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‘Flatliners’ Revived as a Remake Instead of Series
Columbia Pictures is bringing Flatliners back to life. The studio is remaking the 1990 drama, which featured a slew of young rising stars including Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland and was directed by Joel Schumacher, and has tapped Source Code writer Ben Ripley to pen the screenplay, writes Heat Vision.
The 1990 movie, written by Peter Filardi, “centered on a group of medical students who bring subject themselves to near-death experiences in order to see if anything lies beyond the big sleep. The members of the group then are revisited by physical manifestations of childhood sins are not sure if what they are facing is real or hallucination.”
Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin, and Oliver Platt were also in the movie.
Laurence Mark, a veteran producer whose recent credits include Julie & Julia and The Lookout, is producing the redo. Further Films, who produced the original, will also be involved. A TV series was once in the works.
The towering Pirate Clark in Kane Parsons’ Backrooms was an almost entirely practical creation, with former basketball player Robert Bobroczkyi bringing the monstrous character to life on screen. The Romanian–Hungarian actor stands a towering 7-foot, 7″ tall, and he previously played the character known as the Offspring in Fede Alvarez’s Alien Romulus.
As Luiz H.C. noted in an article here on Bloody Disgusting last month, “Though there was some obvious CGI involved in making the character’s peg-leg and nightmarish face more believable, Robert Bobroczkyi’s monstrous performance and his natural frame helped to make that final chase sequence a clear highlight among this year’s genre offerings.”
How did they pull it all off? A behind the scenes documentary will be included on the upcoming Backrooms physical media release, and A24 is offering up a sneak peek this week.
A24 previews the footage released today, “Robert Bobroczkyi’s transformation into Pirate Clark from the exclusive making-of doc, only available on the Backrooms Blu-ray.”
“Pirate Clark is a monster. He understands his body. He knows what his powers are. What he can do. What his limitations are,” creature performer Robert Bobroczkyi explains in the clip. “So his movements and his actions are deliberate. He doesn’t just twitch for no reason.”
He adds, “The prosthetics include the two hand pieces, and then the helmet, the face, the head piece. The head’s quite heavy. You don’t see a lot out of it. But it’s really cool.”
Watch the footage below and pre-order your copy of Backrooms on Blu-ray or 4K now!
A24 is expecting to ship out Backrooms physical media orders in late August.
Robert Bobroczkyi’s transformation into Pirate Clark from the exclusive making-of doc, only available on the Backrooms Blu-ray. pic.twitter.com/yAWdscUOkD
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