I thought Highlander already long since jumped the shark and died off after the sequel movie based on the sequel TV Show, but the Henry Cavill curse will doom this too, lol.
Totally agree with your sentiment, but how about referring to it as “creative work” instead of “intellectual property”? I think the art and creativity is the missing piece, as studios don’t want to take even a minuscule risk.
I'm conflicted as I love the original but there's things that could be improved (a Scottish Spaniard? A French Scotsman?) and Highlander 2 torpedoed the franchise, it only really recovered to some extent with the TV series. So if they have new stories to tell, I'll give it a go.
I don't mind because I hate Christopher Lambert with a passion. He is one of the worst actors I have ever had the misfortune of seeing. The guy butchered every role he had. The original Highlander is probably the only movie that is somewhat, kind of, watchable. But man, I hate this guy. He sucked ass as Raiden in MK, as Beowulf, as Highlander, as whatever else he even thought of acting.
I agree he is terrible. But he was kind of the perfect mess for highlander.
I love that movie but it was an amazing accident. I watched the commentary track and so many of the good scenes were last minute replacements for stupid ideas that they weren't able to pull off.
I think if they had made the movie they intended it would have been just as good as highlander 2.
The first time I watched highlander (I hadn't heard anything about the movie beforehand) I thought the actor must be Swedish, as his accent was so strange. Took me until the end of the movie he was just trying to be Scottish...
I know we're all tired of reboots but I think this one could be something good. I'm a fan of reboots of things that turned out kinda bad, or weren't that bad but didn't really live up to their interesting premise. With better effects and sword fight choreography, this could be a good movie. I just hope they don't over explain things in the writing like a lot of movies are doing nowadays.
Highlander was good when they didn't elaborate on it. Everytime they tried building a deeper "lore" it went to trash. I don't know if modern movies can resist that urge.
It was a great idea executed poorly when it was done originally, the reboot could be a good idea if they keep the right parts and drop the shit that didnt work.
Lets be real the first movie was good, the second movie was weird but ok the rest were utterly forgettable. I watched it not long ago and while I enjoyed it, it sure as shit wasnt a good movie by my now adult standards.
There arent many times Reboots make something better than the original but this one gives me hope. Henry doesnt seem to be the kind of guy to sign on to shit and the original had some great ideas but just went all 80's coke party with them.
I'm sorry. I mostly agree with your outlook and concerns, but I have never heard anyone heap such HIGH praise onto the second movie.
I also did really like the series, so maybe just a difference of opinion. I do think Cavill would be able to do Highlander some justice for the reboot.
I know 3 isn't good, but it's kind of just another version of the first. Storywise it's really similar, and idk, just has some sort of 90s charm to it.
Because studio executives – just like the executive of most other companies out there – have realized that they don't need to actually innovate or risk putting money into uncertain new projects, when they can just take something that's already been done, try to pretty it up a little, and then sell it to people who'll go see it based on name recognition.
Why take a risk with new IP, when the old IP that sort of worked is already there? Just give it a new coat of paint and sell more of it instead, fire some workers (I'm sorry, "rightsize" the company), buy another yacht. Problem solved.