February 4, 2007 (Moviehole.Net) - Joel Schumacher's got a bat-nipple to suck with Warner Bros. He ain't happy. The veteran filmmaker is apparently spitting chips that Warner Bros have decided to make a direct-to-video sequel to his 1987 vampire fave, "The Lost Boys."

Schumacher himself had been trying to do a spin-off for years, one that would have centred on female vampires, but the studio never went for the idea. He says the sequel idea would never work - because all the characters are either dead or have moved on.

"I told them to do 'Lost Girls' and not do 'Lost Boys Sequel,'" Schumacher tells RottenTomatoes.com. "There is no 'Lost Boys' sequel. All the boys are dead. The Coreys are too old. So what would be the movie? You'd have to make up a whole new set of characters."

He reminds the site that he told "them to do 'Lost Girls.' It'd be great. I said, 'Do gorgeous teenage biker chicks who are vampires. It'll be great.' But they don't listen to me."

The director says studios have asked him to sequelize some of his other films, and he has refused – which in turn gives the studio free reign to do what they want with them. "There is no sequel to 'Flatliners' in my mind, but they own those. You don't own them. You're not yours. They did '8mm 2' which we knew nothing about. They slapped the title on a movie that had nothing to do with 8mm. I think it was direct to DVD because the '8mm' DVD made so much."

"The Lost Boys 2," from Warner Premiere, is being filmed in San Diego early this year, and at this stage, neither Corey has been contacted about appearing in it. That's three people now spitting chips.

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