There was a great deal of scepticism surrounding 2017's Flatliners remake, and it turned out that moviegoers were right to be unsure. With a laughable 4% Rotten Tomatoes score, it ended up making just $45 million (though with a budget of $19 million, it wasn't a total flop).
The movie actually boasted a surprisingly great cast, including Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev, James Norton, Kiersey Clemons, Kiefer Sutherland, and Elliot Page.
The latter has recently released a memoir, Pageboy, and detailed what sounds like a truly terrible experience working on the sci-fi project. He alleges that, not only did poor safety practices on set endanger him and others, but there were also several examples of misogyny, racism, and queerphobia.
"We were getting ready for a car stunt when Kiersey and I realized that everyone had a built-in thick seat belt, except for us," Page remembers. "No restraints, a basic safety measure of the carefully orchestrated, expensive, and elaborate stunt that hadn't been thought through. We looked to the various stunt crew members strapping the others in, perplexed, questioning why we weren't being secured for the scene."
"In retrospect, I should have known the shoot was going to be a sh*tshow. Within our first week, someone approached Kiersey on set, sitting in her chair between takes, you only have this part because you're Black, you know, he said to her," the X-Men: The Last Stand star continues. "When I arrived [to report the incidents], I beelined to an executive's office, a man I would later watch give a woman an unwanted massage on set."
"His subsequent texts to Kiersey asking her to go to dinner glared with gross... speaking of the limitations, the misogyny, the queerphobia. All that I had swallowed for years, I hauled out my insides for him to gorge on."
Page would go on to recall also being expected to wear a dress and heels despite playing a medical student who had no reason to dress that way. The actor was even asked by a producer if he was "mad that this character isn't gay," so it sounds like a toxic set on a number of levels.
No one else involved with Flatliners has commented on these accusations, but it does sound pretty typical for Hollywood in the mid-2010s, unfortunately.