website tracking
Search The Big Picture

« The Megan Fox Quote of the Day | Main | Movie Review - 'Not Forgotten' »
Friday
15May2009

Stallone's 'Cliffhanger' Gets Stallone-Free Reboot

DateFriday, May 15, 2009 at 3:04AM
Sometimes, producers and studios just overthink it. Neal Moritz, who's flying high with the recent success of Fast & Furious, has announced that his Original Films will team with StudioCanal to reboot the 1993 Stallone-Renny Harlin flick, Cliffhanger. Huh. You don't say.

"Just as they rebooted Star Trek, we're going to do the same with Cliffhanger," Moritz told Variety. Instead of a guy pushing 50 and saving the day for a Janine Turner-type whom, 15 years later, people will remember they liked in Northern Exposure, the new version will be about a group of young mountain climbers. For the life of me, "mountain climbers" sounds like one of those wink-wink code names for a group of sexual fetishists.

But here's the question: Why reboot Cliffhanger if you're just going to make your own damn ski slope adventure movie, anyway? Why not just make a new movie? I don't get it.

Was Cliffhanger really that meaningful an event for anyone? It was the number ten film at the box office in 1993, so if this trend holds, somebody will reboot Patch Adams in five years. Only younger.

There's no director or cast attached at this point, but that raises another question: Who's the modern equivalent of director Renny Harlin? Man, I don't even want to consider that.

AuthorColin Boyd | | in , | Print ArticlePrint Article | | CommentPost a Comment |

Reader Comments

There are no comments for this journal entry. To create a new comment, use the form below.

PostPost a New Comment

Enter your information below to add a new comment.

My response is on my own website »
Author Email (optional):
Author URL (optional):
Post:
 
Some HTML allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>