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The Highlander Set to Be Remade

Source:  The Hollywood Reporter
Get ready for your favorite immortal back on the silver screen. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Summitt Entertainment has acquired the rights to the 1986 feature film The Highlander for a brand new remake. Iron Man writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway have signed on the write the remake.

The Highlander starred Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery and spawned a franchise that included four film sequels and three television series.

Summitt acquired the rights from Davis/Panzer Productions and Peter Davis, one of the original producers on the first film, will produce the remake as well.

No production schedule was announced.


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marcusx
May 21st, 2008 7:23am
my thoughts exactly Phat. couldnt have said it better. i didnt get into this Highlander thing much, but i heard all the sequels were terrible. isnt their motto or catch phrase "there can only be one highlander"?
so why do we get like 5 sequels and a remake?
keep it up hollywood youre doing great...
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HAPPYJACK
May 21st, 2008 6:37am
SPOT ON PHAT! LEAVE R FILMS ALONE U DICKS! COME UP WITH NEW IDEAS!!!!!
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Phatlightning
May 21st, 2008 6:33am
wow, i feel like if i dont keep looking over my shoulder, Hollywood will soon remake me!!
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ed_wood
May 21st, 2008 6:21am
Thats it, keep remaking movies that are fine the way they are.
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RingWraither
May 20th, 2008 10:03pm
Wow another remake....great.
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deadeyedick79
May 20th, 2008 7:53pm
You can't blame the suits for all the remakes, its us who keep watching that soulless crap, whatever they put in front of ya, the hysteria of america.
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dcrock
May 20th, 2008 4:29pm
The first one was good imo.It was one of the movies i grew up watching.It's hard to remake a movie with sean connery.I think the best thing a new movie would do is with the sword fighting.Action is done a lot better nowadays.
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ImmortalFury
May 20th, 2008 3:08pm
now i liked the first highlander, and highlander endgame was pretty good but the rest just didn't really flow in my opinion
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XJWS79
May 20th, 2008 2:57pm
Well this isn't a shocker at all, I'm a fan of the movies and TV series. The only way this works is if they don't completely destroy previous story, meaning if your going to start over, then don't shit on whats already been made by acting like it was never made.
The 2nd Highlander film wasn't an actual sequel the first one.
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TheEdge76
May 20th, 2008 2:15pm
I hope the choose the main character wisely and not go with matt mcconaughey or the rock......lol
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The Kwisatz Haderach
May 20th, 2008 1:45pm
well doesnt suprise me, hollywood loves to remake everything under the sun, but highlander wasnt that good to begin with. the 4 films, if watch together dont even really fit together, there are more plot holes than swiss cheese slices. Damn hollywood and damn remakes, Im really really getting sick and tired of all the remakes. some are good I will admitt, but most suck the souls out of people.
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