POINT BREAK 2
ComingSoon.net learned at the American Film Market (AFM)
today that shooting for Point Break 2 will begin
mid-2008 in Southeast Asia. The sequel will be
financed and executive produced by Singaporean
company RGM Entertainment. It will be written and
directed by Peter Iliff, who also wrote the first
movie.
Point Break 2 picks up from where the original film
left off more than 15 years ago. The story will
revolve around an ex-professional surfer who enlists
in the US Navy and is recruited to track down a
criminal gang based in Southeast Asia. The audience
will also discover the fate of Bodhi (Patrick Swayze),
the surfers' charismatic leader who was swallowed by
a giant killer wave in the final scene of Point
Break. Did he really die?
The follow-up is budgeted at $20-30 million.
"I wrote 'Point Break' in 1987 when I was still a
struggling writer waiting at tables in Malibu,"
Iliff said earlier this year, "'Point Break' was the
turning point and it made my screen writing career.
20 years later, I'm thrilled to have been given the
opportunity by RGM Entertainment to write the sequel
and to make my directorial debut with 'Point Break
2.'"
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