Cruel Intentions Series Gets Release Date at Prime Video — Watch Trailer for Greek Life-Set Update
Prepare to have “Bitter Sweet Symphony” stuck in your head all over again.
Prime Video’s series take on Cruel Intentions will premiere with all eight episodes on Thursday, Nov. 21, it was announced on Thursday. The streamer also released the first trailer for the update, which features several iconic details from the 1999 movie (Kathryn’s cross, Sebastian’s black car, and, of course, a cover of The Verve’s earworm of a song).
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But there are also plenty of differences in the series, which “follows the elite students of Manchester College, a Washington, D.C.-adjacent university, where reputation means everything, fraternities and sororities are the gold standard, and two ruthless stepsiblings, Caroline Merteuil (First Kill’s Sarah Catherine Hook) and Lucien Belmont (One Night’s Zac Burgess), will do anything to stay on top of the cutthroat social hierarchy,” reads the official description. “After a brutal hazing incident threatens the entire Greek Life system, they’ll do whatever is necessary to preserve their power and reputation – even if that means seducing Annie Grover (the Gossip Girl reboot’s Savannah Lee Smith), the daughter of the Vice President of the United States. Hearts will be broken, loyalties will be tested, and secrets will be revealed in this modern-day royal court that is Manchester College.”
The cast also includes Sara Silva as Cece Carroway, John Harlan Kim (9-1-1) as Blaise Powell, Khobe Clarke (Firefly Lane) as Scott Russell and Brooke Lena Johnson (YOU) as Beatrice Worth. Meanwhile, Sean Patrick Thomas (Gen V), who played music teacher Roland in the original film, will portray Professor Hank Chadwick in the series.
Sara Goodman (The Hardy Boys) and Phoebe Fisher (the I Know What You Did Last Summer TV series) serve as co-showrunners.
Press PLAY on the trailer, then hit the comments with your first impressions!
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