Highlander Remake Loses Justin Lin

Highlander remake loses Justin Lin
Highlander remake loses Justin Lin
After the back-to-back success of Fast & Furious and Fast Five, director Justin Lin is on fire. But one man can only move so fast, and with Fast & Furious 6 and Terminator 5 moving forward at an expedient rate, Lin had to drop Summit Entertainment's Highlander remake from his roster.

The director had been attached to the project since September of 2009. Summit wanted to move quickly on the immortality thriller, but it just didn't fit into Justin Lin's full schedule. He will, however, stay with the project as an executive producer.

Summit Entertainment is hurrying to find a replacement director, with Highlander a priority for the studio. They desperately want to fill the fantasy hole that The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 will leave in their roster once it has played out at the box office.

In other news, Justin Lin has revealed that he has the last action sequence, a twelve-minute climax, of Fast & Furious 6, also known as Fast Six, completed. This is what he had to say.

"If I'm trying to figure out the formula of what people like, I would be chasing something that I don't understand. My whole thing is about respecting the audience and respecting the evolution of these characters-and they've grown and now the family is back together. And in many ways, some of the big pieces of Fast Six have already been discussed: I already have a 12-minute sequence done. I did it just as an exercise. I had it done before we were finished with Fast Five, actually. So I wanted to do that just to have it there and to be honest with you, I didn't know if I was going to do a Fast Six. I didn't know if people were going to embrace Fast Five and we were going to have an opportunity. But I felt like I really wanted to make sure that the last scene, which I had talked to Vin Diesel about countless times-I wanted to make sure that was done. So actually I boarded it, I pre-vised it, and I cut it. So it's funny, when we were in Atlanta shooting it, I already had the end sequence to Fast Six done. And that was what I wanted to work towards. Now it's like, "wow, people want to see another one-and we have a plan." It's a perfect relationship of the audience embracing it and wanting another one-and us being prepared that if that happens, we know where to go."


The Fast and the Furious 6 comes to theaters May 24th, 2013 and stars Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Gina Carano, Michelle Rodriguez. The film is directed by Justin Lin.

Terminator 5 is in development and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Highlander comes to theaters in 2014. The film is directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo.


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Comments (13)

  1. XxNickTheFilmCriticXx

    @Number1Wolverine -- I'm with you on this one.

    10 months agoby @XxNickTheFilmCriticXxFlag

  2. Pjwolsker

    ... and embrace it

    10 months agoby @pjwolskerFlag

  3. Pjwolsker

    @k-man ha we'll all go see Fast Six

    10 months agoby @pjwolskerFlag

  4. Bawnian©-Dexeus

    Why fix what was never broken. There are some movies out there that need fix badly

    10 months agoby @bawnian-dexeusFlag

  5. K-Man

    Thank God, now that means Lin will ruin only ONE franchise reboot instead of two!!

    Now, how to get him off Terminator........

    10 months agoby @k-manFlag

  6. Let's Go Bub!

    Not a big lost, i think they can find somebody better.

    10 months agoby @Number1WolverineFlag

  7. Equialuv

    @dan1 So true!! it is one of my all-time fave movies, I don't think they could pick anybody that could replace the characters! they just need to give it up!
    love the quote, too!!!!

    10 months agoby @equialuvFlag

  8. CUPID

    Meh...I'm not gonna lose any sleep over this.

    10 months agoby @cupidFlag

  9. ChristinaM15

    Justin Lin is a great director choice for T5 and Fast Six (obviously) and it would have been great to see him revitalize Highlander.

    10 months agoby @christina-montanaFlag

  10. Mike Jones

    Piss on old man Arnold the terminator franchise. They should have stopped at the second one. If this highlander is a complete reboot and they fix all the time line issues I'm all for it.

    10 months agoby @Mike-JonesFlag

  11. Yveske

    highlander 2 ruined the series only the first one is watchable today. hopefully in this remake they use the same music queen

    10 months agoby @yveskeFlag

  12. Pjwolsker

    thank god

    10 months agoby @pjwolskerFlag

  13. Dan

    How about Summit just drop Highlander altogether? The original is still great and fun to this day.

    I've got something to say... It's better to burn out, than fade away!

    10 months agoby @dan1Flag

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