When Sarah Michelle Gellar announced that she was coming back as Kathryn on the Tv Show, Reese Witherspoon replied to her on Twitter saying "Really thinking about writing a manifesto about this @SarahMGellar #CruelIntentions" making a reference to the original movie.
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair (original cast from the Cruel Intentions movie) all went together to see "The Unauthorized Musical Parody of Cruel Intentions" in Los Angeles in 2015, created by the now writers of the television pilot.
Unreleased pilot leaked online in November 2017.
Sarah Michelle Gellar and Hiep Thi Le are the only actresses from Cruel Intentions (1999) to return.
In October 2016, NBC announced that they would not pick up the project to series. Sony Pictures Television shopped it to other networks with no luck.