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jerseydevil said:
Ryan Reynolds May Star in HIGHLANDER Reboot

This just in...Ryan Reynolds to play EVERY superhero/sci-fi character FROM NOW ON.
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For crying out loud! Can't Hollywood EVER come up with original ideas anymore!!?? Just say no to this reboot!

Oh my gosh I never thought I would pine for the glory days of Hollywood where original ideas were hailed ... like in the 1970's for the hits like Towering Inferno, Earthquake, Jaws, etal. What the H-E-double hockey sticks happened to Hollywood!?
 
I am a huge fan of the original(even the sequels). There was something magic about Christopher Lambert's one solid emotion(which was somewhere between a grimace and some sort of sarcastic sneer). The tv show already ruined things for me. Fresnadillo is an off the board choice as far as directing, and i like RR...but he just ain't right. More importantly who replaces Connery? I could see Russell Crowe or(for some reason) Colin Farrel keeps popping in to my head. Got to have a memorable villain because Clancy Brown as the Kurgen is simply one of the most fun baddies I can remember. Unecessary for sure...but it's status quo at this point.
 
No it just can't be redone. You can't improve or even equal perfection of the original. I would accept Farrell as the Highlander and Crowe as the Spainard and have no idea who could equal Clancy Brown. Some things just can't be triflied with and this is one.

And I actually liked the TV series but they did eventually jump the shark.
 
roenick said:
No it just can't be redone. You can't improve or even equal perfection of the original. I would accept Farrell as the Highlander and Crowe as the Spainard and have no idea who could equal Clancy Brown. Some things just can't be triflied with and this is one.

And I actually liked the TV series but they did eventually jump the shark.
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Actually I like your idea. Farrell is better than most think. And he fits the bill...even though some would say he's too old. You would have to match the star power with the baddie. Hurm. Liam Neeson? Hell, you could swap him and Crowe. The original is a)old and looks it...and b)has that cult-y name value of a movie that wasn't a blockbuster/classic, but still has recognition. It's ripe for a relaunch and not worth getting bent over. I love the original and will always have my anniversary edition.
 
Or Sam Worthington as Macleod(he has less ability than Lambert) Crowe/Neeson in the Connery part, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan in the Kurgan role????
 
Watching AOTS and Peter Berg(who is a huge Navy supporter) is talking about taking the USS Missouri out 'one last time' and that practically validates BATTLESHIP. I have read that at worst, it's a love letter to the US Navy...that alone makes it cool. Feel bad, cause Berg is a good/underrated director...just think this was too big to (not) fail.
 
jerseydevil said:
Or Sam Worthington as Macleod(he has less ability than Lambert) Crowe/Neeson in the Connery part, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan in the Kurgan role????
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I could actually buy into this scenario. Worthington could actually work. The others could be choices as well. But please Lord not Ryan Reynolds!
 
Like I said...It's gonna happen. We don't want it, don't need it...but what the hell, maybe they luck out and it succeeds despite itself.
 
Sir Ben Kingsley and Mark Duplass Set for CONVENTION, Jennifer Aniston Circles a Role

Now that convention season is officially upon us, it seems appropriate to turn our sights to the most anticipated of all conventions: the national box convention. That’s right my friends, Sir Ben Kingsley (Hugo) and Mark Duplass (Safety Not Guaranteed) will star in the indie pic, Convention, a sci-fi comedy centered around a box convention, at which an intrepid inventor (Duplass) premieres his creation: a five-sided box. His revolutionary design seems destined to turn the world of folded boxes on its end until he learns that his production process alters the space-time continuum. Commercial director Justin Reardon will make his feature debut in Convention, with a script from Christopher Painter.
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sounds groovy.
 
Phil Tippett has a Kickstarter for a short film called MAD GOD, that I'm dying to see get kickstarted!!!
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Hey folks, Harry here... Next Friday, Phil Tippett is flying out to Austin to hang out in the Basement, show us some more secrets of MAD GOD - and to chat about his career and the world of film that we both love. Of course that'll be for a future episode or two of the show, but first I wanted to get you folks on AICN abreast and filled in on this... MAD GOD thing.

Now - if you're a film geek, you know the name of Phil Tippett, his filmography begins with the awe & wonder of the CRATER LAKE MONSTER, then STAR WARS (before they had secondary titles), EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, DRAGONSLAYER, ROBOCOP 1-3, STARSHIP TROOPERS and so much more. As a child of STARLOG & CINEFANTASTIQUE & CINEFEX - Phil was the man that took the wonderful world of Ray Harryhausen's DYNAMATION and continued to evolve it.

Now, Tippett Studios does some of the absolute best character and creature animation in the digital world. His time on JURASSIC PARK gave him a great head start in embracing what CG could do, it's what the Studios & most directors want - but Phil has decided to dust off an old project that he started working on decades ago. It's a short film called MAD GOD - and frankly there's nobody in the world that can pitch it as well as Tippett and their magicians. This will be Tippett style stop-motion... or perhaps even some Go-Motion... and some Puppet stuff... and real blood... and models... and every old school trick that Phil spent a lifetime pioneering and pushing to its ultimate levels.

In addition - he's having his CG folks learn these tricks - pretty much doing exactly what Douglas Trumbull recommended to Visual FX artists on my show recently. That folks in CG need to get their hands dirty on models and the tactile arts. Me - I couldn't be more excited.

To me, the various techniques of filmmaking are not disposible... they're all useful and special in their own manner. That Tippett is using this project to teach not just his own artists, but other local filmmakers that want to take part in MAD GOD. Well... that's just too ****ing awesome, right?
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I'm with you guys on the Highlander remake. Its just not neccesary. Reynolds just doesnt seem like the right fit for it either. I just finished watching Hell on Wheels and i think Anson Mount would be a good choice if they have to do a remake.
 
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