'Point Break' Remake Gets Director, Will Begin Shooting Later This Year

Deadline is reporting that Alcon Entertainment has brought Ericson Core (directed Invincible and is a cinematographer) on board to direct the remake of the 1991 action flick Point Break.

For anyone who doesn't know about Point Break, it starred Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves. Reeves played an FBI agent who infiltrates a gang of bank robbing surfers with Swayze as the leader of the gang. The remake will be set in the world of international extreme sports where an FBI agent infiltrates a crime ring.

Shooting is set to begin towards the end of the year.

 

Check out the trailer for Point Break (1991) below:

 

 

 

Source: Deadline