Sylvester Stallone set to reboot ‘Cliffhanger’ from director Ric Roman Waugh – Deadline

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Sylvester Stallone (Tulsa King) to return for the sequel to the 1993 action-thriller Interesting endingwhich Rick Roman Wu (Angel fell(From a text by Marc Biancolli)anglers).

Original Neil H. Moretz movie (The Fast and the Furious franchise) with Rocket Science, as well as Stallone’s Balboa Productions and Braden Aftergood. Other roles are currently being sought.

While no details about the sequel’s plot have been revealed, Stallone will reprise his character of Ranger Gabriel “Gabe” Walker, from the original film directed by Renny Harlin. Watch the TriStar Pictures title, which premiered in Cannes and grossed over $255 million worldwide, as Walker looks to help rescue a group of stranded hitchhikers, only to discover that they are in fact a gang of violent criminals looking to… To recover the missing 100 million dollars. Plane crash.

Michael France and Stallone co-wrote the script for the original film, with John Lithgow, Michael Rooker, and Janine Turner among those who round out the cast.

Producers on the reboot will include Moritz and Toby Jaffe for the original film, Stallone under the Balboa Productions banner, and Thorsten Schumacher with partner Lars Sylvest for Rocket Science, which will also finance. Wu, Anna Lily Amirpour, Chance Wright, Gianluca Chacra, and Hisham Alghanim join as executive producers. Rocket Science will launch overseas sales this month in Cannes, with CAA Media Finance representing the rights to North America and China.

Wright Productions and Entertainment and, separately, Front Row Entertainment provided development funding for Interesting ending. Rocket Science has a partnership agreement with StudioCanal for the rights to the film.

“I grew up with the biggest action movies of the 80s and 90s, and I work on many of them myself. Interesting ending It was by far one of my favorite glasses. To be at the helm of the next chapter, climbing the Italian Alps with the legend himself, Sylvester Stallone, is a dream come true.” “It will be a huge challenge and a blast to take this franchise to new heights, a responsibility I do not take lightly.”

Moretz added, “I will never forget the excitement I felt while watching Sylvester Stallone Interesting ending. I am so excited to be working with him and Rick Wu to continue the story of Gabe Walker and bring this iconic story to a new generation of moviegoers around the world.”

Stallone recently signed a deal to produce and star in an action comedy Never too old to die which was conceived as a championship car for him and arrived at Amazon Studios, as we told you first. The film centers on a mysterious murder inside a retirement home for spies, and will be the first project under Stallone and Balboa’s multiyear deal with Amazon Studios.

Stallone recently helmed the Prime Video superhero picture Samaritan He currently plays New York Mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi in the hit drama series Paramount + Crime. Tulsa King From creator Taylor Sheridan. He reprises his MCU role of Ravager Captain Stakar Ogord in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3which will be shown in theaters on May 5, and he will appear alongside his family in the documentaries Stallone family It will launch on Paramount+ on May 17th. He will also return for the latest installment of the hit action franchise expendablelaunched in August via Lionsgate.

Waugh is known for his work in action and thriller films including Lionsgate snitch starring Dwayne Johnson, Barry Pepper and Susan Sarandon; Lionsgate Angel fell with Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman; green land starring Butler and Morena Baccarin for STX; And Caller screenshot Starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lake Bell, Omari Hardwicke and Jon Bernthal. His next project is Open Road Films’. Kandahar, which once again reunites him with Butler in the lead role, and is set for release in theaters this month. It is also associated with green land sequel, Greenland: Migrationwhich is currently under development.

Also on the list was Rocket Science contestant Todd Haynes, may decemberStarring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore.

Stallone and Balboa Productions are represented by CAA. Waugh is represented by Range Media Partners and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole. Bianculli with WME, The Framework Collective, and Felker Toczek Suddleson.