Watch the 'Destroy All Vampires' Scene From 'The Lost Boys "There were no wild teenagers on motorcycles." "What he wanted to do was quite different, which was sort of a cutesy, G-rated movie aimed at young kids," Schumacher told Venice magazine in 1999. The concept was set aside when original director Richard Donner left to focus on Lethal Weapon, though Donner retained an executive producer credit on the film. Since Peter Pan had been one of my all-time favorite stories, I thought, 'What if the reason Peter Pan came out at night and never grew up and could fly was because he was a vampire?'" "I had read Anne Rice's Interview With the Vampire," first-time screenwriter James Jeremias later told Empire, "and in that there was a 200-year-old vampire trapped in the body of a 12-year-old girl. Sutherland's character was even going to be named Peter.
The main characters were to have been " Goonies-type 5th-6th grade kid vampires," according to the DVD commentary for the film. If the underlying theme of male bonding while resisting the notion of growing up sounds familiar, that's because The Lost Boys grew out of an earlier script idea based on J.M.
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