CANNES “Speed” helmer Jan de Bont is to reprise Kathryn Bigelow’s iconic surfer movie “Point Break.”
Pic is being financed and exec produced by Singapore’s RGM Entertainment and launched into international markets this week by L.A.-based sales company Essential Entertainment. Singapore’s Media Development Authority is also financing.
Original scripter W. Peter Iliff has penned the screenplay for the new movie, which takes place in Singapore and Indonesia 20 years after the disappearance of Patrick Swayze character Bodhi.
Story and casting details remain under wraps though RGM said several major stars have been approached.
Production is skedded to take place in Southeast Asia beginning in the fall, with Chris Taylor and John Morgan producing. Devesh Chetty of RGM Entertainment, Jere Hausfater and Neil Kaplan of Essential Entertainment, and de Bont take exec production credits.
“This is exactly the kind of movie RGM was set up to produce: Asian-themed stories for a global market that will get a North American theatrical release,” Chetty said. “The global interest in Asia and the taste for extreme sports are both growing, and Jan de Bont is going to deliver some action that will be very different to what has been seen before.”
Essential, headed by Hausfater and equity firm veteran Jim Kohlberg, is also repping Dennis Lee’s family drama “Fireflies in the Garden,” Ed Zwick’s war drama “Defiance” and Richard Loncraine-directed “My One and Only.”
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