The Highlander can not die! After initially being arrange at Lionsgate as a possible new universe of flicks from the director of the “John Wick” sequence, director Chad Stahelski‘s remake of the Nineteen Eighties cult movie “Highlander” is altering sides.
Amazon MGM Studios and United Artists, as led by former Netflix movie chief Scott Stuber, are in closing negotiations to safe the rights to remake a brand new model of “Highlander,” once more with the goal to launch the movie in theaters.
As a substitute of one more new tackle it, Stahelski remains to be connected to direct, and “Man of Metal” star Henry Cavill remains to be connected to star (appears like all of that sword coaching he instructed CinemaCon crowds he was doing gained’t go to waste). Michael Finch (“John Wick: Chapter 4”) is writing the screenplay. United Artists too nonetheless has hopes that the movie might be developed into a bigger new sequence.
“Highlander” is a fantasy epic about an immortal Scottish swordsman from the sixteenth century who now should struggle his closing battle with one other immortal warrior within the modern-day, a murderous barbarian chasing the “prize.” The movie was directed by Russell Mulcahy, starred Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery, and spawned some sequels and a TV sequence after rising in reputation since its preliminary launch. Whereas by no means a critic’s darling, the unique particularly has develop into a cult hit from ’80s motion nerds. Stahelski seemingly counts himself amongst them, as he’s been growing a reboot way back to 2016.
UA’s Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt will produce alongside Neal H. Moritz (“Quick & Livid” franchise), and 87Eleven Leisure, Stahelski’s manufacturing banner.
Cavill can be starring in an adaptation of the anime sequence “Voltron” for director Rawson Marshall Thurber at Amazon, and he’s growing the “Warhammer 40,000” franchise throughout Amazon MGM Studios as nicely. Followers shall be wanting to see him again within the sword play mode after he left “The Witche.r”
Whereas Stuber nonetheless has some initiatives awaiting launch at Netflix akin to Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” and at twentieth Century Studios the Bruce Springsteen biopic “Ship Me From Nowhere,” he’s kicked off the relaunched United Artists with “Kill Your Darlings” starring Julia Roberts, and one other movie from Edward Berger based mostly on the forthcoming memoir from Evan Gershkovich about his time being imprisoned in Russia for over a yr.
Cavill is represented by WME and Sloane, Provide, Weber & Dern. Stahelski is represented by WME and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole. Finch is represented by Verve Expertise and Literary Company and Kleinberg Lange Cuddy & Carlo.