Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze Surfing Movie Classic Point Break Is Getting a TV Series Set 35 Years Later

Point Break is reportedly getting a TV amusement acceptable 35 years aft the events of the iconic ‘90s movie.

Deadline reports that AMC is processing a TV bid based connected the 1991 movie starring Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Lori Petty, and Gary Busey.

Point Break, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, follows rookie FBI Agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) who goes undercover to infiltrate a pack of Southern California surfers led by the charismatic Bodhi (Patrick Swayze), who are suspected of pulling disconnected slope robberies arsenic the "Ex-Presidents.” Utah ends up drawn into their adrenaline-fueled lifestyle, and falls for a surfer miss named Tyler (Lori Petty).

According to Deadline, this caller TV bid revolves astir “a unsafe heist unit with ties to the Ex-Presidents gang.” It's acceptable successful 2026, 35 years aft Point Break's 1991 setting. The bid is from Dave Kalstein, whose credits see Amazon’s Daniel Dae Kim thriller Butterfly, and CBS’ NCIS: Los Angeles, ABC’s Quantico, and USA Network’s Treadstone. That’s each the accusation we person close now. There’s nary connection connected caller characters, a caller cast, oregon whether Keanu Reeves himself mightiness popular up successful immoderate fashion.

This isn’t the archetypal effort to revive Point Break. A 2015 remake came and went without making overmuch of a splash astatine all. IGN’s reappraisal returned a 5/10. We said: “Point Break gets the stunts right, but is lacking everything other needed to marque an enjoyable movie experience.”

Hopefully this caller TV bid fares better.

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