*mumbles "whoa" *

Thanks for the link, love the "wet Keanu" photo.

'Point Break': Planned Remake Sparks Outcry on Twitter
5:41 PM PDT 9/12/2011 by THR staff

"If ever there was a time for Swayze to return Ghost-style and prevent a great wrong from happening, it's now," tweets one fan of the 1991 original.

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Whoa.

The news that Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros. are remaking Kathryn Bigelow's 1991 movie Point Break was met with jeers by fans of the original.

In the movie, Keanu Reeves starred as Johnny Utah, an undercover FBI agent looking for a gang of bank robbers, led by Patrick Swayze’s Bodhi, amid the Southern California surfing scene. The new version, with a screenplay by Kurt Wimmer (Salt), will be set in the world of international extreme sports and also involve an FBI agent infiltrating a criminal ring.

STORY: 'Point Break' to Be Remade by Alcon and Warner Bros.

Fans took to Twitter to weigh in on the news Monday, with most expressing their disappointment. Among the tweets:

Justin Stangel, head writer/executive producer of Late Show with David Letterman
Warner Bros plans on remaking the 1991 action-thriller Point Break. Really? How do you recreate perfection?

Jay Onrait
This is sacrilege. Unless @THEGaryBusey is in it again.

Chris McCoy
They're remaking Point Break. If ever there was a time for Swayze to return Ghost-style and prevent a great wrong from happening, it's now.

Gofobo
Children of the 90's, prepare to die a little inside. The 'Point Break' reboot is on its way. gofobo.it/PB-REBOOT

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/point-break-planned-remake-sparks-234216

And here are some readers' comments:

Katy
F--- off. RT @THR: Alcon and Warners to Remake the 1991 Surfing Classic 'Point Break'

Brett Deacon
No, no, NO!

Taryn O'Neill
noooooooooooo!

Martyn Pedler
If you want another POINT BREAK, make a sequel with Johnny Utah now embracing Bodhi's philosophy but faced with another 'quarterback punk'!

M. Olivarez
At least for me, what made Point Break was the direction, stuntwork, and Swayze. A hard mix to repeat. All I'm sayin'..

Brendan O'Brien
They are officially ruining Point Break

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Junkyardmessiah
Make. It. Stop.

Justin Simms
My good Lord, is nothing sacred...

IronWolf
@cadorette point break is being remade too?! Awesome! ...and I only partially jest.

Dan Santillo
Really , Hollywood is so out of ideas that they are doing a point break remake . Maybe Keanu will play the busey part this time

Russell Simmons [not the hip-hop mogul]
Point break remake, DUDE's wtf! Hollywood need to get some balls & green light some of the stacks of original screen plays out there

Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc-hZuratyc&list=UUbpaTmx8VOP6rAVFBUujHGw&index=1

Part2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2y_VcASugY&list=UUbpaTmx8VOP6rAVFBUujHGw&index=2

Also, The Lake House and A Walk in the Clouds were remakes as well.

And personally I think 17 Again (with Zac Efron and Matthew Perry) is a remake of Young Again.

http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=29902

Don't get all excited. I see no Keanu in this endeavor.

Tyler will be Tyler ;)

n the new Point Break, Ray Winstone is playing Angelo Pappas and if that sentence makes your heart sink, then it might be buoyed by the news that the new Bodhi is Edgar Ramirez, famous for his Carlos the Jackal in Olivier Assayas' 70s terrorism mini-series, Carlos. In the trailer at least, he has a beatific look and you could allow yourself to think that the whole thing of violently "liberating" money makes this an unofficial epilogue to his Carlos activities. Luke Bracey looks like he might be young, dumb and Australian enough - he was even in Home and Away - to qualify as Johnny Utah. Yes, he will still be called Johnny Utah. He has to be. But does he have that Keanu serenity? Does anyone? Will the girl still be called Tyler? And will Johnny still be largely uninterested in her? These things matter.

"Does anyone?"
Nope.

Point Break (1991) - "Tyler"

AVC: Was filming a fun experience?
LP: It was fantastic. What the studio didn't understand is that surfing is about a billion times more dangerous than skydiving. They would not allow the boys to skydive, but they allowed us to surf in pipeline in Hawaii. Nine-hundred foot waves. So we're out there in the middle where the greatest surfers in the world surf. They have these long lenses on from the beach, so they can't see anything. They are just shooting our faces. I start feeling cold and I look up and there's this set wave coming in. It's just going to kill us all, we're all going to die now, that's the end of that. There were these local Hawaiian men who would just tread water all day out there. They were huge. They were like, 350-, 400-pound guys, 7-foot tall dudes, just huge. They would tread water all day, and would be our safety guys. They were locals so they knew what was up. I was like, "Dude! Dude!" He's looking around and he goes, "Go get them!" They swim over. He's like, "Lay on your board!" I lay on my belly and he lies on top of me. Then he says,"Okay, when I tell you, you hold your breath. Just hold your breath until I tell you that you're okay." I’m like, "All right." So he pushes me down. It's called duck diving—they push you down way under the waves so you don't get sucked up in it. So then we come back up, but it felt like 50 feet of foam. Somebody didn't get Keanu and, the poor thing, we're looking for him and looking for him, and he comes straggling up the beach, dragging his surfboard. Yeah, he got dumped on pretty good. But he was awesome. He was like, "Well, that happened."