Joel Schumacher said he should be charged for what he did on the set of THE LOST BOYS

Director Joel Schumacher he is known for making so many interesting and unique films throughout his career, including St. Elmo’s Fire, The lost boys, Flat lines, Die young, The client, A time to kill, Batman forever, Batman and Robin, Fall, The Phantom of the Opera, 8 mm, The land of tigers, The number 23, Twelveand Netflix House of cardswhich was the last project he worked on before his death in 2020.

He made many films that became fan favorites, but throughout his career he also went through many tumultuous trials, which sometimes affected his work, and he regretted it. Schumacher directed the 1987 cult teen vampire film, The lost boys, on which he had to compete with a cast of teenage actors. /Film reports that in a 2020 retrospective article for Empire (published two months before the director’s death), Schumacher joked: “There were some troubled young people in the film, […] so maybe a problematic director was perfect!”

There were several incidents that went wrong during the making of the film. One was with the star of the film, Jason Patrick, who played Michael in the film. Although he had only completed one film at this point in his career, Hollywood had its eyes on the young actor. He took the role in “The Lost Boys” on the only condition that he wouldn’t have to wear vampire prosthetics. But due to the fluid nature of the script, he was required to wear prosthetics during filming. The furious actor threatened to abandon the film, but the studio patched things up. However, Schumacher felt terrible. “I don’t lie to actors,” he said.

Schumacher felt worse about an accident involving him Brooke McCarterwho played, Paul a member of Kiefer SutherlandIt’s the vampire gang. In the scene where he attacks the Frog brothers (Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander) in the Emersons’ bathroom, McCarter, who, according to Schumacher, had gotten “deep into the character” of a psychopathic surfer, couldn’t nail his entrance with the frightening intensity the required moment. Schumacher faced time constraints with his child actors and lost his cool. As he told Empire:

“I was so frustrated, I just slapped him and pushed the door in front of him. I had never done that in my life, and never again. I’m ashamed of it. It’s scandalous: he should have reported me, I should have been charged. But I I have apologized many, many times.”

It’s never okay for a director to put his hands on someone on set, so it’s good that he acknowledged it and was able to apologize before the actor’s death in 2015, and his own death in 2020.