John Wick and The Matrix action maestro Chad Stahelski talks about his first foray into directing… the Highlander reboot.
Stahelski has made his name as a stunt man on the John Wick series and is largely responsible for the series’ explosive action and he’s recently been working on the upcoming The Matrix 4 and now he’s talking about bringing back one of the 80s’ greatest frranchises.
“We’re in heavy development mode on Highlander,” Stahelski says.
“Tweaking the scripts, writing, conceptualising 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.”
He goes on to address the fact that Wick and Highlander’s immortals are types of superheroes, but not the type that cinema isfull of these days and that he’s not in a hurry to jump on a Marvel or DC-type movie: “I think I’m a better fan of superhero movies than I would ever be a director of one. So I’m going to stay in the outer periphery of that.
“Look at the projects in the past. I love John Wick. Is that kind of a superhero? Yeah, in a kind of hyper way absolutely. You look at Highlander.
“Yeah, that’s kind of a different thing. It’s a little bit more grounded, but yes, you could see the hero in that. If you look at the other projects I’m attached to, they all kind of have heroes in them. Just not with capes and kryptonite.”
Personally, with Highlander having so many movies, TV shows and animated series already, it doesn’t surprise me that a reboot is coming but, like Terminator, Predator, Aliens and all the other great 80s franchises, I’m not sure there’s a way to bring these back to the modern age.
But I hope I’m wrong… but I’m still not on board for this. Yet.
What say you all? Let me know, gang.
Source: DiscussingFilm
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