'Highlander' Remake: There Can Be Only One...Or Not

I'm fairly convinced we don't need another Highlander movie. The first one, released in the mid-1980s, was pretty decent and had an interesting story. The sequels, however, couldn't have been much worse. Honestly, I thought they made Highlander II: The Quickening to grease the rails for bankruptcy declarations. But Summit Entertainment is bringing back Connor McCloud - or at least the mythology of the immortals - for a remake of Highlander to be helmed by Fast & Furious director Justin Lin. Iron Man co-writers Matt Holloway and Art Marcum are taking aim at the script and that could be a good sign. Then again, they also co-wrote Punisher: War Zone. That movie's as bad as the Highlander sequels. It is the job of studio bosses to sound excited about their projects, but...really? Summit's Patrick Wachsberger says of Highlander, "We are privileged to have this amazing opportunity to reinvent one of the great franchises." Well, see, that's simply not true. You're using some of that new math. One solid movie, two absolute turds. Pretty weak TV spin-off, too. Having said that, I go back to the central story of the first movie, which was handled mostly correctly then and if it's handled correctly now, that could be a pretty good sword-swinger. But let's cast an actual Spaniard as a Spaniard instead of a Scot.

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[~Rupe]

Yet another violation of the HIGHLANDER dictum:
"There SHOULD have been only one!"

[Tjei]

These guys are like a cover-band "We're priviliged to play other people's music..."

[anybody]

I can see Tom Jane in the role, mostly because he looks exactly like Christopher Lambert, so much so that I thought I was looking at him in the picture thinking what the hell is Tom Jane doing in a kilt? Seriously though I would go much younger for this flick if it has to be made... maybe have a 25-28 year old Connor MacLeod.