Somewhere along the way, somebody apparently forgot the most important part of the Highlander mythos:
There can be only one.
Thankfully, we can ignore everything that came after, and I have a feeling I’ll be ignoring the next installment as well. This time, it’s not a sequel. Nope, this time they are going for a remake.
Written by the scribe who brought Twilight to the screen.
I shit you not. I wish I did, but I do not.
This is Hollywood, once again, thinking that everything is interchangeable. I mean, it’s young people that went to see Twilight, right? So if we get the same writer on Highlander, we’ll get more of the same. Simple.
Only not so much.
Okay, so Melissa Rosenberg has done much more than just Twilight, including co-producing Birds of Prey for TV and doing all sorts of stuff for Dexter. I haven’t seen any of those, but there’s lots of good buzz about Dexter, and I know enough to know it ain’t about sparkly vampires and such.
I have literally no hopes for this. It’s not that I don’t think Ms. Rosenberg can pull off a good script. I have absolutely no opinion about that one way or the other. It’s just that every single big screen attempt to make another Highlander has flopped. And, let’s face it, it’s not exactly a quality movie. It has its charms, and I thought it was awesome back in the day, but watching it now isn’t the same. It’s a great idea. It had its time. Let’s just leave it lie.
Seriously, Hollywood, have you got no fucking new ideas?
The original movie inspired the people who created the Renaissance Faire group I was in for quite a while to recreate the Clan MacLeod. We learned quite a lot about them, and Scots in general. The phrase we used a lot in relationship to this was “There should have been only one!”
Comments are closed.