John Wick instruktør: “Vi er stadig i fuld gang med Highlander Rebooted!”

“There can be only one!”.

Ja det troede vi. Men så dukkede The Quickening, The Final Dimension, Endgame og The Source op.

Vi snakker naturligvis om Highlander “serien”, der blev kickstartet tilbage i 1986, med Russell Mulcahys “næsten” klassiker, der b.la. bød på musik af Queen.

Da Hollywood i snart flere årtier lider af mere kedsomhed end parcelhusejere på shoppingtur i Ikea, er Reboot/Remake turen nu “overraskende” nået til Highlander serien.

Dog er det John Wick instruktøren Chad Stahelski der har fået “æren” at reboote firser klassikeren. Han har dog lovet at opdatere eventyret med “sværdslag a la John Wick”, hvilket vi her på TheMovser siger “Thumbs up” for.

“We’re in heavy development mode on Highlander. Tweaking the scripts, writing, conceptualizing sequences, how we’re going to do everything. We probably have a lot more in-person kind of things, but it hasn’t slowed down our development process at all.

We’re trying to get it done. Anyone who knows anything about the property knows it has a lot of meat to it. It’s a good property. It’s got a lot of potential, we’re just trying to figure out the best way not to f-ck it up. Not to try and fit it into a one hour, 45-minute movie, which, when your pitch is, ‘There can be only one,’ and in your first movie you kill everybody but the one, sequels have a problem of happening. So we’re trying to design in a way that gives us a little more lead in, a little more time with the mythology and see some of the best characters.

There’s a great mythology, it’s got an action-design challenge. What would a guy really be like after 500 years of practicing sword-work? I’m still a stunt guy at heart, you want to reinvent gunfights, how do you do it? You want to reinvent sword fighting, how do you do it? And that’s where we are at now. I love the first Highlander and I think I’m in a pretty good spot. The creative team, the producers and the studio that’s behind it have kind of said, ‘It’s yours to play with.’”

Sådan siger altså Chad Stahelski, der også ihærdigt forsøger at få Tom Cruise ind i rollen som Ramirez, som dengang blev spillet af Sean Connery. Dave Bautista siges også at være eftersøgt til rollen som skurken Kurgan.

Hvad siger vi Highlander fans, “Can there be only one?”, eller er der plads til “lillebror”?