The FLATLINERS redux just made an important move forward, as Academy Award nominated actress Ellen Page has entered negotiations to star in the film.
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Also starring Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland, Oliver Platt, and William Baldwin, Flatliners centered on a team of medical students who were experimenting with near-death experiences in order to get a glimpse of the other side. The film opened in a limited release October. 2. Of course, these less-than-bright students bring back ghosts from their past into the real world, and one by one, they succumb to past sins for which they must atone. If you glance at the last twenty-four hours of Twitter, you’ll find a few token resistance to the idea of a remake – mostly since it is a film that many people have heard of and vaguely remember as not being very good – but there’s no denying that Flatliners offers both cast and crew a really solid core idea to work with.
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While none can immediately say exactly what they saw, their visions start to alter their realities and haunt them. “I only wish it had been restructured so we didn’t need to go through the same crisis so many times”. Perhaps Arden Oplev, best known as director of the Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, will be able to take advantage of modern-day filmmaking technology to better bring Flatliners to life … so to speak.
