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Highlander
Release Date: TBA
SubscribeGenres: Action, Remake, Fantasy
Production Phase: In Development
Studio: Summit Entertainment Production Company: Original Films
Who's Making It: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (Director), Art Marcum (Screenwriter), Matt Holloway (Screenwriter), Neal H. Moritz (Producer), Peter Davis (Producer)
Premise: Connor Macleod was born on the highlands of Scotland more than 500 years ago. Called Immortals, Macleod and others of his kind cannot be killed unless their head is removed from their body. Some are good,... More »
What We Think: The original Highlander was a box office disappointment when it first came out in 1986 but it later became a home video hit, spawning four sequels and a popular syndicated TV series that had just... More »
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Green Lantern leading actor Ryan Reynolds is in talks with the producers of the Highlander remake to star as the franchise's new immortal. The source states that while both sides are working out an acceptable deal, the talks haven't progressed into finalizing a contract just yet.
- Variety. Comment on this Scoop (0)Wednesday, September 14, 2011
28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo has been picked as the new director for the Highlander remake. Summit wants to now have the movie shooting in front of cameras in the spring of 2012. Casting still hasn't happened yet.
- Summit Entertainment. Comment on this Scoop (0)Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg is in negotiations to write the latest draft of Summit Entertainment's Highlander movie reboot. Rosenberg has written the screenplays for all five Twilight movies for the studio and also wrote episodes of Showtime's hit drama/thriller series Dexter.
She is the third writer to take a whack at the Highlander remake after the original writing team of Art Marcum and Matt Holloway penned the first draft. Theirs was followed by a draft done by Cormac Wibberley and Marianne Wibberley (G-Force, National Treasure, The Sixth Day).
- The Hollywood Reporter. Comment on this Scoop (2)Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Fast & Furious director Justin Lin has signed to call action on Summit Entertainment's remake of Highlander. Joining Lin will be his Fast & Furious producer Neal H. Moritz who will develop the new Highlander through Moritz's Original Film production company. A timeframe for when the film could go into production wasn't mentioned. [Full story]
- Variety. Comment on this Scoop (0)Friday, June 5, 2009
The CC2K website has published a script review of the Highlander remake and given it a critical pummeling. "The problem is that instead of taking the essential story of the original movie, and expanding upon it to allow for additional films, the screenwriters instead decide to tell almost exactly the same story, and simply pull a fast twist at the end to make room for more," writes the site reviewer. [Full story]
- CC2K. Comment on this Scoop (0)Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Summit Entertainment has picked up the rights to Highlander and is developing a remake. Iron Man screenwriters Art Marcum and Matt Holloway will write the remake's screenplay which will follow along the same path as the 1986 movie, namely, that a group of Immortals are battling each other with swords to win a fabled prize. The main character will remain a Scottish highlander who discovers he is a member of the Immortals in medieval times.
"I have always dreamed of reinventing this franchise," said Patrick Wachsberger, the studio's co-chairman and president to Variety.
Added Summit's Eric Feig, ""We think the franchise will work on a global basis."
- Variety. Comment on this Scoop (0)
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I did not realize that "REMAKE" was a type of movie genre. LOL
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