The last time we heard anything regarding the Highlander reboot was about a year ago and director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later) and actor Ryan Reynolds had just left the project reportedly over creative differences, but now it seems that the studio is keen on continuing with the project, and have hired Cedric Nicolas-Troyan to direct the film.
Cedric
Nicolas-Troyan’s most recent efforts were as the visual effects supervisor and
second unit director on both Snow White and the Huntsman and Maleficent, which
the Highlander reboot his directorial debut.
Neal
H. Moritz and Justin Lin from Fast & Furious 6 will produce the immortal
movie.
In
an interview to Deadline, Nicolas-Troyan speaks about his love for the movie:
“I have been working on my pitch for this
since the summer, and when I got there I met the original producer and I just
started geeking out and he loved it. The
first movie came out when I was a teenager in France and it was one of my
favorite films of those years. I loved
the series also, they shot a lot of it in France, on the Seine River. My first reaction, like everybody else, was,
really, do we need a remake? Then I read
the script, and I thought about how Russell Mulcahy was this super visual video
director who brought the pulse of the 80s to the film so well. I started
thinking about taking those great characters and matching them with a modern,
visceral take, and then I was in love with the idea and I just went for it. …
For
me, it all comes down to that first movie, but there are great themes in the
show. It’s the rare cross-genre concept
that has elements of the Western, time travel, fantasy, action, contemporary. There are universal themes, but of course you
need to provide the answers like the first film did. Who are these guys with swords? Why are they fighting each other? What is the prize and how are they drawn to
each other? There is far more at work
here I want to explore than the lightning that happens during the Quickening.”
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