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Sequel: 'Point Break: Utah'


could a sequel work with Keanu returning a'la Cruise in Top Gun Maverick? . Ok it wasn't a hit on the scale of Top Gun (only 83m worldwide in 1991. Top Gun made 357m in '86) but since its become iconic. a huge cult film even bigger than a cult. It'd have to be a bigger deal than Blade Runner 2049 surely

Of course a way to make it huge deal on the scale of Top Gun would be to crossover with F&F (e.g. Keanu cameos as Utah in F10 leading to a Point Break sequel co starring Vin) which would of course give the F&F franchise a needed boost for its finale

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I like the idea of Keanu reprising that role…..but not with a FF crossover. The FF franchise would rob the Point Break sequel of any credibility. Those FF movies are so cartoonishly stupid I can’t even get through 10 minutes of one these days.

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That would hilariously stupid if they did that and crossed over with FF.

I would be so down.

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A good money making idea - only problem is what would the story of this movie be? Aside from Utah, there's only Tyler and the background FBI characters who survive the original film.....wait, maybe Warchild gets out of prison, and now, there's no-one to tell him to back off. Seriously.
Or to speak into the microphone, squidbrain. Maybe he comes after a now carefree ageing surfer Utah as revenge.
And the final twist is that Bodhi comes to his rescue again. Turns out he really did pppahdle to New Zealand.

Joking aside, there wouldn't be much beyond a 50-odd year old botoxed Johnny Utah shuffling round. People would still pay to see it mind.

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Patrick Swayze real life brother was in talks for the sequel back in 2000-2001! This was a revenge plot but Keanu declined returning as he was in hyperdrive after Matrix. Finances fell through and the project was abandoned.

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On no. NO! And not just because there's a recent remake that was a world of meh!

Keanu already made his sequel to one a hit from his youth, with the "Bill and Ted", so he needs to not base his career on revisiting the past. But more importantly, he isn't young, and everything that made
"Point Break" work is about youth! Wasting your life surfing, taking insane risks and engaging in self-destructive behavior, trying desperately to fight The Man or prove yourself, letting a passion you won't admit to yourself derail your career, etc. Keanu is 58, old enough to have either come to terms with his feelings or to have given up on his dreams, mindsets that are anathema to everything that motivated the characters of "PB". And for fuck's sake, DON'T make another Hollywood movie about an oldler man rediscovering his youth...

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He's churning out those stupid cartoony Wick things though.

He should go do some more non-Matrix sci fi

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Eh, the Wick things are incredibly popular, people love them and beg for more!

I got through nearly half an hour of the first one, myself, but that's okay. Unlike some people around here, I don't insist that every movie ever made cater to my tastes.

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All true, good post.
Only one thing:
what about Pappas?
He was not young etc, yet he is part of PB as much as all the others.

Utah, get me two!

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That character would be long, long, retired, the actor who played him is nearly 80.

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No shit... that is not what I meant.
Busey was about Reeves' current age now.
So, Reeves could be part of a legit sequel of PB even if he is not young, as an old Utah, in a similar function as Pappas.

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Yeah he might be in Pappas's old job, but people in Pappas's job don't go undercover and have wild adventures.

And people don't want to see Keanu play the boring supervisor while some young twerp has adventures, either.

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Hey I agree with you, a sequel is either a bad idea or something that is not PB.
I was just playing devil's advocate and pointing out that he could play a similar role.

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Haven't seen the movie in a while have you? Pappas got killed just before Bodhi forced Johnny onto the plane and flew to Mexico.

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Another genius....

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see, this is why I'm not a screenwriter! I hadn't thought of that - great idea. Have Utah in the Pappas role, mentoring the new quarterback punk young dumb and full of * FBI recruit, played by some rising young actor. Thankfully Shia LaBeouf if too old to ruin this one!

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Shia would be total shit in most roles.
Although the only time he played along Keanu he was tolerable.

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I'd rather see a Speed revival. Point Break was Swayze's film. Keanu just happened to be in it.

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I disagree, it the film belonged to Reeves and Swayze, as a couple.

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Yes, it's totally a bromance (I hate this definition but I cannot think of a better one) movie, so they both are the owners.

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It's a great standalone movie and, with Swayze no longer alive, one other solution is that Bodhi had a child and now he's all grown up and has become curious about the man who brought down his father. Utah is now retired from the force and does consulting / training at a uni or something, and the son is a student, causes some kind of problem for him which becomes the exciting part of the movie. But it has to embrace Utah's age and wisdom and set him on an adventure he wishes he could avoid but is drawn into it. Not sure how or what.

But best to just leave the original film alone.

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