Fantasy Highlander Remake

[Rowsdower!]

Just like Sean Connery was. I can just picture that brain-storming session.

"Hey guys, we're doing a movie about a Scottish guy, with big chunks of it set in the Scottish Highlands. Who should we get to play the lead.

"How about Christopher Lambert?"

"Is he Scottish? Heck can he even speak English?

"No but who cares? He looks good."

"Genius. So who do we get to play the Egyptian who works for the King of Spain?"

"Oh I know, Sean Connery."

"But he's ACTUALLY Scottish, and we want him to play and Egyptian/Spaniard?"

"Why not, no one will know the difference?"

"Brilliant guys, all of you. Now let's go get lunch, meeting adjourned."

LOL, this really is great. And so true.

Lambert is one of those actors where miscasting him in a role somehow makes the movie better. Take Mortal Kombat for example. He was SOOOOOO the wrong choice to play Raiden that you have to wonder if the casting director was doing meth. And yet his awful performance somehow made the movie better! It's like, whenever the plot seems to drag or one of the other more boring (but still bad) actors delivers some lame line about honor or justice or revenge or some other bullsh**, Lambert swoops right in there and gives you his little "I don't think so... heh heh heh" and instantly the movie is enjoyable again.

 

[Loki882]

Well him and Shang-Tsung (I love that guy).

 

[Rowsdower!]

Yeah, Shang Tsung was pretty good.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

The Highlander casting was...weird but what are ya gonna do?

I know MK isn't a good film but I still have a deep affection for it.

 

[Loki882]

"LOOK, your brother's soul is MINE! YOU will be NEXT! Can you not tell how EEVVIILL I am? I'm enunciating random words while making silly faces and everything."

 

[Fallen Angel]

 

[Dr. Evil]

Don't forget about the Ray-Bans.

Okay three conditions the producers must agree to for him to be involved.

 

[bullets]

I'm a HUGE Queen fan...and I'm all for keeping the original music. If they MUST change...then I absolutely oppose the idea of a new band stepping in to do the soundtrack. There is no band around today that can follow Queen. As lame as it sounds, I'd rather them have new bands cover Queen songs than have one band do a new soundtrack. But my first choice...yeah...Queen was already perfect.

Breaking Benjamin has a decent cover of "who wants to live forever".

 

[Rowsdower!]

yes!!!

 

[Wheels]

I love Mortal Kombat. It's an awful film but I enjoy it so much because of that.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Yeah, it's a good awful film. It's not like its sequel, which is just an awful awful film, if that makes sense.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Well, the possibility of seeing a HIGHLANDER reboot just got closer to reality. I think if Ramirez is in the mix then chances are the Kurgan will be too. THAT is some difficult casting. Who has a presence, physicality, and dramatic chops to pull off something the way that Brown did?

 

[spider-neil]

MK is definitely a guilty pleasure.

LOVE the first Highlander. The sequels were a disgrace. Would rather there were no remake but when it hits I'll more than likely watch it, ala Robocop.

 

[StarLord]

I'd get McAvoy for MacLoed. Might be fairly obvious and cliche but being a fellow Scot, he'll always get my vote.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Seems now is an appropriate time to post this... [YT]EZQUVZKrH3I[/YT]

 

[Wheels]

Yeah, it's a good awful film. It's not like its sequel, which is just an awful awful film, if that makes sense.

It does actually.

 

[Slushy]

I'm sure a lot of people said the same thing about Sean Connery.

It was Sean Connery though.

Speaking of casting, I wonder who they're looking at to play the Kurgen? Or will they just not use him again and make up their own villain instead?

The rumor years ago was Vinnie Jones. That would be sick!

Lambert is one of those actors where miscasting him in a role somehow makes the movie better. Take Mortal Kombat for example. He was SOOOOOO the wrong choice to play Raiden that you have to wonder if the casting director was doing meth. And yet his awful performance somehow made the movie better! It's like, whenever the plot seems to drag or one of the other more boring (but still bad) actors delivers some lame line about honor or justice or revenge or some other bullsh**, Lambert swoops right in there and gives you his little "I don't think so... heh heh heh" and instantly the movie is enjoyable again.

My buddy actually pointed that out to me a long time ago. "They casted a French actor as the Chinese God of Thunder!" to which he made a good point so we looked up Raiden's official bio and it stated he had no ethnicity and we were like "Woah!"

 

[Thundarr]

Would Ewan McGregor be considered too old for the role of Connor MacLeod? If not, he gets my vote.

 

[Lilbaz]

Please god no Vinnie Jones.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Yeah, I used to love Vinnie Jones, but he's a really limited actor.

 

[Fallen Angel]

He was a limited footballer as well.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

My flavor of the month casting :
Ramirez : L. Nesson
MacLeod : M. Fassbender
Kurgan : D. Cumberbatch

 

[Rowsdower!]

Denibict Cumberbatch?

 

[Donnie Darko]

Antonio Banderas is the clear choice for Ramirez. I feel like anyone else would be a letdown to me.

 

[elgaz]

MacLeod: Henry Ian Cusick (he's actually Scottish - bonus!)

Ramirez: Antonio Banderas (he's actually Spanish - bonus!)

Kurgan: Javier Bardem

Highlander is one of those films which is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. It's highly flawed, but I love it all the same. I don't really pay much heed to the sequels as I consider everything after the original to be absolute rubbish, if I'm honest.

But the story driving the film is sound, and it's one that (for once) I feel a reboot would actually do no harm to. The original was far from perfect, and they can't do anything which was worse than the original sequels. It would actually be interesting to see them explore the original Highlander concept more; who was the first immortal? Who made the rules? So an immortal can only die by decapitation - what if they're blown up? etc.