Add AZM to your Facebook
Follow AZM on Twitter
There Can Be Only Another One
Friday, May 23rd, 2008 at 12:35 pm by Jami
Summit Entertainment has acquired the rights to remake the original Highlander and has tapped the co-writers of the Iron Man film to script. Although I quite liked the television series, after the first film, the movies kind of got lost in an orgy of donkey ball sucking (you should see some of the search results when I write shit like that). Even Donnie Yen’s cameo in that fourth one couldn’t save it from sucking hard.
My love for Iron Man is well documented. Art Marcum and Matt Holloway turned in a brilliant script with witty dialog and genuine character development. Can they make Highlander unsuck?
I’d rather they let the franchise alone, of course. More people are fans of the television show anyway which you can collect on DVD. But if you are going to relaunch the movies, you could do worse than a script from the writers of a summer block buster. I think more important is the casting. Robert Downey, Jr. made Iron Man come alive. You’d need that kind of perfect casting to make a new Highlander kick ass.
I guess I’m in “wait and see” mode instead of outright “well this sucks a big fat ass” mode.
[Via Hollywood Reporter]
