Ana Lily Amirpour regisseert vrouwelijke Cliffhanger reboot

Rocket Science heeft de rechten op Cliffhanger verworven, die ze samen met Neal Moritz’s Original Film (de Fast and the Furious-franchise) zullen produceren. De vrouwelijke reboot van de klassieker uit 1993 wordt geregisseerd door Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night) gebaseerd op een script van Sascha Penn (Creed II). De casting is op dit moment aan de gang en Jason Momoa (Aquaman, Game of Thrones) is in een gesprek voor een cameo.

Amirpour zei:

“I am very excited to partner with Original Films and Rocket Science, who share my passion for the character-driven high-adrenalin survival movie; one of my favorite genres. 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.”

Mortiz voegde toe:

“I’ve been wanting to re-make this adrenaline filled survival thriller with a strong female protagonist – both in front of and behind the camera – for some time. The elements came together with Ana Lily and Rocket Science and we look forward to gathering the rest of the pieces. I’ve always wanted to make the movies I want to see — big at their core with characters which connect to the audience while simultaneously encouraging them to leave their house and go to a theater. Cliffhanger is just that, in what we hope will be the first of an entirely new franchise.” 

Neal Moritz en Toby Jaffe zullen samen produceren met Thorsten Schumacher en Lars Sylvest voor Rocket Science, onder hun vlag van Original Film. Rocket Science heeft de rechten op Cliffhanger overgenomen van StudioCanal en zal de buitenlandse verkoop verzorgen.

Amirpour schreef en regisseerde de veelgeprezen A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night en The Bad Batch met Jason Momoa en Suki Waterhouse en won de speciale juryprijs op het filmfestival van Venetië.