According to The Hollywood Reporter, Oscar winner Sylvester Stallone has signed on to star in the upcoming Cliffhanger reboot. Stallone will reprise his role as Gabe Walker, who was introduced as a mountain climber and rescue ranger in the original 1993 action classic.
What to Expect in the Cliffhanger Reboot?
The Cliffhanger reboot will be directed and executive produced by Ric Roman Waugh, and adapted from a screenplay written by Mark Bianculli. Waugh is best known for his directorial efforts on Gerard Butler-led action films Angel Has Fallen and Greenland.
“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,” Waugh said in a statement. “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 Cliffhanger reboot is being produced by Neil H. Moritz (Fast and the Furious films) and Toby Jaffe for Original Film banner, along with Stallone and Thorsten Schumacher for Balboa Productions. Lars Sylvest is also producing under Rocket Science, who will also be financing the film. It is executive produced by Ana Lily Amirpour, Chance Wright, Gianluca Chakra, and Hisham Alghanim.
The original Cliffhanger was directed by Renny Harlin from a script co-written by Stallone. It revolved around Stallone’s Walker, a mountain climber haunted by past mistakes. In the film, Walker gets involved in a high-stakes heist, as a group of international thieves try to locate their missing loot after their plane crashes into the mountain.
