Keanu Reeves in ‘Point Break.’ Photo: 20th Century Fox.
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A TV series based on 1991’s ‘Point Break’ is in development.
AMC Network is backing the project.
David Kalstein will run the show.
1991 action thriller ‘Point Break’ has been through the remake wringer once before (see more on that lower down the page), but according to Deadline, cable channel AMC has decided to try again, this time developing the concept as a TV series.
David Kalstein, who recently worked on Prime Video series ‘Butterfly’ (which starred Daniel Dae Kim as an intelligence agent working in Korea), will be overseeing the eventual show.
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It’s hardly the first time AMC has looked to convert a 1990s movie into a series –– it has seen success with Anne Rice adaptation ‘Interview with the Vampire,’ which has spawned a small-screen franchise based on the author’s work.
(L to R): Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze in ‘Point Break.’ Photo: 20th Century Fox.
The original movie, which was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by W. Peter Iliff, starred Keanu Reeves as rookie FBI agent Johnny Utah, who infiltrates the Ex-Presidents, a gang of Southern California surfers who rob banks.
The Ex-Presidents, who wear masks of Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and Lyndon B. Johnson, are led by Patrick Swayze’s Bodhi, and Utah gets swept up in their daredevil lifestyle before a massive action chase and a reunion amid lethal waves.
A bigger question is how the concept can be stretched in order to fit the TV format; though Deadline’s story does at least offer some details: the series is set 35 years after the events of the original film and is focused on a dangerous heist crew with ties to the Ex-Presidents gang.
And converting movies to TV series has been a hit and miss prospect of late, with the likes of ‘Lethal Weapon’ failing to spark.
When will the new ‘Point Break’ TV series be on screens?
It’s clearly early days for this one, so AMC Networks has yet to announce when the show might be hitting our screens. We’re not sure we expect it much before 2027, though.
(L to R): Patrick Swayze, James Le Gros, Bojesse Christopher and John Philbin in ‘Point Break.’ Photo: 20th Century Fox.
Keanu Reeves as John Wick in ‘John Wick: Chapter 4.’ Photo Credit: Murray Close.
Keanu Reeves is one of the most beloved actors of his generation!
Reeves’ resume features classic movies like ‘Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure,’ ‘Point Break,’ ‘Speed,’ ‘The Matrix’ series and the ‘John Wick’ franchise.
His latest, ‘John Wick: Chapter 4,’ which is once again directed by Chad Stahelski, opens in theaters on March 24th.
In honor of the new ‘Wick’ movie, Moviefone is counting down the 30 greatest Keanu Reeves movies of all time, including ‘John Wick: Chapter 4.’
When a devoted husband and father (Reeves) is left home alone for the weekend, two stranded young women (Lorenza Izzo and Ana de Armas) unexpectedly knock on his door for help. What starts out as a kind gesture results in a dangerous seduction and a deadly game of cat and mouse.
A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu (Reeves) comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. When barred from speaking to the United Nations, he decides humankind shall be exterminated so the planet can survive.
In this Shakespearean farce, Hero (Kate Beckinsale) and her groom-to-be, Claudio (Robert Sean Leonard), team up with Claudio’s commanding officer, Don Pedro (Denzel Washington), the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick (Kenneth Branagh) and Beatrice (Emma Thompson) — a tough task indeed, considering their corresponding distaste for love and each other. Meanwhile, meddling Don John (Reeves) plots to ruin the wedding.
A group of high-school friends (Reeves, Crispin Glover and Ione Skye Leitch) must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson (Daniel Roebuck), killed another, Jamie (Danyi Deats). Faced with the brutality of death, each must decide whether to turn their friend in to the police, or to help him escape the consequences of his dreadful deed.
Reunited after 15 years, famous chef Sasha (Ali Wong) and hometown musician Marcus (Randall Park) feel the old sparks of attraction but struggle to adapt to each other’s worlds.
Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo (Reeves) has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from the matrix and brought to Zion, the one and only stronghold of the Resistance. Neo himself has discovered his superpowers including super speed, ability to see the codes of the things inside the matrix and a certain degree of pre-cognition.
But a nasty piece of news hits the human resistance: 250,000 machine sentinels are digging to Zion and would reach them in 72 hours. As Zion prepares for the ultimate war, Neo, Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) are advised by the Oracle (Gloria Foster) to find the Keymaker (Randall Duk Kim) who would help them reach the Source. Meanwhile Neo’s recurrent dreams depicting Trinity’s death have got him worried and as if it was not enough, Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) has somehow escaped deletion, has become more powerful than before and has fixed Neo as his next target.
A lonely doctor (Sandra Bullock) who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect (Reeves). They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it’s too late.
Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson) is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin (Amanda Peet), his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin’s mother, Erica (Diane Keaton). Left in the care of Erica and his doctor (Reeves), a love triangle starts to take shape.
Tom Ludlow (Reeves) is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he’s been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him.
Keanu Reeves as John Wick in ‘John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum.’
Super-assassin John Wick (Reeves) returns with a $14 million price tag on his head and an army of bounty-hunting killers on his trail. After killing a member of the shadowy international assassin’s guild, the High Table, John Wick is excommunicado, but the world’s most ruthless hit men and women await his every turn.
In “DC League of Super-Pets,” Krypto the Super-Dog (Dwayne Johnson) and Superman (John Krasinski) are inseparable best friends, sharing the same superpowers and fighting crime in Metropolis side by side. When Superman, Batman (Reeves) and the rest of the Justice League are kidnapped, Krypto must convince a rag-tag shelter pack—Ace the hound (Kevin Hart), PB the potbellied pig (Vanessa Bayer), Merton the turtle (Natasha Lyonne) and Chip the squirrel (Diego Luna) to master their own newfound powers and help him rescue the superheroes.
Annie Wilson (Cate Blanchett), young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others’ futures—though her own has become cloudier than even she can see. Threatened by a client’s (Hilary Swank) violent husband (Reeves) and plagued by visions of a missing local woman (Katie Holmes), Annie finds herself pulled into a thicket of lies and deception in which her extraordinary gift may ultimately get her killed.
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil (Glenn Close) asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont (John Malkovich) to seduce the future wife (Michelle Pfeiffer) of another ex-lover (Reeves) of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo (Reeves) fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving).
Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty (Gene Hackman) is hired in the wake of a players’ strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that impossible dream hinges on whether his replacements can hunker down and do the job. So, McGinty dusts off his secret dossier of ex-players who never got a chance (or screwed up the one they were given) and knits together a bad-dream team of guys who just may give the Sentinels their title shot.
John Wick (Reeves) is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and does battle against some of the world’s most dangerous killers.
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the ‘black sheep’ of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.
Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax (Reeves) accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss (Al Pacino) has something far more evil planned.
When aspiring model Jesse (Elle Fanning) moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.
Woody (Tom Hanks) has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that’s Andy or Bonnie. But when Bonnie adds a reluctant new toy called “Forky” (Tony Hale) to her room, a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends will show Woody how big the world can be for a toy.
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Henry IV,” Mike Waters (River Phoenix) is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor (Reeves) is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike’s estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.
Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Reeves) are high school buddies starting a band. They are also about to fail their history class—which means Ted would be sent to military school—but receive help from Rufus (George Carlin), a traveller from a future where their band is the foundation for a perfect society. With the use of Rufus’ time machine, Bill and Ted travel to various points in history, returning with important figures to help them complete their final history presentation.
John Wick (Reeves) uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.
Keanu Reeves as John Constantine in 2005’s ‘Constantine.’
John Constantine (Reeves) has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman (Rachel Weisz) to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.
Los Angeles SWAT cop Jack Traven (Reeves) is up against bomb expert Howard Payne (Dennis Hopper), who’s after major ransom money. First it’s a rigged elevator in a very tall building. Then it’s a rigged bus–if it slows, it will blow, bad enough any day, but a nightmare in LA traffic. And that’s still not the end.
In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the members of the gang could be surfers, the F.B.I. sends young agent Johnny Utah (Reeves) to the beach undercover to mix with the surfers and gather information.
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
(L to R) Vin Diesel, Tom Sizemore and Tom Hanks in Steven Spielberg’s ‘Saving Private Ryan.’
Tom Sizemore, an actor known for his gruff style and hard-nosed characters, died on Friday.
Sizemore’s manager, Charles Lago announced his passing in a statement:
“It is with great sadness and sorrow I have to announce that actor Thomas Edward Sizemore aged 61 passed away peacefully in his sleep today at St Joseph’s Hospital Burbank,” the actor’s manager Charles Lago said in a statement. “His brother Paul and twin boys Jayden and Jagger were at his side. The Sizemore family has been comforted by the hundreds of messages of support and love shown to their son, brother and father. They are asking for privacy during this difficult time and I am asking for those wishes to please be respected.”
Sizemore was born on Nov. 29, 1961, in Detroit. After graduating from Wayne State University in Detroit with a bachelor’s degree in theater in 1983, he earned a master’s in the subject from Temple University in 1986. Three years later, he kicked off his acting career, making his debut on TV, in ‘Gideon Oliver,’ and on film, in ‘Lock Up,’ which starred Sylvester Stallone.
Yet outside of his acting work –– which was also filled with a variety of B-movies and straight-to-video appearances, his personal life was a whirlwind of drug abuse, lawsuits, accidents and stints in rehab.
“I should have been dead many times over, and honestly, I didn’t know that I was going to come back from the bottom I dropped to,” Sizemore told Deadline in a 2011 interview. “The fact that I’m now sober over two years — and that I’m acting as much as I did before — proves that people can overcome obstacles even when they’re sure they can’t.”
The actor suffered a brain aneurysm as a result of a stroke on February 18th and had been on life support in a coma since then.
Sizemore is survived by his mother, his twin sons, his brother Paul, his half-sister, Katherine Sizemore, and his half-brother, Charles Sizemore.
Paul Sizemore said this about his sibling:
“I am deeply saddened by the loss of my big brother Tom. He was larger than life. He has influenced my life more than anyone I know. He was talented, loving, giving and could keep you entertained endlessly with his wit and storytelling ability. I am devastated he is gone and will miss him always.”
(L to R) Matt Damon, Max Martini, Barry Pepper, and Tom Sizemore in Steven Spielberg’s ‘Saving Private Ryan.’
Teresa Palmer as Rachel in ‘The Twin.’ Photo Credit: Shudder.
Opening in theaters, On Demand, digital, and streaming exclusively on Shudder beginning May 6th is the new psychological horror thriller ‘The Twin,’ which was co-written and directed by Taneli Mustonen (‘Lake Bodom’).
Co-written and produced by Aleski Hyvarinen, the film revolves around Rachel (Teresa Palmer) and Anthony (Steven Cree) who movie their family from the United States to Anthony’s birthplace of Finland, after a tragedy that kills their young son, Nathan (Tristan Ruggeri). Following the move, his surviving twin brother Elliot (Ruggeri) begins to communicate with his deceased sibling.
Moviefone recently had the pleasure of speaking with Teresa Palmer about her work on ‘The Twin.’
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You can read our full interview with Teresa Palmer below or watch our interview with Palmer, director and co-writer Taneli Mustonen, and producer and co-writer Aleksi Hyvarinen by clicking on the video player above.
Moviefone: To begin with, can you talk about how you got involved with this project and what was your first reaction after reading the screenplay?
Teresa Palmer: I got involved through my new agency, ICM. They brought it to my attention. I was shooting the last season of ‘A Discovery of Witches’ and I was really looking for a film to do after being on that production for these long six months stints. So, I was looking for something to pop in for a couple of months and then be done.
Then they brought this to my attention. I looked at the filmmaker’s last film, which is called ‘Lake Bodom’ and I was really intrigued by what I saw. I thought it was really great storytelling and just interesting. I loved the twists and the turns.
So, I read the screenplay and I was completely blown away by the subject matter, but also just the little red herrings along the way. I loved going back and discovering what the micro-clues were to the big shock twist at the end of the movie. But the character was just so rich. She was rich and complex and imperfect, which I really loved.
So, my reaction to the screenplay was one of shock and horror. I was immediately drawn to the character. She was intense and layered and complex and very vulnerable. There was this beautiful, imperfect nature to who she was and how she was handling the situation that she finds herself thrust in.
So, I loved her, the humanity in her, but then really my favorite thing about it was that it felt like a standalone movie. It could be a drama where we are looking at the dynamic of a family after having experienced a really intense traumatic event in their life, and how they’re picking up these fractured pieces of their lives and trying to put them together.
So that was standalone for me and really interesting. Then of course, they then pull the horror element in and they wove that into this beautiful, delicate and fractured family. I loved both elements of the screenplay and it’s really the thing that made me decide to do it.
(L to R) Tristan Ruggeri as Elliot, Teresa Palmer as Rachel, and Steven Cree as Anthony in ‘The Twin.’ Photo Credit: Heikki Leis/Shudder.
MF: As you mentioned, the movie uses classic horror film tropes to throw the audience off from what is really happening in the story. Can you talk about that and how it really makes the movie standout from other horror films?
TP: Yes, I found it really refreshing and I know that they had a lot of amazing inspirations from lots of very iconic horror films. But they made it its own beast. I found that it was quite a complex story to have to tell. It’s very delicate because it’s dealing with the ramifications of a family who have lost one of their children, especially when it may or may not have been one of the parents doing, it’s hard to tread that path. You have to do it lightly, beautifully and delicately, but you also have to make sure that the horror elements sit in it comfortably as well.
So, I thought that the director, Taneli, and the producer, Aleksi, did a really beautiful job of telling the story and it really serves its purpose. But for me personally, it was a really challenging one because I was pregnant throughout the whole filming and then having the heaviness of a mother losing her child as the subject matter, that was pretty hard.
(L to R) Tristan Ruggeri as Elliot, and Teresa Palmer as Rachel in ‘The Twin.’ Photo Credit: Shudder.
MF: Can you talk about how as an actress you approached the physical and emotional challenges of playing a mother who has lost her child?
TP: I found it really challenging playing the character. I think initially I thought it would be okay for me to just turn it off at the end of the day, and I would just go back to my kids it would be fine. But I think it was also because of what stage in my pregnancy I was. I started the movie when I was about 13 weeks pregnant and finished around 22 weeks pregnant.
You’re transitioning into the second trimester and you’re feeling your baby move for the first time, but I had to deal with the joy of new life in me whilst still simultaneously playing the horrifying feelings of, and the isolation of, a woman having lost a child. So, it was pretty polarizing.
I had to put this protective shell around me and I figured that, I’m going to show up, I’m going to be in the moments from action to cut, but I have to find a process of moving through and unpacking these feelings so that I’m not carrying it with me. I’m not affecting this pregnancy. I’m not taking it home to the kids. I felt like I was able to do that.
Subconsciously it was still there with me. I would wake up in the middle of the night, many times with a sense of dread, and I would look around and I’d count all my many children to make sure they’re all safe. So, it definitely had an impact on me. I read a lot of things to prepare. There’s a couple of women I follow on Instagram who have lost their children in accidents. So, they didn’t have the time to prepare for a loss like that, and it just was very sudden.
One of them in particular, she’s very open, beautiful and vulnerable with her journey of grief. I would read her writings late at night and really sort of sink into the feelings that she was so generously sharing with us. But my husband sometimes had to cut me off because I’d just be sobbing. But it’s such an important story to talk about when you’re dealt such a huge life changing event. Everyone else stops and they’re there to support you, love you, encourage you and lift you up.
But everyone’s life continues on, and their children get older and they grow up. But you as the central character in this nightmare, it’s just with you every day. So that’s very isolating and that’s what I wanted to portray in this character.
(L to R) Tristan Ruggeri as Elliot, Teresa Palmer as Rachel, and Steven Cree as Anthony in ‘The Twin.’ Photo Credit: Heikki Leis/Shudder.
MF: Can you also talk about how that trauma affects her relationship with her husband, and creating that dynamic with Steven Cree?
TP: They’re kind of in parallel lives, they’re both living their own existence, but they’re not even really coexisting at this point. It feels that Rachel is very much in her bubble of grief, and she holds a lot of resentment and a lot of anger towards her husband who feels really disengaged in their remaining child. I think that you just see such damage in their relationship.
Often you read about when a traumatic event happens in a family, oftentimes it’s very hard to keep that family unit together and you hear more often than not these marriages end in divorce. So, I think you’re kind of looking down the barrel of divorce with these two, and that’s why they decide to make this radical big shift to go and pick themselves up and move to another country.
They’re just running away from the same feelings and the same problems that are just going to follow them there. It’s a very intricate, delicate, sad, traumatizing thing to witness on screen. They’re so broken, both of them are really broken in their own ways and are both just trying to make the best choices in the moment.
But again, another thing that I love, and I really wanted to explore, it’s not often I see that on camera, and that is the dynamics of a family after a child has passed away, and how broken that is and the humanity in that. So, I very much enjoyed exploring that relationship dynamic as well.
(L to R) Teresa Palmer as Rachel and Steven Cree as Anthony in ‘The Twin.’ Photo Credit: Shudder.
MF: Finally, what was it like working with director Taneli Mustonen and watching him execute his unique vision for this project?
TP: It was wonderful. Taneli is like an excited little puppy dog. He loves horror, he just thrives and blossoms in that environment. So being on set, he’d get really excited. He’d come up with these great ideas and it was very spontaneous, and moment to moment.
I definitely felt like, as a performer, it’s quite liberating because it’s not as traditional as what I’ve experienced before when shooting American films or even Australian films, where you have your call sheet, you know exactly what you’re doing from the very first moment you’re on set to the last moment when you leave, and this was the sort of thing that you had a loose idea of the scene that you’re shooting and then on the day you are just in it.
So, you’re coming up with things, and it’s very collaborative. I felt as though I could throw in so many big ideas and plot ideas as well, and Taneli was just so open. He was so open to hearing things and trying things. It gave me the freedom to really be bold in some of the performance choices that I was getting to make, because I felt like anywhere I was landing, Taneli was accepting it and liked it.
I think because my character is suffering from a mental health breakdown, there was a lot there to explore. I mean, there were really no boundaries. I could take it in any direction I wanted to. Taneli was like my dance partner in that, which was really wonderful.
(L to R) Tristan Ruggeri as Elliot, Steven Cree as Anthony, and Teresa Palmer as Rachel in ‘The Twin.’ Photo Credit: Shudder.
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Some people go to a work at sit at a desk. Mic Rodgers goes to work and makes mayhem. “A normal day is turning cars over, lighting people on fire, doing battle sequences,” says Rodgers, the second unit director and stunt coordinator on “Point Break.” The reboot of the 1991 cult favorite features some of the most outrageous, high-flying stunts ever put on camera. But succeeding in the entertainment business, says Rodgers, requires a more down-to-earth approach. “Be patient and understand that it’s a business about relationships,” he tells Made in Hollywood: Teed Edition’s Kylie Erica Mar. “It’s 90 percent of who you know, but that last 10 percent is, oh, so important because you have to perform. Truly, you really have to make relationships, get to know people to give you a chance, and you can’t fail on that chance.”
The remake of the cult-classic Patrick Swayze heist film packs in non-stop action with harrowing stunts by the world’s top extreme athletes doubling for stars Luke Bracey and Edgar Ramirez.
In a series of videos, producers take viewers behind the screen to show how they choreographed and filmed the breathtaking action on surfboards, motorcycles, snowboards and a flying contraption called a wingsuit.
And they explain the danger wasn’t all Hollywood make-believe, including one snowboarding stunt that that created a special effect that was terrifyingly real.
“The more people you put on a slope, the more danger the whole thing is going to rip out,” says Rob Bruce, a second unit director for snowboarding scenes. “And we’ve seen in happen on a very simple shot — four guys jumped off a cliff, landed and the whole face went. It was a Class 4 avalanche. It is extreme and so we really want to capture that.”
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