And the producers of each of those subsequently disappointing movies failed to pay attention to the catch phrase of the first movie: There can be only one. The first movie was a lot of fun. All the sequels were gawdawful.

I thought the first, second and third films lacked substance, but the fourth (after the TV show) was probably the best. I think, if they capture the essence of the show, they have a good Highlander movie.

Precisely...

there should have ONLY been ONE!

When will these people learn?

The SHOULD be only one! And how is Highlander not out on Blu-Ray for cryin' out loud? That soundtrack and those fades in Blu-Ray? Awesome!

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times. Hollywood has lost all original thought. Remaking The Day The Earth Stood Still was wrong, this is wrong. If they even consider touching Forbidden Planet I'm turning in my flat panel.....

Of all the directors to hand this to this pic some worthless talent like Lin. I have been sticking with the original for years, never really watching the sequels and will continue to do so.

I get that the powers that be are trying to capitalize off the "nostalgia" factor on these "Reboots" but I HAVE HAD ENOUGH! How about some NEW stories or heavens forbid, stories that haven't been DONE YET? Come, ON. Philip Jose Farmer's "The Dungeon" and Kevin J. Anderson's "Saga of the Seven Suns" or Tad Williams' brilliant "Otherland". There are plenty of NEW stories. How about putting some money into good writing instead of "bad hacks because these are the only things we can quickly do to make money". I'd rather watch and old episode of Dr. Who (who quite often had lousy special effects but incredible storytelling that brought me back each week!)

How can you overlook American actor Clancy Brown as the Russian savage with a penchant for leather, whores, and nuns?

Another re-boot? Dont they teach creativity in film schools anymore. I cant beleive there are so many people making millions of $$'s, just by re-writing/re-doing someone elses work, whether or not the original was succesful.

How about a new story, even if its based on "there can only be one". A perspective by someone other than a "McLeod".

Since there isnt anyone out there doing anything original anyway.

The original was easily in my top 20 of all time favorites. Please….someone…anyone..Stop messing with our movies. Come up with your own original ideas.

If they remake it, I won’t be there.

Yes we all said it…. “There can be only one!”

I'll only watch it if they stick in THE KURGAN, aka Mr. Krabs. :) He's the best.

more fraken YARM !!! go to hell hollywood and get a life.
there can be only one highlander film.
and i am not buying your movies because you keep raping our pasts.
get a life and make us some new films and might just stop boycotting your greedy industry.

And the fanboys have spoken.

Come join me at;

www.highlander-community.com

I run the site and have been waiting for the Remake since it was first announced. We have a worldwide membership made up of Highlander fans.

It would be awsome if they could get Thomas Jane to play the lead.
Cant realy see any one else doing it.

"I'll only watch it if they stick in THE KURGAN, aka Mr. Krabs. :) He's the best."

I can see it now: There CAN BE only one! Arg ak ak ak ak ak ak ak ak ak!

The problem with this remake is that it is a cult movie. And it was combination of the actors, story AND Music. Queen's soundtrack helped to make the movie. I don't see how it could be done unless they totally rewrite the story and then it becomes well a non-re-boot, and a different animal all together...

Is it going to be an alternative reality? a la Star Trek? lol

I'll have to hunt down my source, but I know there's been talk about a remake of "Forbidden Planet" - I've read it elsewhere and will try to find... Hollywood sucks.

If they do a reboot, they should try and get Colin Farrell, that way they'll have an actor who really is Scottish and can't fake the accent.

"Of all the directors to hand this to this pic some worthless talent like Lin. I have been sticking with the original for years, never really watching the sequels and will continue to do so."

It could be worse - they could have given Uwe Boll money to do it...

freaking idiots. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!! all the sequels sucked, and only the original was good, and it was great. Give us something original! Highlander has already been done. And don;t give any more films to the fast and furious people. those movies suck and are completely mindless.

Another "reboot" that will murder the oringal idea. They only do reboots because the public made them box office hits and they think that they can "improve" them with they latest flavor of month actors . Truth is they take good films and turn them in to shit, only when we the movie public stop going to see this rubbish will they get the message

JK, I had heard that J Michael Strazynski, creator of Babylon 5, was looking to do a reboot of Forbidden Planet. A truly classic movie in its own right, but a remake could be interesting.

hey tearemup, guess what - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1317479/

as much as i love highlander.with the "there can be only one" they kind of paint them selfs in a corner with that unless they stretch it out.but as hooky as it is we still love it.so bring on the reboot

Reboots, remakes...they're all the same to me. Highlander was, is and always be my favorite movie of all time.

How many remakes/reboots do we really need? So far here's a partial list that Hollywood in planning to do:

1. Red Dawn
2. RoboCop
3. Outland
4. Alien
5. Predator
6. Forbidden Planet
7. Star Trek (which was ok I'll admit)
8. Friday the 13th
9. Halloween
10. Karate Kid
11. Weird Science
12. Top Gun
13. Footloose
14. Romancing the Stone
15. Clash of the Titans
16. Nightmare on Elm Street
17. Escape From New York
18. The Thing
19. The Warriors
20. Hellraiser
21. Last House on the Left
22. Death Wish

This is getting ridiculous Hollywood!

I'm with most others - sick of "YARMs"

The original was one of my all-time favourites (sequels were ho-hum).

No re-boot, re-make, re-invent will be able to capture the style of the original.

I suggest the producers plan on a "Direct to DVD" launch...

If you really want them to stop making these remakes, then people need to stop going to them.

It's always about money.

Regardless of what we have to say their going to make it anyway. I just hope they do it right. The first one is just a cult classic, I love it, The sequel however always seem to lack substance, imagination, sequel for sequel sake. They almost got it right when ENDGAME came out, but they dropped the ball yet again, not to mention the studio really blew fans to hell when they insisted on inserting certain shoots (Kell's Magical abilitiess, Conner&Duncan jumping through a portal, etc) in the trailer, but never intended for those scene to be in they movie. Lastly if they are plnning a franchise, no Prize at the end for the Highlander.

I followed the TV series with Adrian Paul for its entire run. It was very good which sickened me even more when ENDGAME was released. Bad...Bad...Bad. It will be interesting to see who they get to play Connor McLeod in the reboot. Colin Farrell? Hugh Jackman?

I liked the first movie. 2nd one was bad. 3rd one was okay. Endgame had the best action but messed up the story and mythology. I liked the series a lot better than the movie.

Adrian Paul was a better fighter and for some reason the special effects looked better / more real.

This just proves once again that creativity is dead. A reboot never stands up against the original, and once they see this simple fact, they reboot it again.

reboot = fast buck

Unfortunately for us, we suffer through lame scripts, bad acting, and 2 hours (if you are lucky) of dribble meant to entertain us.

What happened to the days when movies were fun to go to? The stories use to have something to sink you teeth into, now they spew this shallow crap at us movie after movie.

"If they do a reboot, they should try and get Colin Farrell, that way they'll have an actor who really is Scottish and can't fake the accent" Colin Farrell is Irish not scottish!! they should get David Tennant (Dr Who) who is Scottish.

Vin Diesel as Connor!!!! Yes Yes Yes!!!

FP remake. JMS will write, it would be an awesome re-do. you have to google the storyline. it is going to be a 3 parter...1st prequal about the civ that was on the planet. 2nd being the re-do of the movie and the 3rd would be them going back to the planet after it was destryed (somehow) it looked REALLY cool and if JMS is doing it I will watch. B5 is the best that the sci-fi gnere can offer. ST cant even come close. And james Cameron directing it!! It would be GLORIUS!!

unfortunately i see a pattern here. i'm 36 years old and have come to realize that it's my generation that's in hollywood now, producing, writing, directing, etc in television and film, so for the last few years and next few more, we're all going to see what influenced my generation during the mid to late 70's throughout the 80's.. this is just my observation, considering reboots of the amityville, the omen, etc... so either we'all going to enjoy it, or really loathe it

There is a whole plethora of Scots actors who could play this, I reckon James McAvoy would be great in the part. However, I am totally against any remake; if its not broken don't fix it. There really should be a special edition of this film as there was loads of footage that was cut before release that would be cool to add. I had the chance to speak to Christopher Lambert at the premier of Knight Moves (bad film, cool soundtrack) in Edinburgh many moons ago and he had some tales of stuff that was cut. That could have been the whiskey talking of course. To Londeaux, Colin Farrel is Irish you ignorant twat.

I have neutral feelings with this remake. Perhaps they can take it in a direction that would actually setup sequels to be good, but at the same time if the remake sucks it's just going to shame the original.

Maybe perhaps they can just leave the first movie alone and remake 2 instead. Christopher Lambert isn't too old.

I say with all remakes if they hit bad sequels that lead nowhere to begin good new material. Just start with the first bad sequel and remake from there. No sense in remaking something already good and taking the chance of screwing it over.

IF THEY MAKE THE REBOOT OF HIGHLANDER MAKE SURE HIS VOICE IS SCOT.OYEA HAVE SEAN CONNERY IS HIS MENTOR AGAIN.

"an immortal Scottish swordsman who must confront a murderously brutal barbarian"

MMMMMMM! OH YEAH!

Bah! They lost me when they came up with Highlander, The Source. Every movie tried to reinvent the original instead of continuing with the concept. The tv series is the only one that came close, although even that one soon lost steam, but still ended up better than all the rest of the movies combined.

Pass.

I want to see another Highlander if ITS DONE RIGHT.
To me Highlander was about the human condition against the immortal backdrop.
Connor lighting a candle on Heathers birthday 400 years later.
Holding a grudge for 400 years. A love story for generations.
Yeah, I liked the sword fighting too.
Do a good job on the new Highlander and I will be in line.