Justin Lin, director behind Fast & Furious, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, and Annapolis will be teaming with producer Neal H. Moritz to reboot the fantasy adventure film series Highlander for Summit Entertainment.
People forget after 20 years’ worth of lesser sequels and spinoffs that the original Highlander was a pretty high profile film starring Christopher Lambert (at the man’s peak) alongside Sean Connery. Original producer Peter Davis is returning to hand the torch over to the new filmmakers.
Highlander, like the original film, will focus on a race of immortals that wage war upon each other through time. It’s a concept that’s broad enough to be attacked from a fresh angle by a talented writer, and luckily we’ve got two pretty decent ones on our hands: Iron Man and Punisher: War Zone writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway.
Like the original film, the reboot (remake? I hesitate to say anymore) will follow Scottish warrior Connor MacLeod, though it’s highly doubtful that Christopher Lambert will be returning. I’d like to see him return in a mentoring role, though, because the man did shepherd the series through two decades of sequels.
Stay posted for more news on Justin Lin’s Highlander as it develops.
