“This sequel is, like, so Hollywood.”
Surreal. It’s beginning to feel like I’m the windshield and Hollywood’s remakes and sequels are the insects. Jan de Bont (yes, Speed, Speed 2: Cruise Control) will direct a sequel to 1991’s Keanu Reeves/Patrick Swayze/Gary Busey starrer Point Break entitled Point Break: Indo. Yes, it’s a theatrical sequel from RGM and Essential Entertainment. IESB reports that Reeves and Swayze have most likely been asked to return. Bodhi lives! This wise-ass guy from my middle school cafeteria days owes me $5. IESB also has the official plot synopsis…
When Billy Dalton, military special ops and star surfer, is disqualified from the pro-surfing tour, he takes off for the coast of Bali looking for the perfect wave. While there he’s recruited by a private security force who are trying to find a gang known as The Bush Administration, surfing outlaws and modern day pirates who work like “The Ex-Presidents,” a bank robbing crew from Malibu twenty years ago.
The Bush Administration? Really? That rots my brain. Of note, however, is that the original screenwriter, W. Peter Illiff (Patriot Games, Varsity Blues and \m/) also penned this installment, so the bitchin’ dialogue should remain intact. The production company is also boasting that de Bont’s film looks to have the “most extreme action stunts ever caught on camera.” Hmm, cameo by MEG? Kidding.
As you may recall, a Point Break sequel has been kicked around for many months. I’m rather skeptical that Swayze will be back due to his health, and back in March Reeves spat on all sequels, so…maybe Lori Petty can return a la Sandra Bullock? But here’s hoping for a gnarly reunion, I know Busey is (even though his character already RIP’d). Too bad director Kathryn Bigelow has bigger fish to fry, like Iraq. Her original (she also helmed Near Dark and Strange Days) is still one of the most re-watchable popcorn movies of the ’90s; the action film equivalent to really, really good chewing gum, a nice contact buzz and the smell of Mr. Zoggs’s Sex Wax in the morning.
UPDATE: Stream the first Point Break in its entirety at HULU. via AzizIsBored
Discuss: What is Jan de Bont thinking? What are you thinking? What’s Gary Busey thinking?
May 13th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
cant wait
they should throw captain ron in there for good measure
May 13th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Unwanted and Unnecessary
May 13th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
I read that Samuel L. Jackson will be playing Swayze’s character in this and the villian will be Lion-O. Who is hell-bent on destroying every zoo and home that jails any “cat” on Earth.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
O.K. how do any of these people have jobs? Point Break two? There shouldn’t have been a Point Break one? Is Hollywood that barren for ideas, or is everyone so coked up they just jack each other off at parties and fallate each other to visions of Point Break 2….
May 13th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
@ CA
This is your brain on Slashfilm. ;)
May 13th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
What am I thinking? I’m thinking this is awesome.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Bill and Ted 3
Lost Boys 2
War Games 2
Donnie Darko 2
Havoc 2
Dirty Harry 6
X-Files 2
STOP MAKING EFFIN SEQUELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 13th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
awesome :D I’m in. SSwayze better be back tho… I don’t want any strictly copy cat robbers…
May 13th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
What producer was watching Hot Fuzz and said “that’s it I’ll remake Point Break”, that chubby cop likes it…
Lol, Pete, (how did you know that they circle jerk at parties?) but the first one was good.
Yeah this idea sounds lame to the max, Dude.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
SEX WAX!
May 13th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Are we to believe that Bodhi did, in fact, paddle to New Zealand?
De Bont also directed Twister, so he has some (albeit faint) pedigree. Here’s hoping that his involvement is enough to trick Reeves into reprising the role of Johnny Utah, though I can’t imagine he would, especially given Reeves’ spurning of Speed 2.
I have to say that I literally still cannot believe that a Point Break sequel is being made and it all sounds so ludicrous, but I am relatively impressed by the fact that it’s going to have the original writer and a legitimate director. Sure, De Bont’s not making blockbuster’s these days, but he has proven (despite Speed 2) to be pretty competent and adept. It certainly would make more sense if Reeves and Swayze were back though (as implausible as that might be for the characters, or even for the actors, professionally speaking), otherwise it is just another movie about surfers and bank robbers to tie it to the original. And then it’s just a silly sequel exploiting good faith and simply having a familiar premise, like American Psycho 2 or Meatballs 3, which really aren’t “sequels” by anyone’s standard.
May 13th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
This just sounds stupid. They already made a remake of the movie with The Fast And The Furious ;), no need for a sequel. But another thing to take into consideration about Swayze returning as Bodhi is that Swayze is battling cancer, and he might not be in a condition to even consider any role anytime soon.
May 13th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Point Break is a guilty pleasure. I agonized whether or not to buy it and add it to my extensive collection, but I just had to! Keanu and Swayze, c’mon, it’s freakin’ sweet. I don’t like the idea of a sequel, it would have to be new characters (If Bodhi survives, that’s just stupid). Next DVD I’m buying…SPEED!!!
May 13th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
This sounds … surprisingly good to me!
It would be awesome but unlikely to see Keanu or Swayze in it.
May 13th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
oh wow really? i remember watched this back in junior high
great title..me as indonesian should be proud hahahah
just hoping they not potray the wrong indo
May 14th, 2008 at 1:06 am
I hope this one has sharks.
May 14th, 2008 at 6:46 am
@ 790
The circle jerking was an educated guess. I mean what other logical explanation could there be for an idea like Speed 2, Donnie Darko 2, or Point Break 2, except heavy drugs and public masturbation.
July 6th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Hey I’ll watch it….It’ll be pure adrenaline. Some people snort for it, some people jab into their veins, all you have to do is jump.