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Point Break
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- #001
While the crew was shooting second-unit footage during a surf break at Jaws on Maui, they had the chance to capture one of the biggest wave breaks of the decade with some of the world's best big-wave surfers.
- #002
Although it was Teresa Palmer's first acting job after giving birth to her son Bohdi, she performed most of her own stunts.
- #003
In the 1991 original film, James Le Gros played Roach, one of the former Presidents; in the remake, he plays the FBI's deputy director.
- #004
The names of the Ozaki 8 seen on the blackboard at FBI headquarters are: 1. Emerging Force - journey through the Inga Falls Rapids (Democratic Republic of the Congo). 2. Birth of Sky - base jump from a high place (Everest, Tibet). 3. Awakening Earth - after a parachute jump, penetrate the ground in the Cave of Swallows (San Luis Potosi, Mexico). 4. Life of Water - surf waves of roughly 20-30 meters (Biarritz, France). 5. Life of Wind - fly in a wingsuit after jumping from a mountain peak (Churfirsten Range, Switzerland). 6. Life of Ice - snowboard from the top of an iceberg down the mountain slope (Aosta Valley, Italy). 7. Master of Six Lives - climb the rock face of a large waterfall without using safety measures (Angel Falls, Venezuela). 8. Act of Ultimate Trust - after the climb, jump from the waterfall (Angel Falls, Venezuela).
- #005
The Angel Falls sequence is an expensive one, featuring a structure that cost more than $500,000 to build. It consisted of a platform about the size of a football field just below the summit of the waterfall, where the crews camped on the ground so as not to disturb the environment. Kosove likened the shoot at Angel Falls to a "full-scale military operation."
- #006
The film includes a scene shot at Venezuela's legendary Angel Falls, which is protected and therefore required heavy involvement from the local government and numerous permits.
- #007
Gerard Butler was the first person cast. He was chosen for the role of Bodhi but later left due to scheduling conflicts.
- #008
Bojesse Christopher, who plays the FBI director, also appeared in the 1991 version of "Point Break." He played Grommet, one of the surfer/bank robbers, who wears an LBJ mask.
- #009
The scene in which Utah has the chance to shoot Bodhi and stop him from escaping, but instead screams in frustration and fires his gun into the sky, is one of the only "nods" to the original film. In the original Point Break, Keanu Reeves makes the same choice after first revealing to Patrick Swayze that he is an FBI agent.
- #010
The film takes place over a period of about a month, and its shoot lasted nearly a year. It was filmed in more than 10 countries and on 4 continents. Point Break (2015) uses physical locations as much as possible, and the producers tried to be sensible when applying green screens or VFX.
- #011
The superyacht in the surfing scene is named Ocean Emerald. It can be rented for $100,000 a week.
- #012
Utah's knuckle tattoos face the wrong way. Normally, when a person makes a fist, others looking at the fist should be able to read the tattoo on it. Utah's are reversed, so he is the only one who can read them.
- #013
Patrick Swayze was 38 when he appeared in Point Break (1991), the same age as Edgar Ramirez, who appears in Point Break (2015).
- #014
According to Kosove, Luke Bracey won the role of Johnny Utah after an extensive casting process, landing it because he looked "real" and was not affected. An added advantage was that Bracey had been surfing and playing rugby since childhood.
- #015
To portray extreme sports in new and innovative ways, the production used a variety of different digital cameras, including Go-Pros, the RED camera and the Opticom, which Kosove described as a RED camera attached to a remote-controlled helicopter.
- #016
Tom Hardy, Colin Farrell, Hugh Jackman, Jeremy Renner, Chris Hemsworth and Garrett Hedlund were considered for the role of Bodhi.
- #017
One of the film's shooting locations is Angel Falls in Venezuela, the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall. Edgar Ramirez, who plays Bodhi in the film, was born in Venezuela.
- #018
Before the remake of Point Break was greenlit, there was a sequel set in Indonesia that was to feature Australian star Damien Walshe-Howling. The project was thought to have nothing in common with the original film apart from the surfer/outlaw perspective. It remained in development for several years before being shelved.
- #019
Edgar Ramirez (Bodhi) appeared in Zero Dark Thirty, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, who directed the original Point Break.
- #020
Teresa Palmer has a son named Bodhi Rain. The main character is also named Bodhi.
- #021
Taylor Kitsch, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chris Pine, Chris Pratt and Sam Claflin were all considered for the role of Johnny Utah.
- #022
The bay announced as "Biarritz, France," where the character with the white and yellow speedboat and swimmers on his left meets a man, was actually Castro Marina in Italy, in Puglia, a small town in the country's southeast.
- #023
They stuck caricatures of the Presidents onto the helmets used for the robbery, likely as a tribute to the original Point Break.
- #024
Weather conditions in Europe during the shoot were disastrous; torrential rain made filming the second unit's sequences extremely difficult and dangerous.
- #025
In the snowboard scene, when they stop halfway, you can hear the "Scooby Doo stop" sound played just before going over the edge.
- #026
Bracey arrived for the interview looking as though he had been beaten up. Grinning, he explained that his character is in a heavily choreographed fight with Bodhi in an underground fight club in France.
- #027
The end credits sequence runs 13 minutes and 30 seconds.
- #028
According to the FBI posters, the character Chowder was born in Norway. Actor Tobias Santelmann is Norwegian but was born in Berlin.
- #029
The extreme snowboarding scenes were partly inspired by the 1991 Windows and DOS game SkiFree, in which a yeti inevitably appears and, once the player passes a certain point down the mountain, swallows the skier under the player's control. Director Ericson Core interprets the yeti as a representation of dharma, the Buddhist concept of cosmic law and order. Although no yeti appears in the film, there is still a sense of danger and impending death on the slopes as the natural consequence of the extreme sports Bodhi and Utah try to defy.
- #030
It is one of five remakes of Patrick Swayze films. The other four are Gôsuto (2010), Red Dawn (2012), Dirty Dancing (2017) and Road House (2024).
- #031
Palmer is the only woman in a lead role, and she said what drew her to Samsara was the character's strength and powerful wisdom.
- #032
The original film was rated R, while this is one of many remakes/reboots to receive a PG-13 rating. Others include Robocop.
- #033
Chris Taylor, an executive at Largo Entertainment, the production company behind the original Point Break, acquired the rights to remake the film after the company closed. He then partnered with Alcon Entertainment, along with writer Kurt Wimmer and director Ericson Core, to develop the remake script over a period of 3 years.
- #034
This iteration of Johnny Utah sees the character as more of a wounded bird full of demons to overcome, a somewhat more damaged and broken man than the character seen in the 1991 film.
- #035
Edgar Ramirez and Ray Winstone both played the god Ares in two Greek mythology films: Winstone in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and Ramirez in Wrath of the Titans.
- #036
Director Ericson Core worked as cinematographer on The Fast and the Furious, a film very similar to Point Break (1991).
- #037
Point Break is the second remake featuring Delroy Lindo. He also appeared in the remake of Gone In 60 Seconds, which starred Nicolas Cage.
- #038
Teresa Palmer and Luke Bracey both appeared in Hacksaw Ridge (2016), but they never shared a scene together.
- #039
Ericson Core had previously directed The Invincible. The Invincible features a musical score by Mark Isham. Isham wrote the score for the original Point Break.
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