Cliffhanger 2: Stallone will be inspired by Top Gun Maverick for the sequel to one of his best films

Still following the ideas on Sylvester Stallone’s side. After Rocky Balboa and John Rambo, the actor is preparing to return to the cinema with another of his iconic characters: mountaineer Gabby Walker, the hero of Cliffhanger, Renny Harlin’s film, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.

While rumors of a sequel have been floating around for a while, it’s been official since early May. And it was not Renny Harlin, but Rick Roman Waugh, who is going to betray Gerard Butler (whom he directed in The Fall of the President, Greenland and Kandahar) to climb the peaks with Slice during the opus. No release date yet.

And in the interview given by the director Collider He spoke about the project a few weeks ago. First of all by clarifying that like Creed compared to Rocky, this Cliffhanger 2 will be more of a sequel, with Sylvester Stallone reprising his role and creating a new generation. “Miss Gabe Walker’s Character Will Have a Daughter and an Heir”he explains. “And they own a mountaineering business in the Italian Alps.”

“But tragedy strikes them, just like in the first movie, so the father and his daughter have to learn to deal with it and overcome it. How do you overcome a traumatic experience and struggle to move on? Which is about extreme sports like rock climbing.

The new adventure, which the director hopes is authentic, takes cues from Top Gun: Maverick, another sequel to Generation Shock. In terms of working on sound and realism, which especially means going to the Dolomites, where the film takes place. Now it remains to be seen when. And with whom Sylvester Stallone.