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Ana Lily Amirpour is Directing a Female-Fronted Remake of ‘Cliffhanger’!
From the producers of Fast and the Furious comes a bold new cinematic spectacle.
Announced by Deadline today, The Bad Batch director Ana Lily Amirpour‘s next film will be a remake of the Sylvester Stallone-starring Cliffhanger, which was directed by Renny Harlin!
The fresh new take on the 1993 film is heading to the Cannes Marché, and Deadline notes that “the reimagined, big-canvas package will have a female lead — casting is underway.”
They add that Jason Momoa is in talks for “a key cameo.”
Amirpour says of the project, “We are setting out to create a thrill-ride on the mountain which taps into the primal side of an action movie, where you see what a person is capable of doing to survive in the most extreme situations, pushed to the limits. Add to that some high-stakes espionage and a badass female mountain climber as the lead and it becomes a truly epic reinvention of what made the original Cliffhanger movie so fun and so thrilling.”
Sascha Penn (Creed II) wrote the script.
Neil Moritz’s Original Film will produce with Rocket Science.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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