{"id":7149,"date":"2019-05-08T11:30:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T18:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-proxy.atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=7149"},"modified":"2019-05-08T11:30:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T18:30:47","slug":"the-cliffhanger-remake-is-coming-with-a-female-lead-and-jason-momoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/cliffhanger-remake-ana-lily-amirpour\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;Cliffhanger&#8217; Remake Is Coming With A Female Lead And Jason Momoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A remake of Sylvester Stallone&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Cliffhanger<\/em>\u00a0with a female lead, from the director of\u00a0<em>A Girl Walks Home Alone a Night<\/em>? Sign. Us. Up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2019\/05\/cliffhanger-reboot-jason-momoa-ana-lily-amirpour-cannes-female-1202608726\/\">Deadline<\/a> reports that producer Neal Mortiz (<em>The Fast &amp; Furious<\/em> movies and the original\u00a0<em>Cliffhanger<\/em>) and director Ana Lily Amirpour are heading to the Cannes Film Festival to secure financing for this remake of Renny Harlin&#8217;s 1993 action movie guilty pleasure. The original film starred Stallone as a mountain climber with demons, who has to stop John Lithgow and his gang of bad guys from stealing $100 million scattered along perilous high-altitude terrain.<\/p>\n<p>The remake will have a female lead that will soon be cast. Whomever that lucky actor is, they will star opposite Jason Momoa, who will have a cameo in the new film. (Dollars-to-donuts, we bet Aquaman will play the female lead&#8217;s lover and suffer a similar fate to the character in Stallone&#8217;s movie that sent his character to a very brooding place.)<\/p>\n<p>The filmmakers have put together a promotional poster image for the film, just for Cannes. Check it out below:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1090px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog-proxy.atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/cliffhanger-new-poster.jpg\" width=\"1080\" height=\"675\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Credit: Deadline\/Neal Moritz)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mortiz has tried to get a <em>Cliffhanger<\/em> remake in front of cameras for years, and he couldn&#8217;t have found a better filmmaker than Amirpour (who Iran-set vampire drama\u00a0<em>Girl<\/em> is amazing). Working from a script by\u00a0<em>Creed II<\/em> co-writer Sascha Penn, this is the first movie of this size that the director has tackled. She will absolutely crush it.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll keep you updated on casting news and a release date once they are announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A remake of Sylvester Stallone&#8217;s\u00a0Cliffhanger\u00a0with a female lead, from the director of\u00a0A Girl Walks Home Alone a Night? Sign. Us. Up. Deadline reports that producer Neal Mortiz (The Fast &amp; Furious movies and the original\u00a0Cliffhanger) and director Ana Lily Amirpour are heading to the Cannes Film Festival to secure financing for this remake of Renny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":7151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[37,46],"class_list":["post-7149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news","tag-newspage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7149"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7166,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7149\/revisions\/7166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}