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Luke Bracey says ‘Point Break’ remake bigger and better
LOUISE WATT Australian actor Luke Bracey poses for photographers during a red carpet event for the movie Some stunts and sports in
Associated Press the latest movie “hadn’t
BEIJING (AP) — Hollywood “Point Break” in Beijing, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) even been thought of when
actor Luke Bracey said the original was made, in
Tuesday the remake of the The film’s promoters are bill- be the start of a new trend ish actor Ray Winstone. the original they were still
action crime thriller “Point ing “Point Break” as the first in Hollywood movies. The original film directed by paddling into waves,” said
Break” is bigger and better Hollywood film to have its The movie also stars Vene- Kathryn Bigelow was a hit Bracey. Wing suiting, the
because it’s got extreme world premier in China, and zuelan actor Edgar Ramirez that grossed $83.5 million sport of flying through the
sports that weren’t even Bracey, who attended the as the athletes’ leader Bod- worldwide — less than the air in a special suit, hadn’t
invented when the original premiere in Beijing on Tues- hi, Australian actress Teresa remake’s more than $125 been conceived at that
1991 hit came out. day, said he expected it to Palmer as a surfer, and Brit- million budget. time and it was in the mid-
Bracey is the new Johnny 1990s that people “started
Utah, the FBI agent played using jet skis just to catch
by Keanu Reeves in the waves that were bigger
1991 movie who goes un- than they could paddle
dercover among a gang into.” “So, to use a cliche,
of surfers led by Patrick it’s bigger, and it’s better
Swayze. and it’s just a huge movie
In the remake that comes in terms of how different it
out in China on Friday and is from the original,” he said.
in the U.S. on Christmas The Australian actor said
Day, extreme sports take that while the original was
center stage. Bracey’s Utah based in California, the
infiltrates a group of thrill- remake has been “ex-
seeking athletes suspected panded across the world.”
of being criminals. Action It was filmed in nine coun-
adventure feats include tries in four continents, in-
big-wave surfing, wingsuit cluding scenes of wingsuit
flying, sheer-face snow- flying in Switzerland, free
boarding, free rock climb- rock climbing in Venezuela,
ing and high-speed motor- snowboarding in the Italian
cycling. Alps and surfing in Hawaii.q
