EXCLUSIVE: Surf’s up! Point Break, one of the most iconic films of the 1990s, is getting the TV treatment.
AMC is developing a small-screen series based on the 1991 film that starred Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Lori Petty and Gary Busey.
The series comes from David Kalstein, who recently worked on Amazon’s Butterfly; Alcon Television Group; and AMC Studios.
Deadline understands that the network won the project in a highly competitive situation.
The original movie, which was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by W. Peter Iliff, starred Reeves as rookie FBI agent Johnny Utah, who infiltrates the Ex-Presidents, a gang of Southern California surfers who rob banks. The Ex-Presidents, who wear masks of Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Lyndon B. Johnson and Lyndon Johnson, are led by Swayze’s Bodhi, and Utah gets swept up in their daredevil lifestyle before a massive action chase and a reunion amid lethal waves.
The series is set 35 years after the events of the original film and is focused on a dangerous heist crew with ties to the Ex-Presidents gang.
Kalstein will write. He exec produces alongside Alcon co-founders and co-CEO’s Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson and president of television Ben Roberts.
Kalstein was a co-exec producer on Amazon’s Butterfly, which starred Daniel Dae Kim. He also co-exec produced series including CBS’ NCIS: Los Angeles, ABC’s Quantico and USA Network’s Treadstone, co-showrunning the latter. He also developed series including Jade City at Peacock and Quantum Spy at NBC. He’s repped at CAA, 42 and Yorn/Levine.
Point Break landed a remake in 2015 from director Ericson Core that starred Edgar Ramirez, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, Delroy Lindo and Ray Winstone. It was produced by Alcon’s Kosove and Johnson.
AMC has recently had success with another series with a ‘90s film; Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire. The series is set to air its third season next year and Mayfair Witches, which is also based in Rice’s Immortal Universe, has also been renewed for a third season.
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