Flatliners Remake Is A Sequel

 

There’s been buzz since 2011 about a remake of the sci-fi cult hit Flatliners, but things became more solidified in recent months as a cast popped up around the project, including original star Kiefer Sutherland.

His involvement seemed to indicate that the remake might carry on from the events of the first picture which would in fact make it a sequel but it wasn’t until earlier this week that Flatliners was unveiled as a full-on sequel.

During an interview Sutherland couldn’t help but spoil his real role in the follow-up, saying, “I play a professor at the medical university. It is never stated but it will probably be very clearly understood that I’m the same character I was in the original Flatliners but that I have changed my name and I’ve done some things to move on from the experiments that we were doing in the original film.”

Ellen Page, Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev, Beau Mirchoff, James Norton, and Kiersey Clemens all also have roles in the Flatliners sequel, which will be helmed by Niels Arden Oplev. Ben Ripley penned the script.