Sylvester Stallone is starring in a reboot of his 1993 action thriller Cliffhanger. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the reboot will be directed by Ric Roman Waugh, who has previously directed action movies such as Angel Has Fallen and Greenland. Stallone (who we will soon see in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3) will reprise his role from the original Cliffhanger as rescue ranger and mountain climber Gabe Walker. That movie saw the character haunted by a rescue gone wrong who, along with his former colleagues, becomes embroiled in an international heist in the Rocky Mountains. Details of the Cliffhanger reboot’s plot are unknown, although the film will be set in the Italian Alps.
Ric Roman Waugh Excited for ‘Cliffhanger’ Reboot With Sylvester Stallone
Waugh said in a statement, “Growing up with the biggest action films of the ’80s and ’90s, working on many of them myself, Cliffhanger was by far one of my favorite spectacles. To be at the helm of the next chapter, scaling the Italian Alps with the legend himself, Sylvester Stallone is a dream come true. It’s going to be a great challenge and blast taking this franchise to new heights, a responsibility I don’t take lightly.”
The reboot of Cliffhanger will be produced by Neal H. Moritz’s Original Film along with Rocket Science and Stallone and Braden Aftergood’s Balboa Productions. Moritz is best known for producing The Fast and the Furious franchise, the Jump Street movies, and the Sonic the Hedgehog movies. Moritz said (according to Variety), “I’ll never forget the thrill I felt watching Sylvester Stallone in Cliffhanger. I am incredibly excited to be working with him and Ric Waugh to continue the story of Gabe Walker and introduce this iconic story to a new generation of filmgoers around the world.”
Along with Guardian 3 and this Cliffhanger reboot, Sylvester Stallone will soon appear in The Expendables 4.