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Prime Video has canceled drama series Cruel Intentions after its first season, EW confirmed.
Starring Sarah Catherine Hook, Zac Burgess, and Savannah Lee Smith, the show was an adaptation of the 1999 film of the same name about a pair of step-siblings who make a bet about whether he can bed the chaste daughter of their new headmaster. Events take a turn when he begins to really fall for their target. A modern retelling of the French novel that translates to Dangerous Liaisons, the film arrived in theaters amid a revival of classic works, such as Romeo + Juliet, She’s All That, and 10 Things I Hate About You. It starred Sarah Michelle Gellar (Kathryn), Ryan Phillippe (Sebastian), Reese Witherspoon (Annette), and Selma Blair (Cecile).
The series was executive produced by Roger Kumble, the director and writer of the film. This time around, the story centered on Caroline Merteuil (Hook) and her stepbrother, Lucien Belmont (Burgess). Smith portrays their toy, Annie Grover, the daughter of the vice president of the United States.
After the scandalous first season dropped, with just as much backstabbing, incest, and twists as the film, showrunner Sara Goodman teased the continuing adventures of the characters to EW in November. She commented, for instance, on why Burgess’ Lucien hadn’t met the same fate as Phillippe’s Sebastian.
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“There’s either redemption or retribution coming for him, or both,” Good said mysteriously. “I think in an ongoing series, and we really want it to be an ongoing series, that love triangle and those relationships have just begun, and so we’re not ready to take him out of them.”
Meanwhile, showrunner Phoebe Fisher noted that the series had “made Annie a player in the game,” after she had begun to see some of Caroline’s hurtful lies.
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“We’ve given all kinds of other stakes and information to all of our other characters, and so while we set it up with the bet and with the cruelty that was in the movie and in the previous iterations, they haven’t achieved their goals,” Fisher said. “That’s for sure.”
There had been previous attempts at another Cruel Intentions even before this iteration hit streaming, including two films that went straight to video.
