A reboot of the 1993 action-thriller Cliffhanger is in development with Lily James and star Pierce Brosnan leading the cast. While the filming has commenced in Austria, Sylvester Stallone, who headlined the original, is no longer attached to the reboot.

The upcoming film, which was supposed to be directed by Ric Roman Waugh of Greenland-fame with a script by Mark Bianculli, will now be helmed by Jaume Collet-Serra, who earlier worked with Brosnan on the Dwayne Johnson-led Black Adam. The new script is based on a story by Ana Lily Amirpour.

Apart from Lily James and Pierce Brosnan, Cliffhanger will also star Nell Tiger Free, Franz Rogowski, Shubham Saraf, Assaad Bouab, Suzy Bemba and Bruno Gouery.

Brosnan will play seasoned mountaineer Ray Cooper, who operates a luxury chalet in the Dolomites with daughter Sydney. During a weekend trip with a billionaire’s son, they are targeted by a gang of kidnappers. Ray’s daughter Naomi (James), still haunted by a past climbing accident, witnesses the attack and escapes. To save her family, she must confront her fears and fight for survival.

Lars Sylvest of Thank You Pictures, Joe Neurauter of Supernix and Rocket Science’s Thorsten Schumacher will produce the project with Neal Moritz and Toby Jaffe. A release date for the reboot has not been announced yet.

The original film starred Sylvester Stallone alongside John Lithgow, Michael Rooker and Janine Turner. Renny Harlin directed the film which followed Gabe (Stallone), a mountain climber who becomes embroiled in a heist of a US Treasury plane flying through the Rocky Mountains.