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A Backdraft remake with Glen Powell is in development, seemingly announced by producer Brian Grazer. The original film was praised for its special effects, though its belated sequel did not perform well. The remake aims to improve on its special effects using AI and digital technology.

A Backdraft remake is seemingly in development with a Top Gun: Maverick star. Directed by Ron Howard, with a script by Gregory Wilden, the 1991 action thriller follows two rival firefighters and brothers who team up to investigate a series of fires involving oxygen-induced infernos called backdrafts in Chicago. Kurt Russell leads the film's ensemble cast alongside William Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rebecca De Mornay, Donald Sutherland, Robert De Niro, Jason Gedrick, and J.T. Walsh.

Now, over 30 years after the original movie, a Backdraft remake with Glen Powell is seemingly in development, as announced by Brian Grazer, a producer and co-founder of Imagine Entertainment,...

Never in a million years did I think I'd live to see the day where Ron Howard's 1991 firefighter film Backdraft would be getting a sequel, but it's currently in development at Universal Pictures, and I don't know why.

According to MovieHole, the studio has hired Apollo 18 director Gonzalo López-Gallego to helm the sequel. Apollo 18 kinda sucked, so that fact that he's the guy directing the sequel make this whole Backdraft 2 thing even less exciting.

Oh yeah... I should probably mention that William Baldwin will be back to reprise his role from the original film. According to the report, the story will follow a character named Sean McCaffrey, who is the grown son of Kurt Russell’s character from the first film. He's an investigator with the Chicago F.D and still holds his uncle (Baldwin) responsible for the death of his dad.

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Is Backdraft 2 really happening? Sure sounds like it. Spanish director Gonzalo L&#243pez-Gallego has reportedly been tapped by Universal to direct the sequel to 1991's Backdraft. The original movie directed by Ron Howard and written by Gregory Widen was popular enough to get its own Universal Studios attraction, and now it's getting the sequel treatment. Kurt Russell's Lieutenant Stephen "Bull" McCaffrey famously didn't survive the first film, but William Baldwin's Brian McCaffrey did, and he's expected to return for the sequel, which is tentatively titled, Backdraft II.

A new report suggests that Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego, best known for 2011 sci-fi thriller Apollo 18, has been tapped to direct the Backdraft sequel. Filming is reportedly set to begin in Romania and Toronto in April with William Baldwin reprising his role from the original 1991 blockbuster. Universal is rumored to keep the movie heavily tied to the original movie with references and characters returning.