Cruel Intentions Is Getting Its Own TV Show – And We Can’t Wait
Remember the late 90s cult film Cruel Intentions, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar? Well, it’s getting reimagined- as a new TV series debuting this year in Amazon Prime.
It revamps and revitalises the original story that follows Caroline Mertueil (Sarah Catherine Hook) and Zac Belmont (Zac Burgess), both intent on remaining high up in the social hierarchy as they attend the elite Manchester College. With a teaser trailer and first-look images having recently been released, here’s everything you need to know.
What is Cruel Intentions about?
The 1999 movie, which retold the 18th-century French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses, starred Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon, Selma Blair and Ryan Phillips, and this new series replaces them with a new cast of up and comers.
Sarah Catherine Hook, who’s appeared in The Conjuring franchise, plays Michelle Gellar’s character, renamed from Kathryn to Caroline Merteuli, while Zac Burgess (Boy Swallows Universe) plays Lucien Belmont. The pair are step-siblings attending the same college in Washington DC., and both involved in fraternities and sororities. Having worked hard and put in a lot of effort into placing themselves at the top of the social chain, they’re not going to give up their high standings easily.
However, things start to go sideways when an incident at a hazing ritual that goes wrong threatens to upend everything and compromise their very coveted positions in the highest circles of the elite. Both step-siblings will do whatever they can to retain their influence and prevent others from usurping them, regardless of how risky their scheming ideas are. One of the targets is Annie Grover (Savannah Lee Smith, who appears in HBO’s reboot of Gossip Girl), the daughter of the Vice President of the United States- even if the plans to get her on their side could seriously backfire.
What else do we know, and who else stars?
Cruel Intentions also stars John Harlan Kim (The Librarians), Khobe Clarke (Yellowjackets), Sean Patrick Thomas (Vixen), Laura Benanti (The Gilded Age) and Jon Tenney (The Closer). The series will consist of eight episodes and arrive on Prime Video on 21st November.
