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Highlander : The Reboot

Advance Script Review: The Highlander Remake - There Can Be Only One, and This Ain’t It!
Written by Big Ross, CC2K Staff Writer
In this SPOILER FILLED review, we lament over the script intended to reboot the Highlander franchise.

Highlander was a solid fantasy/action film released in 1986 that told the tale of Conner MacLeod (played by Christopher Lambert), a Scotsman born in the year 1518 "in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel," who violently discovers that he is a member of a group of immortals who move silently down through the centuries, living many secret lives until the time of The Gathering, when the few who remain will battle to the last, each hoping to win The Prize. Though it told a complete, self-contained narrative - at the film's climax MacLeod battles and kills the penultimate immortal, his arch-nemesis The Kurgan (played by Clancy Brown) and wins The Prize - its success demanded more. Despite the difficulty of building a franchise upon a story that essentially left no room for one, several sequels and television series spin-offs were developed with varying success. But since Hollywood has a memory of a 12-year-old with ADHD and the financial philosophy of Gordan Gekko, it's time to slap a new coat of paint on the Highlander franchise and take it out for another spin, i.e. it's reboot time!

Full article from CC2K


Words cannot express how wrong this is. I was open to a reboot of Star Trek, but this... this is just.. just.. wrong.

ROzbeans 16 years ago
Well, at least the special effects will be better? /sad
Temprah 16 years ago
You know really I wouldn't be so upset if they weren' trashing theentire story.. making him pine forever over Heather? MacLeod a cowardly pacifist type?? And adding GUNS? These are ancient, honorable warriors with a code to live by.. Sure there was always one or two who used unscrupulous methods (for example I think of the episode of the Highlander TV series with the kid immortal but then.. kinda understand he adapted because of his physical limits) and then the cowardly ones who would become priests or use holy ground to their advantage but still.. on average they were not bad.

And the respect for holy ground should be noted from the repercussions when connor fought in the 3rd movie against the mongol (forget his name) remember how their swords shattered? There were rules of engagement and a fricking sniper shot is soooooooo not gonna work.

/disgust
quiarrah 16 years ago
The HIlander movies deserve to die the way Sean Connery's character died in the first one. . . .with HONOR!

This is ridiculous to do a remake. .. . I think what they are trying to do is to hit the younger generation. . like our kids. . . . That is exactly what they did with the new Star Trek movie I think. .even though I thought it was good. . . .we could have done without it. And of course it opens up a new time line so they can have a NEW kirk for a NEW generation of fans. Why cant we just let our kids watch the OLD stuf and be happy with THAT??

Ok. . nuf said. . . .Oh . . . .we saw Origins finally yesterday. They could have skipped the ending with the guy reaching for his head out from under the rubble.

*sigh*