Nearly a year ago to the day I read of the potential return of Point Break in a sequel with the original director, Peter Iliff, coming back to direct and write. Unfortunately those plans never included “Johnny Utah”, played by Keanu Reeves back in 1991. Since then things went pretty quite until the wave broke again this week:

Seventeen years after “Point Break” washed up in movie theaters, surf’s up for the sequel, “Point Break: Indo,” with Jan de Bont aboard to direct.

RGM Entertainment and Essential Entertainment will exec produce this Asia-based follow-up to director Kathryn Bigelow’s original, which starred de Bont’s “Speed” lead Keanu Reeves as an FBI agent casing a gang of surfer bank robbers. The new film will take place 20 years after the disappearance of one of the criminal surfers (Patrick Swayze).

Both the original and sequel are written by W. Peter Iliff. Plot details and possible character reprises have not been disclosed, but the film will shoot in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

So Iliff is back as the writer with Jan de Bont as the director. I didn’t recognize de Bont’s name, but after checking his IMDB page I noticed Jan has worked with Reeves before, back on Speed in 1994. Could this be a move to get Reeves back? Probably not, but a man can dream, can’t he?