Summit Entertainment announced today that it has tapped the filmmaking team behind this spring's hit film
Fast & Furious - director Justin Lin and producer Neal H. Moritz - to direct and produce respectively the studio's re-imagination of the cult film
Highlander. Summit's
Highlander is being written by
Iron Man screenwriters Art Marcum and Matt Holloway. Peter Davis, long time producer of
Highlander, will also produce the film. Summit acquired the rights to remake the cult classic from Davis - Panzer Productions, Inc. in May of 2008.
Summit's film will expand on the original
Highlander's core mythology of immortals battling amongst us, hunting each other through the ages by tapping its newly minted creative team to take its re-imagination to new heights. Plans call for the re-imagination to spur a new franchise for the studio.
"We are privileged to have this amazing opportunity to reinvent one of the great franchises," said Patrick Wachsberger, co-chairman of Summit Entertainment. "Neal and Justin have proven more than once that they can deliver an entertaining and exciting blockbuster."
Added Peter Davis of Davis-Panzer Productions, "Justin and Neal are an exciting directing/producing team and I am confident that they will deliver a truly dynamic film while being totally respectful of
Highlander Legend."
In
Highlander, after centuries of dueling to survive against others like him, Connor MacLeod, an immortal Scottish swordsman must confront the last of his kind, a murderously brutal barbarian, who lusts for the fabled Prize.
Justin Lin most recently directed the hit action film
Fast & Furious, the fourth film of the
Fast & Furious franchise. He also directed
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, and
Better Luck Tomorrow.
In addition to
Fast & Furious, Neal Moritz and his Original Film banner have produced a myriad of action films including the upcoming
Flash Gordon and
The Green Hornet as well as
I Am Legend,
2 Fast 2 Furious, and
I Know What You Did Last Summer.
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From another angle, it is a great example of eighties kitsch.