Since all of your favourite shows and movies are being rebooted (hello Will & Grace, Charlie’s Angels and Sabrina The Teenage Witch), here’s yet another cult classic receiving the remake treatment.
The 1988 dark comedy Heathers has been reborn into a new and even darker TV series, which will debut on the Paramount Network.
The NSFW trailer shows “good girl” Veronica Sawyer played by Grace Victoria Cox and a very different set of ‘Heathers’ ruling the school.
Cue ruthless leader Heather Chandler (Melanie Field), plus Heather Duke (Brendan Scannell) and Heather McNamara (Jasmine Matthews), who drive Veronica and her boyfriend to murder.
Watch the official red band trailer below:
Since the trailer’s release, showrunner Jason Micallef defended the show against criticism that the ‘Heathers’ are presented as villains facing off against a straight white female.
“The main thing to really take away is I don’t view the Heathers as the villains. The three Heathers are incredibly powerful and ruling the school; they’re the people you would want to be,” he told EW.
“In the original film, the Heathers were the ones I always loved, and it’s the same with the series. The Heathers are the aspirational characters. [That the Heathers are the villains is] the underlying thesis of the small segment of people that have an issue with it. The villain is J.D. — and that’s the same in the movie and same in our show.”
Micallef added: “The reason I changed the Heathers surface identities is I think today [the characterization] rings true. Today, all different types of people are more aspirational. People that wouldn’t have necessarily been considered the most popular kids in school in 1988 could very well be — and probably most likely are — the more popular kids today. And also because it’s a TV show, we have so much more time to explore their characters and get behind it. Of course, no one’s seen the show yet. Once they see it, I think they’ll get what we’re talking about.”
According to Deadline Hollywood, Heathers premieres on March 7 on the Paramount Network in the US.
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