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For as much cash as possible, it would seem:
Summit Entertainment is bringing back to the big screen the 1986 sci-fi cult hit Highlander, with Iron Man co-writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway on board to pen the redo, says The Hollywood Reporter.
The Russell Mulcahy-directed original starred Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery and Clancy Brown as immortal beings. Lambert played Scottish swordsman Connor MacLeod, Connery an Egyptian and Clancy a barbarian known as the Kurgan. The movie spawned four sequels and three television series.
Summit acquired the rights to remake the cult classic from Davis/Panzer Productions. Peter Davis, one of the original producers of the 1986 film, will also produce the new version of the film.
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The Russell Mulcahy-directed original starred Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery and Clancy Brown as immortal beings. Lambert played Scottish swordsman Connor MacLeod, Connery an Egyptian and Clancy a barbarian known as the Kurgan. The movie spawned four sequels and three television series.
Summit acquired the rights to remake the cult classic from Davis/Panzer Productions. Peter Davis, one of the original producers of the 1986 film, will also produce the new version of the film.
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Date: 2008-05-20 10:23 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2008-05-20 10:25 pm (UTC)From:HL Remake
Date: 2008-05-31 05:19 pm (UTC)From:This made me laugh. It is of course the answer! A big-screen re-release of the respected original would be perfectly nice and make some money -- but it can't make scads of money in an unending franchise, as perhaps a remake designed for sequels can.
Oh, I hope they don't screw it up.
Thanks for posting about it. I would not yet have this news if I had not read it on your LJ.
Re: HL Remake
Date: 2008-05-31 09:41 pm (UTC)From: