History Trivia / TheLostBoys

** Creator/KieferSutherland was originally reluctant to star in the film until he heard that Creator/JoelSchumacher had lined up Music/{{INXS}} and Music/JimmyBarnes to sing some songs on the soundtrack. Kiefer had spent a summer in Australia when he was a child and became fans of their music then.

* DeletedRole: Creator/KellyJoMinter as Max's clerk Maria was largely cut from the film. The only true appearance she makes is over Lucy's shoulder in the video store, yet she still received billing in the film's opening credits.

* DeletedRole: Creator/KellyJoMinter as Maria was cut from the film. The only true appearance she makes is over Lucy's shoulder in the video store, yet she still received billing in the film's opening credits.

** Creator/KieferSutherland was originally reluctant to star in the film until he heard that Creator/JoelSchumacher had lined up Music/{{INXS}} and Music/JimmyBarnes to sing some of the songs on the soundtrack. Kiefer had spent a summer in Australia when he was a child and became fans of their music then.

** Believe it or not, according to the director's commentary in the DVDBonusContent, the original script for the first movie was written to be a ''G-rated'' film, with most of the main characters being children Laddie's age. The Frog brothers were going to be somewhat chubby Boy Scouts, and Michael was apparently going to be about thirteen years old. Basically, it would've been a [[{{Grimmification}} Grimmified]] ''Literature/PeterPan'', right down to David and Star's characters being named Peter and Wendy. Creator/JoelSchumacher described it as Cub Scouts turned vampire. This is also the origin of the whole "boys need a mother" bit at the end, which in the released film just comes off as Max being insane.

* OldShame: A minor example with Creator/KieferSutherland -- not that he dislikes the film (he is really proud and protective of it), but Sutherland came to regret going with the haircut he fashioned as David, thinking he popularized the mullet.

* CreatorChosenCasting:
** Creator/JoelSchumacher saw several young actors for Michael, but he only had Jason Patric in mind, mostly because he had the Music/JimMorrison look.
** Schumacher cast Creator/CoreyHaim after seeing him in ''Film/{{Lucas}}''.
** Creator/RichardDonner suggested Creator/CoreyFeldman for Edgar Frog, having directed him in ''Film/TheGoonies''.

* OldShame: A minor example with Kiefer Sutherland -- not that he dislikes the film (he is really proud and protective of it), but Sutherland came to regret going with the haircut he fashioned as David, thinking he popularized the mullet.

** Creator/KieferSutherland was originally reluctant to star in the film, until he heard that Creator/JoelSchumacher had lined up Music/{{INXS}} and Music/JimmyBarnes to sing some of the songs on the soundtrack. Kiefer had spent a summer in Australia when he was a child and became fans of their music.
** Creator/EdwardHerrmann took the role of Max because it was a change from historical dramas, plus he got to play the villain in a horror movie.

* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/JoelSchumacher wanted the vampires to have long hair, but Creator/KieferSutherland didn't like the way it looked on him, so, inspired by Music/BillyIdol, he had his hair cut short.
* FriendshipOnTheSet: Creator/CoreyHaim and Creator/CoreyFeldman met and became best friends during production. Precluded from the nightly parties held by the older actors, they stayed in the hotel watching movies and visited the local arcade.
* OldShame: Minor example with Sutherland. Not that he dislikes the film (he is really proud and protective of the film), Sutherland came to regret going with the haircut he fashions as David, thinking he popularized the mullet.
* ThoseTwoActors: This was Creator/CoreyHaim and Creator/CoreyFeldman's first film together, which marked the start of the popular '80s trend "The Two Coreys" in which they starred together in a number of teenage films.
* ThrowItIn: In the scene where Sam and the Frog Brothers stake Marco while he sleeps, they are pursued by the rest of the vampire gang as they try to escape back into the daylight. David grabs Sam's leg but Sam manages to drag David's hand into the sunlight where it catches fire. A tear then slides down David's face as he clutches his hand in agony. Apparently, the tear running down his face was actually caused by Creator/KieferSutherland's contact lenses which were stinging terribly, but they decided to keep it in as it looked really good and was in context.

** Believe it or not, according to the director's commentary in the DVDBonusContent, the original script for the first movie was written for a ''G-rated'' film with most of the main characters being children Laddie's age. The Frog Brothers were going to be somewhat chubby Boy Scouts, and Michael was apparently going to be about thirteen years old. Basically, it would've been a [[{{Grimmification}} Grimmified]] ''Literature/PeterPan'', right down to David and Star's characters being named Peter and Wendy. Creator/JoelSchumacher described it as Cub Scouts turned vampire. This is also the reason for the whole "boys need a mother" bit at the end, which in the released film just comes off as Max being insane.
** The movie didn't originally end on a joke. After the scene with Grampa at the refrigerator, it was supposed to cut to the surviving Lost Boys regrouping in the sunken hotel. The last shot was of a mural on the wall, made in the early 1900s, with Max in it - looking exactly the same as he did today. All of this appeared in an early draft of the script, but ultimately was never filmed.

** Creator/KeenanWynn and Creator/JohnCarradine (a veteran of vampire films) were both original choices for Grandpa. Wynn died right before filming and Carradine was too ill.

** The reason [[spoiler:David]]'s skeleton didn't turn to dust at the end of the original film after [[spoiler:being impaled on a pair of antlers]] is because he doesn't die. This would have been picked up in a sequel, called ''The Lost Girls''. Scripts for the film circulated in the early '90s, but the film was never made. However, the plot point would turn up in the comic book ''Lost Boys: The Reign of Frogs''.
** Many viewers assumed the horns were carved from wood, which makes them elaborate "stakes".
** The two alternate endings to ''Lost Boys: The Tribe'' featured [[spoiler:Sam Emerson arriving in Lunar Bay and warning Edgar that a head vampire was heading to Lunar Bay to settle an old score with him, before offering to help Edgar, since once Edgar died, he would be next. The vampire was revealed to be Alan, Edgar's brother]]. The two endings are largely the same, only in one ending, [[spoiler:Sam]] is far more serious than in the other, since he'd already been bitten.

* AbilityOverAppearance: Creator/JoelSchumacher envisioned Star as being a waifish blonde, similar to Creator/MegRyan, but he was convinced by Jason Patric to consider Creator/JamiGertz, who had just worked with Patric in ''Series/{{Solarbabies}}''.

* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Barely averted. Creator/CoreyFeldman almost wasn't in the movie. At the time, he struggled with drug abuse at a young age and showed up to work coming down from a cocaine binge. Creator/JoelSchumacher was very upset that Corey kept dozing off and was unable to continue filming, so he fired him, but hired him back the next day after Corey apologized and swore to come to work prepared from then on, which he did.

** Creator/EdwardHermann took the role of Max because it was a change from historical dramas, plus he got to play the villain in a horror movie.

** Edward Hermann took the role of Max because it was a change from historical dramas, plus he got to play the villain in a horror movie.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** The fashions are aggressively 1980s. The Lost Boys have hair metal-inspired costumes, and Michael gets one ear pierced with a dangling earring in an early scene. Sam also wears a gold stud in one ear and some incredibly colorful, baggy shirts that even other character remark are gaudy.
** Lucy gets a job working at a video store renting out VHS cassettes. Not much job security there.
** There's a conversation about ''Magazine/TVGuide'', a relic of the days when you needed a published programming listings to know what was going to be on television. Sam is confused by Grandpa reading it, since he doesn't have a television, making it useless. Modern ''TV Guide'' is more like a magazine with articles and would actually be more useful for Grandpa's intended use.
** Tim Capello's shirtless saxophone performance is treated as the hip sound of teens and headbangers.
** Pretty much all the city scenes are draped in neon.

* AwesomeDearBoy: Creator/KieferSutherland was originally reluctant to star in the film, until he heard that Joel Schumacher had lined up Music/{{INXS}} and Music/JimmyBarnes to sing some of the songs on the soundtrack. Kiefer had spent a summer in Australia when he was a child and became fans of their music.

* AbilityOverAppearance: Creator/JoelSchumacher envisioned Star as being a waifish blonde, similar to Creator/MegRyan, but he was convinced by Jason Patric to consider Jami Gertz, who had just worked with Patric in ''Series/{{Solarbabies}}''.

** Executive producer Creator/RichardDonner originally intended to direct the movie himself, but as production languished, he moved onto ''Film/LethalWeapon'' and eventually hired Creator/JoelSchumacher for the job.