I'm assuming (assuming) that the twist ending that I read when I clicked on the link, the immortal character that was beheaded mid-point in the movie, and comes back at the end of the film to tell Macleod "this is just the beginning" I'm assuming this character is no longer immortal at all or bound to the "rules" of the Immortals and was recently brought back to life before the final Quickening and death of the Kurgan, thus not making him "an ass that let his friend think he was dead for 500 years.
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Highlander remake gets its head chopped off in script review
Posted by Patrick Sauriol on Friday, June 5, 2009
Yes, there is a remake of Highlander being pursued. While the project hasn't progressed past the script stage, it's being developed by Summit Entertainment, the same studio behind the Twilight franchise. In the spring of 2008 Iron Man screenwriters Art Marcum and Matt Holloway were hired to write the remake and apparently they've finished because the first published review of their screenplay has gone up at CC2K. The problem is that the reviewer says that the Highlander remake is crap. Spoilers be ahead!
Marcum and Holloway retain most of the original Highlander's characters and premise. Connor MacLeod is still the hero, The Kurgan is still the villain, Connor's Egyptian friend and mentor Ramirez is retained and even Brenda, MacLeod's love interest from the 1986 film, is in it. It's still about Immortals who are fighting each other to attain The Prize and who cannot attack each other on holy ground. So if it sounds pretty much like the original Highlander what's wrong with it? "It isn't so much that the screenwriters (Art Marcum & Matt Holloway) are telling a different story, but that they are telling the same story in the wrong way," writes CC2K's reviewer Big Ross. An example that Ross gives is allowing Immortals in the new Highlander to use firearms instead of only wielding swords and edged weapons. "This all might be practical, but by including this element much of the charm of the original film is lost," writes the reviewer.
But if CC2K's reviewer had issues with the way the story is told in the first two acts of the screenplay then he full on hates the climax and conclusion of Marcum and Holloway's script. "The problem is that instead of taking the essential story of the original movie, and expanding upon it to allow for additional films, the screenwriters instead decide to tell almost exactly the same story, and simply pull a fast twist at the end to make room for more," Big Ross writes. He explains what happens at the end of the script in his review so you won't be left hanging if you really want to know what got his goat, but the ending's logistical problems are just a part of the script's overall troubles. "I would venture a guess that some of [these problems] will get addressed in the sequel sure to follow this remake, but that would imply that the screenwriters are operating with some degree of intelligence," Ross writes. "After reading this script, I'm just not sure I believe that."
Read the full script review at CC2K and judge for yourself if there can be only one Highlander.
Are they already planning a completely nonsensical sequel which takes everything that was good about the first one and shits on it? Now that is what I call a remake.
I think if they really want to pull this off,they HAVE to come up with something new and different and original that happens to Connor Macleod AFTER he cuts off the Kurgans head and definitly gets the prize.
Definitly make him the final Immortal, and definitly make it be known once and for all that he has officially won the acclaimed "prize"; define exactly WHAT that prize is and how his life will be affected/changed/altered then move on and tell us something new and GREAT... instead of floundering in all the same stupid hangups the writers had coming up with a sequel idea that basically took everything about the original and shit on it by "adding" other immortals into the mix.
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It won't get, made.