According to TheWrap, Diego Luna (Elysium, Y Tu Mamá También) is in talks to join previously-cast Ellen Page in the Flatliners remake at Sony Pictures. Luna is having a busy year, co-starring with Mel Gibson in Blood Father and alongside Keanu Reeves, Jason Momoa and Jim Carrey in the ensemble dystopian love story The Bad Batch. He will also, of course, be part of the crew stealing the Death Star plans in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) will direct the remake from a screenplay by Source Code writer Ben Ripley. David Blackman and Laurence Mark are producing the new film.
The 1990 original was directed by Joel Schumacher, written by Peter Filardi and produced by Michael Douglas and Rick Bieber, the latter two of whom are also involved in the remake. The film, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt, and Kevin Bacon, is officially described as follows:
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.
