‘Flatliners Resurrection’ Poised To Test Genre IP Frenzy With J.D. Barker Novel
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Before you watch the Oz Perkins-directed crafty serial killer thriller Longlegs that won last weekend, and you have to first go through a dizzying parade of derivative horror film trailers.
Genre is hot again, especially titles with proven concepts. Author J.D. Barker is using that opportunity to put the defibrillator paddles to the chilling 1990 horror film Flatliners.
Barker’s been tapped to breathe new life into the franchise that began in 1990 with Joel Schumacher directing a bright young ensemble that included Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, Billy Baldwin and Oliver Platt.
The original was released by Columbia, but Barker said that scribe Peter Filardi got back the rights to his original script, and the author swayed the scribe with a twist to the original tale that takes the reanimation tale down a different road than the original or a later remake.
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