Here we go again: another film from back in the day, whose magic was based almost solely on camp value, nostalgic good times that can never be relived and a wild and woolly cast (who can duplicate the mystical combination of Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze and Gary Busey?) is about to be remade.
That's right: ridiculously action-packed surf/bank robbery film Point Break is now getting the remake treatment, courtesy of your friends in Hollywood.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the director of the Point Break remake will be Ericson Core, who has previously worked as cinematographer on such films as The Fast and the Furious and Ben Affleck's Daredevil.
Will Core be able to compete with the original Point Break's director? Considering he's going up against Kathryn Bigelow there, who has been receiving endless (and well-deserved) acclaim for such recent masterworks as The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, it's a tough "break" for Core, but he'll be aided in his endeavor by screenwriter Kurt Wimmer, whose previous credits include such other remakes as The Thomas Crown Affair (pretty good) and Total Recall (yeesh).
For those with no love for comic spills, unbelievable thrills and plenty of wet, long hair (except for love interest Lori Petty, funnily enough), the original Point Break gives us a hotshot rookie FBI agent (Reeves) who must go undercover infiltrating a band of thrill-seeking surfers (led by Swayze) in order to get the goods on a possible link between the surf community and a series of robberies that has been going down.
We'll see how much of the original plotline, action scenes (including some truly killer skydiving sequences) and snappy one-liners from the original Point Break end up in the remake. Perhaps even Reeves himself will show up for an incredibly obvious cameo. With remakes these days, you just never can tell.
IMDB Pro lists producers as: John Baldecchi, Devesh Chetty, Michael De Luca, Broderick Johnson, Andrew A. Kosove, John McMurrick, Chris Taylor and Wimmer.
What do you think? Are you excited about the Point Break remake or are you wishing they would stop with all the remakes already? Or do you think it's about time Point Break saw a new, fresher version? Let us know in the comments below!
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