They're remaking Highlander

[rumborak]

https://m.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jun/29/ryan-reynolds-highlander-remake?cat=film&type=article

I imagine as a final soiling of the whole thing, Brian May and Roger Taylor write new Queen tunes with a Freddie Mercury voice impersonator.

rumborak

[Sigz]

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[Adami]

I really like Ryan Reynolds........but really?


Christopher Lambert has a really awesome and unique presence that defined the role. Ryan is a much better actor, but this will just turn into another standard Ryan Reynolds action movie sadly.

[DebraKadabra]

Ryan Reynolds?!  No.  NO nonononononononono NOOOO!

[MasterShakezula]

I imagine as a final soiling of the whole thing, Brian May and Roger Taylor write new Queen tunes with a Freddie Mercury voice impersonator.

Or Muse. 

[Super Dude]

Since I can't find a proper video for it...

[skydivingninja]

I really like Ryan Reynolds........but really?


Christopher Lambert has a really awesome and unique presence that defined the role. Ryan is a much better actor, but this will just turn into another standard Ryan Reynolds action movie sadly.

This.  Though it can't be any worse than Highlander 2. 

[BanksD]

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[TempusVox]

Why not...it's Hollyweird.  The new recipe is:

1. Identify a classic from the last 10-30 years.
2. Hire an over-the-top director who embraces CGI, give him a big budget.
3. Hire some studio assholes nephew to re-write "part of " the script.
4. Hire a cast of actors who score highly with test audiences, irregardless of their actual acting abilties.
5. Reshoot the classic, but make sure to ruin it with bad acting, and the over-the-top directors use of explosions.
6. Enlist some shitty band like 3 Doors Down to write a shitty song.
7. Sit back and count the money the sheep put down to see the damn thing.
8. Repeat.

[Super Dude]

I couldn't agree more. And I usually loathe the use of the word 'sheep.'

[rumborak]

4. Hire a cast of actors who score highly with test audiences, irregardless of their actual acting abilties.

*screeching sound*

Waaait ... aren't you the writer guy? Irregardless?!

rumborak

[ResultsMayVary]

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My first thought.

[Super Dude]

4. Hire a cast of actors who score highly with test audiences, irregardless of their actual acting abilties.

*screeching sound*

Waaait ... aren't you the writer guy? Irregardless?!

rumborak

I figured that was intended to be humorous.

[lonestar]

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My first thought.

Same here. After seeing how they fucked up Total Recall, the options are endless now.

[TempusVox]

4. Hire a cast of actors who score highly with test audiences, irregardless of their actual acting abilties.

*screeching sound*

Waaait ... aren't you the writer guy? Irregardless?!

rumborak

I figured that was intended to be humorous.

Yes. One could say that my entire post was pretty flip; so I added the word for its superfluousness, irrespecrtive of the correct usage.

[Adami]

4. Hire a cast of actors who score highly with test audiences, irregardless of their actual acting abilties.

*screeching sound*

Waaait ... aren't you the writer guy? Irregardless?!

rumborak

I figured that was intended to be humorous.

Yes. One could say that my entire post was pretty flip; so I added the word for its superfluousness, irrespecrtive of the correct usage.

I guess he missunderestimated you.

[Chino]

I never saw Highlander.... Probably won't see this either.

[ohgar]

Why would anyone want to remake this shitty B movie?

[rumborak]

Probably because not many people think it is that! I love Highlander.

[Super Dude]

Probably because not many people think it is that! I love Highlander.

B movie it may be, but shitty it be not.

[Zook]

I think the only Highlander movie I've seen was a sequel where the antagonist mistook a condom for food. That's my only memory of the movie.

[Nekov]

  This is very unnecessary.

[splent]

This is very unnecessary.

[ZirconBlue]

Probably because not many people think it is that! I love Highlander.

Highlander is awesome.  I prefer to believe there have been no sequels.

[ZirconBlue]

Also, the article is factually incorrect:  Sean Connery's character was not a Spaniard.

[Jaq]

While I liked the first Highlander movie, I'm definitely more irked that Hollywood is just remaking an 80s movie rather than developing a new property. Seriously, the original Highlander would NEVER get made today, since it isn't a comic book or a 25 year old movie or a novel series.

[Orbert]

Also, the article is factually incorrect:  Sean Connery's character was not a Spaniard.

Wait... he's not?  If Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez is not a Spaniard, what is he?

[rumborak]

Really depends on how you look at it I think. He was born in Egypt, yes, but by the time McLeod and him met he was living in Spain with a Spanish identity. Same with McLeod really; he was American in the present, right?

rumborak

[chrisbDTM]

the easy solution is to not watch it. hollywood remakes movies, this is nothing new. they don't force people to watch them. the old highlander dvd's aren't gonna disintegrate

[Orbert]

Really depends on how you look at it I think. He was born in Egypt, yes, but by the time McLeod and him met he was living in Spain with a Spanish identity. Same with McLeod really; he was American in the present, right?

Ah, good point.  I hadn't thought of it that way.  Nationality probably doesn't mean a whole lot to most immortals, although MacLeod always introduced himself as "Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod".  I have a friend who is a Highlander (he plays the bagpipes and everything) and he's very proud of his heritage, so I'm thinking it's a trait.  Whenever Connor goes or lives, he will always think of himself as a Highlander.

[rumborak]

I know a guy whose name is Duncan McLeod. What a name.

[bosk1]

You can't re-make Highlander!  There can be only one.














































Somebody had to say it.

[rumborak]

To that, I've got something to say.





















IT'S BETTER TO BURN OUT, THAN TO FADE AWAY!

[Orbert]

Sorry, couldn't help it.

[ZirconBlue]

Also, the article is factually incorrect:  Sean Connery's character was not a Spaniard.

Wait... he's not?  If Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez is not a Spaniard, what is he?

It's in the movie:

Connor MacLeod: I cannot swim you Spanish peacock.
Ramirez: I’m not Spanish, I’m Egyptian.