Highlander Reboot/Prequel Anticipation Thread
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That's great. Can picture Fozzie popping into the frame at the end to say, "Heads will roll!"
Statler and Waldorf doing the commentary on each fight?
Gold! "Up here, we're untouchable, we're immortal! Heh Heh Heh. Tell 'em what they win tonight"
So this video claims that Michael Fassbender will be "The Mongol", the main villain
He is from the comics... like Benedict Cumberbatch, he is a great actor... but another Whitewashing????
I hope we at least get a diverse group of other Immortals, like the first film. It would have been creative if they had a woman instead.
He is from the comics... like Benedict Cumberbatch, he is a great actor... but another Whitewashing????
I hope we at least get a diverse group of other Immortals, like the first film. It would have been creative if they had a woman instead.
Someone speculated on the internet that Cavill makes more sense as the Kurgan and really I think Fassbender would make more sense as Connor. Maybe it's all a bait and switch?
I don't really get "The Mongol", from what I could google he was just someone the Kurgan beheaded centuries ago and doesn't sound like anything that special. How can you remake Highlander without the Kurgan?
I don't really get "The Mongol", from what I could google he was just someone the Kurgan beheaded centuries ago and doesn't sound like anything that special. How can you remake Highlander without the Kurgan?
Odder that a 56 year old Sean Connery?
Yea, I mean if we go by the 'rules' from the original you become immortal when you die an unnatural death. So the physical age of the 'immortal' can vary.
The TV series had a child who died and was an immortal locked in that form for like hundreds of years. Highlander 3 had a Japanese Immortal who had his violent death in his 60s and had lived in that form for centuries.
Immortallity can really suck.
Eh? What about child vampires?
Kenny was supposedly over 800 years old- about twice as old as Mac. In my mind, his appearance was really (for me) the first time Highlander truly dipped into something like a horror genre. Kenny was like a live version of Chucky.
Did the bastards kill Kenny?
No, the greasy little turd kept getting away. All he ever had to do was jump on the nearest school bus or run to the nearest adult or cop.
"On-ly one! On-ly one!"
Well the Kurgan needs to be someone around the Black Sea, Russian, Turkey, Ukrainian, greek etc.
Just like Rameirez needs to be Egyptian, or atleast middle eastern.
Mongol? Of course Mongolian, but maybe from some of the -Stan countries like Uzbekistan?
Just like Rameirez needs to be Egyptian, or atleast middle eastern.
Mongol? Of course Mongolian, but maybe from some of the -Stan countries like Uzbekistan?
My first introduction to Highlander was the TV series, that was on when I was visiting a couple of SCA friends. Our shire was working on a group project - a latch hook rug/banner of the shire's heraldic device. That thing was big enough for 3 people to sit side by side and work on it, so we just gathered over at their place and Highlander was on in the background.
I really didn't understand much about it, and at that point it wasn't on TV at any predictable time (the channel it was on seemed to use it for filler in the schedule), so it was a long time before I could actually watch the series from start to finish. And eventually I saw the first movie. I tried the second, didn't like it, heard bad things about the third, so gave up on the movies.
I loved the TV show, though, and also enjoyed Highlander: The Raven.
I've got a small stack of Highlander fanzines, and my current bedtime reading is one that takes up a day or two after Nick becomes Immortal. Amanda has mysteriously gone somewhere, and so Nick really has no clue about what he's supposed to do at this point. The story (novel length) has Methos, Joe, and two female Immortals - one of whom is Joan of Arc (she goes by the name 'Jehanne'). The other one's name is Jade, and I can't remember if there was any TV character by that name.
Tennant's natural accent is very pleasing to the ear.
As for the TV show, I ran across a YT channel that has some massively long video compilations of every single one of Duncan's historical flashbacks. Each video covers a century of his life, and I've finally reached partway through the last one (20th century), and it's over 5 HOURS long.Oh, I heartily recommend the TV show. I hate the sequel movies, but the TV show is just wonderful.
And, hey, I like origami too!
The beauty of fanfic is that if you don't like something about the source material, just write an AU. I haven't read it myself, but I did see a reference to a series of stories in which Richie survives for centuries, and joins Starfleet (during the TOS era).
Which brings up an interesting point. It's asking a lot of audiences to suspend their disbelief at a bunch of people in the 20th century who carry swords around with them that are invisible until it's time to fight. Where would Richie have carried one while serving on a starship?
I don't think age matters as much as what someone is interested in. My intro, as mentioned earlier in this post, came as a result of the SCA. That organization has people of all ages in it, from young kids to great-grandparents. It's older than Star Trek (by a couple of months) and especially when you get multiple generations of the same family being part of it, you have multiple generations being exposed to all kinds of medieval-era historical things (and earlier, as some of us are history buffs in general; I was into Roman history for 10 years before getting into the SCA and medieval history).
Fitz was such a hoot!
Well, corvids are attracted to shiny things, and so is Amanda. Rebecca was only able to civilize her so much before she embarked on centuries of being a thief.Yep, Amanda is a decent actor and the series was okay. I'm still questioning the choice of cutting off all that lovely black hair giving her a bleached white buzz cut in a show called "Raven."
Here's her original death, which just shows how silly it was in her own series when she took on a French persona.
Ditch the notion that every Immortal has to be a foundling. I always found that idea ridiculous.
Is that series still on? I lost track of it years ago after it was switched to a channel I don't get.
I could read the novels, but they're so huge that it's literally painful to hold them.
Some of the fanfic I've read lately addresses the issue of the Watchers being the cleanup crew. Watchers aren't any more eager than the Immortals for the mortal cops to find out what's going on.
I've only seen him in The Tudors.
Older in how long it's been since they died, or older in their biological age when they died? Immortality doesn't grant instant knowledge or wisdom. Duncan was illiterate when he died, and later he learned to read in a monastery. The person who taught him was an Immortal lay priest, and the reading material was Shakespeare's Macbeth. People like Duncan opted to improve themselves, learn new things. Others either didn't want to, or they couldn't manage the opportunity.
It's also clear in the TV series that not all Immortals learn to fight. Instead, they either find protectors or they stay on holy ground.
That would have been the episode in which Kristin became a problem. She was obsessed with remaking Duncan into her idea of the perfect man, and he finally had enough of it and left her. She didn't take it well.
When things got to the point where it was necessary to kill her, Duncan hesitated. Methos correctly realized that Duncan had reservations about killing a woman, and that's when he gave that speech about chivalry. Methos himself had no qualms whatsoever with killing a woman if it was necessary.
The TV series makes the point that whatever makes a pre-Immortal into an Immortal is only activated with a quick and violent death.
That's why Amanda shoots Nick in the season finale of Highlander: The Raven. Immortals can tell when someone is pre-Immortal, but the custom is that they don't reveal that.
(last 5 minutes or so; Amanda explains it to Nick)
I have a short story anthology called An Evening at Joe's. All the stories were written by people involved in the series, whether production, tech, or actors. Peter Wingfield, who played Methos, wrote an absolutely chilling story about an Immortal baby.
Kenny was old enough to survive on his own, though he had to use older Immortals to protect him. A baby would remain a baby forever.
I've gotten back into this series after a long hiatus, since I got an idea for a long fanfic project that's a crossover between Highlander, Highlander: the Raven, and BBC Merlin. Merlin himself is immortal due to his magic. Sir Leon is theorized by some fans to be immortal due to drinking from the Cup of Life. There's one other character in the show whose death I thought was unjust, so I decided to fix that.
And now I'm doing research, to figure out what he's going to do with himself for the next 1500 years (and no, it's not Arthur).
On the other hand, someone else wrote a crossover in which an older King Arthur turns out to be Immortal and manages to stay out of the history books by remaining on holy ground. Duncan MacLeod meets him... and is knighted.
