Highlander - I totally called it

it's just a rumor at this point, but if it turns out to be true I will be very excited

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?id=59090

http://www.trekbbs.com/showpost.php?p=1666927&postcount=47

 

Ooo, interesting. I thought they'd go for a younger actor, but McKidd is excellent. This could be very cool...

 

If that's who they're going with, I'm now really interested!

 

I'm not familiar with his work, but he definitely has a similar look that Chris Lambert had in the first movie. The HL formula is actually quite simple, but it's been done wrong so many times it amazes me. I hope they get it right this time.

 

This is a mistake, he can speak with a Scottish accent, so should have played Ramírez.

 

Another rewrite again?

Damn, they've been rewriting all Highlander stuff since the second movie.

 

That could be cool. I just hope they use him well. He was great in Rome and laughably bad in The Last Legion. The again, The Last Legion was laughably bad.

 

I actually think it's more of a relaunch. All previous Highlanders (with the possible exception of "Vengeance") were tied to the first movie in some way, shape or form. This looks like a fresh start to the franchise.

 

I find the Highlander premise to be immensly fascinating, but in my opinion the movies and the tv shows were never good enough for such a unique premise

I love McKidd in Journeyman, and I hope this version of Highlander does itself justice and turns out to be really good

 

Agreed. Vincent Cassell should be McCloud.

 

The original was a classic. As far as I'm concerned, there can be only one.

 

Oh don't talk daft, everyone knows Jean Reno should be McCloud!!

Actually, I'm looking forward to this, if doing a total reboot, they can change the premise to allow sequels to exist, rather than tack-on something that let's face it was a self-contained story. Be like the suits going to Cameron and saying "Hey, we got a great idea, TITANIC II"

 

The only part of the premise that needs to be changed is that the movie is set during the Gathering. Just make the movie like the series, where the Gathering is still a far-off and nebulous myth, and they'll be all set.

 

I tend to agree, but I'll be interested to see where this goes, since it does look like a complete re-imagination, without attempting to latch on to any of the pre-existing continuities.

 

A complete reboot going back to the bare basics of the original premise could really be interesting. Unlike everything that's been spawned by the original movie...

 

I think McKidd should be used for something better than a Highlander reboot - I'm a big fan of the original but few properties have been so poorly developed as the Highlander franchise.

 

Totally agree. This should not be the "final big bad fight(tm)". It should be a story of the villain catching up to him in the present (NO post-apocalyptic future PLEASE) and lots of history between the two. Toss in a romance angle and some great sword fights and the formula is complete. It's really quite simple.

 

The series was good. It's what hooked me to Highlander.

 

Yep, same here. I think I'd seen the original movie at least once before then (I was only eight when the series started in 1992), but it was the series that got me into Highlander. That's probably why I'm more of a Duncan fan than a Connor fan (I know, blasphemy! ).

I was reading over at the Highlander message board, and someone suggested that Adrian Paul play Ramirez in the remake. That could be interesting. Paul is pushing fifty, and he does kind of resemble Sean Connery...