The Lost Boys may have ended with Kiefer Sutherland's David impaled on some deer antlers, but here's how it secretly set up his survival for an unmade sequel. The original Lost Boys cast Jason Patric as teenager Michael Emerman, who moves with mother Lucy (Dianne Wiest) and younger brother Sam (Corey Haim) to seaside town Santa Carla. This is where he meets the titular biker gang - led by Sutherland's David - who turn out to be vampires who want him to join their pack.
Everything from the hit Lost Boys soundtrack to the movie's performances and look helped make it a huge success in 1987, with the movie giving both Sutherland and Patric's careers a major boost. It's considered among the very best of 1980s vampire movies, alongside Fright Night and Near Dark. A belated follow-up finally arrived in 2008 in the form of The Lost Boys: The Tribe, a straight to DVD sequel that felt like a cheaper remake of the original. Corey Feldman's vampire hunter Edgar Frog played a supporting role and later became the lead for Lost Boys: The Thirst in 2010.
Neither sequel was particularly well-received, and they both lacked a villain of David's caliber. The finale of The Lost Boys saw Michael defeat David by impaling him on some antlers, but there's one detail to note about his "demise." Unlike the other vampires, he doesn't explode or dissolve after death, and this was an intentional choice to leave the character alive for a potential sequel.
Given how popular The Lost Boys was it's almost a surprise it didn't happen, but it wasn't for lack of trying. The first concept was dubbed The Lost Boys: The Beginning, which was penned by Near Dark screenwriter Eric Red. This was a prequel set in San Francisco in 1906, opening with David and his pack before they became vampires. They try to rob a character named Vlad, who turns out to be none other than Dracula, and he's the one who turns them into vampires. The crux of the story would have seen the Lost Boys trying to kill Vlad in hopes of breaking their own curse.
Director Joel Schumacher eventually went cold on this idea and felt a sequel dubbed The Lost Girls made more sense, with Drew Barrymore apparently being lined up for a role. This also would have featured the return of Kiefer Sutherland's David as a Master Vampire, but this idea also went nowhere and the studio finally made a Lost Boys sequel in the form of The Tribe instead. The Beginning sounds like it could have made for a cool prequel, but maybe it's ultimately better David only got one outing. A Lost Boys TV series is currently in development at The CW, though it's currently unknown if it's moving ahead.