The source code writer employs writes Columbia Pictures Flatliners to rebuild

2011-08-26 14:31:31 Author: Sean O’Connell In a strange twist of irony, Joel Schumacher’s Flatliners is being brought back to life. Columbia Pictures has ordered a screenplay for the 1990 medical thriller, which featured “up-and-comers” Julia Roberts, Kiefer Sutherland and Kevin Bacon as med school students experimenting with death to see if an afterlife exists. Before you go dismissing this as another cheap studio bid to harness audience nostalgia, know that Columbia reportedly has handed the writing assignment to Ben Ripley, scripter of Duncan Jones’s sci-fi mystery Source Code , according to The Hollywood Reporter . Given how that film [ SPOILER ALERT…