisons dangereuses, starred screen legends Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair, and was that rare thing: a perfectly pitched (and terrifying) adaptation.
