Where the original concept followed a group of patently popular girls – the Heathers were traditionally handsome, rich and privileged – the TV project will make the typically uncool crowd the school’s rulers.
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So what do we know about the new Heathers? Today, the network ordered a pilot based on the 1988 cult film. The Heathers TV show is set to begin production this fall. The TV show, described by THR as a “comedic anthology”, will get a present day update in which the misfits are the ones ruling high school but are still just as mean as the original Heathers. Veronica’s daughter would then have to deal with the “Ashley’s”, the daughters of the surviving “Heathers”. It’s unclear if there’s still a notable connection to Michael Lehmann’s film, which was about Veronica and the rebel of the school, JD (Christian Slater), who’s far worse than a High School’s typical bad boy, killing the Heathers. It also marks the latest attempt to mount a Heathers TV series reboot, most notably a sequel series written by Mark Rizzo and supervised by Jenny Bicks, which was in the works at Bravo.
I related with it so much.
While I understand the appeal of having a built-in audience to garner interest for a new TV show and the fact that nostalgia generally guarantees a decent return in the bank, Hollywood scraping the barrel to reproduce beloved material is starting to get a bit silly.
Headland wrote the About Last Night remake, helmed an episode of Terriers, and wrote and directed Bachelorette and Sleeping with Other People.
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A few years ago, the world dodged a bullet when Bravo chose to pass on a TV show based on the 1988 dark-comedy classic, Heathers.
