And…Why Not?: Jan De Bont To Direct Point Break 2: Indo
“This sequel is, like, so Hollywood.”
Surreal. It’s beginning to feel like I’m the windshield and Hollywood’s remakes and sequels are the insects.Jan de Bont(yes,Speed,Speed 2: Cruise Control) will direct a sequel to 1991’sKeanu Reeves/Patrick Swayze/Gary Busey starrerPoint BreakentitledPoint Break: Indo. Yes, it’s a theatrical sequel fromRGMandEssential Entertainment.IESBreports that Reeves and Swayze havemost likelybeen asked to return. Bodhi lives! This wise-ass guy from my middle school cafeteria days owes me $5. IESB also has the official plot synopsis…
When Billy Dalton, military special ops and star surfer, is disqualified from the pro-surfing tour, he takes off for the coast of Bali looking for the perfect wave. While there he’s recruited by a private security force who are trying to find a gang known as The Bush Administration, surfing outlaws and modern day pirates who work like “The Ex-Presidents,” abankrobbing crew from Malibu twenty years ago.
The Bush Administration?Really? That rots my brain. Of note, however, is that the original screenwriter,W. Peter Illiff(Patriot Games,Varsity Bluesand\m/) also penned this installment, so the bitchin' dialogue should remain intact. The production company is also boasting that de Bont’s film looks to have the “most extreme action stunts ever caught on camera.” Hmm, cameo byMEG? Kidding.
As you may recall, aPoint Breaksequel has beenkicked aroundfor many months. I’m rather skeptical that Swayze will be back due to his health, and back in March Reevesspat on all sequels, so…maybe Lori Petty can return a la Sandra Bullock? But here’s hoping for a gnarly reunion, I know Busey is (even though his character already RIP’d). Too bad director Kathryn Bigelow has bigger fish to fry,like Iraq. Her original (she also helmedNear DarkandStrange Days) is still one of the most re-watchable popcorn movies of the ’90s; the action film equivalent to really, really good chewing gum, a nice contact buzz and the smell of Mr. Zoggs’s Sex Wax in the morning.
UPDATE: Stream the firstPoint Breakin its entirety atHULU. viaAzizIsBoredDiscuss: What is Jan de Bont thinking? What are you thinking? What’s Gary Busey thinking?
