Cruel Intentions is one step closer to appearing on the small screen.
According to Entertainment Weekly, NBC has officially picked up a pilot for the Cruel Intentions sequel series. The pilot takes place 15 years after the 1999 movie, which starred Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Phillippe and Sarah Michelle Gellar, and follows the son of Witherspoon’s Annette and Phillippe's Sebastian.
“[Cruel Intentions] follows the beautiful and cunning Kathryn Merteuil as she vies for control of Valmont International as well as the soul of Bash Casey, the son of her brother, who was the late Sebastian Valmont, and Annette Hargrove,” according to NBC. “Upon discovering his late father’s legacy in a hidden journal, Bash is introduced to a world of sex, money, power, and corruption he never could have imagined.”
News of a Cruel Intentions TV series first surfaced in October, and the film’s director, Roger Kumble, is set to direct and co-write the pilot.
There is no word on whether or not NBC is pursuing Gellar to reprise her role as Kathryn, but she reunited with Witherspoon and Selma Blair to attend The Unauthorized Musical Parody Of Cruel Intentions in Los Angeles last May.