Butterfly<\/em>; Alcon\u00a0Television Group; and AMC Studios.<\/p>\n\n\tDeadline understands that the network won the project in a highly competitive situation.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe 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\u2019s Bodhi, and Utah gets swept up in their daredevil lifestyle before a massive action chase and a reunion amid lethal waves.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tKalstein\u00a0will write. He exec produces alongside Alcon\u00a0co-founders and co-CEO\u2019s Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson and president of television Ben Roberts.<\/p>\n
\n\tKalstein\u00a0was a co-exec producer on Amazon\u2019s Butterfly<\/em>, which starred Daniel Dae Kim. He also co-exec produced series including CBS\u2019 NCIS: Los Angeles,<\/em> ABC\u2019s Quantico<\/em> and USA Network\u2019s Treadstone<\/em>, co-showrunning the latter. He also developed series including Jade City<\/em> at Peacock and Quantum Spy<\/em> at NBC. He\u2019s repped at CAA, 42 and Yorn\/Levine.<\/p>\n\n\tPoint Break<\/em> 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\u2019s Kosove and Johnson.<\/p>\n\n\tAMC has recently had success with another series with a \u201890s film; Anne Rice\u2019s Interview with the Vampire<\/em>. The series is set to air its third season next year and Mayfair Witches,<\/em> which is also based in Rice\u2019s Immortal Universe, has also been renewed for a third season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source deadline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Surf\u2019s 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\u2019s Butterfly; Alcon\u00a0Television Group; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2200126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[424672,309817,424673,424674],"class_list":["post-2200125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-alcon-entertainment","tag-amc","tag-david-kalstein","tag-point-break"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\u2018Point-Break-TV-Series-In-Works-At-AMC.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2200125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2200127,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200125\/revisions\/2200127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2200126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2200125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2200125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2200125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}