‘Cruel Intentions’ reboot gets a trailer 25 years after the original so sit with *that*

Excuse me while I drink from the wrong holy grail and crumble into dust.

25 years since we dabbled in debauchery and casual incest with Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair, Cruel Intentions has been rebooted as a TV series. While you watch the new trailer with a fresh new cast, I’ll go and take a massive sip from the wrong holy grail.

The eight-episode Prime Video show sends you into the vicious sororities and fraternities of Manchester College, where stepsiblings Caroline Merteuil (First Kill’s Sarah Catherine Hook) and Lucien Belmont (Boy Swallows Universe’s Zac Burgess) are social royalty. And they’re unhealthily obsessed with each other. They’re on a mission to seduce the vice president’s daughter, Annie Grover (Gossip Girl’s Savannah Lee Smith) and clamber their way back to campus glory following a violent hazing incident.

Sara Goodman and Phoebe Fisher, who both adapted the I Know What You Did Last Summer series, are the showrunners and writers for the series, with original Cruel Intentions director Roger Kumble executive producing alongside them. The original film was already an adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ Dangerous Liaisons, so maybe there’s more to dig into than we saw in the 1999 film. Or maybe we’re just in for more uncomfortable helpings of on-campus incest scored to “Bittersweet Symphony”, who can say?

Cruel Intentions is streaming on Prime Video Nov. 21

Shannon Connellan is Mashable’s UK Editor based in London, formerly Mashable’s Australia Editor, but emotionally, she lives in the Creel House. A Tomatometer-approved critic, Shannon writes about everything (but not anything) across entertainment, tech, social good, science, and culture.

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