Future Rogue One: A Star Wars Story star Diego Luna has joined the cast of the Flatliners remake. Ellen Page is already heading up the reimagining of the 1990 Kiefer Sutherland/ Julia Roberts movie, which revolved around a group of medical students who take each other to the brink of death.
The remake is set up over at Sony, and Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) will direct from a screenplay by Ben Ripley (Source Code).
If you can’t quite remember the original film’s story, here’s a recap.
At University Hospital School of Medicine, a group of ambitious medical students are about to die… and live to tell about it. Embarking on a daring and arrogant experiment, the five aim to push through the confines of life and touch the face of death.
Nelson Wright (Kiefer Sutherland), the manipulative, fame-seeking initiator of the project, has recruited Rachel Mannus (Julia Roberts), a self-made expert in the field of death; David Labraccio (Kevin Bacon), an idealistic yet pragmatic student suspended from med school; ladies’ man Joe Hurley (William Baldwin); and the brilliant yet self-absorbed Randy Steckle (Oliver Platt) to venture into a frontier that until now had been the exclusive province of religion and philosophy.
Their chilling, secret experiment to see what lies beyond life involves taking turns stopping their hearts until the monitors reading their vital signs indicate nothing but flat lines. Moments later, the other team members, armed with an array of medical equipment, step in to revive them. In their search for knowledge, however, the five discover the profound consequences of daring to tamper with immortality. Returning from their peek at the afterlife, the students bring back manifestations of their past sins, something they had not bargained for. Forced to deal with their previous transgressions here in the present, the participants learn about life as well as death.
