Earlier today I was commenting on a random post on Twitter that Renny Harlin and Sylvester Stallone’s 1993 white knuckle ride, Cliffhanger is one of my top three Stallone movies along with Demolition Man and Rocky and now, a few short hours later, this comes along.
Almost 30 years to the day, we’re getting a sequel! Look, the trades are calling it a reboot but is Stallone is returning as mountain climber Gabe Walker – and he is! – then it’s a sequel.
The movie is set to be directed by Greenland’s Ris Roman Waugh with Hunters’ writer Mark Bianculli writing the script.
Thirty years later, the Sylvester Stallone action thriller Cliffhanger is getting a reboot, Variety reports today, and Stallone is set to reprise the role of mountain climber Gabe Walker.
On helming the project, Waugh had this to say: “Growing up with the biggest action films of the ’80s and ’90s, working on many of them myself, ‘Cliffhanger’ was by far one of my favorite spectacles. To be at the helm of the next chapter, scaling the Italian Alps with the legend himself, Sylvester Stallone, is a dream come true. It’s going to be a great challenge and blast taking this franchise to new heights, a responsibility I don’t take lightly.”
Moritz added: “I’ll never forget the thrill I felt watching Sylvester Stallone in ‘Cliffhanger.’ I am incredibly excited to be working with him and Ric Waugh to continue the story of Gabe Walker and introduce this iconic story to a new generation of filmgoers around the world.”
Cliffhanger is an endlessly rewatchable bit of fun and I love the idea of going back all these years later to see what came next for Gabe and if Waugh remains true to his word and brings this back to its 80s action movie roots? Then, what’s not to love?
Source: Variety
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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