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Highlander reboot takes shape
New director joins the planned project.
Much like the sword-wielding immortals of the original movie, it seems that the reboot of 'Highlander' is made of impervious stuff.
Production is now once more heading in the right direction, with a new director announced by producers Summit Entertainment.
Cedric Nicolas-Troyan will take the helm, the visual effect supervisor and second unit director on 'Snow White and the Huntsman'.
[Reynolds exits Highlander reboot]
He comes in to replace '28 Weeks Later' helmer Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, who was originally in line to direct, but who quit the production citing creative differences last December.
Ryan Reynolds exited the movie not long after Fresnadillo, so presumably Nicolas-Troyan's first job will be finding a new Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod.
He told Deadline: “My first reaction, like everybody else, was, really, do we need a remake? Then I read the script, and I thought about how Russell Mulcahy was this super visual video director who brought the pulse of the 80s to the film so well.
[Highlander remake loses its director]
“I started thinking about taking those great characters and matching them with a modern, visceral take, and then I was in love with the idea and I just went for it.”
According to reports, the new version will remain faithful to the original.
The first movie arrived in 1986, starring Christopher Lambert as the titular Highlander, an immortal in born in 14th century Scotland.
After being trained by the distinctly Scottish-sounding Egyptian immortal Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez, played by Sean Connery, he faces up to The Kurgan (Clancy Brown) in a battle to determine who will be the only immortal remaining – the ultimate prize being mortality, but the ultimate penalty being decapitation.
Though the film grew in popularity, gaining cult status in the video rental market, it was a flop, only making back $12 million of its $19 million budget.
Nevertheless a raft of sequels followed, each one failing to make back its budget at the box office.
Check out the not-in-any-way-dated original trailer below...
