In 1993 Maximum risk won 255 million dollars. It was not an exceptional achievement for the career of Sylvester Stallonebut a film with enough charisma to anchor itself in the sentimental memory of the time. Renny Harlin directed a film full of tension where Stallone played an expert mountaineer, having to put aside his traumas to undertake a risky rescue in the Rocky Mountains. Nearly twenty years later, Hollywood began to show interest in developing a new version of the story.
During the first phase of this project, Stallone was going to remain the protagonist while directing Ric Roman Waugh (Target: Washington DC) The project then went through so many changes in approach that finally Stallone and Waugh abandoned it, although that has not been the end of the project. reboot of Maximum risk. In fact, filming of the definitive version has just begun in Australia, maintaining the original title of cliffhanger. As we can see in a first image, Stallone has been replaced by Lily James.
According to Hollywood Reporterthis Maximum risk without Stallone has signed as director Jaume Collet-Serra (fresh from directing for Dwayne Johnson Black Adam and Jungle Cruise), incorporating both James and Pierce Brosnan. They are both father and daughter in a story that moves to the mountains of Italy, the famous Dolomites, with notable changes in the story. Now James, like Naomi Cooper, will have to make peace with his past in order to rescue his father Ray (Brosnan), a victim of a kidnapping in the heights.
The film will take great advantage of the natural locations and risk scenes, seeking once it is released to emulate the impact that the premiere of Twisters: another new version of a blockbuster from the 90s for which no one felt any nostalgia, but which has equally dazzled the public.
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