A TV iteration of Cruel Intentions, Manchester Prep, was planned for FOX’s 1999-2000 primetime schedule…until Rupert Murdoch (allegedly) had the project sacked for being too crass (!), at which time it was reworked as a prequel, Cruel Intentions 2, and everything about it is…number two: the casting, the timeline, the geography, the wardrobe, and Robin “AJ” Dunne as Valmont makes Ryan Phillippe look like Jon Hamm. This is possibly the crappiest show-verse property we’ve ever contemplated, and we’re talking about that, plus early TWoP days, Some Kind Of Wonderful, and “frisky twins” (ew). Listen now!
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Notes
- 📅 Published September 5, 2025
- 🎞️ Cruel Intentions 2 on Dailymotion (don't do it, friends)
- 🏫 Entertainment Weekly assumed it was on the fall sked as late as September '99
- 🙅♂️ Variety with the Variety-argot-iest write-up of the cancellation
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