Bidding for this lot will end on Wednesday, August 26th. The auction will begin at 9:30 AM (PDT) / 12:30 PM (EDT) / 5:30 PM (GMT) and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on Thursday, August 27th or Friday, August 28th or Saturday, August 29th.
Johnny Utah's (Keanu Reeves) screen-matched, broken surfboard from Kathryn Bigelow's Point Break. During his undercover investigation into the local surfing community's ties to a string of summer bank robberies, rookie FBI agent Utah was ambushed in the shower by "Bunker" Weiss (Chris Pedersen), Archbold (Dave Olson), Tone (Anthony Kiedis), and Lupton "Warchild" Pittman (Vincent Klyn), who broke Johnny's signature surfboard in half. Distinctive points of intentional distressing applied to this board by production, as well as specific patterning in the hand-painted finish, screen-match to the fight sequence.
Utah's surfboards were custom-designed by professional surfer and board shaper Dennis Jarvis. Working from basic direction provided by director Bigelow, Jarvis designed the agent's board as a symbol of the personal risk he undertook by immersing himself deeper into an unfamiliar and dangerous world. The first boards Jarvis produced for Johnny featured a dark logo at the nose, which Bigelow felt did not stand out sufficiently on camera. Subsequent Utah boards were produced with white-background logos, and the original boards were updated with vinyl decals featuring the same design to match the newly created versions.
Utah's boards were used for both main unit filming with the principal cast and second unit filming, where more technical coverage and critical action sequences were captured. Each board was constructed to be suitable for both the actors - who had varying levels of experience in the water - and high-performance professional surfers.
This hand-painted, tri-fin surfboard originated from Planet Hollywood. Constructed from polystyrene foam finished with resin laminate, it is intentionally broken into two halves. The top half is applied with a white-background "Dance with the Universe" decal near the nose and part of a "Snake Wave" logo on the deck, while the bottom half features the lower part of the "Snake Wave" logo above flame patterns. The board has undergone sympathetic restoration to remove blemishes in its surf wax. Both halves show evidence of intentional distressing by production, including the thin skin of surf wax present across certain sections, pitting, water stains, and edge wear, together with wear consistent with on-set use, handling, and age. Dimensions: (largest) 102" x 23" x 5" (259 cm x 58.5 cm x 12.75 cm)
Special shipping required; see notice in the Buyer's Guide.
Estimate: $12,000 - 24,000
View all lots from POINT BREAK (1991)
View all lots from Planet Hollywood Collection
This item comes with a Propstore Certificate of Authenticity.