Director Chad Stahelski Talks ‘Highlander’ Reboot

The thought of rebooting 1986’s ‘Highlander’ is just not a brand new one. It has been effervescent away on Hollywood’s growth burner for just a few years now, going by means of the standard litany of administrators, writers and potential forged on its troublesome journey to screens.

Along the way in which, the likes of Justin Lin, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and Cedric Nicolas-Troyan amongst these hooked up to direct, whereas Ryan Reynolds, Dave Bautista and extra have been eyed to play totally different roles.

These days, the re-imagined tackle the film is within the arms of ‘John Wick’ veteran Chad Stahelski, who has Henry Cavill aboard to play the lead. And speaking to the Happy. Sad. Confused. Podcast, Stahelski has been outlining a few of his considering for the movie.

What was the story of ‘Highlander’?

The 1988 authentic revolves round Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert), a Scottish Highlander born within the sixteenth Century who’s by some means immortal. He has survived by means of the centuries, and learns from Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez (Sean Connery), that he’s a part of a race of many who can solely die when beheaded. The energy of the slain immortal is absorbed into the victor, and they’re all competing for “The Prize” –– sufficient energy to rule Earth perpetually. Connor’s largest menace is the Kurgan (Clancy Brown), a murderous brute of an immortal who desires that energy for himself and Connor should face him at an occasion referred to as The Gathering.

“There can,” because the tagline famously reads, “be only one.”

Directed by Russell Mulcahy, the primary movie is taken into account a cult basic, dividing audiences into those that like it and people who assume it’s so dangerous it’s nice. The film is known for its sword fights and its Queen-composed soundtrack.

It spawned a number of sequels and even a spin-off TV sequence.

Stahelski on his plans

Here’s what Stahelski needed to say:

“‘Highlander,’ I’ll tell you, if we get our shit together and pull off a feature, we have ideas for days about the coolest characters and how to make that an epic TV show. I just think that’s a rich, rich mythology. Our story engages a lot of the same characters and stuff like that. But we’ve also brought in elements of all the TV shows, and we’re trying to do a bit of a prequel, a setup to The Gathering, so we have room to grow the property.”

Yet he provides that he’ll must watch out:

“The trick is when you have the tagline ‘there can only be one,’ you can’t just kill everybody the first time.”

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Stahelski on the 1988 film

While he loves the unique, he’s not above declaring its flaws…

“There’s not a lot that happens in the second act, It’s mostly about bitchin’ flashbacks with Sean Connery mugging the camera. You watch the movie, and it has no business being good or cool or interesting, but for whatever reason — the fisheye lenses, weird sword fights, fucked up dialogue, and the Queen soundtrack make it one of the funnest movies you’ll ever watch.”

There has been little progress of late on the film, primarily due to the mixed writers and actors’ strike. But as soon as smarter selections have been made by the studios and the matter is resolved, Stahelski and Cavill will likely be able to dive again into that world.

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