Flatliners TV Spot Features a Kiefer Sutherland Cameo

Flatliners

A newFlatlinersTV spot declare oneself the first glance of Kiefer Sutherland reprise his office of Nelson Wright from the original film . In just a mates more week , Sony’sFlatlinersarrives in theaters . The pic continues to be promoted like a remaking of the original , despite its prospicient - since revealed condition asa loose sequel . To be fair though , the connective tissue paper between the twoFlatlinersonly amounts to a unmarried character , albeit an important one : Sutherland ’s Nelson Wright .

As any rooter of managing director Joel Schumacher ’s original 1990Flatlinerswill reminiscence , Sutherland ’s Wright was the drive force behind the dangerous experiment that he and a group of four other med students embarked upon . While he did n’t thrust anyone to participate , he did become more and more crazed as his not so nice encounters with animation beyond death continued to increase in horrify intensity .

After months spent promotingFlatlinerswith nary a credit of Sutherland ’s return , Sony has finally released the first evidence of his being within the film . A raw TV spot - above - features a quick coup d’oeil of Sutherland as Wright , in a blank coating that suggest he indeed went on to go back from the event of the original and become a practicing doctor . Though his appearance is very brief , it ’s squeamish to get some substantiation that he will in fact be included in the new motion picture .

Now that Sutherland ’s presence has been corroborate , the other fully grown question mark that remains is what exactly his character ’s intimacy in the patch of the newFlatlinerswill be . His censure from anterior marketing suggests that his use wo n’t be a braggart one , but one wonders why Sony and/or director Niels Arden Oplev would ask a notable name like Sutherland to appear in the film as his original character if he was n’t going to play an important role in the story . After all , if they just want him to do a quick cameo , he could have just been a random doctor , he did n’t have to be Nelson Wright .

take over for the star - studded originalFlatlinersquintet of Sutherland , Julia Roberts , Oliver Platt , Billy Baldwin , and Kevin Bacon are Ellen Page as Courtney , Diego Luna as Ray , Nina Dobrev as Marlo , James Norton as Jamie , and Kiersey Clemons as Sophia . Courtney seems to be the Nelson of this grouping , unwilling to empty the experiment even after things begin to go south . It ’ll be interesting to see what helpful advice - if any - Nelson has to tender his young counterpart .