ROGUE ONE Star Diego Luna Will Be Resurrected in FLATLINERS Remake
Having wrapped up work on the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, actor Diego Luna (Milk, Elysium, Contraband) has joined the cast of the remake of the 1990 film Flatliners.
The Wrap reports that Luna will star opposite Ellen Page, and he'll play one of two men in a core group of medical students who essentially learn how to kill themselves and bring themselves back from the dead (and as you can imagine, things become pretty complicated from there). The original movie starred four men and one woman — Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt, and Julia Roberts — but this version will rework the ratio a little and feature two men and three women, and it's "expected to be more inclusive and international" than the original.
Production starts this summer under the direction of Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Mr. Robot), from a script written by Source Code's Ben Ripley. Are you excited to see a new iteration of this story on film?