The AFM (American Film Market) is an annual event that attracts film production companies and distributors from around the world where they can come together to flog their projects to the international market. This year’s event is still in full swing, and continues on until the 13th November, but the big news coming out of Santa Monica, California this weekend is that Lionsgate and Alcon Entertainment have managed to pre-sell the planned POINT BREAK remake to every major international market, before a star has even been attached to it, or a frame rolls.
Lionsgate and Alcon are apparently selling the film on its high concept alone, expanding on the glorious Kathryn Bigalow helmed original that starred THN favourite Patrick Swayze as bank-robbing, blonde-locked surf dude Bodhi, and Keanu Reeves as undercover FBI agent Johnny Utah.
Apparently, the new film’s director Ericson Core, who has just the one movie, the Mark Wahlberg starrer INVINCIBLE, to his name, blew international distributors away from his presentation at the market, hence its ‘selling-out’ worldwide.
“Buyers were sold on the high concept of the film,” said Lionsgate. “This is going to be a much larger scale film than the first one.”
While the original film was based in California, the new one will expand to an international setting and will include extreme sports like snowboarding, rock climbing and motorcycle racing, rather than just the skydiving and surfing which Swayze’s character and co. indulged in in the 1991 classic.
I don’t know how to feel. I’m just numb with the thought of the film being remade at all, just 22 years after the original’s debut. After all, that film was the ultimate rush. Nothing comes close to it. Not even sex.
I shall console myself with posting the original’s trailer below. What’s next guys, ROAD HOUSE? Please, let’s not even go there.
Source: THR
