New ‘Flatliners’ Trailer: Some Nasty Side Effects…
By Jack Giroux/July 30, 2017 10:00 am EST
Below, watch the new Flatliners trailer.
Ellen Page (Inception), Diego Luna (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), Nina Dobrev (The Perks of Being a Wallflower), James Norton (Happy Valley), and Kiersey Clemons (Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising) star as five medical students who take some bad trips to the other side. They’ll stop each others’ hearts for a couple minutes and then resuscitate their friends. At first they get some nice side effects from the experience, but then it all turns into a nightmare as something from each of their pasts comes back to haunt them.
A part of what makes the original work is its very watchable cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt, and Kevin Bacon. Sutherland has a role in the remake, but we’ve yet to see him in any of the Flatliners trailers:
There are some of the broad story beats from the previous trailer, but this international trailer attempts to go for more thrills with a faster pace. It continues to look a little routine, like almost exactly what we’d expect from a Flatliners remake today. Hopefully, Oplev and screenwriter Ben Ripley’s (Source Code) take on Flatliners is fresher than the trailers suggest. Ripley’s Source Code is an excellent example of fast, fun, and character-driven science-fiction. His involvement makes me more hopeful for the remake than the trailers.
Sutherland, by the way, is playing his role from the original film. “I play a professor at the medical university,” he said. “It is never stated, but it will probably be very clearly understood that I’m the same character I was in the original Flatliners but that I have changed my name and I’ve done some things to move on from the experiments that we were doing in the original film.” His appearance sounds like a bit more than a cameo.
Flatliners opens in theaters September 29, 2017.
