Flatliners Will Spring to Life Yet Again, as a Book

Joel Schumacher’s Flatliners is a cult classical that won’t enactment dead. It already got a continuation successful the signifier of a 2017 reboot that… exists, but there’s seemingly inactive a small much humor successful that chromatic to beryllium drawn. But alternatively of different movie oregon punting it implicit to TV, this 3rd stab astatine a franchise comes successful the signifier of a book.

Specifically, writer J.D. Barker (best known for Forsaken and Behind the Closed Door) is penning the novel Flatliners Resurrection. Key quality present is, it’ll beryllium based connected the film’s archetypal screenplay penned astatine the clip by Peter Filardi, who reacquired the rights years ago. Per Deadline, Barker’s much supernatural-focused transportation connected the worldly was capable to triumph Filardi over, and it’s seemingly truthful beardown that surface rights are already being brokered. In a property release, Filardi affirmed his assurance successful Barker, saying the publication volition “reinvigorate the Flatliners franchise for a caller generation.”

In his ain statement, Barker said the movie’s conception “has ever fascinated me. I’m honored to person the accidental to research these themes of mortality, consequences, and the chartless successful a caller format. Fans tin expect a communicative that honors the tone of the archetypal portion pushing into new, uncharted territories. We’re going to scare the hellhole retired of you.”

Shot by Jan de Bont, the archetypal Flatliners released successful 1990 and starred Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, and Oliver Platt. In it, a radical of med students enactment each different successful adjacent decease experiences, which ends up making them spot visions of the afterlife earlier they’re brought backmost to life. From that point, things spell not large for them arsenic visions of their past go much and much existent and harmful. We’ll find retired if Flatliners fares amended connected the leafage successful the adjacent future.

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