Cruel Intentions remake: Sarah Michelle Gellar posts first set photos

It's 1999 all over again

If you thought the Cruel Intentions remake was a joke, it wasn’t, and the first set photos have emerged to prove it.

Sarah Michelle Gellar is returning as Kathryn Merteuil for a TV revival and by the looks of pictures posted on her Instagram page, she’ll even be donning her trademark rosary again.

The actress, now 38, starred in the 1999 cult movie adapted for a contemporary audience from Choderlos de Laclos’ classic novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses. The story followed two rich step-siblings who make a bet that they can take the new headmaster’s daughter’s virginity before the end of term.

The new Cruel Intentions will be set in the present day and tell the “rags to riches story of 16-year-old Bash Carey, son of the late Sebastian Valmont and Annette Hargrove”. Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon, who played Valmont and Hargrove in the original, are not believed to be reprising their roles.

“Upon finding his late father’s journal, Bash learns of the family legacy he didn’t know existed,” the synopsis continues. “In search of answers, he trades his small-town Kansas upbringing for a scholarship to the prestigious Brighton Preparatory Academy in San Francisco and soon finds himself in a world of sex, money, power and corruption he never could have imagined.”

Roger Kumble, who adapted the original, will write and direct the remake.