Back in 1990, Flatliners made a bit of a splash (grossing the equivalent of $114 million today) largely due to historical accident: It happened to be audiences’ first opportunity to see Julia Roberts after Pretty Woman made her an instant superstar. As psychological horror, the movie didn’t quite work, squandering a…
The 1990 sci-fi horror film Flatliners is getting the reboot treatment, with Ellen Page, Nina Dobrev, and Beau Mirchoff carrying on the ill-advised, heart-stopping, near-death experiments of their predecessors. In the video above, Mirchoff gives us a taste of what to expect from the reboot.
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It’s the question that has haunted humankind, plagued our philosophers, and inspired countless works of art, intellect, and science, all while inspiring our greatest minds to look beyond the rational world: Why can’t we make up our minds about remakes? Actually, the question is, “What happens to you after you die?,”…
It’s been about five years since Sony announced its plans to remake Joel Schumacher’s psychological horror flick Flatliners, during which time you could be forgiven for thinking it was just another proffered remake that would ultimately collect dust on some producer’s shelf. But the project began to show new signs of…
The producers of the upcoming Flatliners remake have secured an appearance from a guy who knows his way around a briefly occupied grave: original Flatliners star Kiefer Sutherland. The actor—who portrayed a scientist who temporarily (but repeatedly) killed himself to see what the afterlife was like in the 1990 sci-fi…
Nina Dobrev knows a few things about dying and coming back to life thanks to her many years on The CW’s Vampire Diaries, and now she might be able to put that experience to good use by starring in Sony’s reboot of 1990 thriller Flatliners. This comes from Deadline, which says Dobrev is “in talks” for the role of…
Much like the film’s characters had no business conducting unsanctioned medical experiments in their spare time, Sony should probably have left Flatliners in the ’90s instead of rebooting it. But since that act of restraint would defy the new law of remaking everything, including Val Kilmer movies, the studio is…
As reported by Variety, Ellen Page is in talks to star in a reboot of Flatliners, the 1990 sci-fi thriller that starred Kiefer Sutherland and Julia Roberts. In the original, Sutherland played a medical school student who wanted to learn more about the afterlife, so he dragged his friends in to help with an experiment…
