Thirty years on and Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 thriller “Point Break” remains a hallmark of the action genre, a film full of iconic lines and scenes combined with a well-aging respect for its strong filmmaking fundamentals.
Back in the 2000s, talk began to emerge of a sequel going by the name “Point Break: Indo,” but nothing much came of it. Instead, all we’ve received is the woeful 2015 remake and countless other films and franchises that have lifted whole beats from Bigelow’s creation.
Recently W. Peter Iliff, the writer of the original film along with the second Jack Ryan feature “Patriot Games” and football drama “Varsity Blues,” appeared on the Script Apart podcast (via Slashfilm) and revealed he has written a potential “Point Break” TV show.
Specifically he indicates that the series would revolve around the daughter of Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves), a young woman who is an Olympic snowboarder who damages her knee, goes down a path of extremes involving fast cars and addiction, and years later has sobered up and is now an FBI agent:
“Johnny Utah has been missing. His body’s not been found. He’s [been reported] dead for years. There’s a mystery around where he is, and you’re going to find out – he’s not dead. There’s a bigger story that evolves around that, while she gets involved in this eco-terrorist movement, which of course is now a big thing.
There are two sides to the movement. There are those who are trying to get corporations to do the right thing to save our planet. And there are those who’ll put a gun in their hand and maybe rob a bank to fund their more violent approach. The FBI is after these people. She’s sent to go deep undercover with this group and it’s the same [question as in ‘Point Break’]: which side of the badge are you on?”
Her foil, the Swayze to her Reeves, is a solo mountain climber named Cyprus. Iliff admits that the poor reception to the 2015 remake did not perform well enough to get backer Alcon Entertainment interested in moving forward on a sequel series.
