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Jul242024

Inverse – One Underrated ‘90s Sci-Fi Movie Is Suddenly Getting A Weird Reboot

NEWS: The most star-studded B-movie of the ‘90s is making a comeback. Again. After spawning a 2017 sequel/reboot that nobody remembers, the original Flatliners is once again trying to come back from the dead. Although the first film came and went in 1990, this Joel Schumacher-directed oddity — which starred Julia Roberts, Kimberly Scott, Oliver Platt, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin, and Kiefer Sutherland — has simmered for the past three decades as the truest of cult classics. With mixed-to-bad reviews at the time, Flatliners is one of those horror/sci-fi movies that a few generations saw on VHS, and never got out of our heads.

And now, apparently, Flatliners is trying to get back into our heads with a roundabout reboot. According to Deadline, a sequel to the original film will now become a new book by J.D. Barker, and that book could maybe become a movie. Again. More…

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