Deadline report that Spanish director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, in Toronto to promote his latest movie Intruders starring Clive Owen, is Summit's pick to direct their relaunch of the popular Highlander series.
Fresnadillo is now in discussions to direct a film that Summit will co-finance with RCR Media Group. Fresnadillo is also attached to direct a reboot of The Crow, which has Bradley Cooper attached.
The original
Highlander starred Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery and was an exciting mix of sci-fi and medieval fantasy. Although flawed, it remains something of a cult favorite. It's numerous sequels were pretty awful although the tv series starring Adrian Paul wasn't half bad. Deadline also report that this new script by
Iron Man writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway takes the story back to the original film's mythology and is by all accounts impressing all that have read it. The coveted directing spot apparently opened up when Justin Lin left the project to focus on the new
Fast And Furious flick.
Personally I'm kind of sick of all things
Highlander. The tale of immortals competing for the ultimate prize has been done to death at this stage. I'll keep an eye on casting etc but I'm not particularly looking forward to this one. What do you guys think?
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