1990 thriller Flatliners up for remake

MUMBAI: In its bid to remake the 1990 medical thriller, Colombia Pictures has commissioned Ben Ripley to write the screenplay of Flatliners.

The original film boasted of Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon and William Baldwin along with Oliver Platt and a cool premise involving a group of med students who build an experiment with temporarily inducing death in order to explore the afterlife.
 
The film was said to be one of those classics that still holds up with repeat viewings. The film centered on a group of medical students experimenting with death as they investigated myths about the afterlife.
 
The film was directed by Joel Schumacher.