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Highlander remake on the way

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Summit Entertainment is bringing back to the big screen the 1986 sci-fi cult hit Highlander, with Iron Man co-writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway on board to pen the redo, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The Russell Mulcahy-directed original starred Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery and Clancy Brown as immortal beings. Lambert played Scottish swordsman Connor MacLeod, Connery an Egyptian and Clancy a barbarian known as the Kurgan. The movie spawned four sequels and three television series

Summit acquired the rights to remake the cult classic from Davis/Panzer Productions. Peter Davis, one of the original producers of the 1986 film, will also produce the new version of the film.
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http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=45313

Looks like The Source killed any plans they had of sequels since it was so bad so now they are are going to do the next best thing. REMAKE!

There can be only one? Apparently not with this franchise. :(
 
I've been burned by Highlander in the past, often, and badly. Its such a GREAT concept that rarely gets the execution it deserves. Still, I am cautiously optimistic about this. It could be very cool indeed.

It could also be utterly terrible in every way. We'll see.
 
Maybe it was the way the original was filmed or the pay-tv channel had a poor copy but when I wastched the original a few months back it was visually very dark and many of the details were lost so maybe a re-make might correct that.
 
I think Highlander could be a great franchise if you had a creative group of people who could've planned things out in advance, instead of having sequel after sequel that goes off in its own direction and is completely ignored in the next movie. And a reboot is the best way to go.

I personally don't like any of the movies, including the first one. The TV show, which had as many good as bad episodes, was the closest to delving into the whole immortal head-chopper concept.

Don't know if Summit Entertainment are those people, but maybe the movie will be small enough that there won't be 45 different cooks in the kitchen.
 
Well, fuck me. I was planning to write a remake of my own; a film trilogy with one largely in the past (mostly in the recent past: 1980ish like the first), one mostly in the present, and one largely in the future.

Oh well.
 
i'd watch a Highlander remake. The first one was a great film. It would be cool if they could make it a "period" piece set in the 1980s lol.
 
I don't get the obsession with making a Highlander story set in the future. Okay, sure these people are immortal and will be alive in the future (unless, you know, head chopping), but it seems that the concept is better suited to be done in the present and use real history as where these immortals came from. Real history is so rich to use a background for characters such as these and to have a future-setting for a Highlander film seems, to me, have no faith in real history, so they need to make up their own. Eh, to each their own, I suppose.
 
Wasn't the original good enough? Seriously, what would it bring more than what we had in 1986?
 
Bastards! I had my own ideas for a remake. :scream:

Oh well. Hopefully this turns out to be good and brings the franchise back into at least semi-respectability.
 
So who are they going to get to play Connor? Orlando Bloom better stay the hell away from this! :scream:
 
Dream said:
Looks like The Source killed any plans they had of sequels since it was so bad so now they are are going to do the next best thing.
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No shit! I've been patient with this franchise. I love Highlander: Endgame. I can see the good points in Highlander II. I even own Highlander: The Final Dimension in spite of the fact that it was clearly just a lame remake of the 1st one (even more so than Escape from L.A. was just a lame remake of Escape from New York:rolleyes:). But Highlander: The Source was so painfully bad that I really had to restrain myself from throwing stuff at the TV.:klingon::klingon::klingon:

A remake could be interesting. A lot of it will depend on casting. No one could possibly top Sean Connery as Juan Sanchez Villalobos Ramirez. But I think there are a few possibilities for surpassing Christopher Lambert as Connor MacLeod-- Christian Bale, Clive Owen, etc. I wonder if the remake would also incorporate elements from the TV show as well, such as the Watchers or Methos or Duncan?
 
^ Surpassing Christopher Lamber isn't exactly a high bar to set, but if they want to make a series of movies, that cuts down on which actors would want the part. For an unknown, how about soap opera actor James Scott?
 
Mutenroshi said:
Wasn't the original good enough? Seriously, what would it bring more than what we had in 1986?
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Pretty obvious isn't it? The studio ran the thing into the ground with crappy sequels, and the only way they can continue to milk this cow is if they scrap the whole thing and start over from scratch.
 
Broccoli said:
I don't get the obsession with making a Highlander story set in the future. Okay, sure these people are immortal and will be alive in the future (unless, you know, head chopping), but it seems that the concept is better suited to be done in the present and use real history as where these immortals came from. Real history is so rich to use a background for characters such as these and to have a future-setting for a Highlander film seems, to me, have no faith in real history, so they need to make up their own. Eh, to each their own, I suppose.
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The fact that these Immortals can go from living hundreds of years in the past, running around in kilts, living in castles, and the like to eventually driving flying cars and fucking up robots--it's so incredibly charming and even romantic.

It's the insane juxtaposition that makes it fascinating and engaging.
 
Cutter John said:
Mutenroshi said:
Wasn't the original good enough? Seriously, what would it bring more than what we had in 1986?
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Pretty obvious isn't it? The studio ran the thing into the ground with crappy sequels, and the only way they can continue to milk this cow is if they scrap the whole thing and start over from scratch.
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Isn't that how many things are done nowadays anyways? Batman did a reboot and took the bad taste of the Schumaker movies off our collective mouths. Star Trek is doing it in a semi fashion. Highlander remake might just bring old and new fans together alike. :)
 
Didn't they already do this with Highlander III:The final dimension? How many times do they have to remake this idea before they get it right? There's 5 films, 2 series, and 2 cartoons already. They already remake continuity every time they make a new one.
 
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