Another day, another story that fills me with dread and also gets me a little excited…
It seems that Alcon Television Group and AMC Studios are planning a new TV series based in the same world as Kathryn Bigelow’s original 1991 classic (and my all-time favourite action movie) Point Break.
According to Variety:
The series is set in 2026, 35 years after the events of the original film that starred Patrick Swayze as a beachy bank robber and Keanu Reeves as an undercover FBI agent. If it’s greenlit, the “Point Break” TV show will follow a dangerous heist crew with ties to the Ex-Presidents gang featured in the film.
TIDBIT:
Terminator and Avatar creator/director Jim Cameron has said that it was actually he who wrote the script for ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow’s classic Point Break (he also wrote her sci-fi classic Strange Days), which is credited as having been written by W Peter Iliff: “I wrote Point Break. I flat-out got stiffed by the Writers Guild on that. It was bullshit.”
In the original movie, Keanu Reeves plays Johnny Utah, an FBI agent out to prove himself by bringing down a high profile gang robbing banks while wearing masks of past Presidents, called The Ex-Presidents, led by a never-cooler Patrick Swayze’s Bodhi. There was an abysmal remake in 2015 but I refuse to even acknowledge that one.
Quantico and Butterfly’s Dave Kalstein will write and exec produce.
I have no issue with an in-universe series or movie coming along after Point Break, but I do hope and pray that it can keep the tone and stay true to the original movie.
But, of course, the big question is… will we see Reeves back as an older and wiser Utah? Now, that would be cool.
Thoughts? I know you have them and I wanna hear ’em all!
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Marc
Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….
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