{"id":86248,"date":"2025-10-17T09:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/86248\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T09:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:35:12","slug":"pierce-brosnans-remake-of-a-sylvester-stallone-action-classic-finally-sets-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/86248\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierce Brosnan’s Remake of a Sylvester Stallone Action Classic Finally Sets Release Date"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jaume Collet-Serra\u2019s Cliffhanger reboot<\/a> has officially reached the summit \u2014 with Row K Entertainment announcing an August 28, 2026, theatrical release for the high-altitude survival thriller starring Pierce Brosnan and Lily James<\/a>. The film, a modern day retelling of Sylvester Stallone\u2019s<\/a> 1993 action classic \u2014 although hearing about a 1993 movie being updated for a modern audience is terrifying \u2014 was acquired by Row K out of this year\u2019s Toronto International Film Festival and has quickly climbed to the top of the distributor\u2019s upcoming slate. While August is often considered a \u201cdump month\u201d for theatrical releases, it\u2019s also a smart window, offering breathing room between crowded summer blockbusters and prestige Oscar bait.<\/p>\n

Where Stallone\u2019s original saw Gabe Walker battling thieves among the peaks of the Rocky Mountains, Collet-Serra\u2019s version trades Colorado for the Italian Dolomites. The story follows Brosnan\u2019s Ray Cooper, who runs a secluded alpine chalet with his daughter Sydney. During a weekend getaway with a billionaire\u2019s son, their group becomes the target of a kidnapping plot \u2014 forcing Sydney\u2019s daughter Naomi (played by Lily James<\/a>) to face her deepest fears after witnessing the attack.<\/p>\n

Haunted by a past climbing accident, Naomi must scale impossible heights<\/a> \u2014 both literally and emotionally \u2014 to save her family. From early descriptions, it sounds less like a straight remake and more like a tense, character-driven survival story that borrows themes from the original. But Row K\u2019s confidence in the project seems to be sky-high: producers Rocket Science and Thank You Pictures are reportedly already developing a sequel to the Cliffhanger reboot. That\u2019s a rare move for a film that hasn\u2019t yet released, but it suggests strong buzz \u2014 and possibly an eye toward building a new franchise<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What Can We Expect from ‘Cliffhanger’?<\/p>\n

James, who also produces, has been quite open when talking about about the grueling shoot in the Italian Alps, as she revealed to Collider’s Perri Nemiroff<\/a> at TIFF for her new movie, Swiped<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“I remember after I joined onto the project, and we came on board as producers, I was sitting having dinner with Jaume and Carla, my partner, and we just had a lovely dinner, we were chatting about the film, and he was like, \u2018Oh, so how are you with heights?\u2019 And I suddenly choked. I was like, \u2018Oh, I don\u2019t think I\u2019m very good with heights, actually. What have I done?\u2019 All of a sudden, I realized that I would actually have to be on a mountain. Anyway, it turned out that was my favorite part of it. I learned to climb, and I did weeks and weeks and weeks, every day for five hours climbing. The best part of it is this weird physical, strenuous exercise mixed with something that was very sort of meditative and spiritual, actually. Without being too worthy, you are just out in nature, and you don\u2019t have any other thought in your head because you\u2019re so focused on getting up and staying attached to the mountain sounds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cliffhanger opens on August 28, 2026.<\/p>\n

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Director<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJaume Collet-Serra<\/p>\n

Writers<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Bianculli<\/p>\n

Producers<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNeal H. Moritz, Toby Jaffe, Lars Sylvest, Thorsten Schumacher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaume Collet-Serra\u2019s Cliffhanger reboot has officially reached the summit \u2014 with Row K Entertainment announcing an August 28,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":["post-86248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}