John Wick director Chad Stahelski is engaged on a couple of totally different movie tasks proper now together with an adaptation of Ghost of Tsushima, Rainbow Six with Michael B. Jordan, and a reboot of the traditional fantasy movie Highlander with Hanry Cavill.
Throughout a latest interview on the Pleased Unhappy Confused podcast, the filmmaker provided an replace on Highlander and mentioned it would embody each acquainted characters and “components” taken from the ‘90s TV sequence. He mentioned:
“We’re trying to do our story [and it] engages a number of the identical characters and stuff like that. However we’ve additionally introduced in components of all of the TV exhibits. We’re attempting to do a little bit of a prequel setup to The Gathering.”
That set as much as The Gathering refers back to the fruits of the near-eternal battle amongst immortals. He went on to clarify they’re setting this complete factor as much as broaden and develop the story. He mentioned:
“So, now we have room to develop the property. We now have concepts for days about the way to make the best characters and to make that an epic TV present. I simply assume that’s a wealthy, wealthy mythology.”
The unique 1986 Highlander film starred Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery and Clancy Brown as immortal beings, who’re searching down each other and gathering extra energy. The traditional tagline for the movie was “There may be just one.”
Stahelski beforehand talked about the movie and mentioned that the reboot was being developed as a trilogy. He defined that they’re taking one of the best story components from throughout the franchise and implementing all of it into one story that might be unfold out throughout a trilogy of movies:
“I believe the TV sequence hit on a number of nice stuff wasn’t within the characteristic, between the watchers and all of the various kinds of immortals. How can we get this right into a characteristic mode earlier than we dribble it into the TV world? Properly, let’s restructure it in elements, let’s take a look at it prefer it was a TV present, let’s take a look at it prefer it was a high-end trilogy. we inform the story of The Gathering, The Quickenings, The Immortals and the way do we actually construct this world out much more so than the unique mission? That’s what we’re restructuring proper now. It’s taking all the good things that we had earlier than I used to be concerned within the mission from the script; redeveloping the script to offer us actually good chapters one, two and three; and increasing the world.”
He additionally talked about his imaginative and prescient for the movie, saying:
“The imaginative and prescient we’re attempting to get throughout and what we’re attempting to develop, I equate very near Star Wars. The primary one is a really satisfying ending but it surely does depart the door open and that’s sort of how I see this. I would like to broaden it over three. I see The Gathering occurring over three. It’s difficult, don’t get me mistaken, that’s why we’re nonetheless growing it. We would like to have the ability to inform three full tales that each one sort of match. I believe the Star Wars trilogy, a minimum of as much as The Empire Strikes Again, is an efficient instance of how we need to course of it.”
Cavill beforehand talked about Highlander, saying, “Being not shy with swords, and having a director as gifted as Chad Stahelski on the helm, this is a chance like no different. Deep diving into franchise storytelling with all of the instruments at our disposal, goes to make this an journey I (and hopefully all of you) shall always remember.”
There’s no phrase on when Stahelski really plans on making this movie, but it surely’s nonetheless one thing he positively plans on making. His subsequent film could also be Ghost of Tsushima.
