Kiefer Sutherland has joined the cast of the upcoming
Flatliners (2017) reboot, which will be distributed in the United States by Sony Pictures.
The film will be directed by Danish helmer Niels Arden Oplev (
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). The cast also includes Ellen Page, Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev, James Norton and Kiersey Clemens.
The original
Flatliners film was directed by Joel Schumacher in 1990. In the United States, the film was released on Blu-ray in 2007 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. It was one of the studio's first Blu-ray release. You can see our listing and review of this release
here.
Synopsis for the original film: Are you afraid to die? Kiefer Sutherland isn't. He's an ambitious, charismatic medical student who persuades classmates Julia Roberts and Kevin Bacon to take part in a reckless experiment. To see if there is life after death, they will kill themselves: temporarily shut down ("flatline") their heart and brain functions to briefly experience clinical death.