But will Princes of the Universe still be the theme song?
Thats the low hanging fruit that Hollywood misses all the time. A Christopher Lambert cameo, keep the theme song… its not hard to tick a few small nostalgia boxes when dipping into the Vault.
Clancy Brown was way more impactfull then Lambert.
The amount of Highlander quotes you still hear to this day are mostly those of The kurgan.
Connery and Brown carried that movie. Lambert just went along for the ride.
Remember our agreement, Murdoch. The boy… Is mine.
The way how Clancy just spits out these one liners, in that growling voice. It’s bloody fantastic. Cavill as mcloud is good and all, but it’s all about who they cast for the Kurgan and Ramirez. And that they don’t fuck the story up too much.
Hi. I’m candy. *Of course you are… *
Henry Cavill feels like a caricature of a nerd. Happy for him!
Why?
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 quietly hopeful.
the second movie was weird but ok
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 love 1, hate 2, like 3.
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.
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.
Good casting tbh
