
Sutherland with co-star Jami Gertz and director Joel Schumacher. Of course, Joel found a way around it and that’s why I’m wearing black gloves throughout the film, and also why the clutch and accelerator are both on the right side of my bike. I was so embarrassed and thought I was in so much trouble. I went to see a doctor, who confirmed that it was indeed broken, and they found a surfboard maker to make a cast for me out of polyurethane, which was less than an eighth of an inch thick.

I put my hands out and broke my left wrist very badly. Before I knew it, I was in the middle of the air the bike was nowhere near me. KIEFER SUTHERLAND: I popped a wheelie and hit one of the trolley car tracks. We literally hadn’t even started shooting yet, but Kiefer got a bit anxious and the next thing I hear, he’s revving up that engine and tearing off down the boardwalk. The boys were all just outside of the main entrance to the boardwalk on their bikes, and the crowd was on the other side of this stretch that had trolley car tracks. STEVE LaPORTE (Make-Up Artist): The sun hadn’t even gone down yet. Kiefer Sutherland vamping it up in The Lost Boys. I was also starting to feel very comfortable on the dirt bikes that we had, and on the first night of shooting, I saw a cute girl in the crowd and thought I’d show off a bit. KIEFER SUTHERLAND (David): You’re 19-years-old, there’s a thousand extras, the lights are on… right away, in that environment, you start to feel like a bit of a rock star.


It was super fun and was such an energised atmosphere for all of us. We would be doing our scenes and riding the bikes up and down the boardwalk, the whole time being watched by thousands of people. And the tale of Kiefer’s injury is a mad one… Exclusive ExcerptĪLEX WINTER (Marko): Shooting on the boardwalk was like being in a boy band! Honest to god, there were thousands upon thousands of bystanders every night. The book features new interviews with the likes of Joel Schumacher, Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Patric, Jami Gertz and Corey Feldman, archive conversations with Corey Haim, Brooke McCarter and Edward Herrmann, and more than 400 behind-the-scenes photos, many of which have never been seen before. ‘Lost in the Shadows’ is written by Paul Davis, and tells the story behind the 1987 cult classic.
