Treading that well worn path of 80s icons returning to their most popular franchises, Sylvester Stallone is set to scale the mountain terrain once again for a reboot of his 1993 action-blockbuster Cliffhanger.
According to reports Stallone will once again play traumatised mountain-rescue hero Gabe Walker for Greenland and Angel Has Fallen director Ric Roman Waugh’s reboot. He will work from a script written by Mark Bianculli, who penned Amazon series Hunters.
Directed by Renny Harlin, 1993’s Cliffhanger saw Stallone play a ranger haunted by a failed rescue attempt during a now-iconic opening scene, who returns to the mountains in order to assist plane crash survivors, only to discover that he is being used by a team of crooks who are attempting to loot from the scattered wreckage.
Released at the peak (pun-intended) of Stallone’s powers, Cliffhanger grossed $255 million worldwide.
In a statement Waugh said “Growing up with the biggest action films of the ’80s and ’90s, working on many of them myself, Cliffhanger was by far one of my favourite spectacles,” he continued “To be at the helm of the next chapter, scaling the Italian Alps with the legend himself, Sylvester Stallone, is a dream come true. It’s going to be a great challenge and blast taking this franchise to new heights, a responsibility I don’t take lightly.”
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Via THR
